Posted on 10/26/2002 5:07:05 AM PDT by SLB
'The flight from public schools' November edition to feature in-depth look at homeschooling revolution
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: October 26, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
A devastating look at the current state of public schools in America – and the resulting revolution in homeschooling – is the topic of the upcoming November 2002 edition of WND's acclaimed monthly print magazine, Whistleblower.
Titled "THE FLIGHT FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS," the issue documents the increasingly bizarre curricula (from "jihad games" to "celebrating the dead"), notorious "zero-tolerance" discipline (suspending children for playing cops-and-robbers on the playground or giving a cough drop to a friend) and increasingly overt sexual indoctrination (homosexual propaganda now taught beginning in kindergarten). It shows how and why the government's education system has become so controversial that former U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett now publicly exhorts parents on national television to take their children out of the learning institutions over which he once presided – and to homeschool them instead.
The issue guides readers through the fascinating world of homeschooling – showing how home-taught children consistently outperform their public- and private-schooled peers on standardized tests, and are now being actively sought out by Ivy League colleges.
"This issue is crucial to our freedom as individuals and as a nation," said WorldNetDaily's editor and CEO Joseph Farah. "I urge all WND readers to read this issue of Whistleblower – especially if you have school-aged children. I truly believe this special report may change the course of your life and your children's lives."
"In fact," said WND Vice President and Managing Editor David Kupelian – one of four top editorial staffers (including Farah) that homeschool their children – "this issue is an excellent resource for helping parents make the decision, and then the transition, to home school."
The issue includes a powerful essay on the subject by Farah, adapted from his forthcoming book, "Taking America Back."
Yes I knew they had been at it for a long time, just thought there might have been something specific in this President Bush's program.
Actually, I remember sitting in Civics class in 1957 and discussing the civil rights movement. Our superintendent taught the Civics class. He was great on discussing things. We thought we were getting away with a lot when we got him to talking. I didn't realize until I was an adult how much he taught us about government and taught us to be informed and involved. When I talked with other adults who had no clue about the government. (Off the subject). I remember the discussion and he told us there was no problem with black and white children going to school together, that it could be accomplished with smoothly. He said the problem would be the federal government getting control of our schools under the guise of intergration. He said that would be the beginning of the end of quality education in America.
You realize child abuse rates for legitimate homeschooling families are far lower than for the general population, right?
Whoa, whoa, whoa ... this post is ALL ABOUT a WND article with an aside reference to Bennett. At best he appears to be huffing and puffing and attempting to get on the train as its leaving the station.
IMHO he is a phony, neocon windbag and not much better than his sleezy brother.
He writes nothing, simply cuts and pastes.
You're gettin kinda close Red ... but IMHO, ultimately, the government schools will survive only to service the ineducable, to provide them with minimal survival skills.
Logically, the government schools would disappear tomorrow.
But the reality of the situation is that this monstrous bureaucracy is peopled (to a depressingly huge proportion) by a body of folk who never dreamed they would be put out there on stage to be measured on their own merits and judged by the results of their effort or lack thereof.
To overcome this situation will take no less than a parental revolution.
Independent chapters in almost every state.
My homeschooling is done, but we maintain our membership with a $100/year gift. The association uses it to support homescholarship for cash-strapped homeschool families; for curriculum and stuff.
Bill Bennett is, always has been, always will be a "big government", "former" Democrat, neocon, sham Republican. He "writes" very little, cuts and pastes a lot.
Reread, rethink.
Please consider homeschooling: life is short, and if you know what I know, you wouldn't want to miss the opportunity to have such joy as teaching your kids brings.
Working two jobs will make you a stranger to your kids, and leave your other with a task that is best accomplished by two---and best accomplished by the dad when the kids are teenagers.
I know homeschooling is a scarey thought. Just give it a year, then go on if it works. It's better than money, and you can take it with you.
Socialization?
Horse hocky. I hear this mantra constantly, but then I walk around the neighborhood past the park and the school yard and they are VACANT!
The kids are all indoors watching TV, playing with their electronic games, or (God knows) worse. Ask their parents about this phenomena and you get one form of embarrassed bluster or another, all of which come down to some variation of fear or surrender. They say they are AFRAID to let their children out to play! Is that frightening or what? !!
Why? Here's a clue ... parents prefer to surrender as much resposibility as possible to the "system".
You are SO RIGHT ON kiddo.
Also, SO RIGHT ON. I am SO encouraged.... there may BE a future
This irrelevant comment aside, I'm not sure you and Luis disagree on much.
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