Disillusioned with the public school system - Black families explore home schooling

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | January 16, 2003 | S.A. REID

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

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[Nitro]

The Atlanta Urinal-Constipation??

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The stench coming from a rotten public school system is too much for most.

[KQQL]

SERVES Blacks right for voting for RATs at 90% Rate...
= No choice for their kids

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Homeschooling Comes of Age Teaching children at home is no longer just the choice of religious and political iconoclasts. Now, drawn by Brown's tradition of independence and self-direction, a new generation of homeschoolers is arriving-and thriving-on campus. Today Joyce Reed '61, '65 A.M. might be hailed as a pioneer of the modern homeschooling movement, but thirty years ago she was an aberration. In 1970 she moved to the island of Hawaii with her anthropologist husband and young daughter. They lived in the town of Hilo for a year, then fell in love with a falling-down house forty miles outside town. Reed and her husband rebuilt the house, decided they liked living closer to the land, and eventually had four more children there. For ten years they lived off the grid: no electricity, no telephone, no indoor plumbing, no television, no radio. And no school.***

[Nitro]

I was lucky enough to be sent to Catholic School, that means I got beat if I didn't learn...

I for one was beaten for other reasons, one Nun thought I was the devil...

I kept learning and I stopped getting beatings by the fourth grade!!

I was also 6'4" by then and 110lbs!

I must have looked like a really skinny John Wayne!!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Well, pilgrim, sounds like it did you some good!

[Claire Voyant]

So, how old were you in the fourth grade...15....16? :)

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[Nitro]

It did, now I am 6'4" and 240lbs and I enjoy American Freedom...

I live in Brooklyn, USA and while I am content...

things could be so much better... any suggestions??

My idea is to thin the herd, we are currently 6,000,000,000, I suggest an IQ Test and the low 30% get killed...

I am totally confident!!

[FreedomPoster]

GA FReeper pings; interesting article. Folks like this will be the advance guard of black Republican voters.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thining the herd isn't the answer. The herd is turning. For generations, waves of lemmings have gone over the Democratic Party cliff. But now it looks as if the reality of this self destructive exercise has begun to have positive results. The idea that educating at home and not in government classrooms has taken root.

[dansangel]

Great article - wonderful news! The more homeschooling gains a foothold, the better off our society will be. I'm glad that "race" is becoming less of a factor!

[Nitro]

I was 8...

and I was taught to read because my people read...

I was fascinated with knowledge and to this day I suck at the teet of the world and wish for knowledge!!

That 8... infinity!!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The more homeschooling gains a foothold, the better off our society will be. I'm glad that "race" is becoming less of a factor!

Knowledge paves the way to freedom. The more the better!!

[Nitro]

Actually, it is...

35 years ago there were half as many people and my neighborhood was calm and there was no such thing as steel gates and bars...

the essential arguement becomes....

People, good or bad??

Keep the good, kill the bad!!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

What's your definition of bad?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Ping.