Posted on 02/10/2008 3:15:53 AM PST by Polk Salad Annie Buzz
Families are running for their lives....
In a Feb. 7 press release, a broad coalition of Christian grass-roots organizations boldly banded together urging parents to either homeschool their children or place them in Christian schools. Prominent pro-family crusaders like Phyllis Schlafly, once a proponent of public school reform, are saying it's time to exit public schools.
Indeed, the situation is so serious that in states around the country, sexual material is being taught to children as young as kindergarten age. Barb Anderson, research and policy analyst with the Minnesota Family Council, details lewd content being taught in public schools in a policy paper titled "The Birds & Bees Project: Gay Sex Ed for Kids." According to Anderson, a presenter at the annual Minnesota School Health Education Conference stated, "When speaking to teens you must tell them there is no right or wrong and no good or bad choices."
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My older son was reading my graduate school textbooks when he was in the 2nd grade. His reading style is unique, but he gets the information.
My biggest resentment was that the biggest roadblock to my sons' acquiring an education is MY GOVERNMENT. Even homeschooling, they try to poke their nose in and derail progress.
see post 99.
My daughter will graduate from high school in a few months and my son is in seventh grade. I feel so lucky these days that I’m not the parent of a preschooler and have all the school years still ahead.
The problem is that going head to head with voucher against the teachers unions is tough slow business and look what happened in Utah. Freedom might not last long enough to win that political battle. A Conservative free market approach must be taken NOW! Immediately!
How?
Please read the following from post #96:
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Why wait for vouchers? Why don’t Conservatives ( Christian and non-Christian) create our own vouchers. How?
If Harvard can create a $35 Billion dollar endowment, and colleges and universities grow endowments in the billions and multi-millions, then surely Conservatives could do this for K-12 education!
Imagine! What if private Conservative foundations gave private vouchers so that kids could go to private schools. Not only could Conservative foundations grant the vouchers but they could inspect the school, certify the curriculum, certify and test the teachers, and test the students. Perhaps they could support an individual teacher hoping to open a one room school house, micro-school, virtual school, or homeschool cooperative.
It makes me sick to think of how many conservatives ( Christian and non-Christian) gave money to fund the endowments of colleges and universities that are fundamentally anti-Christian, pro-Marxists, and anti-free market.
Conservatives **are** wealthy enough that not only could every child in this this nation have access to an excel constitutionally, free market, Judeo Christian based education, but we could likely do it for every child in the world. We are that wealthy. We could do it if we **wanted**!
I don’t mean any harm, but I work at a public library and alot of homeschooler families seem slightly.... how should I say this.... otherworldly, weird, set-apart? They don’t seem to communicate well with other people outside of their family unit. Ofcourse I am generalizing, but the few families I have met have shy, spacey type moms and children who run around leaving books all over and keeping up alot of noise. But when they come to check out, they clam up like they are afraid they’re going to be devoured by strangers. ..Just my observation.
The “private” schools here have to implement SB777 teaching gay sex at all ages and grades. So much for private schools.
The left is disgusting. They took over the educational system. Now they are using it to indoctrinate children.
The sad thing is that so many parents think their kids are getting a great education. I can’t tell you how many people have told me they love their school, yet, their kid is an illiterate moron.
it’s a good idea but again, there are very few private schools. The govt effort would create the market and then the non profit could take over. But non profit org will never have the $ to create the market from scratch. You need a big push because the public school monopoly is so strong.
It’s like roads. Govt needs to build them but private companies could take over the maintenance.
Home schooling is a lot different then it used to be. One of my grandsons is homeschooled. and he is doing very well.He has his classes on Line. Classmates get together for field trips etc.If my kids were small and school they attended started bringing homosexuality into their curriculum, I would homeschool my children too.
Its not schools place to teach our kids social values(or lack of). That is the parents job.
Now where did you get that info at? Mccain is against homeschooling? LMAO he is for vouchers! And he has never ever said he was against homeschooling *L*
HA!!
It's code.
Even more interesting yet, Polk Salad Annie Buzz's sign-on date.
...what day is that, eh?
Hey, you could be one of OUR local librarians! Maybe you're intimidating those homeschoolers. I often get the feeling my local librarians consider me an exotic species, a city slicker come into their midst by some unknowable yet suspect motive. For my part I consider them stiff-necked, chilly and provincial, just short of xenophobic. I've been trying to break the ice for nine years.
Nine years.
We go there at least once a week (would be more if not for the genius in the house and her 5000+ books), and I make a cash donation at least once a month. We are extremely quiet and we don't borrow the trash (and they have lots of that). We're always pleasant when we speak to them. We still get no friendly hello, and I don't know their names.
Not complaining, there are lots of people like that in this area. But it's almost as if we have the misfortune to resemble folks on wanted posters.
All of which has nothing to do with you I'm sure, and I mean no harm either. Just saying, people hold one another at a distance these days, and at a distance you have to infer things, and read into things, with the ingredients at hand (your own preconceptions mostly!) And that's not as authentic as, say, a five-minute chat with a stranger at a bus stop or in a checkout line. One day perhaps we'll run into a librarian at the market; she'll find out we haven't horns, and we'll finally see her smile.
We have an **emergency** here, ari-freedom.
Freedom will not last long enough for vouchers to be instituted. Also, as you have pointed out there are not enough traditional brick and mortar schools in existence! By the time vouchers were to be pushed through politically, and then followed by traditional schools,,,,well,,,we will all be in Marxist chains by then! Really!
Also, every conservative should immediately give up the idea that churches will some how do what is right and open schools. Churches will NOT open schools! Why? They won't open schools because ministers are not going to offend the many government school employees sitting in their pews! They are not going to bite the hands that feed the collection plate!
The govt effort would create the market and then the non profit could take over. But non profit org will never have the $ to create the market from scratch. You need a big push because the public school monopoly is so strong.
We already have examples of private scholarship foundations. Sam Walton of Wall Mart started one. I believe the owner of Overstock.com has started one. All that is needed is for the idea to catch on and for those with leadership ability to make it happen. Remember. Harvard's $35 billion dollar endowment, and every other billion dollar endowment, was once an **idea**!
It’s like roads. Govt needs to build them but private companies could take over the maintenance.
Education is not like a road, if it were we would not have nearly 3 million homeschoolers today.
The Prussian model, brick and mortar school is the dodo bird of education. It will be virtual schools, micro and mini-schools, homeschool cooperatives, one room school houses, and dame schools which will be the education of the future.
Private foundations could and should be taking two approaches: individual vouchers for children, and sponsorship of Individual teachers or small groups of teachers.
Teachers, with a private grant could rent space ( likely in churches, Elks Clubs, YMCAs etc.) and start very **small** schools or tutoring centers. Perhaps some of these schools might be as small as 10 students! The student could receive the vouchers. The private foundation would inspect the school and its curriculum, certify the worthiness of the teacher, and even test the students on a regular basis.
Please give up the idea that only government will save us. We will all be slaves long before that happens.
One more thing: Private scholarship foundations could and should work to completely break up the government monopoly on team sports for teams!
And finally, every parent whose child has exited the government school should be enlisted in an serious and focused effort to organize a MASSIVE SCHOOL TAX REVOLT! The government schools must be permanently shut DOWN!
Laughing and laughing!
Well,,,Homeschoolers are a threat to all government employees.
Public schools have become centers for liberal indoctrination and idiology, multi cultural education, excluding American history and the rewritting of, sex education, the gay agenda and it’s revolution, psyc counciling, mental illness counciling, family counciling and the pc agenda. So with all this is home schooling or other alternates wrong? Wait until you see what is in store for us when Hill or O get in!
You've noticed that, also?
Most private schools are only marginally better than public schools. Both are feminizing our young boys, and brainwashing all our kids with secular humanism.
I agree somewhat. The mere fact that the government is not involved, and that disruptive students can be (and usually are) quickly expelled, makes most private schools more than "marginally" better. But you're right, the pedagogy that is in vogue in public schools has oozed into all areas of education, to one degree or another.
.... our library staff is very friendly and helpful. I always greet everyone with a smile and some chit chat (if the patron is the chit-chat type), I listen to people’s hardships (like a hair-dresser or bartender) and have even prayed with a few patrons. So, maybe I take it personally when my friendly demeanor is rebuffed by the home schooler families.... I will keep trying.
If that’s the case, by all means keep trying! Make sure the kids know your name. I remember when we went to our library for the first time, and got carded, the librarians didn’t tell us their names. It really would have helped things along, just a simple introduction, “Welcome aboard, I’m Mrs. Laurel and this is Miss Hardy...” But no, it was like we were plotting a heist.
I still try chitchat, but the local icebergs just don’t respond.
Stay cheerful!
My youngest went to a small public school and by five he was reading newspapers. He later taught himself to play piano and now a blues harmonica. I never could have homeschooled them. I was too impatient. My life was a disaster at that time and homeschooling wasn’t really being touted then. The school they went to wasn’t a bad school but this was in the 70’s. My grandchildren go to the same school. They aren’t TOO politically correct yet. I offered to pay for one of my granddaughters to go to our christian school but nobody would take me up on it. Ah, sad but true (LOL).
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