I've had it with these nut cases. Do you know that society has an interest in everyone vacinating their children? Can you handle that?Actually, no. If you want to vaccinate your child, why should you care that my children are not? It should be a matter of irrelevance to you since your children "can't" get that disease. Does it matter if the vaccine makes my children deathly ill???? To the gov't, no, not until some "nut cases" took action. Does it matter if vaccines may cause autism??? No, there are not enough cases to bother about.
Also education. Is that too oppressive? Just take the standardized tests and shut up! But no, people want to thumb their noses at society, the society that provides safety and decent neighbors, and police and fire departments...
Just who decides what is on the "standardized" tests? The government who had such a great interest in your children (we won't even go there) or the parent who has a vested interest in the education of their child.
My kids were home-schooled, and voluntarily took all standardized tests - HOWEVER, I do NOT believe the government has a right to remove children from the custody of their parents over a test. Do you honestly think there are no "bad" public school teachers. There are, and we manage to cook along.
If you don't want to follow home-school threads, there is a solution. It is a little red X in the corner of your screen.
The bulk of your post I answered in responses to others, but I just wanted to tell you a bit about vaccination studies.
The way vaccination of a population works is that when a vast majority of a given group vaccinates itself the disease no longer thrives there. Now given the fact that nothing is perfect, there are many that were in fact given the shots but are not in actuality innoculated against the disease. The way that these are protected is that the fact that the vast majority IS innoculated does not allow the disease to thrive and therefore those that are not in actuality safe from the disease never get it because they never have contact with the disease itself.
So, actually, someone could decide for himself that he will rely on the fact that he will never be exposed to the disease in his life, and avoid the pain/ possible side-effects of the shots and just coast on the situation provided by others eradicating the disease from the population.
So this may actually work for one person, but obviously not if everyone decided to opt out.
If you don't want to follow home-school threads, there is a solution. It is a little red X in the corner of your screen.
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respectfully, I think you're missing the point (IMHO). those of us who don't home school are following these threads. we are interested. however, we may not always agree with the positions taken by the homeschoolers.
Is that a problem for you?