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Are Homeschoolers really similar to Islamic Terrorists?
Creative Loafing,Charlotte ^ | BY QUINN COTTON

Posted on 05/11/2004 8:39:01 AM PDT by Diva Betsy Ross

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To: TontoKowalski
RE: Chickenhawk:

I'd bet money we're right.

I agree. Having the children around isn't the problem. Having their parents around is the "problem."

161 posted on 05/11/2004 11:16:22 AM PDT by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: fml
"No one in their right mind thinks the way that woman does, so I never thought anyone would take offense">

Why not? You took offense at someone painting you as a bad parent for sending your child to public school.

I think they took offense at your statment that you agreed with an article whose premise is that homeschoolers are like Islamic terrorists.

162 posted on 05/11/2004 11:18:55 AM PDT by Diva Betsy Ross (Every heart beats true for the red,white and blue)
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To: TontoKowalski
There are many different teaching methods and materials that are available to homeschooling parents

Agreed. There is a lot of software available, as well as vast amounts of printed material, teaching aids, etc.
One of the best resources we have found is a book called "The Well-Trained Mind". It is an incredible resource for home-schoolers and public-schoolers who want to make sure their children are getting a well-balanced education.

163 posted on 05/11/2004 11:20:08 AM PDT by Ignatz (This tagline is temporarily closed for repairs.)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
"I guess makeup is out too -"

Yes, but a little soap and water would do you a lot of good.
Also, did you know that they sell razors to shave off those braids under your arms?

That pentagram on your welcome mat is not necessary.
The whole neighborhood can smell the bat's heads cooking.

The next time your son begins to recite the incantations, the word is, "Beelzebub", not, "Beetlebutt".

164 posted on 05/11/2004 11:22:07 AM PDT by TexasCowboy (COB1)
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To: Critter
Not every situation is the same, I realize that, but there are homeschoolers who are single parents. I know this is very hard to.. and again, I don't think homeschooling is the prefect answer for everyone. Just remember that you do have options if you ever decide that public school is no longer a good fit for your child and your family.
165 posted on 05/11/2004 11:27:00 AM PDT by Diva Betsy Ross (Every heart beats true for the red,white and blue)
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To: fml
I agree more with the article than with your assumptions

I'm interested in which parts of the article you agree with more than you agree with Straight Vermonter's assumptions.

166 posted on 05/11/2004 11:29:11 AM PDT by cantfindagoodscreenname (Stop The Flow of Ketchup to China!! Vote for George Bush in 2004!)
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To: Diva Betsy Ross
Beyond a certain age, children and mothers are just not meant to be isolated together. It's unnatural.

This pathetic victim of government schooling doesn't realize that compulsory government schooling didn't begin until the mid-1800s. Until that time, homeschooling was rightly seen as natural. Until that time, compulsory government schooling was rightly seen as unnatural, and families successfully fought off such deluded utopian schemes.

In fact, the militia was called out to restore order in Barnstable County, the last county in Massachusetts to implement government schooling in 1885.

We know from the natural law that parents should be a child's primary educators. This natural right has been recognized in several papal encyclicals.

167 posted on 05/11/2004 11:35:59 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: JenB
I'd like this woman to meet my mother. It was her CHOICE to have 7 children, to stay home and homeschool us. How dare this woman criticize choice?

The author doesn't deserve to meet your mother.

168 posted on 05/11/2004 11:38:34 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: GOPrincess
You can find the source rag in most stores. It usually comes on rolls, 4 to the pack, or so...
169 posted on 05/11/2004 11:41:42 AM PDT by Dawgmeister
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To: Diva Betsy Ross
Oh, those poor middle-class Mom homeschoolers. They really must divest themselves of their kids, ha ha ha.

NC has never struck me as a state foolish enough to waste time with 'hate spoeech' crime legislation, but if they did, I wonder how this column would stand up to that.

For example, replacing African-American or Hispanic would result in the author stating:

"You know how there are terrorist cells embedded throughout the world? Well, in my neighborhood we have numerous 'African-American' cells humming in the cul-de-sacs. They're almost as scary as the terrorist ones in some ways -- and they definitely have some traits in common with them."

Or

"Yes, I know that Hispanic kids have won high-profile academic contests, but for every Hispanic who aces a spelling bee, there's some poor child being 'instructed' by a parent who's barely literate herself."


170 posted on 05/11/2004 11:43:36 AM PDT by Gothmog (The 2004 election won't be about what one did in the military, but on how one would use it)
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To: livianne
Wonder what she would say about a jewish homeschooler...probably more ugly generalizations

You most likely fit into the same catagory, livianne. I should have said Judeo-Christian faith. Anyone within our Judeo-Christian tradition is suspect at the very least.

171 posted on 05/11/2004 11:46:28 AM PDT by WVNan (Be faithful in little things, for in them our strength lies. (Mother Teresa))
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To: Diva Betsy Ross
Lol, I was shaking my head over her stereotyping parents who homeschool. Maybe I will also write a letter to the editor. Quinn has some issues ;-)
172 posted on 05/11/2004 11:47:02 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (Torrance Ca....land of the flying monkeys)
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To: Izzy Dunne
I just can't see homeschooling providing adequate socialization.

Homeschoolers don't learn socialization, at least not John Dewey's definition of socialization.

Public schools were designed to prepare children for life in a Socialist society.

173 posted on 05/11/2004 11:47:32 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Critter
I'm sorry about that, both for you and your child. I have to get dressed in the morning, since I like having the blinds open :-).
174 posted on 05/11/2004 11:49:23 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I can see you, but you can't see me.)
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To: Diva Betsy Ross
At first, I thought this pathetic piece was a satire.

Then, I remembered why it is that I believe that only the kids can shut down the government re-education camps.

Many, many adults are really as stupid as this woman. They really are.

Kids - it's up to you! Disrespect wrongful authority!
175 posted on 05/11/2004 11:51:01 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: GOPrincess
children are expected to put up with the kind of harrassment in schools which we would never accept as adults

My theory is that the government is training them to be exemplary prison inmates.

176 posted on 05/11/2004 11:51:07 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I can see you, but you can't see me.)
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To: Diva Betsy Ross
This article had the makings of great satire. However, it seems as if this guy is sincerely ignorant.
177 posted on 05/11/2004 11:54:28 AM PDT by cyclotic (Cub Scouts-Teach 'em young to be men, and politically incorrect in the process)
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To: TexasCowboy
Darn it - now you've "outted" me...... I had people here believing I was civilized!
178 posted on 05/11/2004 11:55:00 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: TexasCowboy; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
You mean levitating and speaking with 'Voice of the Abomination' isn't normal?
*sigh*
And here I thought 'Belial' was just a cute nickname given to my father.
/ poor joke.

Creative Loafing reminds me of the so called 'child psychologists' they'd send out to the schools when I was younger.
Said 'psychologists' would say and do some of the most idiotic crap to we young'uns and judge our reactions.
Then we'd get labeled in our case files and our time in public school was metered according to these fruitcake's whims as dictated in their 'findings' written in our 'casefiles'.
So, just because a labeled child gets upset by a supposed wonderkid hitting him with a stick, the labeled child gets in trouble while wonderkid gets patted on the head and told "there, there".
(Sussex County New jersey public schools circa 1980's.)

Wonder how the article writer at creative birdcage wallpapering would've dealt with such activities?
179 posted on 05/11/2004 11:55:12 AM PDT by Darksheare (I am Darksheare, and my tagline has no point. 'Tis a pointless tagline, which is the point.)
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To: concerned about politics; Moleman
"some do however isolate their kids from the real world a bit too much IMO"

It strikes me that the classroom is about as far from the "real world" as one can get...
180 posted on 05/11/2004 11:56:08 AM PDT by GOPrincess
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