If our nation's children attend godless and socialist government schools, we will soon have generations of voters who think and reason godlessly, look to government as their Redeemer and Savior, and are completely comfortable with socialism.
2) In many parts of the country it takes the entire after-taxes salary of one working parent just to pay the school property taxes. If it is almost impossible for a stay-at-home parent to fully "deprogram" a children after a godless and socialist school day how are two working parents going to do this? Where will a single parent find the time to do an adequate job?
-- A child needs 10 to 12 hours of sleep.
-- A child needs time outside for active and vigorous play.
-- A child spends 6 to 7 hours in school.
-- A child often has one or two after school activities ( with other indoctrinated kids).
-- There is the 1 to 3 hours spent on the prison bus ( oops! "school" bus).
-- Children are assigned 1 to 3 or more hours of godless and socialist homework.
-- If an adult would like a few hours of electronic media time to socialize with their friends, why wouldn't a child want time with his indoctrinated friends?
-- There is media. If adults want some time with it, so do kids.
-- And...Forget that hectic early morning rush to get ready for indoctrination school.
2) Conservatives must work to shut down government K-12 schooling. Conservatives must reform, find alternatives to, or shut down our Marxist colleges and universities.
3) I find is exasperating that so few conservatives recognize the danger or see the urgency.
For the first couple of years that I was homeschooling I kept having the uneasy feeling that I was doing something wrong.
The kids were completely done within 2-3 hours. I only homeschooled 4 days a week. That left me a day to shop, pay bills and run other errands. If a kid needed a dr appt, that was done on our day off or in the afternoons.
I finally had to sit down and figure out where I was ‘going wrong’. I broke it down like this:
My children had only three formal subjects:
- reading/phonics
- writing/grammar
- math
Science and history had a different format. I did have books to guide me, but I taught history by telling my kids ‘stories’. As I’d clean the kitchen, they’d sit at the table and listen and ask questions. In the evenings, the whole family watched the History channel. They loved the format. For science, we did hands-on experiments and watched a LOT of Discovery. So they were learning, but didn’t realize it.
In the time we spent together in the afternoons, I’d teach them about politics, life skills, psychology, relationship-building skills, religion, etc. For us, that was just normal mother/child interaction.
So, although my kids only had 8-12 hours of formal education a week, they were being educated constantly by just being with their mother full-time and their father in the evenings and on the weekends.
Once you take out the time spent going to the next class, the 10 minutes lost with attendance and settling down, another potential 10 minutes with discipline and attention issues, the average public school child is actually getting about 3.5 hours of instruction a day.
The you have to realize that kids who need extra help are lost during the class and kids who already know or quickly grasp the information are held back and bored, and you waste more time there. My kids were allowed to proceed at their own pace. Concepts that they struggled with could be focused on and things that were easy were breezed through.
The fact that I incorporated so many subjects into our daily lives meant that our kids received *many* more hours of education than their counterparts.
We are homeschoolers, and the local school district makes it difficult — continuing their demands even beyond mandatory attendance age! — but the only truly frustrating aspect of it all is when I try to explain why I chose it, to a public schooling parent.
Doesn’t matter if they’re conservative and generally sensible. They usually don’t get it. They’re defensive, call me radical or snooty or antisocial.
I never say anything confrontational.
Proof is in the pudding. Superlatively well-educated child, blessed additionally with excellent character and disposition.
Cost in dollars: virtually nothing.
Keep up the good fight, wintertime.
A must pingout a bit later. Good find.
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A companion article to the one I just pinged out. How anyone thinks that the few hours a week they spend talking and relating to their children will nullify the tens of hours the child spends in school every week, is beyond me. Wintertime sums it up well in the first comment or two. And the thing about "opting out" of the worst stuff - won't help. The child will hear it all from the kids who didn't opt out, and the leftist teachers will make sure every kid is properly polluted. The purpose of schools are to make sure that the revolution happens in a few generations instead of having to have a war. Leftists are in charge of education, and by sending our children to be ground up in the maw of leftist indoctrination, we're allowing the left to win. And then wondering what happened to our children.
Schools imprison children’s minds as well as their bodies. It denies them vital life experience and makes the transition to adulthood far more difficult than it needs to be.