HOMESCHOOLERS EXPOSED -- BY INDIE FILMMAKER FERNANDA ROSSI

Hollywood Investigator ^ | February 20, 2003 | Thomas M. Sipos

[SpookBrat]

"I've been talking it over with my wife and our kids are going to private school or we're going to do it ourselves. My own recollection of public school leaves much to be desired, and if they're anything like what I remember LC Junior can do without all that "socialization."

That's good to hear. Thanks for all the nice things you said about homeschooled children.

BTTT! :)

[Libertina]

"It isn't that he's advocating so much for home school or a private school," Saxton said. "It's that he's clearly stating that he has no faith in the public schools."
Oh my. This guy has guts. And what he says about the schools is correct. Thanks for the link, Ladylib. (?)

[condi2008]

"Queen Bees and Wannabes" - found it at the library!
"Odd Girl Out" sounds similar (see post 22).

[JohnHuang2]

Jayne, check out #15 ;^)

[Joseph Grissom]

Thank you. Sing the Salve Regina afterwards if you know it. To me, that hymn really sums up Our Lady's maternal love and protection over us. It's beautiful!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I also learned wolf pack social skills like how to be an alpha wolf so that the others wouldn't pick you to pieces.

Write a book about it and sell it. I'm sure there are millions of 11-16 year olds out there that would be desperate to buy it. Maybe you can get them to plunk down some of their drug or beer money.

[Landru]

"Homeschooling criticsNEA communists worry that homeschooled children don't learn the socialism skills to be had from interacting with other indoctrinated children."

The situation couldn't possibly have been synopsized any better than that.

...describes the state of public education to a 'T'.

[FITZ]

learn to work around all the bs that goes on as it continues in most work places.

I agree with that ---my kids go to school but I still teach them at home ---you should homeschool even if you use the public schools, it's not an either/or, it can be both.

[xzins]

What was wrong with #84 that they removed it?

Where's the link to the quotes of the day page? Can't find it.

[biblewonk]

Write a book about it and sell it. I'm sure there are millions of 11-16 year olds out there that would be desperate to buy it. Maybe you can get them to plunk down some of their drug or beer money.

Take karate, lift weights and become billy bad ass.

the end.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Take karate, lift weights and become billy bad ass.

Ah, I see. Simple formula. Violence is the answer.

[biblewonk]

No, homeschooling is the answer.

[hemogoblin]

We started home schooling three years ago and it was the best decision my wife and I have ever made. It is a huge responsibilty but it set us free.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Actually, the parents in the article are "progressives" ( == Marxists), who probably decided that their kid would not get ENOUGH marxism in the govt schools

That may be so, but I suspect that the majority are those who are sick to death of the twisted social engineering going on the schools.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

No, homeschooling is the answer.

Then Billy Bad Ass wouldn't need to take karate and lift weights.

[fml]

Great answer. There are thousands of public school kids who are high achievers. Its what you teach them at home that allows them to best utilize what they learn at school. A large part of the equation is choosing a place to live that supports your beliefs and values. You live in dump town, your kids learn in a dump.

[biblewonk]

I wasn't homeschooled.

[GOPrincess]

Welcome, and good luck!

I am seriously considering homeschooling my two youngest next fall and much enjoy everyone's input. Does anyone here use K12, the program founded by William Bennett? So far the input I have is that it is excellent scholastically but may take more hours per day than I want to commit to if you try to follow an actual school year. I'm looking for a balance between having some guidance for us to follow on learning substantive "basics" and freeing my children and our family from the no recess/too much homework rut some of you have also faced. As I also work at home I don't have a lot of time to plan my own curriculum, and I don't see myself as an "unschooler," though I've learned valuable things from my reading on that homeschooling style.

I already put my 2nd oldest in private Montessori school in the middle of 4th grade a year ago because the public school experience was destroying his love for school and his self-confidence. He's doing great now but with 4 kids and college pending in 3 years for my eldest I need to look at other alternatives for the long haul. (And don't ask about high school, where one teacher plays anti-war punk rock music and another asked the kids yesterday to join him at an anti-war rally...they're 14-year-olds, not young adults! The math teacher hates math, the history teacher "taught" so many factually inaccurate things that my husband and I met with him last month...I'll stop there.)

So nice to find so many supportive people here.