[Diva Betsy Ross]

Anyone have any comments?

EDITOR John Grooms john.grooms@cln.com

PUBLISHER Carolyn Butler carolyn.butler@cln.com

Editorial Coordinator Lindsey H. Grossman lindsey.herman@cln.com

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[TheSpottedOwl]

I have a comment, or two, or three.

First, I thought this was satire until I read through the whole thing.

Second, I am giving serious consideration to homeschooling, or enrolling my youngest kids in a charter school. They are behind grade level, and even though we're moving to a different area, my youngest no longer likes school. Too bad...she still needs to master the core subjects.

Third, I may not be up to this task, however I've seen work come back graded with obvious mistakes on the paper missed by the teacher. I think I can do a little better than that.

Fourth, Should Ms. Butler procreate, you can bet she'll have that kid in private school once she takes a look at public schools from a personal perspective.

[MississippiMan]

This pathetically ignorant slug has obviously not heard that homeschooled kids not only excel academically vs. their public-schooled comrades, but are doing likewise in the workplace. They're the most well-adjusted, productive members of their generation.

MM

[Izzy Dunne]

I just can't see homeschooling providing adequate socialization.

Have you ever tried?
Have you done ANYTHING beyond your imagination?

[Snuffington]

More unintentional irony from the "tolerance" crowd.

And such scintillating evidence of intelligence. Rather than picking up one of the dozens of studies about homeschooling, and its effect on socialization and education, he manufactures fantasies on the basis of his own uninformed bias.

What's more, doesn't this guy have an editor? He essentially just used a public column to incite suspiscion and hatred of homeschooling families - while failing to produce a single case that backs up his panicky claims. That's legally actionable stuff, and sloppy research all piled in one big steamy mess.

Just goes to show the totalitarian impulse of the leftists obliviously marches along.

[Izzy Dunne]

taught her two kids through eighth grade, then threw them to the wolves in public high school. The boy ended up dropping out and doing jail time, and the girl got pregnant.

Assuming you're not lying through your teeth about it, what makes you assume that homeschooling was the cause when IT HAPPENED WHILE BEING IN PUBLIC SCHOOL ???

[MortMan]

Teachers in the public school system are required to have certification and college degrees, yet any yahoo can force their kids to stay home as long as they pass an annual test.

And yet many publik-skool stoodents can't pass those same tests that the home-schooled kids ace. Can the author of this tripe spell "socialist societal suicide"?

[Izzy Dunne]

What's really scary about homeschooling is what it can do to the sanity of a mother

Evidence?

[visualops]

ping

[Spiff]

This guy is sooooo right! Nowadays it is extremely strange, suspicious, and downright terroristic for someone to refuse to enroll their children in the government-run socialist school/indoctrination system. Better call CPS and have those children taken by the State for their own good and the parents sent to the gulags/reeducation camps.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

Teachers in the public school system are required to have certification and college degrees...

Lefties do so love some skins on the wall. Without a doubt, the most consistently clueless individuals I knew in college were the elementary education majors.

[Redbob]

An acquaintance at Yale in '65, a scion of the Buckley clan, had been "homeschooled" by his father, before that word had even been coined.

Let me see:
brilliant - check
upperclass - check
resemblance to anyone described in this article: Nope!

[knak]

Yes, I have a comment! The author is a pig. It sounds like he has his own problems raising his own child.

I homeschool my child but not for religious reasons. Wear jeans everyday and never braid my hair. I'm glad this guy is not my husband or father.

[Moleman]

While I would not home school my kids, to compare home schoolers to terrorists is silly. some do however isolate their kids from the real world a bit too much IMO

[RonHolzwarth]

Home schooled children are deprived of their basic inalienable right to score drugs from their classmates.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Funny article if taken as satire.

[Izzy Dunne]

I bet they made damn sure the youngsters stayed off in a group together while they grunted gossip and drank their Cro-Magnon coffee.

What a sorry opinion of women this person has!
Apparently the purpose of sending the kids to school is so the moms can gossip and drink coffee!

[surfingdemon]

I’m an atheist home schooler who does so because the educational system in the UK failed my Dyslexic son. I took him out of the state educational system at 14years and successfully complained to the Local Government Ombudsman that the Local Education Authority had by their actions denied my son an education. They also had to change their policy in providing alternative methods of writing for dyslexic children. When it became clear that my daughter was also failing in the state educational system I removed her at the age of 9yrs from that situation and home educate her too. It’s been a steep learning curve and at times I have had a dark tea time of the soul when doubting my sanity and contemplating the enormity of the responsibility I had taken on. My son is now in Further Education and looking forward to studying philosophy, psychology and sociology at University. My daughter who believed she was too stupid to learn to read and write is now a bookworm who loves literature. I consider being able to homeschool an exciting experience which will also give me many advantages in the job market in the years to come (multi-tasking, organization, the ability to develop new skills and knowledge independently and the ability to pass on that information to name a few) Why do they always wheel out the old chestnut of socialization, the perceived notion that children, ‘must be immersed in a mass of their peers so they can figure out what it means to function as a member of the larger group.’, that always had undertones of children should be seen and not heard for me. Sadly, yet another sweeping, generalized and biased article about home education

[BibChr]

Spoiled-rotten, self-absorbed, adult-bodied infant trying to make herself feel better about being a spoiled-rotten, self-absorbed, adult-bodied infant.

Dan

[tom h]

Freepers, don't waste your time writing. "Creative Loafing" is one of those free rags you see in downtown cafes and avant-garde bong shops in Left Coast cities. We have one here in San Diego that spews leftist cr-p all the time and is hardly worth the paper it's printed on. Let Quinn Cotton write her trash. It's not changing anyone else's mind.