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Blog Entry 21 of 33 Choices for our kids.
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Parents who homeschool.
Contributed by: Samantha Mirabal   on 6/28/2008

Well since my previous blog entry, I have received many interesting comments. This paticular comment given by Ralph Dosser is typical hatred and intolerance directed at Christians. Not only does he insult those who homeschool or choose a private school, but states Evangelical Christian parents are imprisoning their children by doing so. Here is his comment:

" Everybody's skirting around the real issue here: The evangelical Christian right doesn't want its kids to go to school with THOSE people (you know who) or get exposed to THOSE ideas (reason, tolerance, etc.). It has failed at its attempt to remake society in its own image, so it's withdrawing into isolation and trying to mold its children into perfect Christian clones. They can't do that without complete control of the kids' environments, so they imprison them in home schools and religious schools, and they want to take money from desperately underfunded public schools to help pay for it. Unfortunately the kids tend to have other ideas and escape at the first opportunity, which is why their movement is dying. "

So, since Mr. Dosser thinks he knows us homeschoolers so well, why don't we share a little of what things are really like for our children. I started homeschooling my children and had other neighborhood children beg me to do the same with them. Of course I can not do that. I am personally seeing however more children wanting to get away from public schools.In fact if given a choice through a free open market in school choice (with tax dollars facilitating) I believeparentsof all religions (or none) would choose differently. The public schools are seriously lacking in more ways than one.


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Submitted By: Samantha Mirabal
posted on 6/30/2008 @ 3:44:26 PM
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Oh, and I do not imprison my children. That is not dead on!!
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Submitted By: Samantha Mirabal
posted on 6/30/2008 @ 3:42:48 PM
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Okay, Bing. What about a free market on "general" education. To include strictly your basics. Then a private school can offer other "religious" classes if it so chooses at the parents expense. What do you think of that? I mean ANY religion could be incorporated into the child's life via outside funded classes not paid for by tax dollars. I would also encourage and allow my children to attend a class on tolerance of people who believe differently, without the details of all their beliefs being presented to them. That is something they can learn about as adults in my opinion. They will one day make their own choices and form their own opinions about all sorts of things. However a parent has the right to give them the type of upbringing that seems right to them outside of teaching them to hate. I don't hate anyone and nobody should teach their kids to either.
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Submitted By: Bing Van Gorden
posted on 6/30/2008 @ 10:47:13 AM
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Fromyour previous writing Samantha, Ralph appears to be dead on. You don't represent all Chrisitans by the way so I don't think it's fair for you take criticism directed at you and assume the critic is anti-Chrisitian. Regardless, your problems with public schooling seem to stem from a curriculum that doesn't adhere to your ideology but instead takes other factors into consideration, like tolerance of sexual orientation. Incidentally, it's not Christianity I abhor, it's the bigotry some cling to in it's name. I'm sur Ralph feels similarly. And I pay shool taxes too and I will be dammed if I allow that money to go to subsidize religious schools.
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Submitted By: Samantha Mirabal
posted on 6/29/2008 @ 4:05:32 PM
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Good for one biased man.
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Submitted By: Ralph Dosser
posted on 6/29/2008 @ 9:58:14 AM
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From Dr. Steven Parker: "On one hand, if parents are themselves talented and choose to homeschool for the 'right' reasons (e.g., to instill a love of learning, to share the family experience, to promote emotional closeness. because they feel they can do a better job of it), I've seen homeschooling succeed magnificently. On the other hand, if it's done for the 'wrong' (at least in my biased opinion) reasons (e.g., because of paranoia about exposure to the real world, to limit the child's knowledge to a few narrow precepts, to avoid outside social interactions), then I've seen homeschooling stunt the socioemotional, academic, and intellectual growth of children who, in my opinion, desperately could have used a 'parentectomy' during the day to allow them to transcend their parents' narrow views and ambitions." Source: http://blogs.webmd.com/healthy-children/2008/06/should-homeschooling-be-illegal.html
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Samantha Mirabal has posted 33 blog entries and 132 comments since joining on 11/2/2006. Samantha Mirabal 's average blog rating is 3.43.
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