For Many Blacks, Home School Rules

Essence ^ | 8/26/02 | Yolanda Gault Caviness

[nmh]

So why do they continue to vote for Demoncrats who oppose homeschooling? Homeschooling is right for anyone for genuinely cares about their kids and want them to have the BEST education.

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So why do they continue to vote for Demoncrats who oppose homeschooling?

I'm working on that, but I need your help.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

So why do they continue to vote for Demoncrats who oppose homeschooling? Homeschooling is right for anyone for genuinely cares about their kids and want them to have the BEST education

one of my friends who is black and has never voted repub we talk about stuff like this frequently and I truly think he has no idea why he votes dem he just does and will continue to it's just instilled in them it's actually quite frustrating

[Lizavetta]

Burges is part of a growing number of Black parents who are homeschooling their children-for a number of reasons: the sorry state of the nation's public-education system, the lack of cultural diversity in the curriculum, concern for their children's physical safety.

Huh? That's ALL today's curriculum in the govt. schools is about - D-I-V-E-R-S-I-T-Y.

That said, this is fabulous news - the more people that ditch the system the better.

[FreedomPoster]

Some critics argue that a home setting is inherently inferior and can't offer high academic standards.

BWAHAHAHAHA! Apparently this idiot reporter has managed to avoid/ignore all the reports of home school kids winning national geography bees, national spelling bees, kicking butt on the SAT, etc. She points this out using the non-attributed "some critics", which is code for "I think". Facts need not get in the way.

[AzJP]

I'd guess, just from what I see around me, because Democrats go to her. Republicans network at the country club.

Democrats are active on the streets. Republicans aren't.

I eat lunch at a local Mexican restaurant. They have one bumper sticker from every Democrat in next Tuesday's primary. I asked the boss why no Republican stickers and he said he put up EVERY sticker from somebody that came in the front door, shook his hand, and asked. "I guess Republicans don't like my food?"

[FreedomPoster]

There are a very few starting to break out of that mold, but it's a real slow thing. They are starting to realize they are totally taken for granted by the Dimocrats.

[Arthur McGowan]

Remember that movie with Jon Voight, "Conrack." The entire plot of the film hinged on the fact that the people on that tiny island were still slaves--totally at the mercy of the racist school superintendant. The people on the island could have pooled their resources and paid the teacher the pittance he was getting from the school district, but the thought never entered anyone's mind.

[DumpsterDiver]

Many states, such as California, have facilitators or coordinators as a liaison between public school and the home.

Now why would Caliornia do this when they are claiming that home schooling is illegal? (That was a rhetorical question.)

[RAT Patrol]

"Homeschooling works," says Burges. Her son's grades turned around, and she has never looked back. Today she teaches her four other children at home as well. ..and may God continue to bless her efforts! Great story.

[technochick99]

FYI...

[2timothy3.16]

So why do they continue to vote for Demoncrats who oppose homeschooling?

The next generatuion, the ones being home schooled, won't.

[demnomo]

There is a growing Black homeschooling movement in San Francisco. It was started by an African-American teacher who was fed up with the public school system. She quit her job (her husband still teaches) and found it was more cost-effective and successful to educate her two daughters at home rather than sending them to private schools while she worked full-time.

I met this amazing woman when my son and I attended a field trip sponsored by a Bay Area homeschooling association a couple of years ago. We keep in touch via e-mail and sometimes meet during museum excursions into San Francisco. Like me, she used to be a liberal and vote Democrat. She now considers herself a "libertarian." (Hey, it's a start.) She knows first hand how hypocritical and self-serving Democrats, the NEA and teacher's unions are towards education. Delaine Easton's name is mud to her. Many of her Black friends struggle to put their children in private schools. She tells me that she is voting for Simon in the fall because of his stand on vouchers and homeschooling.

[technochick99]

Each one reach one... it's the best way for social change!

[Black Agnes]

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[Randjuke]

She encourages Amber's artistic talents by taking her to the opera and theater.

I'm thinking there's a good chance this 6-year-old kid is bored to tears.

[Sangamon Kid]

I'm thinking there's a good chance this 6-year-old kid is bored to tears.

It's a 3 and 2 count and you just served up a fat curveball. You want to take that pitch back before it goes sailing out of the park?