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2018-06-01 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Homeschooling surges as parents seek safer option for children

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Posted by Fred 2018-06-01 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Easier to fit range time in the schedule when you home school.

Posted by AlanC 2018-06-01 07:54|| 2018-06-01 07:54|| Front Page Top

#2 concern about the environment of schools, and that includes safety, pressure to get into drugs, pressure to get into sexual activity. It includes all of that."

Don't forget "left-wing indoctrination" to add to the list of good reasons for home schooling.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-06-01 08:24|| 2018-06-01 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Educating children is the last thing the public school system is about. It is first and foremost an iron rice bowl for all school employees and vendors, school boards are a farm team for local politics and the whole thing is an excuse to tax ever increasing amounts of private sector wealth into a public sector black hole.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-06-01 10:05|| 2018-06-01 10:05|| Front Page Top

#4 "Even though it seems we may be protecting them, we may be sheltering them instead of teaching them to work and find a solution for the issues and not necessarily running away from them, because these things are going to happen," Ms. Durm told WAAY-TV in Huntsville.

Is she saying it's the new normal?

The kids have no influence, no power, so how can you expect them to work and find a solution? They're sitting ducks and there's nothing they can do about it. The politicians and teachers unions are calling all the shots and they have their heads up their butts.

High school is a joke anyway. It's a waste of time especially for the young people in the prime of their lives to have to sit in totally irrelevant classes. Nobody is learning anything worthwhile. The kids graduate from high school totally unprepared for any kind of a job so they have to go to college after which they will most likely be in their mid-20s and still unprepared and deep in debt to boot. I think our country's educational system is more of a scam than anything else. It's a crime that's even more horrendous than school shootings in terms of wasted time.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-06-01 12:57|| 2018-06-01 12:57|| Front Page Top

#5 My own cynicism suspects the extortion funding of schools is to make it more likely that both parents work thus boosting land values (amongst other effects).

Another little boost to the establishment welfare state.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-06-01 13:13|| 2018-06-01 13:13|| Front Page Top

#6 'Safer' is the least of the benefits.

Posted by Glenmore 2018-06-01 13:57|| 2018-06-01 13:57|| Front Page Top

#7 JQC, all my grandchildren have been K-12 homeschooled to escape the "left-wing indoctrination".

My oldest grandson is an engineering major in college and he feels that he's had a much better educational background than the majority of his peers. He actually was prepared for the required math upon entry a couple years ago.

He still had to take the required 'Diversity' course, but he was prepared and insulated by his Catholic upbringing regarding 'guilt'.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-06-01 14:24|| 2018-06-01 14:24|| Front Page Top

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