Posted on 01/26/2018 9:39:55 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl
Six-year-old Derrica Grace has never been to school, but she can discuss Cryptocurrency, explain the history of the Blank Panther movement - and show you how to shoot an Uzi machine gun.
It's all thanks to her father, Derrick Grace II – who has developed his own homeschooling curriculum after making the decision to pull his son out of first grade in 2016.
The father-of-four, from Tampa, Florida, says that he's not a fan of the school system - and believes they 'dilute the mental progression' of children.
However, he has attracted controversy online after posting a series of videos online showing his daughter Derrica and son Derrick Grace III loading guns and reciting facts learned from their homeschool experience.
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“GUNS”. In all caps.
No, no bias there..
Home schooling? -————— Fine. That’s his right as a parent.
Training his kids on how to use guns? -——— Fine. That’s his right as a parent.
Black Panther Movement? -—————— That’s where he lost me.
Giving a child power and control, along with instructing on clear responsibility, is the best education technique I can think of
I was home schooled and firearm safety was part of it. Had my first .22 at the age of six or seven, a single shot and you had to pull the safety for each shot.
Nice face tats.
Nothing new here. I was taught to shoot at age 4 in 1950. My daughter won a BB gun match at age 7 shooting against up to 12 year olds male and female. Still shoot competition matches and carry as does my son.
Yeah, that did it for me. One thing worse would have been having them memorize the koran.
I applaud this man. My kids were handling firearms at age 5. Supervised of course. Great way to help an education. Mass, Velocity,Acceleration,Impact,Chemistry,Thermal Expansion,Friction, etc. So many scientific based conversation and teaching opportunities are possible on how they operate.
“Derrick is open about his troubled upbringing, where, despite coming from a family with a strong history in law enforcement, his day-to-day life involved breaking into houses and cars, and generally rebelling against a school system he felt neglected his particular talents.”
His particular talents for breaking into houses and cars?
Some things don't change.
He needed a school program like the one that produced the ironwood engine. A program that had high schoolers over ~3 years learn the fundamentals required to build an engine from scratch (literally), do it and pass with a running engine. You had to draft, make molds, cast brass and iron and machine it... I ran at a school in Michigan from 1918-30 and produced about 200. About a dozen are in collector hands, still running...
Mmmm, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for right now. Exactly what is he teaching his children about the Black Panthers?
That they were a terrorist organization back in the 1960's and 70's?
If so, then OK by me.
Funny. And quick.
It’s. Brit news paper. The Brits arrest there own people who complain about the Muslim invasion.
“A program that had high schoolers over ~3 years learn the fundamentals required to build an engine from scratch (literally), do it and pass with a running engine.”
I think we could use some vocational training programs. Need to restore classroom discipline, though.
I'm a home schooled with four kids. I taught them all to shoot. I also taught them about the Black Panthers, who tried to recruit me when I was in high school.
If Derrick Grace is anything like me, he taught his kids that the Black Panthers were basically a bunch of criminal, anarchist losers.
Right on!
Seriously, if women couldn’t vote it would solve a lot of problems.
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