Posted on 12/22/2012 10:09:54 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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After Newtown, I'm not sure we know what we're asking of children when we tell them to go to school after this week of terrible images and stories, after hearing "another school shooting" on the news. They all know what happened, or have the general outlines. And children are scared enough.. . .
"What's so terrible for the little kids who hear about Newtown is that the 'dream' monster is now real," said a friend.
Tragedies are followed by trends, and we know where the conversation is going—gun control, laws for the incarceration of the mentally ill, help for parents with unstable children. But I have a feeling there will be another trend beginning, that it will be slow but long-term: more home schooling. Because more parents aren't going to want to send their kids to school now, and more kids will not want to go. It is a terrible thing to lose the illusion of safety.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
People overvalue the importance of large, improbable events; that’s why people overpay for insurance - and lottery tickets.
This might be an example of people making the right decision for the wrong reason. But it sounds like it might make a great “feeling” answer for people who homeschool and don’t want to have to debate “socialization.”
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Don't tell them to go to school. Teach them at home like responsible parents who care about the futures of their children, intellectual and physical futures, would do. Problem solved for the individual families.
And yet, we consider educating girls in Afghanistan as a strike against the Taliban. It’s turning into an odd world when we advocate for Muslims to send their children to school, and for Christians to keep theirs home.
Both advocacies are in the interests of literacy. You don’t get a whole lot of that commodity from public schooling.
This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)
The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.
This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)
The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.
What I wouldn’t say in the very aftermath of the shooting (less than 20 miles from us) is that my daughter’s teacher (her mom) and her principal (me) are both armed - an intruder wouldn’t get past the front door....
My daughter herself (age 11) said she’s glad she doesn’t have to worry about shootings in her school (our house) before either of us even mentioned it.
Isn’t it an odd coincidence?
Government school defender, promoter of atheism, and Darwinist are often a threesome in the same person.
Daughter just crushed the PSATs. Homeschooling rocks.
It was a bad man who worshiped sin, darkness - Satan - literally.
He’s dead and unless God had mercy on his soul for some reason not apparent to us, he’s in hell with his gods.
He was a bad man who chose the darkness and he’s dead. You don’t have to be afraid of a dead man. Always keep Jesus close in your heart because he’s the opposite for darkness.
That is what Christian parents should tell their children.
No. What is so terrible it that the adults in charge refuse to protect them and for purely ideological reasons.
My working-class parents did not hide us from the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of JFK, the death of Marilyn or the threat of nuclear war. They expected us from an early age to know that life was fragile and, very often, dangerous. But they were the generation that had experienced the Depression as kids and WWII as adults.
Not to mention that in those days there was no CNN with wall-to-wall coverage(liberal indoctrination) that seeks to
sway public opinion.
Exactly. There are many parents who are very outspoken AGAINST having someone armed at their kids' schools. I wonder what THEIR children think of them, for not being willing to offer some measure of protection for them.
Part of the article which preceded the excerpt was about children’s night fears. Noonan said that as a 7-yo she saw Abraham Lincoln in her closet at night, sitting there waiting to be assassinated. Every night.Of course the salient point is that wire service journalism brings the real monsters “into the home” of children whose parents tune in to the news. Without it, only local children would be exposed to second-hand trauma. If Newtown reporting were a movie, would it be rated “G” ???
Oh, you're soooo insensitive.
We need two full-time incomes so that, as people in our twenties, we can have new furniture in our new house; two cars; vacations each year; and, don't forget, there's all that child support from the past marriages!
We just don't have time and, don't forget, we're so dumb from our public school education, we just think that home-schooling is for religious zealots. OK. /rant
Remember that as well, that was the exception. The TV stations still went off the air at night(long after I had been banished to bed).
Peggy reminds me of another whack job - Doris Kearns Goodwin - who played Ethel and Julius Rosenberg as a child. What kind of a kid imagines Lincoln is in her closet? Frankenstein, yes, Dracula, yes, Lincoln: noooooo.
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