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Mar. 20, 2006
Call it what ever you like.
Recently I was accosted
by yet another well meaning, yet fact lacking individual who felt it
was his duty to challenge my familys choice, or even our right to
homeschool. Rather than tell him what I really thought of him and his
right to judge my family I began to walk him through a small reality
check.
When I find myself in a verbal altercation, I like
to change the nouns to suit my argument. he who controls the vocabulary
controls the discussion. So when he asked if ("Socialazation" was a
problem within my "Homeschool"?) I said "No that I thought that the
real problem was with Government Agents using intimidation, drugs, and
peer pressure to institutionalize minor inmates, while using my tax
dollars and federally funded facilities to warehouse children for
parents too broke, self absorbed, or abivolent to the plight of their
own children was a much larger problem". And the fact that this is
considered normal and desirable is even more disturbing.
Please don't think that I am disrespecting the
Government Teachers, Administrators, Janitors or Cooks. It is the
system I detest, not the wardens.
The system model (K-12) was designed by the society
that gave rise to a civilization that brought us the Nazi's. It was
brought to our shores a hundred years ago by Industrialists needing
cogs to operate the machinerey of their corprate empires. It breeds
followers, conformists, lackeys and bullet catchers. That is what it
was designed to do. The system is not broke, it is doing exactly what
it was designed to do.
It is astounding to me that some children still get
educated in the mess that is now our Government School system. It gets
blamed for all of societys' problems, so we nturally think that
it can solve everything from literacy to teen pregnancy and
malnourishment of neglected children. If only we gave more money, if
only we had more schools, if only we got better at intigrating, if only
we had more teachers. Insanity defined is "repeating an action with the
expectation of different results". It is insane to continue to fund a
system that clearly will never meet the hopes and expectations
that I have for my children
Look; if our school system were a business it
would be going down like the titanic. Charges of unfair trade practices
and monopolies linking it to the likes of Ma Bell would be all ove the
T.V. Thousands would be joining the ENRON and Haliburton croud in jail,
people would be demanding that the Government do something, People
would be marching with signs "What have you done to our children".
Aren't you glad that it is the same warm
loving fuzzy government that you don't trust to tell you the truth
about UFO's, JFK, AIDS, WMD's, Vietnam, Elvis, Nuclear testing, Waco,
Ruby Ridge, Murrah Building, Iraq, IRS, FBI, CIA, Iran Contra,
and dead Clinton lawers littering our nations parks. That
we have indoctrinating your children.
It does'nt matter how you look at it, Literacy rate,
teen pregnancy, STD's, Gender awareness, racism, math skills, college
entry rates, life satisfaction, job satisfaction, bankrupcy rates,
incarceration, credit abuse, drugs, alcohol abuse, tobacco use, the
ability to invest in the stock market, nutrition, violence, and kids
with wedgies, swirlies, and dumped in the trash can of life. You can
take comfort in our governments omnicient megalithic wisdom. Welcome to
high school kids, these are the best days of your life.
These are my children. My wife says so. I will raise
them as I see fit. I will pay my taxes so the feds can program your
children any way that "they" (Our blind bloated monopolistic
bureurocracy) sees fit. And until my Constitutionally protected rights
are taken from me "for my own good" we will homeschool and I will
criticize the monopoly funded by my tax dollars that some will always
lovingly refer to as "our public education system". Good Night
and God Bless
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Posted by 
Mar. 21, 2006 - Amen, brother!
Cheri