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you seem to have a problem with us who choose public education.

Other than my disgust at their lack of consideration for the education of their children and the resultant harm to the republic, I don't have a problem with people who dump their children in public school.

See?!?!

Other than my disgust at their lack of consideration for the education of their children and the resultant harm to the republic, I don't have a problem with people who dump their children in public school.

Getting a little hostile, here, that is exactly the kind of closed-mindedness that fml was talking about.

I support homeschoolers, admire them, actually, but it is exactly that kind of attitude that puts a bad name on the lot, you know?

As you would like to lump all public school parents into one bag, just as the author of the original article lumped all homeschoolers into one bag, I suppose you think I'm a horrible mother that does't love her kids, correct? Let's look at the facts, then, shall we?

I am a single mom - my ex-husband decided to drown his life in booze and abuse his family. I had a choice, stay or leave. Which do you think would be better for my children? Abusive home life, or public school? I chose the latter - am I still an evil mother with "lack of consideration" for them?

Just as one can't lump all homeschoolers into the "fanatic" arena, you can't lump all public school parents into the "inconsiderate" arena, either.

"Other than my disgust at their lack of consideration for the education of their children and the resultant harm to the republic, I don't have a problem with people who dump their children in public school. "

I am resenting this part of this thread...

I'd love to home school my kid, but as a single, child support paying, custody sharing parent, I don't have much choice but to work my ass off, and do my best to counter the marxist propaganda that my kid is fed in the public school.

I do a fair job of it, I must say. I'm raising a rabid little libertarian, who knows about the Constitution and the founding of this country... about the way our government is supposed to work, and not work... about how to look at news, politics and even teaching in school with a critical eye... knows that zoning is bad, seat belt laws are bad, eviro-naziism is bad, socialism is bad, and why all of the above are bad.

She has standing permission to disagree with her teachers in class, if she knows she is being told a pack of lies, and my promise that if she gets in trouble for speaking out, that I will back her 100% AND buy her and ice cream sundae for the trouble. :)

So lay off us will ya?