Posted on 11/13/2003 10:53:23 AM PST by hsmomx3
The family in NJ that the article mentions, were getting thousands of dollars per month to look after their "adopted" (actually state-placed foster kids), and were obviously finding a better use for the money than feeding the kids with it. Their own biological kids were treated fine.
It is the "foster care industry" that needs to be looked into, not homeschooling
We must do something to stop child abuse at congressional hearings! Don't those congress people have anything better to do at their hearings than to abuse children?
Exactly the point.
This is the same Carla Katz who was the mistress of Senator Jon Corzine and who may have been the reason the senator divorced his wife of over 30 years. Her services to the multimillionaire senator were rewarded by his forgiving a $450K mortgage loan to her. While she decries potential abuse on the part of homeschooling parents, it appears she has no qualms about being a marriage wrecker and a paid harlot.
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It is absolutely vital that homeschooling continue to be legal and easy to do. Easy in the sense of the government butting out of peoples' lives.
Homeschooled children are generally easy to pick out in public - they are almost always more polite, more respectful, look adults in the eye, are more interested (and interestING) in everything, just great to be around.
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That's a good idea.
Why else do you think a crushing tax burden often ensures that both parents have to work - which often prevents them from homeschooling.
There is a most insidious agenda at work.
Homeschooling?
The abuse problem is with the out of control social workers/child welfare gestapo-types who can't keep track of where they put the poor kids. They WANT the children from whomever they can get them from, especially Christian, homeschooled kids.
My friend's children, ages 18 and 15, are way behind but instead of the school acknowledging the problem and providing help they have suggested that she consider homeschooling.
I advised her to make the school provide the help her kids need. It's the school's fault that it is just now coming to light that these kids who are both A students only read on a 6th grade level and do math on a 5th grade level.
How can you get to high school, make As in your subjects but can't test above 5th/6th grade? I think the school doesn't want these kids counted in the NCLB testing scores so they are recommending they be removed from the school. No kids, no low scores = no problem for the school, but life long problems for the kids.
PS. I don't find my friend blameless in all this, I can't figure out how her kids got to this state without her recognizing they were having trouble.
How many child molesters and sexual perverts are affiliated with public schools? The number would far exceed cases of homeschooling child abusers.
I forgot to add that I am a homeschooler and I support homeschool completely. I don't think my friend has the patience, desire or the will to homeschool. Her kids need help and the school is the only place they will get it that is if she can make them provide it. If she can't I fear for their futures.
Thanks. Do you have children? If yes, are they currently in the indoctrination system?
I certainly hope not. I'm only 20 and I have no children that I know of. I went through the private system (a liberal private school, as it happens, but a substantial number of people turned out conservative, since they were turned off by the PC bs).
I'm also Canadian; specifically, I live in Ontario. Over 15% (and growing) of all secondary students in Ontario are in private schools. Since Catholic schools are subsidized by the government and a few Jewish schools were as well. Homeschooling isn't big here, but because of the poor (and worsening) quality of the public education system, more and more parents are sending their kids to private schools.
It may soon get to the point where everyone who can afford it will. It's a public embarassment and the government tries to hush it up, but people often notice how many private and Catholic schools we have here.
I had the good fortune to be educated in one of the finest public school in Thailand. There is no indoctrination there, only learning. It's sad that to these educators, liberal indoctrination is more important than actual education.
How did a 2 year old thread get started again?
Have people lost their minds!? "They home-school; they abused their kids. Obviously home-schooling leads to child abuse." Is there one iota of causality shown in this load of manure? Coincidence is not causality!!
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