I went to public school for the regulation time and frankly I feel that I got cheated. I learned more in my first two semesters of community college than I did in four years of IB crap. Even so I understand where he’s coming from. Private school is costly and home schooling is time consuming especially if you have two working parents.
As long as he’s making sure his kids get a counter to the indoctrination crap in public school and they have a good grasp of the Rs he’s doing the best he can.
I guess English needs a different form for the impersonal you. Somehow "Where does one's child go to school?" doesn't cut it.
Perhaps I'll fashion a tagline with the warning, or simply start another account with user name "Impersonal You."
What do impersonal you think? ;)
Counter! Like iodine for radiation. All you one needs is a means to quantify the indoctrination crap accurately, to measure the dosage...and some means to determine efficacy. For a regimen lasting twelve years.
Well, there's a little more to it, indoctrination crap is just the entree, there are lots of side dishes as well.
If you know of an academically successful child, that child was **afterschooled** or homeschooled. BOTH take the SAME AMOUNT OF TIME and work by the PARENTS!
The following is an anecdotal observation:
I was the owner of and doctor in a large health clinic. Over my career I have know several thousand families. I asked parents who had academically successful children about their home habits and study habits. ( Mostly, I was looking for ideas for my own family.)
I found that there was little to **NO** difference between families ( homeschooled or institutionalized) with children who were academically successful. Both sets of families had the same values and home habits. Both sets of children were spend about the **SAME** amount of time in study at the kitchen table or at their desks IN THE HOME.
The same was true for academically successful foreign born children. Their parents were getting help from older children, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors, and ( especially) parent organized study clubs. The success of their children was due to the massive amount of work done **OUTSIDE** of school and IN THE HOME!
I concluded:
Again...If you know of an academically successful child, that child was **afterschooled** or homeschooled. BOTH take the SAME AMOUNT OF TIME and work by the PARENTS!
But...When it comes to undoing godless government secular humanist indoctrination...that may take **more** time on the part of the parents.
( Capitalizing for emphasis only.)
Good heavens. We can’t expect parents to do time consuming things for their children. Yes, those same parents who can’t be bothered to homeschool will, of course, take the time it would take to give sanity equal time with the insanity that is pounded into their children for 12,000 to 14,000 seat-hours of government school (not counting extracurricular activities and homework). They will also carefully read all the textbooks and monitor what is said and done in class, at assemblies, etc. so that they know what to counter.
Me, I’m lazy. That all sounds like far too much work, even though it would be absolutely necessary to counter the liberalism being feed to children. I think I’ll take the easy way out and homeschool.
“Private school is costly and home schooling is time consuming especially if you have two working parents.”
Homeschooling IS time-consuming. And can be difficult. And often requires significant sacrifice. Absolutely.
Yet, it is a gift that parents give to their children and to themselves. Families that manage to homeschool reap rewards out of all proportion to the sacrifices made.
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Really...please think on these words that were printed in 1930...
“Education is thus a most powerful ally of Humanism, AND EVERY AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL IS A SCHOOL OF HUMANISM. What can the theistic Sunday schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?”
Or...
“So very humanistic is modern education that no religion has a future unless it be Humanism. The religion of tomorrow in America and the day after tomorrow in all the world may not be in all respects identical with the religious Humanism we are advocating in this book, but it will be mightily like it and of the same spirit.”
Both of these statements are from “Humanism A New Religion” by Charles Francis Potter in 1930...he also signed the Humanist Manifesto 1 in 1933 along with John Dewey the “father of modern education”.
We are much better served to instead follow the words of Scripture...
Psalms 1:1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit at the seat of mockers.
I still cannot understand why so many parents will send their children to learn from the wicked, sinner, and mockers and then think that they can “undo” the damage.
Please remember these words...
1 Corinthians 15:33-34 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God-I say this to your shame.