Well, you QUOTED me, and tripped out. And I couldn't quite see why. Since you are normally fairly even-keeled, I assumed I really stepped in it and tripped a landmine that I hadn't seen, and was missing something obvious that I said wrong. Rather than compounding that social flub, stopping until I understood seemed smart.
I will admit that _personally_, my experience with home schooled kids (from a score of families) has NOT been a good one. BUT, the parents of those kids were scary, scary folk. So I don't judge homeschooling, I judge those parents. I wouldn't give a library card or directions to a voting booth to those parents, how we let them breed is amazing. I have NO doubt that some parents, and some kids, and some situations are WAY better with home schooling. No doubt at all. But that has not been my experience. In my experience, publicschool=good. privateschool=lifelong issues. homeschool=timothy burton. On the other hand, I probably know more homeschooled people than I think I do, because they neither make a big deal about it, nor stand out in a crowd, so I would have no way of knowing. I assume that is true. But those kids that I _do_ know are home schooled could star in a remake of any Hitchcock film. As a group, I wouldn't want to be in a stuck elevator with any of them (nor their parents). Dumb, paranoid, bitter, purposefully uneducated. Scary as a lot. Backwoods Florida, Backwoods Oregon. Urban Boston. Rural Connecticut. Upstate Michigan. The people on this list, however, who are home schooling, I would gladly sit with at dinner, and talk. I assume that since they are good people, and are homeschooling, they are doing it because it is BETTER for their kids. I respect that. I don't doubt it. That is WHY I spend my chatting time here, with this group. My public school time, though, was excellent. Would have hated to miss out on any of it (even the bad stuff). And I do feel bad for people who don't have those same good experiences. That is not an indictment of the kids or their parents. I also feel bad for kids who won't have my great memories of Boy Scouts, or fishing on opening day, and whose father never coached them in baseball, and whose mother didn't love to take random drives around the countryside, who didn't have a computer at home to play on, who didn't have a younger sister to drive them crazy, who didn't grow up in a Navy family, who didn't camp out on every vacation with the whole family, and who didn't live in my neighborhood growing up. They may have their own good experiences that make great memories, but knowing how much I enjoyed mine, I cannot help but feel bad for anyone who didn't have the same enjoyment and opportunities. On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Erika L. Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wasnt just you, and I'm amazed you think this whole diatribe was directed > solely at you. You just happend to trigger it :P > > Pissed off? I'm just fecking amazed at some of the opinions on here, that > aren't based on actual experience. I thought as a whole, that this list was > better than most groups I'm a part of at being able to take a well rounded > approach to subjects and be devil's advocates. > > But hey, whatever. > > Scott summed up my feeling very well: > > "Sorry I came across like a pit bull, but when it comes to > homeschooling, I sometimes get a bit too defensive, especially when it > comes to the 'socialization' issue." > > I'm extremely passionate about this subject because I know MANY people that > homeschool, and I've met MANY kids that are homeschooled. > > I think it sucks that anyone, without knowing the situation in full, would > say to ANY PARENT that they felt sorry for their kids because they were > homeschooled without knowing the full facts. > > That's my stance, my opinion, and I'm sticking to it. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:316031 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
