-Caveat Lector-
Brothers and Sisters: Please distribute to your Friends, especially those
who have school age children.
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WE MUST RID OUR NATION OF THE FABIAN SOCIALIST PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM!!
and the notorious drug Ritlin.
Ritlin=a substitute for parental discipline!
Those psycho doctors are making a fortune off your kid by prescribing all
those mind-bending pills.
Your kid's body should be cleansed of all that junk, then you'll be able to
know your child.
(hummm: why is it the leftists and feminists say, Sisters and Brothers,
while normal people use the phrase,
Brothers and Sisters?)
MONDAY
JUNE 07
1999
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BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
Shootings a boon
to home education
More parents opt out
of system after Colorado
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By Paul Chesser
� 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
Fear resulting from recent violence in public schools is sparking interest
in home schooling across the United States.
While national media figures and government officials pine for more gun
control and limiting Internet access, many parents are quietly taking
actions on their own. It is too soon after recent school shooting incidents
in Littleton, Colo., and Conyers, Ga., to measure statistically whether
parents are adopting alternative methods to educate their children, but
evidence indicates that many parents are at least considering teaching their
children at home next year.
Phone call inquiries to various state home school associations throughout
the country have jumped since the Columbine High School shootings April 20,
with some parents panic-stricken in their search to find other educational
options for their children.
"One father called us and said he couldn't do his job because he was worried
about his kids," said Mary Jo Patterson, director of the Georgia Home
Education Association. http://www.ghea.org/
"Parents, after they've put them in school, think their kids are in some
kind of jeopardy."
She added that there are many high school students who are calling who don't
want to go back to school.
There is some consensus among home schooling advocates that the Columbine
incident has caused a greater rise in interest than any other recent school
shooting occurrence.
"This thing has got parents in a panic," said Joe Adams, a co-director of
the Christian Home Educators of Kentucky.
http://www.chek.org/
"We had a surge (of calls) after Paducah," said Adams, referring to the
December 1997 school shooting in West Paducah, Ky. "But not as big as
Littleton -- Littleton caused a burst."
Adams said he is receiving four or five e-mails daily from parents who want
to remove their children from public school.
The Home School Legal Defense Association http://www.hslda.org/
reports they are also fielding a lot more questions from concerned parents
since the Littleton incident. Many are saying it's "the straw that broke the
camel's back," according to President Michael Farris.
Some state home school organizations are also seeing large increases in
attendance at conventions this year, which are traditionally held in the
spring.
Patterson said that about 2,000 people normally attend the Georgia home
school convention, but this year over 3,000 came. The event was held on
April 23 and 24, only days after the shootings in Littleton.
Likewise, Adams is anticipating a 25 percent increase in attendance over
last year for Kentucky's convention in July.
The sense of urgency has also hit ground zero in Denver, where the Christian
Home Educators of Colorado
http://www.chec.org/
have been swarmed with inquiries. Calls have increased fivefold, from about
60 a month to over 300.
CHEC holds monthly workshops that explain home schooling laws, curriculums
and philosophies to curious parents. Participation grew from 15 in February
to 45 in May, and registration exploded to 500 for June's session.
"People are looking for solutions -- not just bulletproof vests," said Kevin
Swanson, Executive Director of CHEC.
Parents seeking advice about home schooling from advocacy organizations are
getting a consistent message: "Go for it." However, the message also
contains a caveat: "Be prepared."
Farris wrote in a May 4 commentary for the Washington Times that "people
should not choose to home school out of a momentary panic resulting from
watching the news about Colorado. You won't have the self-discipline to
succeed if that is your sole motivation."
In an interview with WorldNetDaily Farris added that HSLDA is "trying to
give parents a realistic assessment of what it takes to home school. You
won't have the 'stick-to-itness' that it requires if the sole motivation is
fear."
Some organizations are inviting parents to test the home schooling waters in
measured ways. Swanson said that he is encouraging those who are unsure to
try home schooling for one year. Patterson suggests that students try out a
correspondence school, because "it feels more like what they're used to."
Vicki Brady, who co-hosts the syndicated radio call-in show Home Schooling
USA with her husband Terry, says parents should home school regardless of
their motivation.
"We started home schooling because there was nothing else to do," she said.
The Bradys had received several discouraging assessments of their
learning-disabled child, so they seized the opportunity to home educate. The
child now excels, according to Mrs. Brady.
"(Families) may try it for a year and say, 'Why didn't I do this before?"
said Mrs. Brady. "Or, they might feel more comfortable putting them back (in
public school) after a year. But taking them out for a year is not going to
hurt them."
William Lloyd of the National Home Education Research Institute
http://www.nheri.org/
said that safety is only cited as fifth in importance by parents as a reason
to home school. He did say that if a family has been thinking about home
schooling their children, incidents like Columbine could be the deciding
factor.
"Once people see that home schooling is viable, (Columbine) might push
them," he said.
Sherry Ferguson is one parent who did remove her daughter from public
school. Brandy, age 15, attended Bear Creek High School in Lakewood, Colo.,
only minutes away from Columbine High School. Brandy has been learning at
home for the last two weeks of the school year.
Ferguson is still in the decision process about Brandy's education next
year, but she is very interested in home schooling and is trying to arrange
a curriculum fair for area families to learn more about it. "The more
information I get, the better I'll be able to make a decision about it," she
said.
But she already sees a change in her daughter since she's been doing her
schoolwork at home.
"I've never seen her so excited about book stores."
Ferguson said she had "blind faith" in the school system, and never
considered home schooling until Columbine.
"It took something this tragic to make me look at it."
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u bet i'm mad! our kids have been victims of socialists for the past 40+
years.
Bard
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Federal Government defined:
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