REVOLUTION VIA HOME SCHOOLING - Public Education Destroying Our Children

Ether Zone ^ | May 27, 2002 | Samuel L. Blumenfeld

[Tailgunner Joe]

[Tailgunner Joe]

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home school bump

[glc1173@aol.com]

"In the last two months, I’ve spoken at four home-school conventions in liberal New England, and there is no doubt that those who attend the conventions are revolutionaries in the true sense of the word. They have rejected the tax-supported school system, which is the chief instrument the totalitarians are using to construct a socially controlled society." (Ether Zone)

Or is it mainly because they don't have the cash for private-school tuition in order to escape the disorder of the government schools - and the increasing share of the government school budget now going for "bilingual education" rather than their kids, no matter how high school taxes they might vote in?

Inside the NEA!

[mrfixit514]

Public Education Destroying Our Children

Should read: Parents unwillingness to let children pay consequences for their actions destroying our children.

This artcile is a bunch of BS. Absolutely no evidence to back any of this up. Just a bunch of hyped up emotional BS.

[Tailgunner Joe]

This article is about parents who do take responsibility for their children's education by removing them from the destructive incompetent social-welfare-statist education system designed to intellectually level the populace into good little ignorant democrats. What article did you read?

[Fish out of Water]

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[ImaGraftedBranch]

This artcile is a bunch of BS. Absolutely no evidence to back any of this up. Just a bunch of hyped up emotional BS.

I can tell that you are a product of publik skoolz.

Homeschooling bump.

[livius]

Good article, thanks for posting it.

[valkyrieanne]

Should bilingual education be illegal in private schools too, or just public?

[valkyrieanne]

I don't think it's an either/or situation. Some people are going to homeschool. Others are going to send their kids to public or private schools. Some at one point or another may have experience with all three.

I don't know why it's necessary to overstate the case so radically. If you look at scientific and technical universities like Purdue, MIT, University of CA at Berkeley, etc. you see that the vast majority of their students come from public schools. The vast majority of National Merit Scholars, national Science Fair winners, etc. come from public schools.

This obviously doesn't mean "all public schools are good" any more than Blumenfeld's essay means "all public schools are bad." What it does mean is that obviously *some* public schools are quite good in spite of all Blumenfeld says.

My view is that people should be entirely free to homeschool and not have their homeschooling regulated by the government. I believe basically the same thing about private schooling as well. But you don't see good private schools engaging in hyperbolic public school bashing, and I wonder why it's necessary for *some* homeschoolers to do it. It seems counterproductive.

[Pablo64]

Big old homeschooling BUMP!

[GailA]

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