Are Homeschoolers really similar to Islamic Terrorists?

Creative Loafing,Charlotte ^ | BY QUINN COTTON

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Hey, Critter!

First of all, I admire you for doing a great job raising your child as well as you are. It must be difficult and I don't envy you.

Second of all, I want to speak for those who make generalizations about public schools or about people who put them in public schools. Maybe I'm naive, but I think that those people understand COMPLETELY that there are people like you who have no choice about how to educate their children. And I think they they assume you know that they're not talking about people like you. I don't think you should feel insulted. Now, I'm sure that they *are* insulting people who have a choice and choose to put their kids into bad schools. I'm not saying that that is right, but only that I don't think they're casting aspersions on people who are in dire straits.

I might throw around comments on FR about liberals, but I know many liberals who are great people and whom I count as my friends. But, on a forum where we discuss ideology, it seems OK to make generalizations for the sake of discussion.

My kids are all taught at home, but they have many friends who are in public schools who are right up there with them academically. And they're good kids, too. It's my opinion that if the parent is involved, it doesn't matter where the kids are educated. I just think it takes more work to do it when you don't have them with you at home. My hat is off to you for doing what you do!

[Tax-chick]

what's wrong with 2 braids

That part really annoyed me! I wear long skirts, but I can't get my hair to grow to save my life. I really have to struggle with Hair Envy when I go to homeschooling conferences.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I really have to laugh at articles such as this. We homeschooled in Texas and again in Pennsylvania - I've seen parents who were incredible educators and parents who shouldn't have even been allowed to breed - and I've seen this same spectrum in homeschooling familes and public school attendees.

This so-called professional writer should be intelligent enough to realize you can't lump all people together under one label - it's called being "prejudiced" - Not only is that showing extreme ignorance, it is the kiss of death for a professional in today's liberal climate.

[mdmathis6]

I suspect the writer is attempting parody, similar to what Ben Franklin did when he wrote under a pseudonym of a woman(the name escapes me right now). He or she needs a little more polishing so that the ironic "zing" can be apparent to all...I wonder if a budding 15 year old writer wrote this~!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I really have to laugh at articles such as this. We homeschooled in Texas and again in Pennsylvania - I've seen parents who were incredible educators and parents who shouldn't have even been allowed to breed - and I've seen this same spectrum in homeschooling familes and public school attendees.

This so-called professional writer should be intelligent enough to realize you can't lump all people together under one label - it's called being "prejudiced" - Not only is that showing extreme ignorance, it is the kiss of death for a professional in today's liberal climate.

[MississippiMan]

I'm referring strictly to the author of the anti-homeschooling rant.

MM

[Vic3O3]

Ya know, I'm thinking Butch Reno is the secret author of this heap of TRIPE! After all, she already considers me a Cultist, so how much more of a leap is required to make me a glassy-eyed terrorist? This article is SO troll-like as to barely deserve a reply!

Note to Diva: I'm NOT saying you're a troll--only the folks at Creative Loafing! ;)

[Darksheare]

Nailed it on the nose.

[Vic3O3]

Ya know, I'm thinking Butch Reno is the secret author of this heap of TRIPE! After all, she already considers me a Cultist, so how much more of a leap is required to make me a glassy-eyed terrorist? This article is SO troll-like as to barely deserve a reply!

Note to Diva: I'm NOT saying you're a troll--only the folks at Creative Loafing! ;)

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Thanks for not calling me a troll. That would make me a Conservative homeschooling troll.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

You forgot the obvious telltale sign.. the broom in our driveway....

[fml]

For example: It's the middle class that gets suckered into the myth that mothers and older children can survive being together all day without somebody being strangled.

Rather than suicide bombings, though, they commit "suicide book-learning,"

No woman was ever meant to be trapped in a house all day with children old enough to spell "homicide." ... I thought was parody.

Where as Anyone who thinks that a public school is a good place to send their children is seriously misguided. Few would knowingly send their child to a place that is rife with violence, drugs, inappropriate sexual behaviors and Lord knows what else and yet millions of moms shove their kids out the door each day to go to just such a place....I did not.

So you see, I only agreed with what I saw as humorous take on the subject matter. "Suicide book-learning,"- thats bad? I disagreed with the assumptions moms who don't homeschool are misguided . Oh boy, I am getting my head handed to me on this one.

[fml]

It seems I am the only person who thought it was tonge-in-cheek. Silly me.

[TontoKowalski]

Thanks for mentioning The Well Trained Mind which I join in recommending for all parents.

It advocates the Classical Method of education... the kind that Thomas Jefferson had... plenty of emphasis on the classics and classical language.

This is the book that has inspired us to include Latin next year in our fourth grade homeschool.

[TexasCowboy]

Hummm....double posting.

A habit developed from those long, repititious chants.

And thank you for taking the hex off me so I could post without the "Internal Error" message.

[TexasCowboy]

"Wonder how the article writer at creative birdcage wallpapering would've dealt with such activities?"

I wonder how they would have handled the situation when I hot-wired, "Edward Deitz with the Stinkin' Feets", metal chair in shop class with a stripped back extension cord.
When I plugged it into the wall outlet, I developed an appreciation for modern dance moves.
Edward did some moves that would make Fred Astaire envious.

[TexasCowboy]

"the broom in our driveway...."

Where Texas Girl is now, they ride snow shovels.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I know- 'cuz I am right out near there myself... A snow shovel broom! But I am moving South so I can ditch the shovel now. ( In Erie it was snowing two days ago)

[Vic3O3]

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/reno.htm
Alas, I should've bothered to research the quote before now...Snopes says it's not true, but ya gotta admit--it DOES sound just like Butch!

[dd5339]

Ok, now I'm getting cranky!

Semper Fi