Posted on 06/08/2002 6:14:23 AM PDT by Valin
Savage obviously hasn't met any Freeper-homeschooled kids...mine (12 years old) could probably tear him a new one on any issue, social, political, or otherwise. :-)
Not only does liberal homeschooling seem like a contradiction to their worldview, I've never heard or even thought about the idea of liberal homeschooling. And we've researched and been involved with the concept of homeschooling for 7 years. Liberal homeschooling has to be a minority group. With all the homeschool conventions, seminars and information, that's unheard of in my experience. Kinda gives me the willy's! Thanks for the thought, I think. :-)
I know people who believe that public high schools turn good tofu-eating socialist kids into mean-spirited republicans who only want to go to college to get careers to buy SUVs!!!
That has to be a minority group. All the liberals we know have never expressed that thought or any similar thought.
Back to Savage, if that's his focus group then I can somewhat better understand his view, but that's a very small sampling of homeschoolers. It's definitely not representative of the majority we hear is growing annually.
Then why do they hate it so much? If enough people took their kids out of public schools things would have to change. At the very least homeschooled kids wont be brainwashed with leftist PC crap. Looking out for your kids is more important than changing the system so that has to come first. Luckily, looking out for your kids WILL change the system but maybe public schools deserve to be irrelevant?
Taking kids out of public schools is better than a thousand votes. It is just as strong a statement as if large numbers of people stopped filing tax returns, except its legal, at least for the time being.
Not necessarily a bad thing...
Actually, bureaucrats on the local level complain about homeschoolers taking their kids out of school, because it reduces the head count and thus reduces the amount of Federal funding they get. Removing kids from the system costs the system money.
Gee, what a shame. I still pay my property taxes, though, because my neighbors don't homeschool their kids.
As a self-described biblical apologist I can speak from experience on this idea. The more I know the context and culture of the Bible and Bible times, the easier it is to identify cults and forgeries. We're raising our kids to identify lies at the outset.
If there are such people, they must be very rare. Nevertheless, liberals have the right to raise their children without interference from the state just as we do.
You haven't given any actual evidence of the poor-quality homeschoolers you seem to think are so prevalent. The only homeschooled kids I've met are polite, well-adjusted, mature and intelligent...much more so that the kids that attend government school, or even private school. The homeschoolers must be doing something right.
Well, that's the exact same way we're set up at work! All the 32-year-olds in one room, all the 33-year-olds in the next, etc. (/sarcasm)
Thanks for the ping.
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