Posted on 05/31/2009 1:48:40 PM PDT by aberaussie
This is satire right? This can’t be what passes as “logical” thought in our school system. Oh wait....was that arrogant?
Points to counter this article:
I chose to put my children in private school, and thus pay to subsidize teachers like this one AND those I chose to pay. Because our school is smaller and has more traditional values, shall my children also be called inferior for not having been beat up often or exposed to drugs and told everything your parents said up to today is wrong? How many of the points given against home schooling also apply to private school, and thus could be used to say it, too, should not exist? (And tell this “teacher” to tell that to President Obama.)
If socialization is an act of multicultural tolerance, this teacher - by her sweeping accusations of homeschoolers as geeky, anti-social, and bigoted - is proving her own intoleratnce.
The point I find hilarious is that the home-schoolers are SMART AND LITERATE - thus we need them in the classroom to help teach those less literate children. Uh, isn’t that what the teacher is supposed to do?
Basically, mind control. Orwellian.
It's a scam.
“Public Schools” are better understood as “The Bus Ministry of the State Church of Secular Humanism”.
Hilarious...I’m stealing it. ;-)
Jealous and whiney...really, really whiney...with some snotty “nya-nya-nya’s” thrown in there.
How about the Case Against Public Education?
1.) The lessons are so dull and frustrating, students learn to hate knowlege.
2.) Many of the teachers have little knowlege of the topics they’re supposed to be experts on.
3.) The structures, rules, and cirriculum do nothing to prepare students for life after school.
4.) The conditions are sometimes unsanitary, leading to allergies and occasional health problems, like staph infections.
5.) The bullying, bad teachers, and artificial environment cause many students to have terrible emotioinal and psychological hang-ups as adults.
6.) American students consistantly post lower scores than any other developed nation in the world, even though they do more homework than most, which is closely linked to reason 1.
7.) The prevelence of gangs in some schools make those places dangerous.
8.) The textbooks are poorly written and often contain inaccuracies.
9.) Drug use is a persistant problem in schools, largely in response to the ill effects of the boring and stressful experience school treats the students to.
10.) Excessive schooling artificially prolongs childhood, making the transition into adulthood more difficult than it needs to be.
11.) Many supporters of public schools who denounce homeschooling are incredibly arrogant about their positions, even though they have nothing to be arrogant about.
“5. As a teacher, homeschooling kind of pisses me off.”
Translation: The more parents who homeschool, the fewer students we can coerce into public schools. This is MY
RICE BOWL, people! No enrollment increases means no ‘special study’ grants, no chance of my finally getting promoted into administration, and eventually NO JOB!
I was homeschooled and I'm homeschooling my kid sister. A few years ago we were given a Hakim series, Mom said she wouldn't use them in an outhouse.
To each his own, but Hakim is very pc.
There are good and bad examples in most everything. Most people that I know that homeschool take it seriously and do a terrific job.
I was thinking that she received both her masters degrees from a diploma mill, or possibly a box of Cracker Jacks.
Reminds me of the book "1984."
I wonder why this woman, apparently so concerned about the state of American education, doesn’t direct her anger and disdain at our urban public “education” systems, which have over multiple decades recorded a disgraceful record of 50 pct drop-out rates and barely literate graduates - something I unequivocally consider to be a moral outrage and a national disgrace.
What an absolutely pathetic hypocrite.
I agree. In order to destroy western civilisation, it first had to be equated with other civilisations. I’m sorry, but if meaured objectively, western civilisation in almost all aspects has been historically more advanced, and dare I say it, superior. That doesn’t mean the people of other civilisations were inferior, but they certainly hadn’t attained the sophistication of western civilisation in general.
The same is being done to Christianity, one of the bedrock foundations of western civilisation.
We should just call this woman what she is - a bigot.
I'm ahead of you already on grammar . . . idiot.
One major reason why home-schoolers tend to be from wealthier families is that socialist schools require taxes that impoverish ordinary families to the degree that they can’t afford to have one parent stay home and teach their kids.
Good for you and your kids. Hard work on both sides.
I happen to be a homeschool parent who majored in journalism. LOL.
And I'm growing very weary of the attacks against journalism majors on this forum... lol.
Contrary to popular opinion, journalism is not an easy major. Looking back, I know now I would've had a much easier time and much more success if I'd studied programming. But, I enjoyed using words, especially to lead a customer to buy something.
So, I always worked in sales and marketing. I started out with an associates in marketing and then majored in advertising at a university. At some point, I decided the curriculum was too "artsy", so I switched to newswriting, even though I had no desire to be a reporter. Those newswriting classes were challenging, and the professors enjoyed flunking students. Once, a professor flunked almost her entire class.
My husband studied engineering and later became a programmer. Between the two of us, I think almost all the subjects are covered well in our homeschool.
My first reaction was that this has to be satire, but apparently it is not....
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