Posted on 09/10/2009 11:19:30 AM PDT by Maceman
Here’s an amusing takeoff on some people’s reaction to having neighbors who homeschool. In times like these, we need humor.
i dont understand how homeschooling prepares kids to be on their own one day in the real world....i mean you cant home school university and college so how do kids go from learning at home to a huge college surrounded by tons of people? and how are they prepared for a work environment where they wont have their parents there and they will be around all types of people including bullies. Yes there are bullies in the workplace and in college. I just don't get it.
Just wow.
Homeschool ping to a cute video, metmom.
That was hilarious. My daughter-in-law was homeschooled. I sent the link to her.
Very cute, indeed!
I bet that comment was by a government teacher. ( grammar and all)
I love that video! The comments were funny.
Some light diversion, ping....
Further proof that homeschooling isn't for everybody.
Totally clueless.....
See his “government can” video too
Re: that comment.
Wow...what mind-numbing ignorance.
He is hilarious - I love this vid where his son is a surgeon and daughter is a lawyer.... and the kid with the black eye and bandaid after PE... lol
*chortle*
Watch this, tis’ funny.
Obviously this person didn't have any older brothers or older sisters ....
Or so I have heard!
LOL, exactly. In fact I’m trying something new this year - my 12 yr old daughter does her alone work at her desk in her room, my 6 year old daughter is at the kitchen table, and my 8 year old hyperactive gratuitous noisemaker boy - who picks on both of them - is at the living room coffee table. :) The three of them in our school room together, even with my daily presence, is barely organized chaos. Add the dog and we’ve lost all pretense of control.
Nor did this person run into some of the members of the homeschool chapters we belonged to.
Many of those boys, those little darlings who could do no wrong, were worse than the public school neighborhood kids my kids played with.
The only time my younger daughter was bullied was by a clique of homeschooled girls in our church Sunday School
According to them, her cancer was a sign from God she was a sinner and therefore she wasn't allowed to sit near them. Two of them took it upon themselves to call her and ask her to repent of her sins. When I talked to the parents, they said that they had told their girls to stop it, but couldn't control them. It got so bad the pastor had to get involved and then it became known throughout the church and then.....it got ugly.
The public schooled kids sent cards, teddy bears, and even held prayer circles at school during lunch. Several of the Catholics called her and told her they had 'lit candles for her at church' and even though we are not Catholic, the kindness was deeply appreciated.
Kids are kids and kids can be very mean - it doesn't matter how they are educated.
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