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Spunky wonders about The Unschooling Conspiracy in the media. Your not paranoid if they are really after you. Are they? the situation bears watching. Many of the public school proponents on the Dr. Phil board were demanding that parents have teacher's certificates to homeschool, that their children be taken to a public school every nine weeks for testing and examination by a professional for abuse, and that yearly standardized test be required. And of course there was that annoying myth that homescholers need to be socialized and that all homeschooled children are social retards. Apparently in today's politically correct world it's still OK to bash homeschoolers.
Right now they are focused on unschooling, but traditional homeschoolers beware. They REALLY don't understand there are different methods of homeschooling, so we have been lumped in with the unschoolers regardless. Spunky's post reminded me of this poem.
First they came for the Jews
- The Voiceless Homeschoolers
A Fundamentalist Christian Homeschool Blogger wanted to know why Secular Homeschoolers seem to be so hostile toward them. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they presume to speak for ALL homeschoolers. They make inane comments like All...
- Homeschooling Allows Children To Soar Above The Clouds
Unschooling the Public in 25 Words or Less from Cocking a Snook. FLY, STUDENTS, FLY by Daryl over at HE&OS. And my humble rant.............................. I am sick and tired of hearing how public school kids have all this wonderful freedom (which obviously...
- Why Homeschooling Works ~ No Or Little Bureaucracy
Homeschool Parents/Teachers are able to pick out the curriculum and textbooks that best suits their children/students. Unlike the public school system where the teacher may have very little input into what textbooks will be used in their classroom. This...
- Things To Ponder
Would You Let Them Scan Your Child? One family said NO, but their child was still scanned. Still, a substitute teacher's mistake proved just how vulnerable children who opt out can be. "They rounded up all the kids in our son's class and they...
- Sheer Ignorance On Dr. Phil Board Astounds Me.
Before I get started on my own rant about that show, I wanted to recommend Valorie Delp's post Dr. Phil Doesn't Get Homeschooling, at Homeschool Families. And Why Homeschool also had an excellent post on "that show". Considering how negatively...
Animals
First They Came for the Unschoolers
Spunky wonders about The Unschooling Conspiracy in the media. Your not paranoid if they are really after you. Are they? the situation bears watching. Many of the public school proponents on the Dr. Phil board were demanding that parents have teacher's certificates to homeschool, that their children be taken to a public school every nine weeks for testing and examination by a professional for abuse, and that yearly standardized test be required. And of course there was that annoying myth that homescholers need to be socialized and that all homeschooled children are social retards. Apparently in today's politically correct world it's still OK to bash homeschoolers.
Right now they are focused on unschooling, but traditional homeschoolers beware. They REALLY don't understand there are different methods of homeschooling, so we have been lumped in with the unschoolers regardless. Spunky's post reminded me of this poem.
First They Came for the Jews
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
- The Voiceless Homeschoolers
A Fundamentalist Christian Homeschool Blogger wanted to know why Secular Homeschoolers seem to be so hostile toward them. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they presume to speak for ALL homeschoolers. They make inane comments like All...
- Homeschooling Allows Children To Soar Above The Clouds
Unschooling the Public in 25 Words or Less from Cocking a Snook. FLY, STUDENTS, FLY by Daryl over at HE&OS. And my humble rant.............................. I am sick and tired of hearing how public school kids have all this wonderful freedom (which obviously...
- Why Homeschooling Works ~ No Or Little Bureaucracy
Homeschool Parents/Teachers are able to pick out the curriculum and textbooks that best suits their children/students. Unlike the public school system where the teacher may have very little input into what textbooks will be used in their classroom. This...
- Things To Ponder
Would You Let Them Scan Your Child? One family said NO, but their child was still scanned. Still, a substitute teacher's mistake proved just how vulnerable children who opt out can be. "They rounded up all the kids in our son's class and they...
- Sheer Ignorance On Dr. Phil Board Astounds Me.
Before I get started on my own rant about that show, I wanted to recommend Valorie Delp's post Dr. Phil Doesn't Get Homeschooling, at Homeschool Families. And Why Homeschool also had an excellent post on "that show". Considering how negatively...