Posted on 01/27/2013 11:08:23 PM PST by Kaslin
It's true. My kids are very popular because of it. Other kids look up to them for everything. They're like "counselors" to the lost public school kids.
Parents today throw their kids into government schools and expect the schools to raise them. The government schools are run by left wing activists, so the kids are nothing but dollar signs and future failures to them (who'll end up voting democrat for their monthly brick of government cheese). That leaves the kids without parents and knowledge of the real world. My kids teach the other kids, and the other kids respect them for it.
Could be the influence of snarky brothers and sisters, although there is probably some truth to what you're saying. My homeschooled daughters are 15 & 17, and we've yet to experience teenage snark mode, although they are capable of speaking for themselves.
In our case it was ballet. I have one kid in a good university pursuing a dance career on a scholarship, and another one about to start in the Fall.
Temperament is a bigger factor than education level for parents considering homeschooling. I know some college-educated moms who tried it and simply could not stand it... other parents with GEDs have successfully homeschooled their kids.
The elementary school grades are pretty simple. Once you get into more advanced concepts, you can buy pre-packaged curriculum that includes all the lecture material and notes you'll need.
Fine with me. That should be the parents' decision.
Most people don't use math beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I don't. And I learned math through differential equations and linear algebra.
Apparently, Alfred North Whitehead believed the same thing, although he thought that children should also learn statistics.
I'd replace that with learning to read a graph.
But again, it should be up to the parent. Of all the subjects worthy of study, why are most chldren forced to learn arcane subjects like trig and algebra II?
Look at it this way, if parents aren't given primary responsibility for their chldren's education, who should be? The State? Is that really a conservative position?
While we didn’t homeschool, we had our 3 kids in private parochial school until the 9th grade, when we could no longer afford it and had to put them in government high school. That is perhaps the biggest regret of my life, as we never had significant issues with them until that point, and had to deal with a lot of crap afterwards.
Your post made my day. Congratulations!
There is no historic or biblical basis for accepting “snark” from children at all. This is a fairly historically recent development, and it all comes from the rejection of traditional (biblical) values.
Children obey your parents, honor your father and mother,
neither have a “unless you’re a teenager that knows better than your parents” caveate.
Same here. There was no "teenage rebellion."
Maybe it's a government school indoctrination thing. Kids are taught their parents, their traditions, their beliefs are all wrong. Only socialism/communism are politically correct. The kids get confused, because parents do what they do because they love their children. Schools do what they do because they love the power and money. The kids get hurt by this in the end.
Kids just influence one another. That’s where they get it.
It would have been nice to use all my time off to take the kids on educational trips when they were young and every other kid was in school. But my kids were dead-set against it and the public schools here are really good.
When your school is best in the state at Cross Country and Soccer and worst in the state at football, baseball and basketball, you have a good school.
Sadly, parents become interlopers in their children's lives. Why wouldn't teens treat parental intrusions into their lives with disdain? Who are they to give orders? All children are special, and probably smarter than their parents, who still cling to old-fashioned religious beliefs.
Maybe. My husbands boss was about to put his kids into a public school, but my husband pointed out the office window at a public housing unit across the street and reminded his boss his kids would be going to school with those kids.
The boss changed his mind and put his kids in the local Christian school. (Bad company corrupts good character. He didn't want those kids teaching his kids their bad behaviors or lifestyle.)
Public Schools = Baby Sitter Centers
Another way of seeing it, is when they are young they are like dogs, love you, want to be with you, eat the food you feed them and then one day, as teenagers, they become cats!!
Perhaps this is why more “hipsters” are getting into it -
they’re ashamed, or just offended, seeing their reflection in the mirror of their children’s behavior.
And what a day it is! Happy Feast Day St. Thomas Aquinas!!!
A baby sitting center would be at least “neutral”.
Public schools these days are malignant. They intentionally dumb down the kids while indoctrinating them in socialism.
“We are officially un-cool in his eyes.”
I don’t think home schooling is the answer to all of mankind’s ills, of course.
All of my kids have had The Snark in varying degrees at varying times.
The difference, as I see it, is the amount of control I have.
I am very much aware of what they are up to. I control most influences, from internet time to friends to outings. I let my kids grow up and I don’t hover, but, if I get The Snark I do. Thus The Snark is eliminated or kept under control.
Finally, I don’t have teachers continually undermining us, our faith, and our values.
Marx is the first lesson for the liberals.
So do I!. In all its variants. School is one of the major,
major deterrents to having children I hear. I should find
some short “You Can Do It!” book to hand out.
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