This week I want to share with you one of the reasons why I believe you should consider distance learning as an alternative to college for your children: so that they won’t have to deal with grouchy, argumentative classmates. Read on…
Watching the Olympics on TV this week has brought back to my mind a certain homework assignment I was once given in college. When I was attending community college after I graduated from homeschooling in high school, I had to take an English 101B class. For one of our assignments, we had to analyze some cartoon drawings about the future summer Olympic Games to be held in Beijing.
One of the drawings I had to analyze made fun of the strictly communist government in China. In my written analysis – which the whole class got to read – I made a comment about how I thought the cartoon was funny. I’ll never forget – there was an older (than me) married woman who was also a student in the class. She practically berated me for saying I thought the drawing was funny! In her reply to my analysis she went on and on about how she had visited China herself and thought it was a beautiful country and that I shouldn’t judge them.
All I could think of was that – hello, the point of the assignment was to analyze what the cartoonist was trying to say! China may indeed have a beautiful landscape; after all, God is an awesome Creator. But the point of the drawing was to make a statement about how ridiculous their government was. And anyway, cartoons are supposed to be funny!
My point in sharing this story with you is to give you an example of the many mean-spirited people who attend colleges across the country. Do you really want your children to be exposed to them? I don’t think so!
With distance learning, you can avoid having to deal with argumentative classmates. Do it for your childrens’ protection and sanity. You don’t want them to come home from college with high blood pressure! Praise God for the protection that distance learning offers. I urge you to take advantage of it.
Amanda Suryan is a homeschool graduate and former distance learning student. She has an amazing mini-course about accelerated distance learning called, "Five Reasons Why You Should Consider Becoming a Distance Learner!" To claim your FREE copy, visit: http://www.DistanceLearnerSite.com
