Posted on 06/11/2018 11:12:52 AM PDT by blam
Actually, public schools weren’t around in the 19th century (although public financing of schools goes back to the Plymouth colonists).
HSing is certainly helpful for gifted children but every one of the 1.8 million or so attendant children won't ipso facto become 4.0 average Rhodes Scholars. There are probably more smart HSed kids than otherwise, but HSing isn't a panacea. Indeed, as others here have said it requires dedication and ninja-like organizational skills....and unity helps. I could never do the job Mrs DoodleBob has done with the little DoodleBobs, and she certainly shouldered the burden, but when family or friends voiced criticism, we both went medieval on the opposition.
It doesn't matter if you HS because you don't want the state standing in loco parentis or you believe you can teach your child better or your gifted child won't flourish or you fear for their safety and morals. HSing is largely about parents wanting to give their children the best shot at becoming the best them they could be (that's a keeper, Yaelle!), whether that's a rocket scientist, sanitation worker, seamstress, landscaper, banker, lawyer, artist, musician, tradesman, economist, or haberdasher.
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And if not the NEA, then one of the many liberal judges out there who know what's best for us.
Having been in ministry, I know how it has long been under assault by communist apparatchiks. I have been connected to parochial schooling and home schooling through associates for decades.
Home schooling has some weaknesses - especially, from a Christian perspective, regarding tbe Great Commission - but it is clearly vastly superior and preferable overall to governmental indoctrination.
They tried.
Remember HR6
The Battle of H.R.6
I can only hope that as this trend continues, at some point the schoolntaces I pay will drop, significantly, for a school system I’ll never use, for kids that aren’t mine, especially the young cherubs that showed up illegally.
Thanks for revealing this woman to me! Very interesting...what is her story? Never heard of her.
Perhaps she should be running for office? LOL
They should have never been institutionalized in the first place. Three, nearly fiur, generations and we see the truly frightening consequences. I wouldnt be surprised if there were gentic mutations like criminal prisoners. Just a theory of course.
” Then when they turned up pregnant or taking or selling drugs, or bringing their same sex boyfriend home-——————————”
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Are you kidding?
I think that you should get out more———public school kids do NOT all turn out to be social pariahs.
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“Ask yourself how much you can pay someone to love your child as much as you do? Sort of like asking someone else to guard your money. “
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The bank guards my money-—I didn’t know that was a bad thing.
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She did a you tube thing on diabolical narcissism that was very interesting.
I don’t remember how I stumbled on it but it was fascinating.
Anyway, she gives a little of her history there, IIRC. She’s a very die hard, pre-Vatican 2 Catholic, just FYI.
But her stuff is good and she does NOT hold back. She says what needs to be said and doesn’t even come close to apologizing for it.
She also did a great video on islam that is a must see.
And that's in spite of the public education system, not because of it.
Because it isn't for a lack of trying on the school's part.
For 12 years, I knew EXACTLY where my daughter was and what she was doing. The things we did were with the church and we went with her on church functions. She did NONE of these things because she couldn't get away with it. She has graduated college and is a police officer and we are very proud of her. She is kind, truthful, takes no drugs except prescriptions, and didn't live with her boyfriends. She's 34 now, so I have no say in her life, but I know the foundation she has is rock solid.
I know she would be a different woman now if she grew up in public school.
Again, home school is a definite option for people that love their child. If you can't stand to be with them, send them to public school.
“She is kind, truthful, takes no drugs except prescriptions, and didn’t live with her boyfriends. She’s 34 now, so I have no say in her life, but I know the foundation she has is rock solid. “
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I raised five-—they are all kind,truthful.take no drugs,and didn’t live with their spouses before marriage.
THEY ALL WENT TO PUBLIC SCHOOL.
I have young adult grandchildren,also great young people-—in fact two of them took me out to lunch today.
THEY ALL WENT TO PUBLIC SCHOOL.
(I guess none of these kids and grandkids were loved./s
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As much as they could be and could have been? ( Just wondering.)
bkmk
Public schooling is built on the Prussian model, which was always intended to break familial ties, undermine traditional family values, undermine faith, and build autonomous relationship to the State. It was always headed where it is now. And it will get worse.
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