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Sep. 14, 2006
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Sep. 14, 2006
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What Moms Aren't Missing
Sep. 18, 2006
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YES!
| Posted by Sonya |
| You go girl! I SO tire of these questions...and this will be our 5th year homeschooling and we still get the socialization/prom/field trip/graduation/college entrance questions. Somehow, public school is defined by these "highlights". We live in a society with low expectations, skewed thinking and pitiful "rites of passage" don't we??
Blessings, Sonya |
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Sep. 18, 2006
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| Posted by SandBetweenMyToes |
| I read the prom one, but haven't been able to read the other one yet. It *is* amazing the things people think are important -- dating being one of them. Boy, we get the looks and comments on that one, even from family who supports our homeschooling.
I believe many people see us as snobs. Or maybe they don't see us so much as snobs, but threats.. We threaten their comfortable shallow place. I don't know how many times we've all heard, "Oh, I could never do that" or something similar. If you begin to tell them the blessings, and how they can do it, and how the Lord will teach them, etc., they start stammering. What most of them mean is, "I could never give up my second income along with the boat, eating out every night, and every lesson imaginable for my kids.. I could never give up my "freedom" and be "stuck" in the house all day with kids I don't like very much because they've been trained by the public school and their peers instead of me." It's not "I can't" usually, but "I won't." It's very sad. Having said that, I don't go around judging people who don't homeschool. I hate what a blessing they are missing, but I don't criticize their choice. It's usually just when they start with the "I couldn't ever..." that I take notice. Letitia |
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Sep. 27, 2006
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Gatto and Homeschooling
| Posted by JP |
| I consider Gatto mandatory reading for anyone who is/will be in a position to defend homeschooling. In addition to the link you provide in your post, his 1990 speech "Why Schools Don't Educate" is available on the web here:
http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/john_gatto.html His 1992 speech, "The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher" is available on the web here: http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt |
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