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Posted on 06/26/2009 1:08:36 PM PDT by Chickensoup
My own complaint: please don’t brag about how fantastic your kid’s school is, how wonderful the teachers are, and how your child is doing so great. It just sounds defensive.
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Someone once said that they do work on socialization skills with their home-schooled children.
At least once a week, they take them into the bathroom where they curse and threaten them and take away their lunch money.
Wouldn’t want ‘em to miss out!
"I wish my kids hadn't cried so much when I tried to put them in a real school."
Deserves to be repeated.
That is heart-breakingly funny.
I really hate to say this, and I don’t mean to be insulting, but seriously, you do sound bitter.
I’ve NEVER run into anyone saying half these things. If you do, time to look for new friends.
I shortstop all this stuff apparently. I start with the fact that my 9 year-old is in 7th grade and my 11 year old is in 9th. The rest of it, I blow off.
This came in an email from some magazine called Secular Homeschooling...I havent found it yet.
I am not bitter but I do recognize two out of three issues described.
That’s Oberon!
“My wife and I were also concerned that our children would miss out on the socialization available in the public schools...so once a week we take our kids into the bathroom, cuss at them, push them around, steal their lunch money, and offer them drugs, and that seems to take care of it.”
FReeper Oberon
Yesterday, my kids were doing their math and the neighbor kid was waiting for them to finish up. Of course he asked why they had to do work in the summer.
I asked him why he let the government tell him when he was allowed to learn.
Phew!
Shalom.
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Again, this tone of rant is not characteristic of most homeschoolers. I don't think it's cute or funny. It's, as it says, bitter.
Why not?
Why would a parent send their child into the atheistic government schools? Hey! That's 35 hours a week of a godless worldview! Add homework and other after school activities to that and that is a FULL-TIME job for the kid working at learning a godless worldview!
Also....Who says any kid learns anything in an institutional school? Have any studies actually been done on this? It seems to me that academically successful institutionalized children have parents who do **everything** I did as a homeschooling parent:
**Check homework for completeness and neatness
** Get outside help when the child has a problem.
** Turn off the TV
** Read to the child
** Take child to library
** Have books and magazines in the home
** Visit museums
** Have regular study hours
** Encourage the development of talents ( music, art, theater, soccer, karate,..etc.)
It is very likely that institutionalized kids are really being **afterschooled**. It is likely that the parents’ and the kid themselves who are doing the teaching in the home. The only thing the institutional school is doing is sending home a curriculum for the parents and child to follow.
So...If you can read this thank your parent for “afterschooling” you.
I’ve run into a lot of these same comments myself.
The one I get all the time is....
“I could never homeschool my kids” ..... and I do always want to agree. It is sad when they then continue to say they couldn’t handle having the kids home all day and are happy for the free babysitting.
It is also time to pointed ask Christian teachers why they would accept **money** for assisting, promoting, aiding, and abetting a government institution the puts children to work FULL-TIME at the job learn a godless worldview. The children **know** that this is conflict with Christian teaching. They will correctly conclude that this is hypocritical.
That's the least it. There's also the drug use/exchange and sexualization - and that's just the bathrooms.
The secularism, social deviance and leftist indoctrination by the NEA drones and student peers that goes on in the rest of the building is not the type of "socialization" I would dream of inflicting on my child.
Not to mention the fact that the kids aren't taught Western history and literature, and increasing percentages of them either don't graduate or graduate with elementary level math and english skills.
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