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What Are The Best Ways To Defend Your Child Against Dumbing-Down??
FreeRepublic.com ^ | May 14, 2010 | Bruce Deitrick Price

Posted on 05/14/2010 12:23:51 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice

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1 posted on 05/14/2010 12:23:51 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
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#1) Remove your child from public school


2 posted on 05/14/2010 12:26:46 PM PDT by lionheart 247365 (-:{ GLEN BECK is 0bama's TRANSPARENCY CZAR }:-)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Home school


3 posted on 05/14/2010 12:27:55 PM PDT by ironwill (III - Molon Labe)
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To: lionheart 247365

Ha! That’s exactly what I was going to write! :-)

We’re homeschooling our three kids, FWIW.


4 posted on 05/14/2010 12:29:06 PM PDT by Theo (May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Encourage them to read for the sake of reading. Recommend books to them. The trouble with schools is that so much of the lesson plan is indoctrination and “mental floss” of some form or another.


5 posted on 05/14/2010 12:30:29 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Homeschool. Keep them out of the typical public sports like soccer. Teach them yourself. Take them and do things.


6 posted on 05/14/2010 12:30:32 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: lionheart 247365; ironwill

You two beat me to it...remove your children from the clutches of public school and home school them. Or, a well chosen private school might be an option.


7 posted on 05/14/2010 12:30:45 PM PDT by highlander_UW (First we take down the Democrats, then we clean the Augean stable that is the GOP.)
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It's unfair and unreasonable to expect your 7 yr old to "fight the system." How much better to allow them to flourish & learn without that pressure, rather than offer them up to a KNOWN failed experiment?

Flee government schools.

8 posted on 05/14/2010 12:32:57 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: ironwill

Just WHY is homeschooling “impractical for millions of families”?

If it’s a priority, you’ll make it happen.

You can tell what you value by what you prioritize.

Free time?
Wife’s career?
Second income to support your lifestyle?
Cable TV?
Adult toys?
Expensive vacations?

or, homeschooling your kids.


9 posted on 05/14/2010 12:32:59 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: lionheart 247365

“#1) Remove your child from public school”

If this is practical, then do so; however, this is not always possible and when it isn’t, do as I (and the lady in this story) do: talk with your kids, show them the truth and be sure that your kids questions their teachers!

I was called to the school more than ten times (that’s how I knew I was doing a good job) to discuss my daughter’s refusal to accept the teacher’s point of view on things. During the last meeting, I asked the Principal if he wanted mind-numbed followers or students that wish to learn and really find the truth. He didn’t answer and I haven’t been called back to the school.

My daughter has a 104 in that class! She knows their answers, but always asks for clarifications and additional details. Other kids have started asking more questions in class too - she said the class has much more “conversation” about the history book and less “reading” of it!


10 posted on 05/14/2010 12:36:35 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (Hey Congress: Go Conservative or Go Home!)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

You could buy good books for the kids and make them write you book reports or hold “saturday” classes for an hour or two to ingrain a love of freedom and real facts about history and things.


11 posted on 05/14/2010 12:38:06 PM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: MrB

I want to see cooperative homeschools.

Why can’t I be paid to homeschool other peoples kids too? Just a few should be OK.


12 posted on 05/14/2010 12:39:38 PM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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“I believe this is an insidious way of muddying things up...”

That is exactly the reason. They do not want children to learn easily.

Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive but impossible to enslave.....................


13 posted on 05/14/2010 12:39:50 PM PDT by Red Badger (When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you'll know that its desolation is NEAR. Luke 21)
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Homeschooling is good and I have personally been associated with some of the best products. One of my scouts was a twelve grade homeschoooler and National Merit Scholar.

To say an average mother is capable of doing a better job of educating than the schools system is a stretch. Many can but for many the kids will not be better off.

My view is that a proper course is to parallel teach. Follow the classes closely and implement and strengthen as required. Develop library skills,surfing skills, testing skills, political awareness skills ans interest and fun skills. All of the above strengthen and counter weakness.

The kid will be an adult and in the real world. To be kicked out into the world after a sheltered and unprepared for life will be a real shock. I’ve had first hand bad experience with scouts like that too. The realization dawns that part of life was missed. It can be a real problem with a teen.


14 posted on 05/14/2010 12:41:47 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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To: Red Badger

“Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive but impossible to enslave.....................”

which is bad business for democrats.


15 posted on 05/14/2010 12:42:03 PM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: GeronL

There are no laws opposing private tutors, are there?

I don’t see how your proposal falls outside of that definition.

And yes, there are plenty of homeschool co-ops around.
We have “math nights”, etc, amongst the folks that homeschool.


16 posted on 05/14/2010 12:42:03 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice
My daughter gets frustrated because she has to show her work for the simplest thing that she already knows--like 2 times 5 is 10.

Frustration is the proper response. There's a reason why multiplication tables are MEMORIZED: it's because, like addition and subtraction of single-digit numbers, they're one of the raw building blocks of higher math.

Eeesh.

17 posted on 05/14/2010 12:42:41 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: MrB

Feeding my children is a priority in my home.

Homeschooling is very commendable, but I find that homeschoolers tend to make the rest of us feel like bad parents.

Other kids are drawn to my sons...if I teach them properly (after I explained taxes to my six-year-old, his response was, “But that’s STEALING, Mom!”) perhaps they can actually help lead other children to the truth. Like I did in public school.

Do you have to be vigilant? Of course. Is it something that can be done properly, even if both parents have to work just to meet the house payment? Absolutely.


18 posted on 05/14/2010 12:44:29 PM PDT by RaiderRose (Obama has cured my husband's political apathy.)
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To: CodeToad

Is it legal for you to find someone who already is homeschooling & pair up with them? If you have to work- can you pay another mother or dad to homeschool your kid? Is that legal?


19 posted on 05/14/2010 12:44:39 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Red Badger
"That erroneous assumption is to the effort that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence ... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else."
-H.L. Mencken
20 posted on 05/14/2010 12:45:46 PM PDT by mrmeyer ("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
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