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| Fri, 03-14-2008 - 8:22pm |
Wacky Americans
- We yell for the Government to balance the budget, then take the last dime we have to make the down payment on a car.
- We whip the enemy in battle, then give them the shirt off our backs.
- We yell for speed laws that will stop fast driving, then won't buy a car if it can't go over 100 miles an hour.
- Americans get scared to death if we vote a billion dollars for education, then are unconcerned when we find out we are spending three billion dollars a year for cigarettes.
- We know the line-up of every baseball team in the American and National Leagues but don't know half the words in the "Star Spangled Banner".
- We'll spend half a day looking for vitamin pills to make us live longer, then drive 90 miles an hour on slick pavement to make up for lost time.
- We tie up our dog while letting our sixteen year old son run wild.

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Remember Miss Rose it's not all about you. ;) The post was not addressed to you. The "they" I spoke of could include you, but that is your position - not mine. In additon, I won't argue religion with an atheist and most of what I notice includes religion.
One truth is that when my kid is slack, I can tell him he's being lazy - it's the damn truth. Do lazy kids in public school get the truth? No, it's too PC so you must lie and withhold the actual truth. Or maybe you will ignore the truth and bend over backwards to appease an idiot parent and find a special class for the lazy student. Nevermind that all he needs is an attitude adjustment, possibly a family life that includes involved parents - but hey you got a special class to fix him right up I'm sure.
I have intentions of starting a list of these things because I never remember them. Those without religion are the only ones I dare speak of on this board. I only realize these things during some lessons and because the only ones I can think of include God and/or the Bible, we'll have a whole new debate on our hands.
And tell me...years down the road when all these tax-payers are benefiting from Mama schooling --- are you gonna bow down and appreciate all those benefits you and your family will receive? 'Cause you know they didn't cost you a freakin dime but you better bet your society WILL benefit.
"My back goes up with the "I'm entitled, and I don't care who is affected" attitude."
You want us homeschoolers to care but why is it up to us??? No, public schools need to fix the problems in their own backyards - especially when they feel that people who are not effected by the problem should CARE. YOU CARE! Care enough to change that stupid rule that you feel is so unfair!
Oh I remember doing that to my Dad. My Mom wouldn't dare help with Math homework. When I noticed that my parents never learned "new Math" it left the field wide open for me to pretend that Dad just wasn't doing it right! Never mind that he got the right answers, he still didn't do it like the teacher did...it would drive him nuts!
>>One truth is that when my kid is slack, I can tell him he's being lazy - it's the damn truth. Do lazy kids in public school get the truth? No, it's too PC so you must lie and withhold the actual truth. Or maybe you will ignore the truth and bend over backwards to appease an idiot parent and find a special class for the lazy student. Nevermind that all he needs is an attitude adjustment, possibly a family life that includes involved parents - but hey you got a special class to fix him right up I'm sure.<<
Wow, what an enormous amount of misconception about special educaton services and how kids learn all rolled up in one paragraph.
>>You want us homeschoolers to care but why is it up to us??? No, public schools need to fix the problems in their own backyards - especially when they feel that people who are not effected by the problem should CARE. YOU CARE! Care enough to change that stupid rule that you feel is so unfair!<<
Sorry, I thought simple fairness and courtesy toward others would be sufficient reason for you to care if your child's fun activities come at the expense of another child's.
Exactly - I cannot roll it all up into one paragraph. This is not a topic which can be summed up in a few short paragraphs. I am going to be taking some notes though so one day I will be able to explain without having to give small details that get picked apart on these boards.
A good book to understand where I'm coming from is "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling" by John Taylor Gatto.
You are obviously a great teacher and you have the guts to speak direct. Many teachers do not. Oh they try, but then are intimidated by the parents. Some won't dare bring attention to what some may consider THEIR (the teacher's) failure.
"I also am grateful for a sytem of experts that allows us to treat the very real learning disabilities some of our students have."
ITA I am grateful for all of the experts in education, as long as they do a quality job.
"Dismissing the learning problems of children or blaming them on bad parenting?? You are correct, we don't do that in public school. If your homeschooling community does however, I'd hardly be standing up and talking about how you deliver the truth."
You know full well that teachers often blame the lack of learning on bad parenting. You also know that in some cases, it is exactly the truth. Not all learning disabilities are true disabilities. It is those that you are powerless against.
"as most Mama's don't really have the ability to teach calculus, physics, french literature, foreign language AND world history...."
A big group of kids in the schools around here don't ever take calculus, physics, french literature or a foreign language....but those parents still pay their property tax so it's okay I guess.
And if teachers and administrators would get together, I bet they could overturn this whole issue whereby funding is lost because of home educated children. If all of you spent your energy in that direction instead of being mad at us - it would be more productive. I am not talking about only you and those who agree with you. I have family members who I have this same argument with. Fix the problem and it won't matter that people are nonchalant about it.
“Perhaps this is part of that "truth" that we don't teach kids in public school?”
You’re exactly right! Public school teaches kids to grow up and complain instead of taking the initiative to fix the problem.
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