[sitetest]

Dear Gabz,

This is why homeschoolers can get a little... testy around here in education threads.

Not too many public school parents have been threatened with jail, kidnapping of their children by the state, loss of parental rights, for the great crime of teaching their children.

Many, many homeschoolers, myself included, have been so threatened. Homeschoolers must often deal, in person, under threat of sanction, with the jackals of public education.

Homeschoolers deserve, at minimum, one order of magnitude of leeway in terms of rhetorical excess when discussing educational issues with non-homeschoolers.

sitetest

[Oberon]

My older Democrat neighbor once informed me that his generation had worked very hard to assure the success of the public school system, that my children were high achievers, and that to ensure the continued success of the system I should send my children to public school.

I didn't know where to begin answering him. It was a moment before I could think to close my mouth.

[Gabz]

Dear sitetest,

I understand a little testy, and have been giving leeway toward homes schoolers on these threads for years, as have most of the others who have been called (at various times) evil, child abusers, witches, harpies, and a host of other inflammatory names (I only listed the nicer ones.) Heaven forbid, however we are to be granted even the slightest bit of common courtesy in return.

It has gone beyond time where a bit of respect should have been granted in return. For pete’s sake, I was attacked on this thread, WHILE I was defending the home schoolers. I’m sorry to say, but there seems to be a contingent of alleged home school supporters on FR that are hell bent on giving the rest of you a really bad name. I don’t know when open season on those of us with ties to public schools began, but it sure is obvious there are some here who fell free to call others anything they so choose and to make up any kind of facts and figures without proof of any of it.

Of course many of them are fairly new to this site and thus should be given a bit of a chance to understand how discourse and discussion take place - but they have all been here long enough to understand rules of common courtesy - something extremely lacking in the faction to which I refer.

While it is unfortunate you have had to deal with such jackals in public education in your life, I have yet to see any of them on these threads - the only jackals I have seen on these threads come from your side -— which is not good for what otherwise is a very worthy cause.

Have a peasant afternoon. (GO RAVENS)