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- Do not be a parrot - think first, squeak later.

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Then I proudly wear the label of "Squeaker".

Homeschoolers are shinning academically and socially both in childhood and adulthood.

200,000 years of human ancestors would be shaking their heads in utter befuddlement and amazement to see our factory-like, prison-like government schools.

It is unnatural to segregate children from their families and community for large part of the their waking day. It is unhealthy educationally and emotionally to herd child about in age-segregated packs to sound of Pavlov's bell.

Even the most alert teacher can not keep on top of the under the radar bullying and alpha-girl poison. It is abusive for children to suffer this humiliation. It is abusive for other children to witness it. It abusive to the bullying or alpha-girl child to be placed in a situation where they have an opportunity to be cruel.

Why are children expected to put up with a physically, emotionally, and sexually abusive environment that would win an adult millions in court?

It is abusive for the slow child to be continually frustrated by not being able to keep up. It is abusive to the bright child to be continually bored to near insanity.

It is abusive to force children into an environment where they are sorely tempted by foods, dress, speech, curriculum, so-called sex education, and student behavior that is in direct contradiction to their religious beliefs. If it is difficult for adults to withstand temptation, why are we forcing children into this environment against their will and that of their parents? An adult has far more control to structure a work, community, and home environment that is supportive of their religious beliefs, than does a child in a compulsory government school.

Finally, the education of children is **never** religiously neutral. Never! It is axiomatic. That means government schools do establish the religious worldview of some, and actively and even maliciously undermine the religious beliefs of others. How can this be constitutional on either a state or federal level?

Is the 1908 model flawed? You bet! It was flawed from the beginning.

"Then I proudly wear the label of "Squeaker". - Truly you continue parroting/squeaking 'homeschool, homeschool". OK, take a cracker. In my # 15 [had you taken the effort to comprehend it] I was addressing the question of what it is [or could be] so special about the homeschool, and whether it is possible to transplant that "it" into other settings, possibly with greater success. I diagnosed that "it" as the student segregation by ability. To implement it on a reasonably broad scale in the US, one would have to start with a radical reinterpretation of the USSC Brown decision.