Publik Skule vs. Home School

Townhall ^ | 1/8/05 | Doug Giles

[wagglebee]

I was sitting at our neighborhood pool New Year’s morning, enjoying the great South Florida weather while trying to grind out a couple of chapters for my new book, when three high school girls took the chaise lounges next to me and started talking about their New Year’s Eve party with their high school mates.

Seemingly still semi-drunk from the party, the 16- and 17-year-old girls began to recount how much coke, weed, vodka, guys and girls they did the night before. Listening to the F-bomb riddled report of the previous night’s peccadilloes left me thinking, how sad … and … what a waste … and … thank God my wife and I yanked our kids out of the public school system and away from these visionless, dissolute and spoiled morons.

It’s been eleven months since we pulled our teenage daughters out of the public school system and started to home school them, and I could kick myself for waiting so long. The educational, emotional, spiritual and physical progress they have made has been amazing. Not that they were anti-intellectual psychologically teetering bloated decadent nut jobs before they started home schooling, it’s just that I’ve been ecstatically stunned at how they have aggressively embraced this new lease on their educational life.

Now … they actually get to study the basics, pursue their educational and athletic interests, without waiting for the 186% overcrowded class to decide to cease fighting and copulating long enough that the teacher can teach the students how to write their name so that they can endorse their unemployment check later on in life.

Also, it seems that our alpha females really do not miss . . .
· Having everything they hold dear from a Christian standpoint trashed like a hotel room with Sum41 in it, by secular and atheistic teachers and students,
· Enduring the daily physical assaults and threats made by the multitudinous scum bag thugs and punk gang bangers on campus,
· Watching the constant drug trafficking, and
· Trying to ignore the lesbian, queer and over-the-top heterosexual make-out sessions during their lunch break.

Instead of being the goofy-looking home-schooled inbred stooges portrayed by TV and movies, my ladies are sharp, solid and full of holy chutzpah. Yeah … they’re clipping along at a nice pace, taking classes like macro-economics, logic, Latin, intelligence and national security, and afterward, pursuing the martial art of jiu-jitsu from the world-famous Gracie family, surfing and occasionally going with me big game hunting and fishing. Getting away from the prison-like public school system has caused their spirit and vision to soar even higher as they have resolutely separated from the pack and decided to run their own lives, rather than schlep with the lemmings.

My ClashPoint is this: parent . . . home schooling isn’t as tough as you think it is. With the advent of online virtual schools, plus the tens of thousands of people who have bailed out of the system, there are afforded to you, the home schooling parent and student, amazing resources, local networks of like-minded families and world-class curricula, to help you help yours be the leaders God intends for them to be.

Initially, I was a bit concerned about how home schooling was going to work within the insanity which is the Giles household, but it has been relatively painless. The adjustments my wife and I have had to make to our routine to accommodate our daughters for greatness are far less painful than the worry and concern we had sending them off to the monkey jungle which is the Public School system.

[Liberty Wins]

"As to conspiracy theories, on Bilingual Education (in its Spanish-only form), I do subscibe to a conspiracy theory. I think the libs see the Hispanic population of this country as up for grabs, and fear that they would integrate and join our mainstream, once they master English, just like Italians, Asians, and others. If you prevent them from getting fluent in English, they stay a minority, beholden to the Dems."

This actually makes sense. Can anybody explain it otherwise?

[nmh]

LOL!

Post away.

I've got better things to do.

I shouldn't have bothered to respond to you and your other buddies to begin with. Denial of the negative impact that secular public schools have on a child is not something you appear to be able to grasp.

Part of any step towards recovery is to admit there is a problem. IN your situation the problems lie with a secular public school education - if you can call it an "education". I'll use alcohol addiction as my analogy. Till an alcoholic can admit they have a drinking problem there is not alot you can do to have them help themselves.

There's nothing good about public schools. Nothing. If you want to believe they are wonderful - go ahead. Have a nice day. You and others are welcome to flame away, take what I say out of context, ridicule it or whatever else delights you which I am sure you will do anyway.

[PleaseNoMore]

I agree. People like this are really pathetic and sad. But, the bible does speak of those who say "Lord, Lord..." not getting in. At least that is what I think of when dealing with such people.

[PleaseNoMore]

Ha! I knew it. No facts to base up your accusations. I will save this thread as a personal reminder to call you out as the slanderer that you are. Now, run along and troll the other threads. I am sure that you can find someone else to spew your "morality" too.

[annyokie]

True. Unfortunately, there is a whole subset of her ilk on this forum. Several were booted this fall for going too far.

[exnavychick]

Thanks, Coopster!

[annyokie]

There's nothing good about public schools. Nothing.

You need some serious intervention.

[Max Combined]

"I'm evil incarnate in his eyes"

Of course the fact that Gabz claims that I think she is "evil incarnate", despite my NEVER posting anything in this or any other thread that in any way supports her allegation, is immaterial, since it conflicts with your program.

Some homeschooler, somewhere, at some time might think that Gabz is "evil incarnate" so that is close enough for your purposes.

Gabz making things up out of thin air is just hunky dory in your book.

[BobL]

"This actually makes sense. Can anybody explain it otherwise?"

I bounced it off a Hispanic (Mexican) co-worker who grew up in a Spanish Language household in El Paso. She spoke perfect English and told me that English was the only language in her school (at the time). She married a white, took on a "white" name, did great at work, and it was almost impossible to tell she had any Mexican blood, much less 100% of it. I can't even remember how we came across the subject.

She told me my conspiracy theory was nuts. But I still believe it - in part because of her success.

[cyncooper]

It's the only way to go.

No, it's not the "only" way to go. It's one way and it's a good way, it's not the "only" desirable way.

[Kevin OMalley]

Good post, BobL.

My sense is that her story is not unique. This represents a major opportunity to affect changes in school policy that would be a dramatic quantum shift rather than incremental.

I hope y'all else would join us in the discussion.

[cyncooper]

Well, no, not ALL public schools are bad. You could move to small town USA: 1,000 people? maybe, but try even smaller....

Wrong. Our public school system in a large city is excellent.

[annyokie]

She is not "making it up." You haven't witnessed the beatdowns that she and I have taken on some of these threads.

AntiChrist is only the half of it.

[exnavychick]

It sounds to me like your disagrement is with Gabz...perhaps you could refrain from dragging other people into it? I don't recall posting anything argumentative to you, so please leave me out of it, unless you just want to argue with everyone.

If you were offended by my earlier post, I'm sorry. I am not attempting to denigrate anyone with that post, but make some observations. If you choose to see that as a personal attack, I can't do much about that, since I clearly stated that was not my intent.

[cyncooper]

"All public schools are bad?"

Yes.

LOL.

You couldn't be more wrong.

[derheimwill]

The bilingual/dems conspiracy exists but is not the reason for every bilingual program. Most schools who do bilingual do so because it results in higher passing rates, at least at first. Higher passing rates means more money. Also, they can get grant money just for having the program.

[exnavychick]

And FWIW, I don't think Gabz is doing anything except trying to defend herself.

[cyncooper]

But I have done a LOT of reading on people that do track what goes on in public schools and it's pretty darn scary.

Are you daring to accuse those of us with children in public school with not tracking what's going on there?

What breathtaking gall, ignorance and arrogance wrapped up in one repugnant little slimeball.

[Max Combined]

"with the people on these threads who constantly insinuate that "we" are bad parents because we send our kids to public schools."

No, it is Gabz who insinuates that people on these threads constantly insinuate that people who send their kids to are bad parents. When asked to point to the posts on this thread that called people bad parents because they send their kids to public school, she could not come up with a single one.

Now that you have made the same accusation, could you please point to specific posts on this thread or another thread where anyone calls parents who send their kids to public schools bad parents for doing so? It should be very easy for you to do so, since you claim they are doing so "constantly".

[cyncooper]

My husband's H.S. alma mater is the academically excellent mid-town Catholic H.S. He laughed when I suggested we think about it for our daughter and informed me that it was party central and not the haven from evil influence I imagined it to be. LOL