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“I just can’t do this.” Harried parents forgo home school
Associated Press ^ | April 21, 2020 | Gillian Flaccus and Jocelyn Gecker

Posted on 04/21/2020 9:55:55 AM PDT by Olog-hai

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Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.

— 10th plank of communism
What, AP propagandizing for communist principles and against the family? Whoda thunk . . . ?
1 posted on 04/21/2020 9:55:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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https://apnews.com/a3e86445d1387ecd8d1df8f9f7743e1f


2 posted on 04/21/2020 9:57:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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See?

You can’t do it yourself, you must have the state raise your children........


3 posted on 04/21/2020 9:57:22 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Olog-hai

AP -Always Propaganda.


4 posted on 04/21/2020 9:58:05 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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The Left HATES homeschooling and wants it to fail. But homeschooling is a great alternative, MUCH better than government schools and homeschooled kids usually excel - something the Left doesn’t want.

How I loathe and despise the Left.

“AP” = All Propaganda.


5 posted on 04/21/2020 9:59:16 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Yep. My first thought was “propaganda.” Can’t have those liberal indoctrination centers threatened, after all.


6 posted on 04/21/2020 9:59:20 AM PDT by Pravious
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Wow. She tried for a whole week. Such tenacity.

My daughter home-schools. Several of her friends have realized, with their kids being home, how poorly educated they actually are.....there are at least 3 new home-school families because of this in her small area. These are families paying $15,000.00 a year for private Christian school! These younger teachers have been brainwashed into the child-centered, whole language, self esteem nonsense.


7 posted on 04/21/2020 10:00:41 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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Uhhhhh....yyyeahhh.

Just one question, Ape Pee. Didn't these parents attend public schools themselves? Why is it so hard to for them to pass along what they learned?

Unless they didn't learn anything worth passing along in the first place.

8 posted on 04/21/2020 10:00:47 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberaln would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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I read this and think “Your child does not respect you, basic kindergarten math is too hard for you or your child” — is that too cynical?


9 posted on 04/21/2020 10:00:48 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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I am assuming that these parents have it in their minds that they “can’t do it” and they do not have the discipline to devote the time and commitment into homeschooling.

It can be done but I have to wonder if these parents who say they can’t do it are the snowflakes who believe it takes a village and mom and dad are not part of the teaching process as they want someone else to do it.


10 posted on 04/21/2020 10:02:21 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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I agree, but not so with everyone - homeschooling is sometimes NoSchooling - kids grow up illiterate and unable to do basic math. And if they are boys, they cannot even get pregnant like mom did as a lifestyle choice.


11 posted on 04/21/2020 10:03:15 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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These younger teachers have been brainwashed into the child-centered, whole language, self esteem nonsense.


Even in a private Christian school, the teachers are like this?


12 posted on 04/21/2020 10:03:30 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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If not working soon, I will be home schooling my two grade school-aged kids. Difficult due to the 14 hour time difference via Skype or FB messenger, but doable.


13 posted on 04/21/2020 10:05:18 AM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the parish country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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The first such propaganda stories occurred when they ran a story where after literally two days, the people in the article were whining they had to get out of the house because they were stir-crazy.


14 posted on 04/21/2020 10:05:56 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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A lot of these parents are probably having to work from home.

So trying to mix work at home with home schooling isn’t going to work out very well.

Image a family of 3 or 4 living in a 1000 square foot apartment every everyone is online trying to work/school.

Not the ideal setup.


15 posted on 04/21/2020 10:06:44 AM PDT by desertfreedom765
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These people don’t know how to teach their own children. Pretty pathetic. Just read to them. Have them balance your checkbook. Have them color pictures. Teach them about life. Go to you tube and get free piano lessons. Have them watch history videos. Read the Bible.


16 posted on 04/21/2020 10:07:22 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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are the snowflakes who believe it takes a village and mom and dad are not part of the teaching process as they want someone else to do it.
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Bingo, just as they have been programmed to think.

My son did go to public school, but his education was my responsibility.
His teachers (particularly history) remarked that he already knew much of the material.
He learned to think for himself and is not like many of his age cohorts.


17 posted on 04/21/2020 10:08:01 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Olog-hai

This is where the public schools have failed, dreadfully deficient at treating parents as partners.


18 posted on 04/21/2020 10:08:29 AM PDT by jimfree (My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: Olog-hai

BS on the AP.


19 posted on 04/21/2020 10:09:22 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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Notice that the non-family situations get exacerbated the closer the people live to a large city. Boston’s mentioned early in the article.


20 posted on 04/21/2020 10:10:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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