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To: ConservativeWarrior

Perhaps our perceptions of and experiences with home schooling differ. In this area, home schooled kids are not at all ‘raised in a bubble.’ Au contraire.

There are networks of home schooling famiies who get together for field trips and share work among themselves, benefitting from each other’s expertise. I.e., if one home-schooling dad is an engineer with NASA, he will take over lesson plans for several home-schooled families and oversee the kids’ education in the math/science areas where he has expertise. That works out better than a state certified teacher whose own math/science education may have ended at the 10th or 12th grade level. And, it is usually far more practical than normal science fair projects.

Presenting one’s conservative case to a teacher, principal or superintendent does little more than get your kid or kids out of otherwise required programs in the school. It also confers on him/her/them an unspoken ‘reputation’ among the powers-that-be who dictate about 1/3 of his/her/their lives. That reputation is telegraphed to other students throughout their school years, rendering their expression of conservatiave viewpoints virtually worthless. It is a perverse form of bullying, done by adults in authority. It is far more pervasive than most people either see or are willing to acknowledge.


118 posted on 10/16/2009 4:01:08 PM PDT by EDINVA (Obama CAN'T see the Olympics from his back porch !)
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To: EDINVA
Presenting one’s conservative case to a teacher, principal or superintendent does little more than get your kid or kids out of otherwise required programs in the school.

I see. The 3rd grade teacher had to re-teach the 2nd amendment to her entire class. The district utilized its automated phone system to notify every student household that viewing of the president's address would now be optional.

Yes, clearly I had wasted my time. Clearly I cannot make a difference, and should give up immediately, as you suggest.

You might want to see if your homeshooling network has anyone familiar with the concept of courage. You've got defeatism covered.
126 posted on 10/19/2009 6:34:14 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (In last year's nests, there are no birds this year.)
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