Posted on 04/18/2020 10:38:37 PM PDT by DeweyCA
Harvard...lol
And yet she managed to write a book that was published.
As for being abused by a family member that happens despite going to a public school. Having a teacher look at you everyday is no guarantee that they will discover you’re being abused. Sexual abuse of a child is very hard to detect.
Working in a successful family business is probably the best education available.
my thoughts exactly.
When my kids were pulled from the public indoctrination station, their behavior, attitude and entire disposition changed for the better. They don't like that.
Children apparently have violated rights to their parents’ choice of education for them? This is an entirely too slippery slope towards facism or communism.
What a steaming pile of bovine scatology
Some states don't require any proof the kids are learning.
In NH, homeschooled kids have to be tested annually by a certified teacher. We always did this, and preferred to, as we want to be sure we were keeping them up to speed.
They always tested above grade level, in most subjects, at least a year above grade level. When they went to public school at grade 7, they were bored.
The last couple of years they were probably the most tested kids around.
Our Assistant superintendent was grousing one day that he had a lot of tests, that he wanted to "test the test", but principals and teachers were fighting it as they were afraid of how poorly the kids would do.
He couldn't get through to them, that the idea was to "test the tests", no so much the kids. I told him we were paying $50 a year for each kid to he tested, we would be glad to do it for free.
So they were tested over and over, part of what they did was they critiqued the tests.
He got his feedback and we got our tests, everybody was happy.
BTW, both "kids" are doing very well. One is in charge of several offices and several scientific magazines in NYC, London, etc., the other a mom and cook, and due to this, homeschooling..
the risk is that parents and society will find out the kids learn better, to the chagrin and demose of unionized public school bureaucrats and teachers
Risks that kids will miss out on communist indoctrination, learning about perversion, violence, pornography, humiliation, abortion without parental consent, exposure to mold, asbestos, viruses, TB, etc.
Oh, the horror!
I’ll make sure to tell my homeschooled since birth son, with a Yale Master’s Degree that the Harvard folks truly are dolts.
For us, and most that we knew, it was the exact opposite.
Public schooling isolates kids by ages, and they don't learn how to deal with people outside their age group.
My wife and I and a few other parents were the founders Of the North Country Homeschoolers about 30 years ago.
Shortly we had over 70 families in it.
We went on at least monthly field trips to museums and other places of interest with quite a throng.
The comment we heard the most was that they had never encountered so well behaved and interested a group of kids before.
The folks at the Shelburne Museum in VT were especially forthcoming in surprise and interest.
We did everything we could to ensure the kids got out and about both locally and at a distance together.
There was the one religious family that tended to isolate their kids, but they still went on most of our outings.
The teachers, who are keeping in touch, are surprised at how well they are doing.
Now she is thinking of quitting her job and homeschooling.
She and her husband are doing well and she doesn't need the job.
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10048/Bartholet
Here bio mentions no family, husband or kids. She went to Radcliff. She is the spitting image of Elizabeth Warren. My guess would be lesbian. But she is the expert on kids.
Harvard was supposed to have a massive anti-HSing conference on March 24, 2020. It was moved to June because of COVID-19. This article was clearly written to coincide with the afterglow of the conference and to build on the attendant overbearing sentiment.
The funny bit is that the entire nation now has a forced test drive on HSing. Thus the fire of hysteria and lies they would have fanned in March has been extinguished by the soothing cool water of forced homeschooling.
Yes many parents will come away from their experience being thankful to send Johnny and Mary back to school. But they won't see HSing as this horrible thing-they'll likely be positively disposed to it and won't see full time HSers as freaks anymore. And a goodly number of parents will likely start on the homeschooling journey, having seen the propaganda being pushed on their kids.
The irony of all this, is it's liberals who are all for keeping the country locked down - and as a result for de facto homeschooling to continue...and possibly further delay this horrid conference.
F-Harvard
Home to Timothy LSD Guru Leary and the Unabomber
The public school is maybe 15% effective in students gaining useful life skill and knowledge. The rest is dead filler and collectivist thought.
How about the risks of sending our kids off to be abused
during school hours?
“Elizabeth Bartholet, Wasserstein public interest professor of law and faculty director of the Law School’s Child Advocacy Program”
Based on that alone I wouldn’t trust her to change a baby’s diaper.
This Stalinazi bitch, Bartholet, has no business being near anyone’s children. If you love your kids, keep them out of public ed (and away from these horrid Stalinist indoctrination centers of “higher ed”).
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