Posted on 09/19/2014 7:54:07 AM PDT by Ebenezer
A huge number of students in the public school arena had a single mom parent and she was probably, at best, a high school graduate.
The people who make me grind my teeth are the “conservatives” who have swallowed the leftist propaganda that government schooling is the backbone of America, and all we need to do is make sure the kids can “pray” and “recite the Pledge.”
(Never mind that “the Pledge” denies a natural right that is enumerated in the Declaration: the right of secession.)
These “conservatives” believe you can build a building with public money (communism), and staff it with teachers paid with public money (communism), and send children there seven hours a day for twelve years (communism), and not have the children emerge from this experience as little communists.
I tend to agree with you. !st let me introduce myself. I am a conservaative Christian that believes in the entire book of the Bible. I believe holiness and righteousness are a trademark ofthe true spirit-filled Christian. Members of my extended family were involved in the aboriginal days of the homeschooling movement. Having said that, I have seen a lot of products of homeschooling that are intellectually and socially starved. I believe God has given us both special and general revelation about the world around us and many homeschoolers with the “dugger” mentality seemed skewed in some way. Both of my girls were public-school educated and are fine Christians today. I believe some of the strongest Christians come through the fires and temptations of public education and can adapt to an ever changing world. Flame away you Bob Jonesers!
In the Catholic school I attended, one child was identified as the “class goat,” early in First Grade. His life was a living hell for eight years. Teachers did nothing. His parents did nothing.
It was attitudes like yours—trivializing what was going on—that made this possible.
In my experience, children who have learned how to ask “Why?” don’t learn how to listen to an answer for another ten to twenty years.
I agree, although there are times when the Rabid Conformists come out of the woodwork and swarm. I’m thinking threads about the Pledge of Allegiance, Spanking, or a new Republican war.
A parochial school education incorporating Common(communist)Core will also accomplish that for you. Amazing that anyone would willingly pay tuition to send their kids to Catholic schools such as those in the Archdiocese of Boston, where the Cardinal and his education minions have implemented Common Core.
“People say, ‘How will your son be socialized if he doesn’t go to school?’ I tell them, ‘That’s easy. Every morning, I take him in the bathroom, beat him up, and take his lunch money.”
Thanks for proving the stereotype and painting with the broad brush.
If I lived in certain areas of this country I might homeschool too. My 3 kids attended public school, no bullying, never got in a fight, never had their lunch money stolen.
If you are willing to condemn in broad strokes are you willing to accept it in return. Would it be fair to claim that all homeschooled kids are possible maladjusted psycho spree shooters like homeschoolers Adam Lanza (albeit briefly homeschooled) and Colorado church shooter Matthew Murray?
That's not fair to all the good homeschoolers, neither is condemning all public schools, teachers, and parents who send their kids there.
I hear you but you have to learn to be true to your beliefs and not let mobs affect your thinking one way or the other. I have no use myself for home schooling. If public schools were unacceptable I would put my children in a private school. But that is me. To each his/her own
Saying it’s unfair to condemn all government school teachers and parents is like saying it’s unfair to condemn all ax murderers. After all, there must be some good ax murderers among the bad ones.
Government school is evil. It was created for evil purposes. It was imposed on America through bribes, propaganda, and brute force. All people who send their children to government school are failing their children in a serious way.
Should be non home schooled cop etc.
I’ll tell my son who’s about to get an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from one of the best schools in the country, and happens to be a fine Christian young man that i’ve failed him and he’ll never succeed. Thanks for enlightening me.
I believe in most urban areas that is called "acting white"?
It never was. Government schools were an idea brought to America from Prussia in the 1830s. There is nothing American about government schooling. It was, from the beginning, part of the Left’s effort to destroy the U.S. Constitution.
I see that you were a public school teacher. Maybe you should consider how you had to hide your faith from the children that were left in your care 7hr a day for most of the young life. Never in God's Word are parents told to send their kids into battle. We need to train them and protect them and when they are ready we send them out.
I have taught many kids throughout my years as a youth Sunday School teacher, including public, private and home schooled kids. The home schooled kids are uniformly intelligent, independent and polite, even the ones that were homeschooled because they are a bit ADHD and their parents feared mandatory zombification.
That's a very perceptive observation.
Caution for Home Schoolers...Be very careful if choosing "on line" curricula.
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