Posted on 01/14/2012 8:50:33 AM PST by NYer
CHARLESTON, South Carolina -- Rick Santorum has no more loyal base than the crowd of home-schooled children and their parents who gathered here Thursday night. Not only are all of Santorum's children home-schooled by his wife Karen, but the family is committed to holistic medical treatments, health food, and Christian-inspired learning, popular causes with home-schoolers.
The topics covered at the Charleston town hall varied widely, but the conversation always returned to education. And Santorum, whose late grassroots rally in Iowa was built on the foundation of endorsements from various home school advocacy groups, was all too happy to rally the troops in the Palmetto State.
At one point, a woman came to the microphone to express her appreciation--and beg for some red meat.
"You are familiar, of course, with home schooling..." she began, before Santorum interrupted with a smile, "My wife is more familiar with home schooling."
"And we give her a shout-out for that!" the woman responded, sparking applause from the audience. Then she got to her question: "I was wondering if it's possible at all to influence at least the idea, I know the teachers' union is not crazy about it, but to try to get some home schooling... and be able to somehow work that into education without being a special interest?"
"Well obviously leading by example is a good thing," Santorum responded. "And having a homeschooling family in the White House would certainly be a shock to the establishment."
The crowd laughed, and then roared with applause. He went on to explain that parents, not any government body, should be in charge of determining what success means for their children's educational experience.
"It's going to be different for different parents," Santorum said. "And you know what? That's OK! I trust parents to instill values, and instill citizenship and all those things much more than I do the education system in America today. It's sad to say."
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>>it is elitist in the sense that only a priveleged few can do it.<<
Wrong.
If my nephew and his wife, who make 35,000 a year can homeschool, anyone can give it, at least a pretty good shot.
It’s not a matter of CAN’T, it’s a matter of WON’T. I’m not better than thou nor do I think that way, but I’m tired of the “Can’t” attitude that those who have never tried display.
In our Homeschool group, there are single moms, single dads, Military Spouses who’s mates are overseas and families where both parent work. We have unschoolers, lapbook learners, virtual school students and people who send their kids to co-ops. We have all kinds.
Now, if you want to say that most people don’t want to sacrifice a second income or some parents find it adequate to send his/her child to school, I’m with you. But with as simple as it is to put together free curriculum and educate your child, there are many more ‘won’t’ people than ‘can’t’ people.
The homeschoolers aren’t the elitists. There are a million and a half of us just wanting to be left alone.
I used to feel that homeschooling was only for people of means like private schools but have since figured out that choice is a major part of it.
How many people put Cable TV, new cars and assorted crap before the education of their children? The mess our schools are in is only part of a much wider problem within society. There’s just no limit to what people think they should have and no line drawn between luxury and need.
As far as I’m concerned, if a parent isn’t willing to sacrifice for their child, they aren’t much of a parent.
What could be better for the homeschooling movement than a homeschooling American President?
I’ve got some advice for people.
Don’t say anything negative about home schooling or home schoolers. Nothing that can be perceived as negative, no matter how many nice things you say or how hard you try to make up.
Those people will hit you with everything they’ve got.
They’re tough.
Fyi
Don’t say anything negative about home schooling or home schoolers our nation's socialist godless schools. Nothing that can be perceived as negative, no matter how many nice things you say or how hard you try to make up.
Those people godless socialist school defenders will hit you with everything they’ve got.
They’re tough.
It is impossible to fix godlessness and socialism.
Our government schools are utterly godless in their worldview and are the very **definition** of a socialist-entitlement program.
It must be abolished.
I am sorry.
Yes, some children will need institutionalization for their schooling. Some parents are too sick, too mentally ill, too unstable, too emotionally ill-equipped, too poor, too stupid, too vain, too materialistic, too annoyed by their kids, too undisciplined, too ill-educated themselves, etc, to homeschool.
These kids need institutionalization. It's a shame. We need orphanages, too, but no one is say it is the best way to rear or educate a child.
We have old age homes for the same reasons.
What? Make existing state schools even more godless and more socialist?
How is it possible to reform godlessness and socialism? Our nation's schools are the very definition of a godless worldview socialist entitlement..
Government schools are utterly godless. That makes them useless. So?...What do you want? The generic and lukewarm Protestantism that was forced on the student and taxpayer prior to the mid-1960s? Guess what? You know what Christ does with the lukewarm? He spits them out of His mouth!
Government schools have **always** been a socialist entitlement. It only took one to three generations of socialist school to give the nation Franklin D. Roosevelt for four terms! Simply by attending children risk learning that government and the voting mob can give them tuition-free schooling. Gee! Why not use government and the voting mob to get **lots** of “free” stuff?
Modern government schooling was evil from the very beginning ( mid-1800s to early 1900s.)
I’m all for making existing schools better but a president isn’t the one who should do it unless he can do away with the department of education. That said we have a legislators in my state who are trying to make them better at the state level which is a step in the right direction.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2833073/posts
Now I have some better advice for people.
Do not even go on a thread discussing home schooling.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I’m sorry if I offended you. Seriously.
You have to understand that being a homeschooler in a room full of parents is like being a Christian in California. We get it from all sides
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFGMbqOVp40&feature=related
This one is from the head of our HS Group. Seriously, she had these conversations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3mOVTcy1RE&feature=related
I fully agree with you, my FRiend.
Government schooling is a socialist-entitlement that is godless in its worldview.
On the state, county, or even town level, socialism is socialism. Godlessness is godlessness. It can't be reformed even if districts were the size of a suburban subdivision.
Afraid? You are “afraid” of **homeschoolers**!!!! Unbelievable!
Of what, for heaven's sake? Huh? What on earth are you suggesting? Violence?
Take that paranoid brush and go paint the fences of the NEA union thugs.
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By those standards, your public school teachers must have been preternaturally lazy.
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