Judge Intervenes to Prevent Homeschooled Catholic Children from Getting Hooked on Phonics

Homeschool Legal Defense Association HSLDA via First Thoughts Blog ^ | June 2, 2011 | Joe Carter

[Clintonfatigued]

It seems that while Canada has better schools than the U.S., they're going through many of the same problems that we are. Their homeschooling movement is small and beleaguered, as this article illustrates.

[Jack Hydrazine]

What that Leftist tyrant in a black robe really wants is to have them Socialized with Socialism.

[Clintonfatigued]

Indeed, our Canadian neighbors are going through the same struggles with Political Correctness as we are.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

leftism / liberal fascism is NOT mere “political correctness”. These terms are not interchangeable.

[muawiyah]

I don't have a preference one way or the other since it's very common in my family for young children to learn to read spontaneously ~ sometimes as early as 3, but never later than 6 or 7.

On the other hand, I have seen children educated with both phonics and with look-say.

Phonics is a guide to decoding what the words are saying to you. Look-say doesn't work at all with kids who have no understanding of what those words are supposed to mean. If you've been taught phonics, you can figure out what a word sounds like without knowing what it means, and that has some distinct value in conversing with others later on. Look-say can leave you flat with new words. Relying on that method alone rather cuts the brain off at the frontal cerebral cortex.

Judge Nicole Bernier sounds terribly ignorant. I didn't know that Canada allowed people like that on the bench. She'd be much better off on one of those fascistic human rights panels.

[wintertime]

so as to get what Judge Bernier calls “socialization.
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Socialization? ...Let's call it what it is: Indoctrination.

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[Clintonfatigued]

The socialization that schools provide has been known to cause psychiatric problems that take years to recover from. Some former students never recover.

[I see my hands]

The next time the good guys are in charge they should adopt the methods of the bad guys when dealing with leftists.

[wintertime]

Exactly!

Children learn prison survival socialization in these institutions. Nearly all of these dysfunctional coping habits must absolutely be unlearned if they are to be successful in life.

Thankfully, humans are resilient and most move on to form health relationships with marriage, family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Sadly, some do not. We all know a few. :-(

[Sprite518]

That Judge sounds like a nut job. It looks like she gave bogus reasons to force the kids to go to school. I wonder if the family can personally sue this Judge?

[demkicker]

Of course not - no one can personally sue a judge based on their rulings - are you kidding me? Voting the judge out of office is their only recourse, unless they move to another jurisdiction.

[exDemMom]

It’s a shame the “Report Abuse” button right below your post doesn’t work outside of the forum. Because sending kids to public school is a form of child abuse.

People like this judge repeat over and over that children won’t learn “socialization” unless they go to public school. Yet I’ve never seen anyone make a good argument as to what is the supposed benefit of all that “socialization.” Is there any empirical data that supports the claims made for its value?

Personally, I don’t see the benefit of shoving kids into an environment where bullying runs rampant. But maybe that’s just me.

[Clintonfatigued]

“sending kids to public school is a form of child abuse.”

Yes it is. Many of them have hangups years after leaving.

[goodwithagun]

I teach 11th grade American Literature & Advanced Composition I and 12th grade British Literature & Advanced Composition II. My students were taught to read at our elementary schools using the look-say method. I have classrooms full of functioning illiterates. This past school year, two different bathroom fights resulted in two broken jaws. Our son is almost three and our daughter is due in early September. We will homeschool our children. When my colleagues look at me in horror and ask what we will do for socialization I tell them, “Once a week my husband will take them into the bathroom, beat them up, and then try to sell them drugs.” That usually ends the conversation.

[Jeff Chandler]

The next time the good guys are in charge they should adopt the methods of the bad guys when dealing with leftists.

They prefer to Reach Across the Aisle®, My Friend™.

[Spudx7]

My husband is a teacher and repeatedly says that our five children will never go to public school. We've been homeschooling for 3 years now and I am very grateful that he's willing to be the “weird” one at work.

Interestingly enough, the parents who were upset enough to demand a meeting with my husband when they found out we were going to homeschool were all outspoken conservatives. Funny how the idea of government controlling their healthcare had them up in arms; but the thought of anyone pulling children from government school was extremely offensive to them.

[RitaOK]

Let’s face it, we all know this is about neither “socialization” nor phonics. Canadadian voters teach what they tolerate.

[Alberta's Child]

If I were homeschooling my kids and a judge issued this kind of ruling, I'd rightly consider it an act of aggression against my family and would react accordingly.

Here in the U.S. we overthrew our British government over less egregious sh!t than this.