exactly -----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:dana.tier...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 4:39 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: The hardest thing about homeschooling.....
You can have any prejudices or wierd ideas you like, but if you express them, people may well call you on them ;) On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > Why should I be tolerant of an idea that I think is bad and wrong? Are you > tolerant of child abusers or pedophiles? > > If your school system is so bad, then you should move. > > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 3:13 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: The hardest thing about homeschooling..... > > > With the state of our education system, maybe we should be a bit more > tolerant of those who want more for their children. > > Thinking back about my time in school and I hate to say that most of > my teachers sucked. There were a few very good teachers, but most of > them were horrible. > > We do not home school for religious reasons, We chose to home school > because the school system where we live sucks. When my oldest son was > in kindergarten, his teacher was a bitch on wheels. When we complained > about the way he was treated, we found out her husband was on the > school board and our complaints fell on deaf ears. > > Following your rules, we would have been forced to keep our child in > an environment we felt was detrimental to his well being as our only > other option, homeschooling, would be illegal since neither my wife > nor I are teachers. That's quite tolerant of you Eric. > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Eric Roberts > <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >> >> I don't think that homeschooling should be legal, unless you are a > teacher. >> >> Eric >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:07 PM >> To: cf-community >> Subject: The hardest thing about homeschooling..... >> >> >> ...is finding quality, secular curriculum. >> >> My wife and I have been looking into homeschool programs that actually >> give the children diplomas and transcripts. Unfortunately, since a >> large portion of those who homeschool do so for religious reasons (we >> do not, BTW), most of these programs have curricula that are heavily >> religious. This has not bee a huge bone of contention with me as most >> of the programs allow you to substitute a curriculum for each subject. >> >> Yesterday that changed. We visited the main office for one of these >> programs. Up until yesterday, we were impressed with their reputation, >> cost and the fact that they were fairly liberal in what you could >> substitute. For grammar school children, the only subjects you could >> nit substitute was English and Religion. I was cool with that. >> However, we were then told that for high school you cannot substitute >> English, Religion and History. I immediately went and started looking >> at the High School history books. They had titles like 'Christ the >> King, Lord of History' and 'Christ and the Americas'. The first book I >> picked up had chapters named 'Abraham' and 'Moses' - and the 'Moses' >> chapter was twice as long as each chapter devoted to 'Ancient Greece' >> and 'Ancient Rome'. >> >> The main biology books were different volumes of a series titled >> 'Exploring Creation'. >> >> I was disgusted with all the religious drivel that was included in >> these books - and was immediately turned off to this program (We had >> looked at it because of the ones with a good reputation that are >> accredited, this one was Catholic) >> >> My wife is a devote Catholic, I am not. We have discussed raising our >> children Catholic, but these references in a history book concerned >> even her. I have no issues with the children learning about >> Catholicism, but to have those beliefs brought into subjects like >> history and science is where I draw the line. >> >> So, now we must continue the search for a good program, like the ones >> we have looked at, but that do not cram the religion down the kids >> throats in every subject. There has got to be a happy medium >> somewhere.... >> >> </rant> >> >> -- >> Scott Stroz >> --------------- >> The DOM is retarded. >> >> http://xkcd.com/386/ >> >> >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:316012 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
