A friend of mine sent me the link to this article
Confessions of a home-schooler
I read it. I liked it. I really didn't think much of it until another friend pointed out the number of letters that had been written in response. Right now, it is over 550! Now, I don't have the time to read that many letters so I randomly clicked on different pages and read some of the responses. Let me say it right now, I really hope I never encounter one of these people while I am out with my kids! The hatred and ignorance some of these people have for those that are different is unbelievable.
I will never understand why people who send their kids to public school feel threatened by those of us who chose to homeschool. If that is what you chose, that is fine. Really! Is it because we make them feel guilty? It is like the author of the article was saying, if you are talking to someone who says they have decided to be a vegan. You might feel compelled to respond with, "Well, I rarely eat meat", even if it isn't true.
I could sum up in one sentence what "they", the ugly commenters think about homeschool parents.
We are uneducated, rich, fundamentalist Christians who couldn't hack it in the workplace so we chose parenting as a career and now we create a "school" in hopes to keep our children locked away from the real world.
News flash, parenting is a career! Your job as a parent starts the minute the 2nd line shows up on the pregnancy test and it ends....never! One popular reason for the hate is that all homeschoolers are fundamentalist Christians. That is simply not true. Sure, it sounds like something to say, but it doesn't hold any water. Another reason is that all homeschoolers are "privileged". Right. Every homeschooler is the wife of a Hollywood plastic surgeon. Gee, I wish I knew what to do with the piles of money in my house. I am really getting tired of having to tell my housekeeper to just dust around them.
All of this hatred leads me to wonder what would happen if all of us homeschoolers reversed the definition and flung it back on public school parents.
They are educated, poor, Atheist who couldn't hack it taking care of their spawn, so they shipped them off as soon as possible to a free, government run institution in hopes that the teachers there would raise their children.
No, I don't really feel that way. But, it just goes to show you that this might be what public school parents are thinking we are saying about them.
America is the land of choices. We have choices for just about everything. You are never going to find someone who is exactly like you. Does that make them wrong? No, it makes them different.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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We homeschooled our two daughters. They are grown and have college educations and do quite well. (To the chagrin of public educators.) We,and the girls, are very happy we made the choice for home education. Recently we heard on the news that a 15 year old girl at her school's prom was raped by multiple males outside the building in a terrible incident that I regret for this young woman. My daughter did say something interesting though. "And to think," she said. "Everyone was so worried because we didn't go to prom!" I'm not trying to be flip, but where was the safety for this young womman who so badly needed to be at this prom? Sad.
I am very thankful for choice, but we've fought for this. I hope my grandchildren have it.
Debbie
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