Posted on 04/27/2002 2:36:15 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
There are a couple of points where this article still needs a little bit of polishing, but... dang! I wouldn't have thought it was written by a 13-year-old who looks like this:
I'll tell you what else. I'll bet you a hundred dollars to a doughnut Kyle actually knows how to talk to an adult. Intelligently and sociably.
I'm thinking right now of the 13-year-old public-schooled boy who used to live in our old neighborhood... {shudder}
Which socialization is the NEA most concerned about? That which occurs on the scool bus or that which occurs on the playground?
Children able to make friends with adults? Scandalous!
The NEA has their head in the sand when it comes to home schooling.
Maybe, but I bet he's way behind on making body function sounds, telling rude jokes, and making fun of other kids. (As far as I can tell, that's what they mean by "socialization.")
("socialization"...give me a break....I know!..let's promote kids who can't read or write onto higher grades because it's better for them "socially" to move up with their peers. Yeah - that happens ALL THE TIME in the real world, doesn't it? Sure, my husband was just promoted to VP because the guy that sat next to him was...and the company wanted to be fair.....NOT!).
It is only in the last 100 years that we hearded children of the same age together and treated them all like prison convicts. Some have claimed it was a deliberate policy started in Prussia to produce compliant subjects. From what I can tell, there is much truth to this claim.
When I was in college in 1970, I had a Differential Equations "teacher". I don't remember his name, but he was so tall he had to duck in the door frame to enter the room. He was also red-headed. Being young, introverted, and naive, I didn't speak up much. But this so-called teacher talked so much about how bad it was that we were in VietNam that we rarely had a real lesson in DE. I got a B in the course, but didn't learn anything. Now I'm an engineer, and it was quite difficult to solve certain problems; I had to do substantial self-study to make up for what I paid for and didn't get.
I see this so common in grade school and high school today. My two kids came home and told me things, not about their lessons, but about their teachers' points of view on current events.
It's no wonder our population leans toward the liberal. The kids are being taught - not their supposed lessons, but politics - they're brainwashed every day in school. I think that may be one reason that we have so much teenage rebellion these days.
that's 'cuz I was PUBLIC-SCHOOLED (snicker, snicker).....and I think you have a point there, Mr. Twain.
In other words, the homeschooled child is uncomfortable interspersing every sentence with the "F" word.
In other words, the homeschooled child is not adept at putting a condom on a banana.
You might like the John Taylor Gatto book The Underground History of American Education, linked on my profile page.
Oh. I thought they meant a "screw-you" attitude toward adults, academics, and life in general; tendencies towards violence; and intimate knowledge of and experimentation with various deviant (but NEA-approved) sexual practices.
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