Posted on 11/27/2006 7:04:44 AM PST by meandog
I wasn't referring to you particularly. The general point wass that most people are trying to avoid the truth about the public schools because it is appalling. The usual excuse is that their public school is "different" - just like their congressman (it's those other ones that are bad). Again, I was responding to a theme, not your situation, whatever it is.
BTW, no one is condemning or even judging you. We are condemning public schools as such. Unless you are personally a public school or a National "Education" Association, you are neither condemned nor judged.
If your personal circumstances leave your kids in public schools, and you are doing the best you can, good for you! Encourage your kids to spend time at libraries and to read a lot of the best stuff so that they may overcome their gummint skeweling. It will be hard but worth it.
If one says that Dr. Jarvik or Dr. DeBakey is a better choice of cardiac surgeon than J. Random phsyician at a welfare clinic, one is not insulting the patients of any of the three. Likewise the fact that homeschooling and most private schooling is quite superior to PS 666 does not insult the students of any of them.
The preliminary clause was a hypothetical and the main clause was true as allegory.
Christ said to the crowd ready to stone the woman taken in adultery: Let he who is sinless cast the first stone. IF Mary threw the first stone, she would not have disobeyed (other than as to gender) His direction. That she did not throw the first stone and that no one else did does not make her disobedient.
Lakotan/Torquemadan theological method be-um not make head hurt looking for obscure controversies: Go with flow! Otherwise, one suffer what those who had "professors" in secular prep schools instead of teachers suffer. It be-um not necessary to review history of use of term "professor" instead of teacher at secular private prep schools!
I do not "abandon" my children. I am not "abusing" my children. I don't care what you, as an obnoxious homeschooler, think. When I moved here from California, I was fully prepared to put my children in private school, until they refused to take my son because he had a writing disability and didn't fit into their perfect little mold. As I had to get my children into school immediately, I went to the local public school. They have treated my children with love, and my children are thriving.
The school has won multiple awards. The student to teacher ratio is 11/1. I know almost every teacher by name. I volunteer regularly. They use Saxon math, and have advanced math and reading classes for every grade. They have two full time gifted and talented teachers, and two special ed teachers. The children have full time PE, art, and music teachers, as well as a full time nurse.
When I had a concern about the possible use of a certain lesson plan being touted by the liberal wackos, I called the principal, and while we were still on the phone, she issued a memo stating that if any teacher wished to use that lesson plan, parental approval would be required.
You can walk through the halls and see Bible verses used in art projects. Discipline is excellent, and students are required to use sir and ma'am when addressing a teacher.
My son took an enrichment course in Latin and will continue with it in the public high school.
So, guess what? MY school IS different. It is more like a private school than a public school.
Your attitude is absolutely disgusting, and dismissive of other people. If you continue to attack others, homeschooling will lose more and more support from those of us who think it can be a wonderful thing, but have made other choices for our family.
I am not going to argue about the abolition of public schools, because it simply is not going to happen, at least in the near future.
You must be terribly anxious about something because I didn't say one word about you abandoning your children or abusing them. I would assume that no one posting here would do those things. If you have "issues" with someone else, please don't address them to me. Thanks.
You must be terribly anxious about something because I didn't say one word about you abandoning your children or abusing them. I would assume that no one posting here would do those things. If you have "issues" with someone else, please don't address them to me. Thanks.
Did you know that Dr. Michael Debakey is still alive at 98!
They don't even set sail till about page 100 or so! If the early stuffon land bored you (The Inn, Father Mapple's sermon) then I don't know what to say.
It's problematic when your reader finds the protagonist uninspiring, let alone contemptible.
That "idea" you responed to is, as Rep. Randolph once said of a piece of legislation, - it is like a carp in the moonlight. It is shiny and it stinks.
The left is about power. If you do not elect them to it, they will seize it from you any way they can, usually via the Judiciary.
It's perfectly reasonable. It's called the Intentional fallacy and it was put forward in the 1930s or so by a group of American critics called the Southern Agrarians. All oustponekly conservative and Christian. 'Meaning' cesom from the text not an author's intentions. Whatever they were.
*Many of Hitler's Eugenic ideas were lifted from educated Americans, Like Mag the Scag Sanger, who were forced to read the formless poetry of Whitman...I'm just saying :)''
there is absolutely no indication he intended a joke. His "intention" was an after-the-fact attempt, by his political handlers, to cober his large goofy butt
Were her explanations of equal value to your ideas generated by her text?
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