Sometimes, Homeschooling Ain’t All it’s Cracked Up To Be by

[styky]

Sometimes, Homeschooling Ain’t All it’s Cracked Up To Be

by Lisa Bedford
The Survival Mom

My kids and I finished our 8th year of homeschooling two weeks ago. It was the very best year we’ve ever had, in spite of being interrupted by endless sessions of editing my book and then launching the book in March, complete with lots of interviews and excitement.

As I think about our 8 years as a homeschooling family, I have to be honest. It hasn’t all been happy faces and gold stars. There are some downsides that not many of us like to talk about....................http://lewrockwell.com/bedford/bedford26.1.html

[ccurrie]

I homeskooled my kids real good. They was never gonna bee rocket surgins or nothin but they was still plentee smart. It's two bad they didn't survive the bunker exploshun. How was I supposed to no that "inflammible" means "it burns"?

[Julian]

I homeskooled my kids real good. They was never gonna bee rocket surgins or nothin but they was still plentee smart. It's two bad they didn't survive the bunker exploshun. How was I supposed to no that "inflammible" means "it burns"?

You have to be a Philadelphia lawyer to know that sort of thing ccurrie. You did the best you could, take a bow!

[wildernessvoice]

I homeskooled my kids real good. They was never gonna bee rocket surgins or nothin but they was still plentee smart. It's two bad they didn't survive the bunker exploshun. How was I supposed to no that "inflammible" means "it burns"?

My granddaughter was home schooled.
Double major, English & history B.A.
Just graduated with a B.Ed.
Asked by the university to come back in September to do a M.Ed.
....she did fail her first exam on bomd construction so I mailed her a book I bought at the mosque.

She is a smart cookie and she has "street smarts" as well!

[wildernessvoice]

I homeskooled my kids real good. They was never gonna bee rocket surgins or nothin but they was still plentee smart. It's two bad they didn't survive the bunker exploshun. How was I supposed to no that "inflammible" means "it burns"?

...and of course you would not want your kid to miss public school in Massachusetts.
cuz, as u sed, "they didn't no that inflammible means "it burns". Sew wen they met all them flaming gays kommim inta the skool they didn't no beanin around them koud git them burnt. Yu is so rite in watt uses had ta sey Mr ccurrie. This is watt ur kids need ta no. :


The homosexual “marriage” onslaught in public schools across the state started soon after the
November 2003, court decision.
• At my own children's high school there was a school-wide assembly to celebrate
same-sex “marriage” in early December, 2003. It featured an array of speakers,
including teachers at the school who announced that they would be “marrying” their
same-sex partners and starting families either through adoption or artificial insemination.
Literature on same-sex marriage – how it is now a normal part of society – was handed
out to the students.
• Within months it was brought into the middle schools. In September, 2004, an 8thgrade
teacher in Brookline, MA, told National Public Radio that the marriage ruling had
opened up the floodgates for teaching homosexuality. “In my mind, I know that, `OK, this
is legal now.' If somebody wants to challenge me, I'll say, `Give me a break. It's legal
now,'” she told NPR. She added that she now discusses gay sex with her students as
explicitly as she desires. For example, she said she tells the kids that lesbians can have
vaginal intercourse using sex toys.
• By the following year it was in elementary school curricula. Kindergartners were
given picture books telling them that same-sex couples are just another kind of family,
like their own parents. In 2005, when David Parker of Lexington, MA – a parent of a
kindergartner – strongly insisted on being notified when teachers were discussing
homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, the school had him arrested and put in
jail overnight.
• Second graders at the same school were read a book, “King and King”, about two
men who have a romance and marry each other, with a picture of them kissing. When
parents Rob and Robin Wirthlin complained, they were told that the school had no
obligation to notify them or allow them to opt-out their child.
• In 2006 the Parkers and Wirthlins filed a federal Civil Rights lawsuit to force the
schools to notify parents and allow them to opt-out their elementary-school children
when homosexual-related subjects were taught. The federal judges dismissed the case.
The judges ruled that because same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the school
actually had a duty to normalize homosexual relationships to children, and that schools
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have no obligation to notify parents or let them opt-out their children! Acceptance of
homosexuality had become a matter of good citizenship!
Think about that: Because same-sex marriage is “legal”, a federal judge has
ruled that the schools now have a duty to portray homosexual relationships as
normal to children, despite what parents think or believe!
• In 2006, in the elementary school where my daughter went to Kindergarten, the parents
of a third-grader were forced to take their child out of school because a man
undergoing a sex-change operation and cross-dressing was being brought into
class to teach the children that there are now “different kinds of families.” School
officials told the mother that her complaints to the principal were considered
“inappropriate behavior.”
• Libraries have also radically changed. School libraries across the state, from
elementary school to high school, now have shelves of books to normalize homosexual
behavior and the lifestyle in the minds of kids, some of them quite explicit and even
pornographic. Parents complaints are ignored or met with hostility.
Over the past year, homosexual groups have been using taxpayer money to
distribute a large, slick hardcover book celebrating homosexual marriage titled
“Courting Equality” into every school library in the state.
• It’s become commonplace in Massachusetts schools for teachers to prominently
display photos of their same-sex “spouses” and occasionally bring them to
school functions. Both high schools in my own town now have principals who are
“married” to their same-sex partners, whom they bring to school and introduce to the
students.
• “Gay days” in schools are considered necessary to fight “intolerance” which may
exist against same-sex relationships. Hundreds of high schools and even middle
schools across the state now hold “gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender appreciation
days”. They “celebrate” homosexual marriage and move forward to other behaviors such
as cross-dressing and transsexuality. In my own town, a school committee member
recently announced that combating “homophobia” is now a top priority.
• Once homosexuality is normalized, all boundaries begin to down. The schools are
already moving on to normalizing transgenderism (including cross-dressing and sex
changes). The state-funded Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
Youth includes leaders who are transsexuals.
Public health
• The Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is “married”
to another man. In 2007 he told a crowd of kids at a state-sponsored youth event that it’s
“wonderful being gay” and he wants to make sure there’s enough HIV testing available
for all of them.

[Kate Shaw]

My favourite idea, and I mooted this to my parents without any effect (alas) is homeschooling one's child on a yacht while the family travels the world. Or alternatively, while the family travels the country in a really nice RV with a Ferrari in the undercarriage garage.

Or why not get a set of McGuffy Readers for the car trips (they are still available) and instead of Devices and the eternal DVDs of the same crapola they suck in from the couch at home, have each of the kids pick something to memorize and recite at the hotel after supper, and whoever does the best job gets to choose the story Mom will read aloud that evening? Teach the kids songs in foreign languages. (I recommend La Cucaracha, which is in fact a little rhyme about a cockroach that can't walk straight because he has no marijuana to smoke. The kids will instantly grasp the fact that singing songs in foreign languages means you can sing all kinds of saucy things and nobody will know what you're saying.)

If you fit the education in those spaces that are now filled by inertia, and push the kids out the door for exercise during the times you need peace and quiet, it ought to work just fine.

[wildernessvoice]

There are a lot of Home School material available. Ccurie would be disappointed to discover though that there are no books on bomb making!

[mindyrbusiness]

Isn't it great they took the Bible and Christianity out of our schools?:

[ccurrie]

There are a lot of Home School material available. Ccurie would be disappointed to discover though that there are no books on bomb making!

Oh those are easy to find on the internet. Just be careful of the ones that are missing key ingredients or stages. Either they don't work, or they work too soon.

I had to teach my step-kid how to spell. He'd been to five schools in as many years and hadn't learned. Their elementary school in Chemainus wasn't bad, but I managed to find quite a collection of old textbooks at flea markets and yard sales. Grammar and math mostly. There are a huge number of curricula available either for free or by mail order, any one of which would be better than the ones used by the state-run schools. I don't have any kids of my own but if I did I'd homeschool for sure.

The downside of homeschooling is the kids are home all day, which means someone else has to be.

[wildernessvoice]

There are a lot of Home School material available. Ccurie would be disappointed to discover though that there are no books on bomb making!

Oh those are easy to find on the internet. Just be careful of the ones that are missing key ingredients or stages. Either they don't work, or they work too soon.

I had to teach my step-kid how to spell. He'd been to five schools in as many years and hadn't learned. Their elementary school in Chemainus wasn't bad, but I managed to find quite a collection of old textbooks at flea markets and yard sales. Grammar and math mostly. There are a huge number of curricula available either for free or by mail order, any one of which would be better than the ones used by the state-run schools. I don't have any kids of my own but if I did I'd homeschool for sure.

The downside of homeschooling is the kids are home all day, which means someone else has to be.

It's a venture where the parents give up a great deal. The worst part? The Ontario government continues to collect the education portion of their property tax and the parents of school kids being home schooled get NOTHING.

[Edward Kennedy]

Isn't it great they took the Bible and Christianity out of our schools?:

Well there was a problem you see, the scriptures violated the creed of the politically correct dialetic secular humanists and since they are intolerant, the Holy Bible had to go. Besides, it told the real truth on al;l issues we are facing today.