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Jun. 7, 2006 at 11:23 PM

Homeschooling

Ann Coulter has a new book out, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism." Here's what she said about homeschooling in an exclusive interview with Human Events Online,

In Godless, you mention that a far greater number of children are sexually abused each year by educators than by priests. You also write about the sex-education programs in public schools. What suggestions do you have for parents on dealing with these issues?

As an emergency measure: home school. As a long term solution: encourage your home-schooled children to become public school teachers and destroy the temple of liberalism.

In general, I've enjoyed Ann Coulter. But she definitely lost me on that point. Homeschooling isn't an emergency measure, it's a long term solution. And suggesting our children become teachers to destroy the "temple of liberalism", is like telling someone get a job in Health and Human Services to destroy welfare. It doesn't make any sense to me at all. Maybe this was just Ann being her usual slightly sarcastic self and I missed the humor. Was this supposed to be funny?

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posted by jayfromcleveland on Jun. 8, 2006 at 10:13 AM

Spunky, well of course this is Ann being her more-than-slightly sarcastic self. I'm sure she intends this as a nod to homeschoolers, but fails to make the connection, her being a single, 40-some "inside the Beltway" type, probably without a domestic bone in her political body. For political satire, I personally prefer P.J. O'Rourke. He rips on the libs in hilarious fashion without bothering to condescend to us born-again types. -j

posted by on Jun. 8, 2006 at 12:56 PM

Reading between the lines here, I would interpret the meaning as "an immediate measure", instead of emergency like she said, because then she goes on to talk about long-term measures.

I do think it would be good to infiltrate, or should I say, re-infiltrate the school system, that's the only way things are ever going to change. I don't believe the whole country is willing to teach at home, so if we want to effect change, we have to do it from the inside. But I would go further and say that we have to get our kids into all kinds of leadership positions, not just teaching.

How this will happen, I'm not sure, because you hear stories all the time about college kids and adults with a conservative or Christian worldview being refused teaching positions and other positions of leadership. But we can dream.

Edited by homeiscool on Jun. 8, 2006 at 10:03 AM

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