Question to homeschool advocates

That's right. Everyone's entitled to mistakes now and then, but it seems that no one knows grammar, spelling or punctuation anymore. And what's worse, they don't care. With the advent of home PC's, things have gotten worse. Now, no one capitalizes or even writes in complete sentences. So far, we have not gone online at home. My daughter managed to get through grade school and high school hand-writing everything. I'm glad of that.

Number One: Define 'iffy'!

Number Two: You say they have deplorable academic skills for their age...sounds to me they ought to fit right in with the rest of the kids that have deplorable skills due to being in forced public schooling for the last 6 years. What makes you think your 'regular' students are going to be any further ahead of these kids when they graduate?!

Number Three: Take your 'regular' school kids you've had in school all their lives and put them into homeschooling...and see how they excell. Who is failing who here? Ever stop to think maybe it is NOT the kids but the school that is failing.

Number Four: Why am I wasting my breath here?

Khepera....."free to be a moron"........"free to be a floor sweeper"........."freedom to be illiterate"........as long as it's "free"- and such ignorance will make said believer in such a ward of the state, and thus, a PARASITE- take heart, Khepera will defend "freedom to be stoopid and sponge off society". Oversight or accountability at even a minimal level? That flies in the face of Kephera's dream world, where every parent (whether they're a crack addict or retarded) is equally qualified to educate their children. I don't , not for a minute, suggest that "government knows best" or "some public school bureaucrat knows best", but is it not reasonable to propose that a math teacher be able to add/subtract, a history teacher be able to discuss the Civil War, etc?? I simply think that parents who care enough (and I think the world of those who sacrifice and have the talent to homeschool) to homeschool should possess at least a minimal proficiency level. Isn't the goal of education to enable a child to be equipped to fend for himself one day? I don't want to be saddled with paying for Trailer Bob's 13 children , cuz all Trailer Bob knew was how to procreate. He were homeskewled by 4th grade edjikated purents, they wur prowd of there free-dumb to doo as dey saw feet. /sarcasm

I have seen 1 ,but there was incest and molestation as the reason for homeschooling. (Mom couldn't get a date without using the 10 year old girl as bait.)

Most of what I see is, the worst homeschoolers are smarter than the best from public schools.

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