Homeschool ping
Cute pictures at the source. Of course mine are cuter!
Homeschooling also keeps your kids away from homosexual recruiters and child molesting “teachers”.
Try 20 brand new airmen from across the US and territories, and get back to me.
At least kids can't buy beer (legally).
/johnny
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Hello; Our eyes are being opened, even as a nation our eyes are opening!
When we look at our national history, our publc schools, Universities and colleges were founded for the purpose of raising a Godly people and a godly nation.
We have little of this today, in fact most in our educational system are enemies of Godly parents and Godly children.
The down side is the reflex to make everything "It's a lesson, 'who can tell me the steps of CPR?' when passing an accident site". (ABC-W is the correct answer)
Or when you pop off something in Latin to one of the grandkids, and he pops off something back in Cambodian, and your youngest has to sort out that we've changed appropriate languages for ages 1-6.
New fangled stuff...
/johnny
The socialization learned in a typical government socialist-entitlement school is **prison-gang** survival skills. Thankfully, most humans are adaptable and most adults do eventually discard these pathological school social habits and adopt the healthy attitudes and behaviors needed for success in business, the community, and family. It is sad, some don't, and they don't do as well.
She worries, too, about eventual teenage rebellion in families that are so enmeshed.
Personally, with all the homeschooling families that I have known, I have never seen "teenage rebellion". It's been quite the opposite. I see well mannered teens who look me straight in the eye and can actually speak standard English in full paragraphs. ( Unlike far too many government schooled kids who have the 20 degree off-centered stare and respond with grunts.) Also, studies show that adult homeschoolers are more likely to be married, employed, vote, and volunteer in the community. Welfare among homeschooled adults is so small it can't be measured.
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Go on any website where there is a story about a school that screwed up — zero tolerance policies, homosexual indoctrination, poor test scores, usurpation of parental authority, whatever, the list is endless — and you will see a slew of negative comments about the public schools that you didn’t see 10 years ago.
People have had it and are looking for something else for their kids and other people are willing to provide it for them.
Age-old? OK....
That we might create a sense of security in our kids by practicing “attachment parenting,”
What does homeschooling have to do with "attachment parenting"? Does this author even know what she is writing about?
They worry that formal schooling might dim their children’s love of learning (yet there is a flip side: a reduced likelihood of being inspired along the way by the occasional magical teacher, full of passion and skill).
LOL...yeah, you're right. Put 'em into the child-only prison system on the off-chance they'll get that one teacher that inspires them for that one year. Good plan.
But my husband and I are loyal to what we call “detachment parenting”: we figure we are doing a good job if Milo is just as confident and comfortable without us as he is with us.
"...because that's all we've seen and despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, we're going to treat our kids like employees."
Family for us is more a condition—a joyous one, for sure—than a project, one of several throughlines of our lives.
Sure, a "condition"--you know, like cancer.
Yet she wonders how kids who spend so much time within a deliberately crafted community will learn to work with people from backgrounds nothing like theirs. She worries, too, about eventual teenage rebellion in families that are so enmeshed.
Leave it to a psychologist to have the Dumbest Quote of the Day.
My only problem with this article is that it all takes place in Liberal Seattle.
What are they teaching?
My only problem with this article is that it all takes place in Liberal Seattle.
What are they teaching?
I really can't imagine choosing to give my kids to strangers for the majority of their childhood.
You don’t even have to stay home. I opened my own practice so I could take them along, and as they grew, they learned real skills because I needed real help. They learned to become adults because they spent time around adults.
If anyone thinks they do not have time to home school, I would advise putting their children in kindergarten and maybe first grade. Once they know how to read, basic number skills, and how to stand in line, all you have to do is give them curriculum to build on that and give real work to them. They can self teach.
After the hiatus of the last 30 years, religious folks have persevered and, according to our fears, the publik skoolz have plummeted into the abyss. Our leftist brethern (and sistern) from the ‘60’s now run the system and are the establishment. However, every bird cage eventually fills up with crap if not cleaned by the responsible. So, now, secular types (having fostered the decline all along the way) realize what a mess the system is in and choose to do what elites do all the time - get a better education for their kids (i.e.: Algore and his private uber-elite tutelage).
That's OK - except for one thing. Now that the secularists are getting on board, this will likely attract all the more pressure to obstruct or control HS’ing to the detriment of us all. Worse still, without the principled standards of faith based educators, we may yet see a resurgence of the ‘free’ school crazies that simply raise illiterate and impulse driven monsters on their own without the aid of educational professionals (i.e.: NEA teachers). This may be an opening the establishment has been looking for all along.