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Originally posted by The Last Man on Earth
Yeah, but these also tend to be the people who whine like liberal girls when they stub their toes, ....
Get some social skills,
grow a pair,
stop trying to make the world the molly-coddled fluff-fest you grew up in.
Some of us like competition!
Originally posted by Unit541
This was turning into a good, informative thread until you came in and wiped your feet on it. Yours is one of the more ignorant posts as of late, and indicates your obvious lack of knowledge on the subject.
Originally posted by Unit541What does "competition" have to do with anything?
Originally posted by Unit541Who are you telling to grow a pair? The people who have the fortitude and dedication to take the education of their children into their own hands?
Originally posted by Unit541"Molly-coddled fluff-fest"? Are you implying that home schooled children are timid, sissified pansies?
Originally posted by Unit541Is that because they spend more time learning, and devote much less of their cognitive capacity trying to be "cool"? Or is it because they get a real life education rather than spend 190+ days a year memorizing arbitrary facts like how many states are east of the Mississippi?
Originally posted by The Last Man on Earth
It's unlikely the parent's are going to give the child the physical education a public school would.
So, exactly what qualifications for teaching do these parents have? How much training did they receive? How much do they actually know?
Originally posted by Ron Paul Girl
The "social" card is the one that is always pulled and it's so out of line to pidgeon hole all homeschooled children as unsocialized.
Originally posted by The Last Man on Earth
what character will a child build if they do not have to scrap with their peers? A spoiled, self-centric world view, in my opinion.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by Ron Paul Girl
The "social" card is the one that is always pulled and it's so out of line to pidgeon hole all homeschooled children as unsocialized.
Yep .. it's the ol' standby for the anti-homeschoolers. 'your kid is locked in a bomb shelter and doesn't know how to socialize' Those that trot it out forget about the negative socializing that takes place in 'regular' schools as well ... drugs, gangs, rapes, abuse, Godlessness, etc.
Originally posted by The Last Man on Earth
Everything the defenders of homeschooling have posted makes me think that the children will not really have the mental equipment to actually deal with the real world.
Originally posted by The Last Man on Earth
where exactly does child abuse most take place, again? In schools, or in the home with a "loved" one, or in a church with a catholic priest?
According to a draft report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education, in compliance with the 2002 "No Child Left Behind" act signed into law by President Bush, between 6 percent and 10 percent of public school children across the country have been sexually abused or harassed by school employees and teachers.
"So we think the Catholic Church has a problem?" she told industry newspaper Education Week in a March 10 interview.
To support her contention, Shakeshaft compared the priest abuse data with data collected in a national survey for the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation in 2000. Extrapolating data from the latter, she estimated roughly 290,000 students experienced some sort of physical sexual abuse by a school employee from a single decade—1991-2000. That compares with about five decades of cases of abusive priests.
Such figures led her to contend "the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests."
“[I]n both actual numbers and percentages, sexual abuse of children by teachers, coaches, and employees in public schools exceeds anything that occurred in Catholic institutions,” they continued, claiming that sexual abuse of children in public schools is still occurring in “significant numbers,” in contrast to Catholic institutions.
According to the Nussbaums, expert Prof. Carol Shakeshaft told Education Week magazine “The physical sexual abuse of students in [public] schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.”
Originally posted by The Last Man on Earth
you are just far too entrenched in your own mindset to change,
I will change the subject.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
.... says the guy who self professes to be 'too lazy to check the links' to educate himself on the truth of homeschooling.
Sorry bud .. the subject is homeschooling. Ya' can't change it.