You have hit the nail on the head. Home schooling is a viable and preferrable option to more and more people, a choice we made eight nine years ago. We sacrifice a second income, but it is the best choice we ever made.

Our school system has been co-opted by Columbia University communist secular humanists. Unfortunately, large numbers of good conservative people who participate in the educational system don’t even know it.

As I keep saying, get your kids out of the system.

I sent my children to private schools and kept a sharp eye on what they taught, but if I had to raise children now I’d definitely opt for home schooling.

After calling me a liar–and my husband and I heartless because our complaint to the school board caused them to close down his extortion tactics; bring $10 for Amusement Park to school and play all day OR don’t bring $10 and be stuck in the gym doing busy work. He pointed out because of our complaint many of the deserving kids wouldn’t be able to go to on the fun field trip, and for some of them it would be their only out-of-town excursion of the year. My husband said, “Let their parents take them. My middle school never took me to Disneyland.” To which the principal replied, “So, just because your school never took you, nobody should go?” And my husband said, “It is the school’s main job to educate our children–not to amuse them.” The principal replied, “No. It is NOT the school’s main job to educate the students. The school’s main job is to socialize the students.”

The next year we began home schooling.

My wife and I do not home school, but we considered it. She suffers from depression (under treatment and doing well, thanks0 so we decided to place our son and daughter in private christian school. We too are VERY happy we made that choice for all the reasons mentioned in the post and comments above. Vouchers would help eliminate the aforementioned issues but would also close down the main liberal recruiting and training centers so they’ll probably never happen.

community grows. It is beyond belief what 40 years of liberalism has wrought on the public school system. I had to fight my children’s schools on Family Life Education opting them out of “different families” and my kids are in their twenties now….it is without a doubt indoctrination.

I love how the schools take out the candy machines and yet forgo 45 minutes of gym each day instead having “social” learning classes….you want to end obesity in children put their butts in gym everyday. We didn’t have obesity in the 70s and we had gym everyday!

It just goes to show how how bad schools have become when you are learning how bad America is but getting fatter and fatter while you learn it!

Homeschooled kids, on average, have much higher SAT scores than public schooled kids. More interestingly, the disparities between whites and minorities in SAT scores all but disappear among homeschooled kids.

We switched them to private Christian school when they were in 6th grade. Both were far, far ahead of the other kids when they entered “regular” school. We had them take the Stanford achievement tests every year, and they scored far, far above grade level.

And to the tired meme about “socialization” – my homeschool kids were exposed to much more in the way of extracurricular activities than most public or private school kids. They were in “after-school” sports, 4-H, gymnastics, clubs, etc.

The teaching lobby just cannot bear to see that many (most?) parents can out-teach the “professionals” by a mile.

Anyone who can tell me where the word “pedagogue” comes from will get special props and kudos from me.

My family consists of one child (age 2) and another coming from China soon. We are planning on home schooling and are fairly nervous that we might screw up our children. Every time we find a post or a story such as this one it just adds support to our decision.

Thanks for the excellent insight.

Multiculturalism also features a good sized dollop of moral relativity. No non-western culture is seen as superior to another. However, the common denominator is that western culture is always the oppressive bully in the world neighborhood. Everyone else, culturally speaking, is equally good. It’s America that’s the problem (hegemony, colonialism, racism, blah, blah, blah, etc.)

It’s great to see someone bring up moral relativism. I think it’s at the root of a lot of the misdirection in our society today. And I keep finding that many of my friends have no idea what it means.

This is a really good diary. Thanks for posting it.

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I served as a technology coordinator in a school district for six years. I have seen what you have written about first hand.

I had the joyous experience of being told strait to my face by a teacher that I do not deserve to be paid as much as I was paid. I wasn’t worth it, because teachers were more valuable and should be paid more than me. This came even though I willingly took a pay cut of almost a third to take the position initially. After that I became less willing.

I taught for two years a computer repair class (CompTIA A+) and found myself having to tell kids basic history and civics, and historical context of that history and civics.

I grew exceedingly tired of “that is not fair”, and then having to explain to them that when they graduate, nobody is going to care about what is fair, and that they were not entitled to anything, except what they earned. The bewildered look on their faces was simply amazing.

Needless to say, my wife home schooled for a few years.

I especially appreciate that you didn’t get into the moral superiority argument that some homeschool supporters do. Homeschooling is not for everyone, but it is a great option for some.

and a look into the whats and whys of Public Education. First of all, to add to your thoughts on Presidential sidekick, William Ayers, there is this from the man’s own lips when speaking before an educational forum in Caracas, Venezuela:

We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution, and I’ve come to appreciate Luis as a major asset in both the Venezuelan and the international struggle—I look forward to seeing how he and all of you continue to overcome the failings of capitalist education as you seek to create something truly new and deeply humane. Thank you, Luis, for everything you’ve done.

–snip–

I walked out of jail and into my first teaching position—and from that day until this I’ve thought of myself as a teacher, but I’ve also understood teaching as a project intimately connected with social justice.

–snip–

Totalitarianism demands obedience and conformity, hierarchy, command and control. Royalty requires allegiance. Capitalism promotes racism and militarism – turning people into consumers, not citizens. Participatory democracy, by contrast, requires free people coming together voluntarily as equals who are capable of both self-realization and, at the same time, full participation in a shared political and economic life. (emphasis mine)

Now, you might ask yourself why this indoctrination? Two youtube videos of defector Ex-KGB Uri Bezmerov explaining the process of taking over the minds of the young are particularly interesting.

This has all been done before……..

As a fellow homeschooling family, I appreciate your diary. As the wife of a public school teacher,I can tell you that the public schools (at least my husband’s) is much worse than you believe. Lately, his administration has mandated that he assign homework nightly, however, he is not allowed to grade it because he “cannot expect our students to actually do their homework.”

In terms of multiculturalism, he has witnessed assemblies where the “Black” National Anthem is sung yet the same school will not play the US National Anthem.He has been in assemblies where the speaker advised non-white students that white people could never be their friends. They were told that white people were always their enemies. Yet when my dh was asked by a student how he would feel if his children wanted to marry a black person and he replied that he would counsel them that they could expect difficulties in such a relationship but that if that is what they wanted then we would support them….the administration opened an investigation to determine if he was being racist.

And those examples are only the tip of the iceberg…

We have been truly blessed in being able to keep our children at home and out of that environment.

Thanks for contributing. My wife and I have homeschooled now for 4 years now. We have a 7th grader, a 1st grader and a kindergartner.

If anyone is interested in Homeschooling they need to check out HSLDA.org. The Home School Legal Defense Fund. If you choose to homeschool and join their group and then run into trouble with the local politburo School Board they will provide you legal counsel up and to flying a lawyer to your area to file a lawsuit against the school board.

The freedom of parents to not to be forced to choose government run schools must be protected. I would not be surprised to see action on this with the Obama administration. The going trend is to not allow it unless the parent has a teachers certificate.

And for those not familiar, the media has done a doosey on making home school folks religious nuts, backward and produce kids that are social morons. Be ware of those force feed stereo types. Our kids have interaction with kids in the neighborhood, church groups, private art and foreign language classes and field trips put together by other home schoolers in the area.

Home school parents want one thing for their children. A education based on strong educational principles. Something that this blog post shows that we have abandoned in public education.

Strong language, writing, and math skills. The ability of the internet provides an amazing amount of opportunity for home school parents. It’s challenging but when you realize that you taught your son or daughter to read or diagram a sentence and watch the progress from there it is a true “family moment”.

As I work full-time, I am unable to homeschool, but my husband and I made the decision when the kids were born that they would not attend the public school system. They attend a private Christian school. I have often said that if I didn’t need my job, I’d quit and homeschool. I’d quit and homeschool before they’d set foot in a public school. With that said, there are several homeschooled kids who attend our Christan School for one or two classes. One of them is a good friend of my oldest daughter. There is nothing wrong with these kids. They are smart, well-adjusted, and able to interact just fine with their peers. They participate in team sports, the music program, and the dramatic productions. I’m more than impressed with the parents and children that are part of the homeschool community. This article was great, and I applaud you and your wife’s efforts. They will go a long way. I’ve seen it

whatever else is offered at public or private school.

Our local Christian school was great for socialization; the kids are forced to treat each other well. But there was almost no phys ed, no foreign language until 10th grade, and less than grade level math offerings. But we amended the curriculum with our own home tutoring and fitness activities.

Cheers to you for homeschooling your kids and talking abou why. You can neve rreally get to the poltical problems or even teh media problems if you dot understand what is going on in our classrooms.

You been drinking this morning?

I want to thank you for your article on home schooling. I’m not completely familiar with it outside of the home-schooled kids I knew growing up. What I always wondered is how you allow them to socialize with other children. Knowing two kids is a bad sample size of course, but the two I knew had a difficult time fitting in with everyone else. I was wondering what you guys do to expose them to working with other children? I also wondered how you exposed them to children of different backgrounds. Do you feel it’s important to expose your children to kids outside your social group. For example, my best friend when I was growing up was a black Muslim child. I learned a lot through knowing him, especially in working with others from a much different background than me. Do you do things so that they can meet people of different racial or economic backgrounds? How do you go about this? Do you feel it is important? It’s the question I’ve always had about this. I know that the way multi-culturalism is taught in many schools is crap. However, I do think there is value in the friendships formed with the different types of people you children meet in the public school system. How do you socialize them into being able to work with folks of difference religions, races, or sexual orientations that they are bound to encounter as adults? I hope this doesn’t come across as judgmental or anything, but I have always wondered how parents do this, or if they feel it was important. Thanks.

Really? How about really condescending?

If you’re so curious, why do you answer each of your own questions?

Do you feel it’s important to expose your children to kids outside your social group. *For example, my best friend when I was growing up was a black Muslim child. I learned a lot through knowing him, especially in working with others from a much different background than me. *

…well I feel it’s important and if you don’t, that just proves that you are my moral inferior.

Your only point here is to cast aspersions on anyone who doesn’t share your enlightened views. Due to your life experience, of course.

Take your multi/culti PC crap and peddle it somewhere else.

I leave you with this excerpt.

Theodore Dalrymple:

Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.

Interested in this link.

http://www.hslda.org/Default.asp?bhcp=1

It is a website devoted to the lawyer aspects of Home Schooling.

I have no problem with home schooling.

I have no children, but I think that there is a movement out there which is designed to stop home schooling.

It is in it’s infant stage, but……….

**DIRKHISING AND SHEPHARD VERSUS SHEPARD: WHAT CONSTITUTES NEWS?
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Jesse Dirkhising
BORN: May 24, 1986 AD
DIED: September 26, 1999 AD

Jesse Dirkhising would have been 22 in 2008 had he survived his torture at the hands of two perverted homosexuals, Joshua Brown, then 22, and his live-in “partner/lover” David Don Carpenter, 38. Instead, the Prairie Grove, Arkansas boy never lived as long as Brown. He died a slow, painful, awful death at the tender age of thirteen, bound, gagged, after being repeatedly and viciously assaulted.

Should anyone care to read the lurid details of the attacks on Jesse, please refer to http://www.armyofgod.com/JesseDirkhising.html. Warning: Those details, which I refuse to print here, are repugnant and not for the faint of heart. The trial judge understandably felt shivers up his spine listening to them.

That website also includes an abundance of other material concerning the case, including information on the trials and convictions of Brown and Carpenter and various articles on homosexuality. None are endorsements. And none are politically correct.

Why write about Jesse Dirkhising today? Because of the recent rape and murder in Philadelphia of a young North Dakotan man, Jason Shephard, who was the subject of my previous article, and whose case, as with Jesse’s, is being purposefully ignored by the mass media.

The history of homosexual violence is repeating itself.

The question is, Why? Another question is, How many other, similar attacks never “make the news?”….
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)

I read your diary and everyone’s comments with great interest. (I especially appreciated the comments regarding legal matters and protection. I have been fearing what an Obama presidency/democratic majority could do to our freedom to homeschool.) When possible, I may post a diary on one individual’s (my) perspective on homeschooling. I happen to be in early labor right now, which is why I am at the computer at 2:30 a.m.–it’s probably not the best time to write coherently on the topic. For all who make the critical decision of how to best educate their children, I wish them well!

**

The following comment was posted today on my website in response to a previous article titled, “Joy Behar and the NEA,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/index.php?s=JOY+BEHAR.

The writer eloquently and passionately makes an excellent case for the merits of homeschooling. Even better, she ignores Joyless Behar and the N.E.A.

Carrie said, December 1st, 2008 at 9:42 am:

I have 2 boys who are 4 & 5 years old. I feel that if I sent them to school in our district, I would be failing them as their mother. We live in one of the worst test-scoring districts in PA.

It is not the state’s responsibility to teach my children, nor its right. It should be its privilege. The state has lost that privilege, by my standards.

I have utilized a home-based schooling program called PA Cyber Charter School. It is considered a public program and is paid for by tax dollars. Every student in PA, and several other states as well, receive EVERY necessary book and tool to make a child’s education top-notch, from computer equipment to crayons and internet reimbursement!

My children are intelligent, with eager, fertile minds. I am able to choose their curriculum and tailor it to their interests. My boys are able to work ahead and, if they master their grade-level skills, they are allowed to move on to the next grade level without having to wait for other students to catch up or until the next school year.We regularly attend church and extra-curricular activities. There are organized field trip events available all over our state as well. There are rules, regulations, and requirements for home-based education. …

(Read the rest of Carrie’s commentary at http://genelalor.com/.)

You warned this pinhead about doing what he’s doing.

Please leave his body by the roadside. The vultures are hungry. Thanks.