A few times, while surfing around the blogosphere, I've run across this phrase, " . . . another homeschool blog." Each time that I have read it, it's been associated with something negative. Apparently some people find it very annoying to come across the blogs of homeschoolers. They feel we all pretty much say the same thing and that we're a bunch of brainwashed twits spreading our conservative views. (If the blog happens to be a conservative homeschool blog.)
I'm sure it is annoying for them. I know I find it annoying to come across a blog that says basically nothing, uses a lot of text messaing lingo, and only talks about how cute some movie star or rock singer is. Basically it just shows that the blogger observes only one thing, and it's not a very close observation at that. It doesn't show any intelligence. Not that I'm saying you can't blog about those things, but why not talk about how impressed you are by a setting sun, or some other topic all together occasionally, broaden your scope of imagination?
So, getting on with my point--one thing blogging has done for homeschoolers is to let the world know that our thoughts, opinons, and beliefs are not as in the minority as the masses would think. We're already familiar with what most people think about because nearly the entire marketing industry focuses on it. Before blogging the only way the rest of us could get our thoughts heard was to write a letter to the marketers and manufacturers. Not that many of us took the time to do so. Instead we just chose not to buy an ill-conceived object and spent hours and days hunting down a product that suited us. We were hoping that our purchasing (or lack thereof) would have some kind of power. I haven't see a lot of evidence that it did.
This might just be another homeschooler's blog to you, but it's my voice joining the ranks of thousands of others. It's my way of letting people know that I think differently than the norm; that I'm not just one of the lemmings racing toward the sea prompted by a public school instinct. |
Feb. 28, 2009
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Mar. 3, 2009
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Amen!
Mar. 3, 2009
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Mar. 6, 2009
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Have a very bright, very cheerful day!
Miss Eyebright