I guess what I don’t get, is why it is any or your business what I do with my kids?
Or why you feel you have to preach to or lecture me about how my responsibilities are messed up because I don’t home school?
You home school, good for you. Like I said, I have no problem with it and quite honestly, if I actually really wanted to, I probably would too. But right now, what my family is doing, works for us. And that is all that matters.
It isn’t any of my business what you do with your kids except the fact that everyone’s taxes are paying for what you do with your kids. I didn’t say your priorities were messed up. I just pointed out that you are only able to work because the government provides the education. How would you feel if your tax dollars paid for my food and rent so I could stay home and homeschool. Would it be your business what I was doing with my kids? That is the way ALOT of people feel about the government paying for you child’s schooling so you can go to work. You just admitted you could afford it if you wanted to which is my point entirely. Your first post was meant to put homeschoolers on the offensive. “Some of us have to pay for food and rent”. We have to pay for food and rent too.
No one but you has any say in your kids’ upbringing. However, I ought to have a say in things I have a financial interest in. If I invest in a company I expect to see earnings reports, etc. If I tithe to a church I want to know what they spend that on. If I pay school taxes, then I ought to have a say in what that money does.
It infuriates me at Walmart to buy my kid the off-brand formula while a unwed bimbo with three kids by three men has her grubby hand full of WIC checks I pay for. It also makes me mad when government schools pull garbage like this. Not much of my money might go to that particular woman, or anyone’s specific school, but morally I am being forced to fund both things and therefore ought to have a say in it.
What, actually, is the difference between government-funded schools and government-funded WIC?
Oh! So you really could homeschool.
Do you want the government to force your neighbor to help pay for your car or gas, as well?
I’ve been following your posts and I am on your side.
I can’t believe that there are actually home-school fanatics that would criticise you for your decision.These critics seem to be less tolerant than the people in the public schools that they are trying to escape.
Good luck to you.