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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: Jamie VanEaton
posted on 7/12/2008 @ 12:06:52 PM
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Parents have to decide what is truly best for their child, and remember that home schooling should benefit the student, and not merely *be* for the comfort level of the parent. (Sorry. I'm an editing ho)
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Submitted By: Jamie VanEaton
posted on 7/12/2008 @ 12:04:56 PM
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I home schooled last year, and it was an absolute necessity. It was a great program (K12), my son excelled during the year, and we were able to procure the autism diagnosis that the schools kept telling me was ADD and that my son had to be medicated or was 'a bad kid'(ha!). Would I home school again? You bet. In fact, I home schooled my 5th grader the year before who was failing in her teacher's class and crying every day. She went back to school the following year and has been a straight A and B student. I know we did something right. There are good and bad times to home school, and what works for one kiddo doesn't always work for another. There's no cut and dry, good or bad. Just more shades of that dubious gray. Parents have to decide what is truly best for their child, and remember that home schooling should benefit the student, and not merely for the comfort level of the parent.
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Submitted By: Samantha Mirabal
posted on 6/29/2008 @ 4:02:25 PM
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Good for one biased man.
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Submitted By: Ralph Dosser
posted on 6/28/2008 @ 12:37:11 PM
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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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