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Quick Rant
10Mar2008 Filed under: How to tick me off Author: ValI was looking on digg.com a bit ago at some of the articles and comments regarding the recent decision by those arrogant judges in California and I just need to rant for a second before I head to bed.
I am so sick and tired of people who assume things about people who are/were homeschooled. They assume we’re stupid. They assume we’re unsocialized. They assume we’re brainwashed. They assume we’re “religious zealots.” Etc., etc., etc.
I am sick and tired of it. Utterly disgusted.
Well, I guess if one’s not allowed to make racial generalizations or generalizations about sexual orientation or any other kind of generalizations about groups of people anymore, homeschooling is the next big thing to pick on, huh?
I don’t understand why homeschooling is considered, by many (or is it just the loud, annoying few?) to be weird. Why is there this crazy notion that socialization starts in the public school? Why is it that we are considered to be brainwashed, just because we want something different for our kids/ourselves?
Isn’t this supposed to be the Land of the Free? Maybe it’s just the Land of the Free if you fit into that same mold as everyone else. It seems that individuality is only encouraged if you’re going to go with the flow, be someone like every other person out there.
I guess the ignorant person just has to pick on something, so it must be the unknown. Yeah, that must be it. Ignorance.
Why bother to defend myself? Why even try to deal with blind ignorance? I don’t. I’m tired of it. I posted one comment to one very big idiot then left. I don’t have to prove myself to anyone, I don’t have to explain myself for being completely normal. So I come here, to my site, and rant a bit. It takes me two minutes. And now I’m done.
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I'm Valerie, late 20's, from Missouri. I'm married... with children: a young boy and a baby girl. I enjoy many things including photography, candle making, videography, history, and mythology. Baby Girl was born 11 weeks early after my water was broken for 8 weeks - she's my little miracle - so you're bound to hear a lot about her progress here. I am also a second generation homeschooler, that's bound to come up as well.
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Jamie
March 10th, 2008 at 3.12 pm ♥
Thought the two WND articles below would interest you (I won’t do a link, because some comment sections don’t allow for it…but these were the titles):
Time for a Texas Style Roundup (by Chuck Norris)
and: Gov. Arnold blasts homeschool ruling
Matthew Tietje
March 10th, 2008 at 6.37 pm
I, too, was homeschooled (from 4th grade to graduation). This is truly an unfortunate decision — but I wonder if it is less of a, “Let’s find someone new to pick on,” and more of, “a few rotten apples spoil the whole bunch,” issue.
I wouldn’t trade being homeschooled for any kind of public education. And, we did it right. We got up early and worked hard even when it wasn’t fun (and most days, it wasn’t…). But there are some homeschooling families who didn’t operate that way – get up at any time…do work when they felt like it…even mothers who would complete tests for their kids – and they really brought a bad name upon us! And, quite honestly, they needed someone to straighten them out.
But, I will be the first to agree that the “unsociable” argument (yeah, I just used quotations on a word for emphasis…) is a terrible one. I never felt like I missed out on anything, I had a lot of friends, and I felt like the “social” (did it again…) aspect of public education was more of an over exposure to everything, including things that I didn’t need to be exposed to! Does that make sense?
But there is no reason to question the educational aspect of homeschooling, if it is done right! I graduated a year early, had 12 college credits at the time I graduated, and received the highest academic scholarship my university of choice could offer based on my SAT scores – and my mother never earned a college degree or studied anything that would have made her “qualified” (and again…) in the eyes of the Californian government.
Jamie
March 12th, 2008 at 10.10 am
While I do think that homeschooled children do miss out on a lot of things and generally have less opportunities for socializing just because of the situation, that’s not a justification. How to educate a child is the parent’s decision and is considered by many to be a fundamental right. I bet this goes up to a higher court!