A pic of Jesse Scaccia’s at its blog.
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Posted on 05/31/2009 1:48:40 PM PDT by aberaussie
This is a joke, right?
Haha, when I first read the post, I thought it was satire written by a homeschooler!
I love the very first exchange on the comments. Someone comments about the “negatively connotated hand signs” (referring to the devil horns one kid is making). The blogger immediately criticizes the commenter for assuming those were gang signs. Haha, it’s just like a really bad B-movie. “How did you know the victim was shot? I never mentioned a gun”
I am somewhat amazed that this is apparently written by someone that is opposed to homeschooling.
I initially thought that it was written by a supporter of homeschooling that was mocking anti-homeschooling arguments.
"8. Homeschooling is selfish. According to this article in USA Today, students who get homeschooled are increasingly from wealthy and well-educated families. To take these (I’m assuming) high achieving students out of our schools is a disservice to our less fortunate public school kids. Poorer students with less literate parents are more reliant on peer support and motivation, and they greatly benefit from the focus and commitment of their richer and higher achieving classmates."
This idea that the State has some claim to compel students to attend public schools for utilitarian reasons is a case in point. The responsibility and authority for making decisions concerning the education of children belongs within the family. That some parents are irresponsible, ignorant, or morally negligent does not justify infringing on the rights of parents who are responsible. If the education being offered by the secular state is substandard, tends to promote immorality, or poses physical dangers to the safety of children, parents are well within their rights to seek alternatives whether they be private, religious, or home-based instruction.
There is an argument for the socialization function of the education of children in schools, that formal schooling provides certain social advantages, etc. There can be a pretty good debate on that, but it has to be balanced out with the other issues.
Liberals and secular humanists made serious mistakes in McCollum v. Board of Education Dist.71(1948) and Abington School District v. Schempp, (1963). By removing Christianity and prayer from public schools they set up the situation driving the homeschool movement. Students have different learning styles and varying educational needs which cannot be met by the Deweyite and Fabian Socialist education offered in many school districts. As long as this continues, concerned parents will seek alternatives. Providing a solid Christian education benefits society in numerous ways. Schools would be wise to return to that tradition.
Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin turned out OK and they were homeschooled.
Leftists are really getting bold and speaking their mind now a days. It would be funny if it wasn't so scary.
Yesterday my brother in law was saying Palin hates the environment and wants polar bears to have no ice to get around on. I asked him, 'you are joking right?' no he wasn't joking and I can not correct him without causing problems within the family. I tried but he wasn't listening. Leftists believe facts are just another opinion you can not reason with a leftists.
That’s really true. Don’t confuse them with facts!
Sending children to public school is a form of child abuse. Nuf Ced.
Whenever you encounter someone boastful of her education, especially in the English language, you don't have to look very far for an error in grammar.
But there's no way that you can teach English as well as I. I, not me. You can recognize the error if you imagine another verb at the end of the sentence.. But there's no way you can teach English as well as ME teaches English.
But there's no way you can teach English as well as I teach English. Get rid of "teach English" and you'll know whether to use an I or a me.
What a maroon. LOL.
Okay, just read #6 and had to post for the second time. Uh, yeah, I’m a lunatic. She’s right, I don’t have the same credentials she has, therefore I’m not qualified to teach. I’m such a “lunatic” I hired a native Nicaraguan to teach my children how to speak Spanish. I know, how crazy is that?
Oh, and if I you will allow me to toot my own horn to make my point, here’s the deal on my own educational credentials. I have none. Nope, other than a HS diploma I got nothing. Huh, how weird. Oh, did I forget to say I entered college at age forty when my kids got older? Did I forget to say I was awarded a full ride scholarship for both my undergrad program and law school? Again, that’s weird. Apparently having a GPA above a 4.0 makes me a lunatic who is obviously ill prepared to teach my own children. Huh, how about I’m getting ready to graduate Phi Beta Kappa? Summa Cum Laude anybody? Would that help? You’re right. I see her point. A single mother financially supporting herself and her children couldn’t possibly be smart enough to teach. *sighing and rolling my eyes*
Give me a break. This woman makes all the elitist mistakes common to those unfamiliar with home school families. And she’s doing it while claiming to be academically superior to someone like me. I’d take this highly educated woman on any day of the week.
Okay, I’ll stop posting. I think I’ve made my point.
I read them all. The rest are the same.
9.Many home schoolers don't watch American Idol (A good thing, IMHO) and if you think public schools are a study focused area, you haven't been to a public school.
8. So home schooling does give the best possible education, superior to even private schools?
7. Try proselytizing in a public school and then tell me that students are missing an opportunity there.
6. Grab a hand full of average teachers and convince me that having a firm grasp of all (erroneous) modern educational theories and little else makes them more qualified to teach than the average person. The teachers will, however, be sufficiently arrogant.
5. Feel free to be pissed off. If I was facing unemployment, I would feel the same way.
4. "Intolerance and even racism"? Coming from a likely member of Senator Byrd's party, that's funny.
3. Find a home schooler that got beat up for his lunch money and then get back to me on that socialization thing.
2. Running out of points? See #6.
1. Home schoolers tend to get good grades and do well in society. Inferior people like the writer will always hate such and it is not the fault of the hated.
I did not home school my children. If I had it to do over, I would.
I answer, "Yes. That is WHY I homeschool..."
I have 3 nieces who are home-schooled. I will stack them up against anyone, BAR NONE, for their maturity, level-headedness, social skills, and the rest. This is a teacher who is scared. It is also the weakest rhetorical presentation I’ve seen in years.
Public-schooler.
The simple fact is that home-schooled students from families of whatever wealth, outproform government school students by all possible measures. Jesse is just providing one more reason to get students OUT of government schools.
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Her basic attitude is that our children are the property of the system, and she resents kids being able to escape indoctrination, and having the smarter kids not be available to help prop up the dumber kids.
Congratulations! :-)
The comments section at the link rip the author to shreds!
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