What else would be you expect a feminist lesbian to say? Tolerance is not a virtue with these people...
Posted on 08/31/2015 2:53:24 PM PDT by jazusamo
For us, it’s 15 down and six more to go ;-) Yes, we are free.
The homeschooled children of parents without a college degree typically score on AVERAGE at about the 79th percentile on a standard battery of Iowa tests. “Competence” and parental education are not issues; commitment is the only real issue.
IMHO, public schools should be like public housing, a means of last resort.
You have to be careful about the term “abuse” - the left is trying to define it as including an education that doesn’t include the very indoctrination you rightly mention.
Government schools are violent, defiling, and intellectually deforming. In sum, government schools are institutionalized child abuse by any reasonable standard.
I was homeschooled. The work I did at age 10 was probably similar to college level work in most subjects. In our state, the law requires a lot of paperwork and hoop jumping, which vexed my mother mightily. Typical public school children in our area score mediocre in standardized tests (around 50th percentile), yet we had to submit work samples to the local school super. Submit a yearly plan, assemble a log, get physical and dental exams, show your immunization records, and take an end-of-year exam by a certified school teacher. Homeschoolers are resented by the administrators for depriving the system of around $8k per child per year (probably more now).
I will definitely homeschool when I have children.
What state were you in and what year were you homeschooled?
Mom always likens it to welfare. It's worse, though. The education is cheesier than the actual cheese.
Pennsylvania.
Exactly.
I’m in my early 20’s, and the state did not require record keeping (and accountability) for children under 8, iirc. But I was homeschooled from birth :)
My children have thanked me for homeschooling them
But not nearly enough.
My wife and I homeschooled both of our kids. Our daughter, graduated this past May, and our son will be a senior this fall.
I’m from Missouri and we have to keep records of hours schooling although nobody checks.
I was not meaning to be condescending to you, I hope you didn’t take it that way.
For years I thought things like that and finally one day it hit me, it’s none of the “states” business how I choose to educate my children. I do everything I can to makes sure others can see that.
Yes I am very fimiliar with the definition of abuse by communists.
I would never agree with anyone until I knew our definition of abuse was the same.
Our oldest daughter is 24, youngest is 3-1/2.
Well you are in the right place. My wife and I were both homeschooled and we are now homescooling our daughter. We met on FR on a homeschooling thread eleven years ago.
That’s why Texas has been advertising with state money the online public school program, to try to hook back in these homeschoolers.
And yet it isn’t wrong that they grow up to fear that the world will end in environmental disaster before they are grown, feel guilty for being their ethnic group, distrust their parents and put misplaced trust in a government that doesn’t care but they think should take care of them?
Much of the welfare housing is provided privately through Section 8 **vouchers**. Imagine that. It works for housing but the left fights school vouchers as if they would doom Western Civilization.
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