I would love to be the underwear inspector; that is one more reason in support of home schooling.

Steyr

I work for peanuts, but my wife and I decided that she would stay home and home school our two oldest boys until junior high, that way they would not be so easily influenced by the garbage and could have access to the labs and other things we could not afford to buy.

It seems to have worked, because the come home and tell us the stupid stuff thy do.

My oldest(17) wrote a report for an english class that showed just how the various State and Federal governments were taking our 2nd amendment right.

That's rather clever. I'll have to remember that one.

but most times it is.  i once worked for a gal who had to send her 2 y/o to daycare because both parents were working.  i happen to know that they could have lived [b]comfortably[/b] on one parent's income (either one, didn't matter), but they chose to send their son to a daycare (and god knows where else at a later day when schooling becomes involved) because they wanted to be able to afford the 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath house on no property and the cadillac escalade and the beemer.

in this case they DID choose wealth over their son.



another thing that hasn't been pointed out is that some states/school districts like to make it very difficult for parents to home school.  there are several cases where parents have had to go to court for their right to home schoo.  not to mention that you can't home school your child on just any ol' curriculum.  there are state regulations that must be followed or you 17 y/o will have to start 1st grade all over again because nothing you did qualifies.

most of the hurldes for home-schooling come not from within the familial situation but from the "powers that be" that for one reason or another (warm body = more $$$ or more control over the masses would be my guesses) want to make it very difficult to let parents have the control and authority over their child(ren)'s education.

Why force parents who want out to participate? Do you object to the parents who want to remove their children from the public system, and accordingly reduce the tax that goes into the public system?

I don't mind if you want to send your kids to public school, but I don't think anyone should be forced to do that.

I am amazed that no one stood up for themselves, or that no one's date stood up for her. I'm also surprised, regardless of the legality of it, that no enraged mothers or fathers have descended upon the school to wring revenge from the bodies of that woman and her assistants.

no, no one should be forced, but i think he was saying that if (and it's not like we have a choice) we're spending money on them, why don't we take a little bit of the rights that come with ownership and take back a little of the control?  why throw our money away?

the idea of a public school system is NOT fundamentally flawed.  in fact, our 2nd president advocated government funded education for ALL people because he felt that the education was necessary for protection of the republic and he knew that not every family could afford it.  (of course, his view has been severely perverted and twisted for the good of a bunch of socialist pigs).  second, education has been funded by the government in some form for most of the history of the U.S.  the teachers weren't paid by the individual families.  they were hired by the towns, cities, counties, maybe states, but i'm not sure about that one.

putting aside our own (rightfully) selfish requirements for our own children, i think we owe it to those who can't put their children in private institutions or can't homeschool (yes, BOG there are uneducated parents out there) to make sure that their children grow up educated.  hell, let's use this to OUR advantage the same way the damn libs have been.  let's actually teach them about history (and not the revisionist kind), mathematics, reading and proper grammar.

if we let the public schools fail because we've run away from the problems, we are still accountable for the children that they produce.  if you don't want a bunch of uneducated kids growing up demanding handouts and expecting entitlements from the government, then you owe it to yourself and them and the republic to make sure that the educational system is restored to its "former glory"  (okay, that was a bit much, but it fit the phrase so well.  [:)])

From what is coming out now,even girls that were suspected of being braless were forced to partially disrobe to prove they were wearing a bra.
GEEEEEZE!
Should I say "only in Kalifornia."

Every time I think "well,now I've heard it all;"
I haven't even begun to hear it all.

I exist only to shine a little light, of one variety or another, into the lives of others. [pyro]

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