Posted on 10/03/2025 6:10:36 PM PDT by DoodleBob
The big diff, Ms Panzer, is you and your family were probably left alone. Yes, your parents were probably considered off, maybe weird, and may have been shunned. But that’s it.
Nowadays, YOUR tribe wants to doxx homeschooling parents, treat vaccine-skeptics; people like war criminals, and unleash the FDA on homeopaths.
One of my favorite stories of Thomas Edison was that a school teacher sent him home as a little boy with a note that said he was incapable of getting an education because he had “an addled mind.”
His mother was furious and taught him at home.
Known as perhaps the greatest contributor to modern technology and modern life, Edison was granted 1,093 U.S. patents and 2,332 patents worldwide during his lifetime.
Developed the practical phonograph, telegraph, storage battery and forms of useful electric light and power transmission.
“...the percentage of [home schooled kids] I would describe as well-adjusted is negligible”
When you look through the horribly distorting lens of leftism, normal people do not seem well-adjusted.
What a lying piece of excrement this female is.
“… let your children experience exposure to different outlooks and the drudgery of group projects with people with whom they share nothing in common.”
No.
>> the science-avoidant Secretary
difficult to give the author additional attention after that puerile slur
I know this lifestyle well. Growing up in Boston’s then gentrifying Jamaica Plain in the 1990s, my family belonged to a community center where it was rumored that the Moosewood Cookbook brown glop served therein was occasionally spiked with the devil’s lettuce.
Well, my introduction into "alternative medicine," anti-vax hooey, "whole foods," etc. came from my very leftist upbringing back in the 1960s and 1970s. The left still very much owns that anti-science, anti-medicine movement. But a disturbing number of conservatives have bought into it lately.
Everything else she wrote was pretty much bunk.
Heh, most likely true.
What a dumbass.
Total biased liar — public school (as it is now) is one of the most artificial and negative environments for healthy learning and growth. Segregation by age (not ability or aptitude); leeway given to bullies and cliques; value based on popularity, athletic abilities, or “attractiveness” (which includes DEI); teaching to the lowest denominator or focused only on “THE TEST”....
I compare it to being placed in a low-quality daycare at best, a prison at worst. There are wonderful teachers, and good schools, but they are few and far between these days.
Nothing like a work environment once you get out into the real world.
Just imagine what would happen if a co-worker slammed you into the wall, scattered your papers all over the floor and then demanded your lunch money. Or if Bill in accounting didn’t quite grasp the fundamentals of percentages, so we all had to wait until he caught up and allow for any mistakes he was making.
Not all homeschooled kids turn out perfectly (I know this personally) — but they sure as heck have a much better chance
Or maybe she was looking in the mirror. :)
Whenever I see one of these signs in someone’s yard, I have the strong urge to pull over and piss on it.
Nobody claimed the community as anti science. They probably even hailed as a model of healthy community that others need to adopt. That is, until part of their concept is adopted by a Republican administration.
“Developed the practical phonograph, telegraph, storage battery and forms of useful electric light...”
This guy is right.
A lot of hippie antiCapitalist looney lefty crap embraced by a lot of Maga. Or they became Maga.
I don’t care, it brings in votes and keeps Democrats out of office.
“.. helmed by the science-avoidant Secretary for Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
She is full of monkey piss. Robert F. Kennedy Jr is actually paying attention to independent science that is not in thrall to $$$ from drug companies.
Time enough for that when they enter corporate America.
We have to fight hard to keep history and our language.
As in George Orwell’s books, the tyrants want to control people by controlling those.
Most people don’t know this actual story of a black man’s invention is true:
The phrase “the real McCoy” refers to the black inventor Elijah McCoy, whose high-quality automatic lubricator for steam engines led customers to demand his product over cheaper imitations, solidifying the term’s meaning of authenticity.
In Michigan in the historic building area near the park where I like to take walks is the historical marker for him.
About two minutes’ walk away is a pedestrian bridge with spray painted graffiti of “ACAB” (either All cops are bad or all cops are bastards) as well as Kill ICE, same for Trump , save Gaza and Free Palestine.
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