Sep. 7, 2009 - Funny homeschooling comment
I thought I would post something humorous (yet, at the same time, sad), in regard to the types of comments we often get from those who are opposed to our choice to homeschool. We were discussing this on a homeschool board to which I belong. One gal even added corrections to the original poster's comment. (I have put the corrections at the bottom of this post.)
A woman on Facebook has decided to bring one of hers home to be homeschooled (the other will remain in public highschool.) This was the first response on her announcement:
"Don't let my sister try and convience you its a good thing. Home schooling is not a good idea unless you are prepared to do intense work and study youself otherwise you are setting your children up for failure. Les then 10% of homeschooled kids actually get a real education, take it from a teacher and don't do it."
Um,...
Can you say spelling mistakes, punctuation errors, run-on sentences and misleading and/or misinformed comments? Take it from a teacher? Perhaps, but not this one. 
Without even realizing it, she proves the whole point of why many of us homeschool.
"Don't let my sister try and ("to", not "and") convience (misspelling) you its ("it's")a good thing. Home schooling is not a good idea unless you (The use of "one" rather than "you" is a better word option. "You" is informal.) are prepared to do intense work and study youself (Study yourself? Like analyze yourself? No. Writing simply "study" is better.) otherwise (Put a semi-colon before the "otherwise". Put a comma after the "otherwise".) you are setting your children up for failure. Les (This is misspelled. Not only that, but the word should be "fewer", not "less".) then ("than") 10% of homeschooled kids actually get a real education,(Put a period or semi-colon here.) take it from a teacher (Add a comma.) and don't do it.
Comments
Sep. 7, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by AnnieKate
Isn't it amazing how foolish people can be? I've only had one regative comment on my blog so far, but the style was so pathetic that it was funny rather than upsetting.
I posted the following response to your comment on my blog, but decided to put it here as well.
Exploring Creation with General Science, First Edition starts off with very difficult chapter. Perhaps that intimidated your dd. I'm tempted to move that to the end of the course, but at the very least I tell my children that chapter is 1 completely different from the rest of the book and not to worry if they can't understand it all right away.
It does, however, contain crucial information and my children will be studying it again near the end of their highschool time.
Annie Kate
Sep. 7, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by JandRlearnathome
LOL! Yikes, I hope she's not really a teacher!
Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Sep. 8, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by floridasunsets
This is funny! Thank you for posting! I am always amused when a teacher speaks out against homeschooling because usually their words and actions simply strengthen the arguement for homeschooling. By the way, pulling a statistic out of your backside doesn't make it true! Maybe that teacher should trying researhing the percentage of teachers that homeschool. That would be an eye-opener! Thanks for the laugh!
Betty
Sep. 9, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by AnnieKate
Someone was asking for menu planning sites for a blog post, and I mentioned yours. Hope it gets the word about your new blog out!
Annie Kate
