kestrel9000 Attacks Homeschooling at Daily Kos
First off I am going to take umbrage at the title of the post, Revisionist History: The Christian Right and the Miseducation Of Our Children. Shining Celebi and Lord Epa are mine and The Big Kahuna's kids they do not belong to anyone else. The idea that children belong to anyone other then their parents is a serious fallacy.
Here it is tempting to digress into a discussion of whether, though parents have the right to raise their children as they see fit, that right includes programming their children with a falsified and distorted view of history, while simultaneously weakening the educational resources available to children in public schools. This, however, is not the purpose of this composition.
Apparently kestrel9000 is another loony who thinks I should send my children to the substandard public schools for the greater good. I am not responsible for Mr. & Mrs General Public's kids, I am responsible for my own kids and part of that responsibility is making sure they get the best education possible. Just like I make sure they get the best health care we can afford. It never ceases to amaze me that no one quibbles with a parent seeking the best medical care for their children but they hurl abuse at parents who seek the best education for their children.
Also kestrel9000 seems to believe that only Christian Fundamentalist homeschool and seems to be completely ignorant of the fact that there are liberal secular homeschoolers.
kestrel9000 trots out the same old anti-homeschooling rhetoric we have heard numerous times before our kids will be socially stunted without public school socialization, our kids will not be able to cope in the 'real world' (what world does he/she think we live in while we homeschool?), our kids are abused because their 'bad' parents are denying them a public school education. Their thinly disguised hatred of religion is also troubling. They display a disheartening lack of tolerance for homeschooling while maintaining that homeschoolers are intolerant.
Yet these same conservatives are silent when I object to my tax dollars being used to instill their children with distorted, revisionist history.
kestrel9000 is showing their ignorance again. Their tax dollars in no way benefit homeschoolers. Does kestrel9000 think their tax dollars go to private school children? If not why does kestrel9000 assume their tax money goes to homeschoolers? Like private schools, homeschooling is an educational alternative to the failing public schools. So kestrel9000 stop your b****** and stop harassing homeschoolers. We have every right to provide our children with the education of our choice.
Other post on this topic
- Post on Socialization at Alasandra.
- Post on Homeschooling at Alasandra.
- Home Schools Run By Caring Parents at Home~schoolers Rule.
- But They Are So Normal at Home~schoolers Rule.
6 Witty Replies:
I am always truly baffled at these people who call themselves liberals and libertarians. They talk out of both sides of their mouths. They cry for individualism and tolerance, but as soon as they smell someone actually being an individual or tolerating something different from the "norm," they scream and holler "Brainwashing!"
And yeah, do some research before ya go spoutin'. (not you, K9000)
Good response to K9000, except for the part where you say that hs critics are mistaken in thinking that all hsers are fundamental christians. It sounds like you're saying that if all hsers were fundamental christians, then k9000 and his ignorant ilk might have a point. I shouldn't have to whip out an NPR mug or dem party pin to argue that I ought to be allowed to homeschool.
Sometimes I fail to make myself clear. Of course Fundamentalist Christians have every right to homeschool their children.
I merely find it annoying that I get labeled a Fundamentalist Christian by people like K9000 because I homeschool. I also think it is important that EVERYONE acknowledge that homeschoolers are a very diverse bunch we encompass different religions, different political views and different races.
No one would ever say that all public schools students come from white, middle class, two parent, Protestant households but they don't think twice about assuming that all homeschoolers do.
No matter what religion we practice, what political party we belong to or any of the 100 other things homeschoolers differ on we all have the RIGHT to homeschool our children.
I agree with you about people assuming we're religious extremists just because we hs. I guess I'm just sensitive to having to defend myself to intolerent, ignorant people by appealing to our commonalities. I so often see hsers defend themselves by saying "hey, we're just like you, so don't hate us." And then they go on to list their non-religious-nut credentials. I'm nothing like those horrible, intolerant, illogical, and certainly not progressive, mean people commenting over there. I personally think most of them are lost to ever understanding people not exactly like themselves in appearance, word and action.
I wonder if K9000 realizes that Jacqui Floro he quotes is just some idiot 20 yr old senior at Eastern Michigan University and not an actual scholar. She clearly has no clue about homeschoolers and is just spouting off a bunch of stereotypes with a handful of cherry-picked references to articles from the popular media to back up her assertions.
I'd like to see her debate one of the homeschoolers from the NCFCA league. They'd absolutely eat her alive! :-)
I don't think K9000 actually did anything actually approaching research before starting his homeschool rant. He probably has no idea who the person he quoted is, they were just saying what he wanted to hear. He actually backed down in some of his comments saying he painted to broad a stroke when he said homeschoolers he should have specified Fundie Homeschoolers. Which is still as intolerant as you can get. If you homeschool the WAY I WANT you can homeschool, but I still don't like homeschooling. BS everyone has the right to homeschool no matter if they agree with K9000 religious or political views.
The funny thing is jerks like K9000 complaining about homeschoolers being intolerant but they are the intolerant ones. Now he'll probably go bleating that homeschoolers attacked him. Apparently calling us irresponsible parents, unAmerican ect is OK, but how dare we say anything bad about him.
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