Posted on 02/10/2008 3:15:53 AM PST by Polk Salad Annie Buzz
Families are running for their lives....
In a Feb. 7 press release, a broad coalition of Christian grass-roots organizations boldly banded together urging parents to either homeschool their children or place them in Christian schools. Prominent pro-family crusaders like Phyllis Schlafly, once a proponent of public school reform, are saying it's time to exit public schools.
Indeed, the situation is so serious that in states around the country, sexual material is being taught to children as young as kindergarten age. Barb Anderson, research and policy analyst with the Minnesota Family Council, details lewd content being taught in public schools in a policy paper titled "The Birds & Bees Project: Gay Sex Ed for Kids." According to Anderson, a presenter at the annual Minnesota School Health Education Conference stated, "When speaking to teens you must tell them there is no right or wrong and no good or bad choices."
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May it be so!
We homeschool. It’s economical, safe, clean and energy-efficient.
Fascinating screen name.
It’s about time. Catholics and Jews (even liberals) pushed private schools for years
Good news
Also haven’t heard of that song for years.
Some of the private schools are duplicates of the public schools.
Good for you!
A friend of mine, a fairly young widow with 3 boys, is home schooling her kids. One won a full academic scholarship to MIT last year. Another won an academic scholarship to UT (pre-med). The third is only about 13, but he's so far ahead of other kids his age it's ridiculous. No one in there peer group that has gone to publik skools has remotely gotten the academic attention these three have.
Publik skools are a really sad joke.....thank you Jimmuh Carter.....
Once Obama takes office they’ll be even worse. It’ll be like sending your kids to be brainwashed for eight hours a day by the Berkeley City Council.
Funny how everyone I talk to with kids in the public schools exempt their own public school from criticism — it’s always someone else’s school that’s to blame. But even the top public schools in the nation are mediocre, considering where we rank among industrialized nations.
Most private schools are only marginally better than public schools. Both are feminizing our young boys, and brainwashing all our kids with secular humanism.
There’s plenty of public school violence to go around, its just that they cover it up and try to keep it out of the newspapers.
A local high school in my town had fights recently.
I put the story on my homepage.
The local newspapers haven’t touched the story yet.
Click over for details.
Your right: many, including my brother, exempt his school from criticism. The fact is that multiculturalism is anathema to true education. The premise of multiculturalism is that the most important things to teach about: good or bad, noble or base, virtuous or vicious depends on your “culture”; that everybody gets to choose for himself. Education on the other hand, since the time of Socrates and Plato, has been essentially about the search for those things that are good or bad always and everywhere.
I could go on, but the bottom line is that it is philosophically impossible to receive an education in a system that accepts multiculturalism as a premise as does public education everywhere.
We are 26 year veterans in homeschooling. My wife taught all seven of our children to read when they were four years old using Samuel Blumenfeld’s Alpha Phonics. Our children would rather read than eat! Because they read so well and actually love books, they virtually teach themselves(!) in every subject.
Go home schoolers!
My kids are all grown but I support home schooling 100%. I do fear for this movement’s future however. McCain and huckster not to mention all the RATS are not fans of home schooling.
1) Organize a massive tax revolt that would shut down every government K-12 school in the nation.
2) Conservatives ( Christian and non-Christian) need to organize private scholarship foundations so that every child in this nation could have access to a free education based on the principles of the Constitution, free markets, and the Judeo Christian heritage upon which all freedom rests.
The school district where I live recently had a School Board member pull her daughter out of the local public junior high school because she felt her daughter wasn’t safe around a bunch of gang-bangers and girls getting pregnant in the 7th grade.
And,,,When they arrive at their Liberal/Marxist university or college, they are completely unarmed with the arguments they need to defend their faith! Not only must they have a testimony, they need the verbal weapons to **defend** the faith.
To acquire verbal defense require a thorough and complete immersion in a Christian education. It needs to be integrated throughout the entire Christian curriculum.
We can reform the colleges and universities, but only righteous youth arriving on campus can do it. Sadly, we are not well equipping our youth for battle.
Yes, I often wish my children would stop demonstrating their education long enough to chew their food in a civilized manner. I, unfortunately, can read and eat at the same time.
Our children would rather read than eat!
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Is your family like ours was? “NO reading at the table!” ( during family meals) :)
As long as the public school system is still raking in the tax money, they don't really care whether your kid is in the class room or not, but take the money and you will get their full attention.
Use discrimination.
the following is from the California Exodus Mandate website: http://www.californiaexodus.org/
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A Challenge to the Christian Employees of the California School System
Every Christian employee of the California public schools must understand that the new school legislation requires all school employees, and particularly teachers an administrators, to collaborate in the spiritual and psychological molestation of children mandated by SB 777 and related legislation.
Every school employee needs to ask himself or herself whether he can remain in such a system.
Right. other than our Bible reading, NO books at the table.
Your children will arrive on campus with a strong testimony and the verbal skills needed to defend that testimony before their Liberal/Marxist professors.
It is not “just” multiculti. Academics is not stressed much anymore. Ever look at a school history book? I wouldn’t be surprised at kids that don’t know what geography even is. Compare the math books at any level with Saxon Math which many Christian and private schools use. Public school math wastes lots of teaching time with New Math and feelings about math. Spelling? how quaint. Reading ? well you don’t get very far with that when grammar is not taught any more and the kids can’t spell. The day is filled up with sex ed now and environmentalism and gay is good for you and self-esteem. There just isn’t time to teach numbers and no need to with calculators being so cheap. And how about the classrooms where the smart kids don’t get new work because they are tasked with helping the dummies catch up.
Amelia, Gabz, SoftballmominVA: Public Education
My kids are all grown but I support home schooling 100%. I do fear for this movement’s future however. McCain and huckster not to mention all the RATS are not fans of home schooling
Yes. But anyone who talks about education will admit that parental involvement is important to education. I think that the logical answer to challenges of homeschooling is simply to point out that homeschooling is simply the logical conclusion of parental involvement.It is a sad commentary on the schools they are promoting if they can't teach children well enough for them to mature into adults who are capable of tutoring a handful of children who love them and rely on them. Most especially with the computerized curricula which are available, and the internet for a resource.
I saw a statistic once that showed that the professional group with the highest percentage of its children in private/parochial/home-school is public educators. My wife is a public school teacher. Our kids were home and Christian schooled.
I recently had cause to look at the local high school’s history book. In the section on WWII, it had one sentence about the Yalta Conference and three pages about how Rosie the Riveter started the feminist movement.
Except for current events, I used a textbook from the 1950s to teach my kids history. No twaddle, historical facts in perspective and a pro-American slant.
We also believe that the next administration is going to try to lay some spikes in the road for home schooling families.
I think you may be onto something! Homeschooling is green!! We waste way less paper and textbooks, have no need for gas-guzzling school buses, and eat simple “green” meals (aka PB&J). We even grow our own vegetables.
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All academically successful children are homeschooled.
This is true even if they are institutionalized for their education. The only thing a government institutional school is sending home is a free curriculum for the parents to follow.
There may be some exception out there, but I bet not many.
When parents of institutionalized children tell me about what they are doing for their children. Honestly, it isn’t anything different than I did for my children. Institutionalizing a child for his education is often more work than homeschooling!
Homeschooling is green!!
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I am sitting here chuckling away! How TRUE!
When my kids were little we rarely bought paper. We used the discarded computer printouts from their dad’s office!
One district here hired one a few years ago.
In fact, the district where the fighting has been going on this last week.
No stories in the newspapers so far.
[Funny how everyone I talk to with kids in the public schools exempt their own public school from criticism — it’s always someone else’s school that’s to blame.]
Truth. And the shame of it is that the National Education System is the people that control all public schools and hate the right wing with a passion, but so many people equate high taxes with good school when in fact so many young ones are brainwashed into the lies the government schools teach them.
We have always allowed reading at the table, but if somebody talks to you, you have to answer!!! ("Helllllooo! Get your nose out of that book for a minute. Mark your place.")
I only allow people to read if they can keep from getting their food in the books. I also have a rule of “no reading materials while you’re cooking,” after someone got tomato sauce in a library book.
After our Bible reading we suspend reading at the table only for one reason. We use table time for family conversation time. We activiate our children in just talking to us. Now, the situation does happen from-time-to-timne that we get into a discussion that requires referring to a book, and I have sent one of the children for a book.
Often, our Chinese folks will ask questions that prompts us to get the Bible back out, or a dictionary, or an encyclopedia. But conversation is the objective during our meals (besides physical nourishment), so individual reading of books at the table is not allowed.
Then I want to tell you about the homeschool speech and debate leagues that are out there, in case you have not heard of them. Their motto is: "So that you are prepared to give an answer for the Hope that is within you". Meaning, that is why you are learning how to speak and debate (argue) for your beliefs.
I've homeschooled two into college; they both participated in these leagues. One is on a forensics scholarship in college, and the other one is one of the top three debate teams in college, as a Freshman! These kids have debated 5-7 YEARS before entering college, and it has changed the face of college debate. Students who come from private and public schools have to work, bigtime, to catch up to them, and our students move right to the top of the college debate teams.
And part of the secret to their success was that they had FUN learning to do it and participating in it; when you enjoy your learning experience, you go SO much further with it than those who do not like, or merely like it. These kids say that, "this is what we do for fun!"
Time for America to pull their children out of the public schools, and take back educating their own.
I find this quite disturbing.
Parents who currently have their children enrolled in government schools have NO idea how difficult and the sacrifices parents make in home schooling their children.
Most people home school for religious reasons, which means they are motivated by a different set of objectives other then just leaving a crappy socialist school system.
Home schooling is not for the fainthearted, if vast numbers do try it and fail, there will be a BACKLASH against homeschooling by the state
It is ludicrous to think the powerful union interests and the state interest in keeping the property tax paying for schools will not become a battleground. Bottom line is the state will crush the homes school movement when the tax dollars are threatened
Also if vast numbers of people try to enroll their little darling in Christians schools, they will find the requirements of joining sometimes onerous, like actually attending the church that supports the school !!!
My wife and I home schooled our six children back in the 80's and early 90's until we could afford private Christian schools.
Back then it was a very small movement and also quasi - illegal in our state
Only the highly dedicated and motivated home schooled their children.
Instead of making a call to abandon the government school system in mass, the homeschooling movement should continue to operate by a grass roots, family by family
My next door neighbor home schooled her son,now 19 and daughter 22. They are unbelievable kids. In college now, well disciplined, polite and extremely friendly.
All great things start with an idea. Hopefully, someone with leadership ability will implement it.
My kids were homeschooled in the 80s and early 90s. The debating team is an excellent idea. There is so much available to homeschoolers these days.
that’s great...I got damaged pretty badly from public schools. We need the voicher system all over the country right now. It’s the parents money for God’s sakes.
You are absolutely right! These are points that I have not considered.
I have a suggestion:
The Marxists understood that they had to gain control of education. Conservatives ( Christian and non-Christianunchristian) must do the same. How?
Solution ( 2 things):
1) Conservatives ( Christian and non-Christianunchristian) must set up private scholarship foundations to grant private vouchers to private schools that uphold and support constituionalconstitutionalconstitutionallyconstituentlyconstituentconstituency, free market, and JudeoJudeJudoJudeaJudieJudiJudJudderJadeJuddJudyJute Christian belief.
If Harvard can have a $35 BILLION dollar endowment, and universities across this nation similar endowments in the BILLIONS, then Conservatives **could** do this for K-12 education.
**Every** child in America **could** have access to the best education ever seen since the dawn of humankind, **if** conservatives **wanted**. In fact, we could do it for every child in the world. We are that rich as a nation!
These foundations would inspect, certify, and test. Not only could they provide vouchers to individual children, but they could also fund individual teachers who could set up one room school houses, dame schools, micro-schools, and virtual schools.
2) Conservatives must organize a massive school tax revolt that would shut down government K-12 education.
” My wife taught all seven of our children to read when they were four years old using Samuel Blumenfeld’s Alpha Phonics”
hmmm...good info there. Thanks - I’ll look that one up.
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Please read post #47.
Government vouchers will merely turn the private schools into government schools.
Exactly: The federal or state dollars flow into that school, they are no longer "private" in the sense they are in complete control.
Mr. government worker will want to see how "his" money is being spent
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