Homeschoolers are criminals - Page 4

Flint · 03-12-2008, 08:43 AM

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I don't feel tardy.

TheMercenary · 03-12-2008, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by classicman

Problem is as more "extremists" start doing it for "alternate" reasons, they are bringing down the curve.

Ain't that the truth. There is a DVD rental you can get called Jesus Camp. That touches on some of it. I have known a few people who HS, and my hat goes off to them. I don't have the quality to do it. Their kids were smarter than most of the kids their own grade. On the other hand, I have known some really religious kids that were HS for religious reasons and they were wacked out weird. To each his own.

Cicero · 03-12-2008, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

To each his own.

Pop quiz:Now what famous orator coined this phrase?

I agree, there are some home educators that bring down the bar. But I have also seen it work. Home-schooling shouldn't have anything to do with religion or the fanatics, which is why home-schooling can be difficult for people that aren't completely insane. Trying to develop a play-group without a fundamentalist and their kids showing up is probably difficult.

TheMercenary · 03-12-2008, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Cicero

Trying to develop a play-group without a fundamentalist and their kids showing up is probably difficult.

Why? they do it every Sunday and Wed. It's called church.

toranokaze · 03-12-2008, 11:47 AM

I can see how this can be used as a tool of indoctrination to ensure loyalty to the state.

Look education is a education, the law should intervene if there is a problem. If parents are doing a good job and their children are pass the standerized test I fail to see the problem.

If the problem lays within parents not truly qualified to teach why isn't there a fast track for patent teachers to get a certification for being a home school teacher.

Undertoad · 03-12-2008, 12:01 PM

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I can see how this can be used as a tool of indoctrination to ensure loyalty to the state.

All public school students take a loyalty pledge to the state as their first activity, every morning.

"...and to the Republic for which it stands..."

TheMercenary · 03-12-2008, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

All public school students take a loyalty pledge to the state as their first activity, every morning.

"...and to the Republic for which it stands..."

I am pretty sure most of them have stopped. Ours has. Now they have become so PC so we don't hurt anyone's feelings. And there is zero room for common sense in the decision making.

monster · 03-12-2008, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

All public school students take a loyalty pledge to the state as their first activity, every morning.

"...and to the Republic for which it stands..."

No, they don't.

glatt · 03-12-2008, 03:18 PM

At ours they do. I don't know if they force you to do it, or if my kids are just conformists. Or both.

monster · 03-12-2008, 03:24 PM

I understand that some schools that do can be pretty militant......with teachers having differing views on whether foreigners should/may join in or not

thank goodnes they don't at ours.

Ibby · 03-12-2008, 05:48 PM

they used to make us do it at my school in the states. i refused and got yelled at every single morning until my teacher finally just decided it wasnt worth the effort and gave up.

Cloud · 03-12-2008, 07:21 PM

we used to have to say the Pledge of Allegiance, the Lord's Prayer, AND sing My Country Tis of Thee every morning. That was at a private school, though.

Clodfobble · 03-12-2008, 07:38 PM

We not only said it all the way up through junior high, but in 8th grade I was the Seargeant-at-Arms on the student council, whose only actual job was to recite the pledge over the PA system every single morning for the students to follow along with.

monster · 03-12-2008, 07:49 PM

You see, to an outsider, that seems a far cry from a land of free people... just sayin'....

jinx · 03-12-2008, 08:03 PM

I stopped saying it sometime in junior high. You are free to refuse to say it, just as you are free to refuse public schooling altogether...

03-12-2008, 11:47 AM	#50
toranokaze I'm still a jerk Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Little Mexico Posts: 1,817	I can see how this can be used as a tool of indoctrination to ensure loyalty to the state. Look education is a education, the law should intervene if there is a problem. If parents are doing a good job and their children are pass the standerized test I fail to see the problem. If the problem lays within parents not truly qualified to teach why isn't there a fast track for patent teachers to get a certification for being a home school teacher. __________________ "Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa It is the ignorance of ignorance that lead to the death of knowledge The Virgin Mary does not weep for her son, for he is in paradise. She weeps for the world , for we are in suffering.

03-12-2008, 03:24 PM	#55
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I understand that some schools that do can be pretty militant......with teachers having differing views on whether foreigners should/may join in or not thank goodnes they don't at ours. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-12-2008, 05:48 PM	#56
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	they used to make us do it at my school in the states. i refused and got yelled at every single morning until my teacher finally just decided it wasnt worth the effort and gave up. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

03-12-2008, 07:21 PM	#57
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	we used to have to say the Pledge of Allegiance, the Lord's Prayer, AND sing My Country Tis of Thee every morning. That was at a private school, though. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

03-12-2008, 07:49 PM	#59
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	You see, to an outsider, that seems a far cry from a land of free people... just sayin'.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-12-2008, 03:18 PM	#54
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	At ours they do. I don't know if they force you to do it, or if my kids are just conformists. Or both.

03-12-2008, 07:38 PM	#58
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	We not only said it all the way up through junior high, but in 8th grade I was the Seargeant-at-Arms on the student council, whose only actual job was to recite the pledge over the PA system every single morning for the students to follow along with.

03-12-2008, 08:03 PM	#60
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	I stopped saying it sometime in junior high. You are free to refuse to say it, just as you are free to refuse public schooling altogether... __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

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