I am not a fringe, holier than thou person.
I am not holier than thou.
Well, maybe than thou, but not than everybody.
My point is that, while I admire people who are able and willing to home school, it is elitist in the sense that only a priveleged few can do it.
Public schools are sagging for various reasons but they are not totally useless.
All we need to do is a few sensible things and schools will be a viable option.
We need to abolish the education feds, and the unions among school teachers so that teachers can be judged on merit.
We should not burden teachers or other students with disruptive students. They should be expelled or sent to alternative facilities.
We should create options to bad public schools like vouchers to private schools. Private schools often do a better job for far less money.
Now, my parents home schooled in this sense. We went to public schools which were just fine back then. We were also raised in a home that had tons of books and took a daily newspaper and where the parents were good, loving people of high moral character who also had large vocabularies.
We learned from all that.
Is Rick Santorum planning to home school everybody at the White House or just his kids?
It’s a ridiculous ploy for the evangelical vote.
Well said, very well said.
>>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.
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.)
“My point is that, while I admire people who are able and willing to home school, it is elitist in the sense that only a priveleged few can do it.”
I know you didn’t mean to but you made me LOL with that comment. I have been homeschooling for nearly 10 years. Our income range has been $22,000 to $42,000 during that time. It still shocks me when I encounter this belief. In our co-op of 150 children, the most “elite” family I know is wife whose husband is a pharmacist. There are construction workers, welders, road workers, assembly line workers, one business owner and pastors etc.
BTW, I don’t think Santorum’s decision to homeschool is a political ploy to garner the evangelical vote. Besides the fact that the evangelical vote is not entirely homeschool friendly, his wife is already homeschooling them. They didn’t just decide to do this during the campaign.