I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Yowsa.
Mine!!! ALL MINE!!!!
Trips!
Whiskey & wine!
WSJ --
Endurance Contest?
At President Bush’s news conference Tuesday, more charges and countercharges fly about who is, well, bushed.
When an NBC reporter asked whether long-serving Bush White House aides are “tired” and in need of a shakeup, senior counselor Dan Bartlett’s eyes briefly closed in feigned slumber. Later, Bush accused normally wide-awake New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller of conking out during his 90-minute appearance in Cleveland on Monday.
Complimenting another reporter for paying attention to his comments on immigration, Bush complained, “The people I saw in the press pool weren’t. They were, like, Elisabeth was half-asleep. Yes you were…,” he began. “No I wasn’t,” Bumiller protested.
“OK, well, the person next to you was,” Bush concluded. Possibly suspecting the press corps of Ambien-related sleep-eating, he added: “They were dozing off….Let’s get him out of here so we can go get lunch, is what they were thinking.”
damn. this little fucker has been groomed from the getgo.
Trips and tries.
Domenech:
His plates will always be in the air.
Oh, the scariness . . .
Well, so much for a rhymin' thread!
Please,pllease don't ffrighten me.
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.co...ew.php?
id=11810
WASHINGTON -- A liberal watchdog group filed suit in federal court here asking that the Deficit Reduction Act enacted last month be thrown out because the text signed by President Bush differed from what had passed the House days before.
The suit, filed by Public Citizen, could threaten the $39 billion in budget cuts approved in the package, which narrowly passed Congress. It also resurrects an embarrassing episode for the Republican leadership, which acknowledges that a Senate clerk altered the final text after it had cleared the House of Representatives.
Freaky
ALTMAN (voice-over): His mom admits home-schooling is a full- time job.
Don't these women have lives?
Don't they want lives?
So he was home-schooled and daddy has political connections... just wow.
mom teaches 15-year-old Benjamin, 12-year-old Emily, 10-year-old Alice, and little Florence, who's almost three.
I repeat: The woman didn't have a life.
Is Ben Domenech really only like 22?
Nice job, WaPo. Couldn't they get a frat boy from A&M like real Bushites?
Teaching is easy: anyone can do it. There really should not be a problem, after all, we are all smart people. Right?
Teaching is easy: anyone can do it. There really should not be a problem, after all, we are all smart people. Right?
Sean Patrick for president in 2044!
Pie!
WaPo is turning into quite the fish wrap.
Teaching is easy: anyone can do it. There really should not be a problem, after all, we are all smart people. Right?
Teaching is easy - Presidentin' is hard.
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Home-schooling is like a lot of Rethug ideas, insidious once you understand its effects but incuous when you hear about it and never really examine it.
I think this is inaccurate. "The practice evolved out of religious tradition" John Holt was a pioneer and he was not religious.
I repeat: The woman didn't have a life.
Terry C, Coldplayer
Terry C., she has a life, and she has chosen it freely.
I just don;t want her to choose MY life for me.
And, I think she needs to be held to some standards. Though not just the NCLB bullshit.
Congrates WaPo... it looks like you got yourself a winner there.
It's great to have another voice from the "Red States". God know we can't get any of those talking points anywhere else.
you end up being stunted socially
See study about WATB kids growing up to be Conservatives.
I WAS HOME SHCOOLED BY GOD FEARING PARENTS WHO WANTED TO SPARE ME FROM THE COMMUNIST MARXSIST LENNONIST DOGMA THAT IS PREVALENT IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOSL AND IT WORKED WONDERS FROM ME
GAH! What a little pod person. What the fuck is wrong with the idiots at the WaPo? They LIKE being played by ideologues and zealots?
Really need to get some friends that went to W&M on the phone. Seems he may be the "visible campus newspaper asshole" ascending to his rightful place. Depressing.
My apologies to those who think otherwise, but homeschooling is just plain WRONG, and should be inflicted on no child. Ever.
Homeschooling is evil.
Wow, it's really bitch-slap Ben Domenech day!
Scarborough is calling Mearsheimer and Walt's critique of the Israel Lobby 'hate speech'
He has Alan Dershowitz on also claiming it's vicious hate speech.
Ben Domenech will have the political analysis chops of a Ken Mehlman sock puppet.
SOCIALIZATION IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR SOCIALSIM
This is still kind of relevant and it's a very good overview of the Horowitz premise that our colleges are harboring an aggressive liberal conspiracy.
MERKIN, Your post illustrates several points, but if you comb your merkin properly . . . .
Home schooling is certainly an effective way for abusive parents to avoid detection.
OTOH, charter schools rock.
Whiskeyina:
(and anybody interested in early
20th century pop music)
Don't know if you might have seen
this in Sunday's NYTimes, but
a project at USC has just digitized
7000(!) early Edison cylinder recordings
made before (I believe) 1920.
Apparently, the stuff is astounding.
It kind of rewrites the history of
American pop music, before country or
the blues.
Here's the link (and it's all free)
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
Why didn't they just sign on the Bush twins?
I'm sure they could come up with incisive commentary on current events.
Even if they weren't homeschooled.
"Makes you very defined". What the fuck does that *mean*, man?
Or, define it.
I homeschool my 2 kids. I am not right wing or Christian. I don't understand the assumptions that all homeschoolining families are the same. Families should and do have a right to choose how they handle education.
Evacuee--at least in LA, charter schools have not lived up to their promise. I'm very disillusioned with them. I've seen what comes out of them, and quite honestly, it's no improvement over public schools at large.
Not that that's saying much--there's a huge push to keep kids stupid.
Sallyh, I don't know that I agree with that sentiment. I think some of us are actually capable of teaching our children properly, IF there were no alternative.
But for someone to visit their local fundie store and pick up a bunch of workbooks and think they are doing it correctly . . . .
Perhaps WaPo can get Ed Anger from the Weekly World News to write for their editorial page!
Paris Hilton on the Slut Channel has
the ghost of Moshe Dayan talking about
hate speech by recently cloned sheep.
YOU CAN SAY WHAT YOU WANT ABOUT HOMES CHOOLING BUT I THINK A PERSON SHOULD HAVE A SAY IN WHO THERE CHILDREN GET TO COME IN CONTACT WITH AND THERE ARE JUST SOME TROPICS WHICH IM NOT WILLING TO EXPOSE MY KDIS BEFORE IM GOOD AND READY
Shut up! You are envious that some Americans work hard and succeed! The WAPO was so tilting left they needed balance, and he's a good writer, too! He even posted some of my comments!
Shut up! You are envious that some Americans work hard and succeed! The WAPO was so tilting left they needed balance, and he's a good writer, too! He even posted some of my comments!
"Makes you very defined". What the fuck does that *mean*, man?
==
It means he's drunk nothing but koolaid.
Sallyh: Charter schools - A solution in search of a problem.
reposted from below.
Classical music tip.
I just got the CD for
George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue Michael Tilson Thomas Dir.
The track that's outstanding is the one that has a "ghost" recoding of George Gershwin playing the piano parts that was recorded on piano rolls. What was interesting was the difference in the phrasing, the tempo and the jazziness of the piano performance.
After listening to this, I don't believe that I've ever heard a performance of RhapsodyIB that sounded this good. The more modern interpretations of this piece sound slow and wooden.
jack | 03.21.06 - 10:34 pm |
What is so gratifying about the LRB piece on AIPAC is how far away from hate speech it is: there is no more complete, succinct, documented introductory treatment of the problem out there. And as is consistent with the very regular record here the only thing the defamers have is wild screeching about how everyone is a Nazi.
Wow, it's really bitch-slap Ben Domenech day!
Buzz Bomb
He's 24 fucking yrs old.
His opinions are pretty much at the low end of the scale.
Not to go all ageist on him, but, Christ in a prom dress, there are a lot of things that really do call for a mature perspective. And, he ain't got it.
You do need some years on you. Just not so many that you get scared of what you might lose.
Atrios is merely pointing out the background of the person the Post has just hired to "balance" its invisible nonexistent left wing blogger.
Granted, ageism was out of line. But qualifications? apparently quite lacking.
Look forward to Ben getting his opinions straight from Talon News.
t kind of rewrites the history of
American pop music, before country or
the blues.
Here's the link (and it's all free)
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
steve simels,
Fickin Fantastic! Thanks!
And the Duncan/MediaMatters smear campaign begins...
Cindy--agreed, but the skill sets many homeschoolers arrive in my classroom with are deficit.
Mr. Black seriously has his panties in a wad over this goon.
Yes, people should only go to state schools that spend $10,000 per student or more like those DC schools that do such a wonderful job
Evacuee--at least in LA, charter schools have not lived up to their promise. I'm very disillusioned with them. I've seen what comes out of them, and quite honestly, it's no improvement over public schools at large.
Not that that's saying much--there's a huge push to keep kids stupid.
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 10:37 pm | #
OK, I confess, I don't know diddly about charter schools. What I like is that they allow an option other than public, parochial, and very expensive private schools for people who would otherwise be tempted to home-school.
I was talking out of turn.
how can you be independent with a republican cock permanantly inserted up your ass?
So, today is Ben Domenech Day?
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damn. this little fucker has been groomed from the getgo.
They all are.
This really pisses me off. Of all the writers in the world they give a column to this little twit?
Fuck the WAPO.
There's a pinhead in da house!
Steve,
I bookmarked the link. Good one!
Home-schooling is like a lot of Rethug ideas, insidious once you understand its effects but incuous when you hear about it and never really examine it.
kei & yuri
Yeah. It sounds good, but who actually does it, all the way, without throwing up their hands and saying, fuck this, kid needs a teacher? Largely religious nutcases.
And you end up with an indoctrinated kid, who had been insulated from the rest of society--how much TV did he get to watch? Movies?--and no peer group but children of parents just like his own. And God. God for breakfast, God for lunch, God for dinner, God for work and play, and God when they go on vacation.
This could be where the term "God-botherers" comes from. They gotta be wearing the old dude out...
WTF was that about Ed Sullivan and the plates???
okay....
peace and forever humptiness
I don't necessarily have an objection to home schooling, but I do have a problem with the rabid ideological indoctrination a large number of home schooled children are obviously subject to. That simply is not education as I understand it or provide it.
Granted, ageism was out of line. But qualifications? apparently quite lacking.
Look forward to Ben getting his opinions straight from Talon News.
cgreen
cgreen, one would have to be really exceptional (this is not impossible, just rare) to have real answers at 24.
Just as 60+ yr olds should be free and clear with making decisions that will affect 24 yr olds. Like the labor law in France. That is one wrong piece of shit.
And the Duncan/MediaMatters smear campaign begins...
Whattsamatta cog?
You don't like Domenech's own writings?
Mr. Black seriously has his panties in a wad over this goon.
onehandle
Mr. Black recognizes that Mr. Domenech was given this job as a political payoff to someone.
And the Duncan/MediaMatters smear campaign begins...
ITS UNFAIR TO USE A PERSONS OWN WORDS AGAINST HIM I WOULD LIKE A FAIR AND BALANCED DSICUSSION WHERE WE POINT OUT WHY YOUNG BEND OMENITCH IS A MODEL CITIZEN AND THE LEFITES ARE TRAITORS
YOU CAN SAY WHAT YOU WANT ABOUT HOMES CHOOLING
I don't know about you, but I hate it when my homes chool.
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere said: My apologies to those who think otherwise, but homeschooling is just plain WRONG, and should be inflicted on no child. Ever.
My children choose to homeschool. My son chose to go to school a couple of years ago and then chose to go back to homeschooling. If I had tried forcing him to remain in school he would have thought I'd inflicted school on him. Any time they choose to go to school they're welcome to.
This really pisses me off. Of all the writers in the world they give a column to this little twit?
I didn't know about him until today; I just assumed with the Redstate connection he was a behind-the-scenes (but credentialed-esque) conservative journalist. Turns out he's just like any dozen drones I just went to law school with. Dang, WaPo.
I don't necessarily have an objection to home schooling, but I do have a problem with the rabid ideological indoctrination a large number of home schooled children are obviously subject to. That simply is not education as I understand it or provide it.
That's the whole point of home schooling. To keep the kids from being exposed to actual thought.
It's harder to raise a good little brownshirt when they see other points of view.
"Makes you very defined". What the fuck does that *mean*, man?
"Defined" = Bush Partay.
Wouldn't want anyone to think the right thing to do about inadequate public schools is to, say, support them, financially and politically. Or that one can be involved in an education a child gets outside the home. Or that someone who's dedicated a life to teaching might have a trick or two up a sleeve that might help a kid?
The social contract needs so badly to be rewritten in this country...
Steve,
Thanks for sharing. Cool cool cool.
Peace y'all.
-Speedy
Steve,
Thanks for sharing. Cool cool cool.
Peace y'all.
-Speedy
Thanks for the link, steve!
I didn't know about him until today; I just assumed with the Redstate connection he was a behind-the-scenes (but credentialed-esque) conservative journalist.
I didn't realize that he was such a little douchebag.
I thought he was just your average conservative dirtbag.
http://www.bendomenech.com/blog/...ves/ 000904.html
I don't necessarily subscribe to all Creationist theories, but I do take Genesis literally. And I believe the commonly taught theory of evolution is a total crock.
Ah, the wonders of home schooling!
Yes, folks, it is LEGAL in Amerikkka to brainwash your helpless kids into believing all kinds of sick false bullcrap, using the fear of death at the hands of demons and separation from mommy and daddy as a whip.
Actually, I like to listen to people of all ages--24 or 84. I don't expect the same wisdom from a 24 year old but I do enjoy the perspective.
The Post can hire anyone they want, but I would expect some qualifications besides wankery.
Mr. Black recognizes that Mr. Domenech was given this job as a political payoff to someone.
Bingo. This maladministration has elevated cronyism to heights (or depths) not seen since the Garfield administration.....
.
And the Duncan/MediaMatters smear campaign begins...
Cog
Been watching O'Reilly again? I swear, the crazier that man becomes, the more sense he makes to y'all.
I do have a problem with the rabid ideological indoctrination a large number of home schooled children are obviously subject to.
this is the problem with the majority of those who are homeschooled.
It has everything to do with ideological indoctrination.
Relatively few people do it because of the pathetic state of our education system. They are trying to keep their child from "those types" or religious indoctrination, or both
"I homeschool my 2 kids. I am not right wing or Christian. I don't understand the assumptions that all homeschoolining families are the same. Families should and do have a right to choose how they handle education."
Quite so. But this kid does appear to be the poster-boy for one of the biggest potential pitfalls of home-schooling: The danger of a parents' views overwhelming a child's ability to independently make up its own mind about the world. It is all too easy for a parent, well-meaning or not, to cross the line from education to indoctrination.
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OK, I confess, I don't know diddly about charter schools.
See, this is just like what we were saying: "Home-schooling is like a lot of Rethug ideas, insidious once you understand its effects but incuous when you hear about it and never really examine it." Charter schools sounds perfectly innocuous, but research it and you learn it's actually a zombie conspiracy from the planet Xandor to restore racial slavery. Their explicit goal is the destruction of public schools, especially in predominantly black areas, and their primary fuel is not concern for any children but the white suburban sense that they are being robbed through taxes by black city-dwellers.
somewhat relevant blogwhore.
My children choose to homeschool.
Not for nothing but WTF?
You let your children chose?
Shut up! He is balancing the far left tilt of the Wapo. Why does any balance or other points of view scare libs so much? Are you afraid that your dogma doesn't play well in Peoria?
Evacuee,
Can I list a few of the problems of charter schools for you?
The main problem is that they are assuming that it is the educational delivery system that is at fault. In my experience this is simply not true. Children learn in different ways: old farts like me (20 years in the classroom) understand this and adjust their teaching for the students. Most charter school teachers are a) failed teachers b) inexperienced teachers.
Second problem is that the children and parents who congregate in such institutions really believe that the schools can do it all. This is not true, but it is easier to shift the blame than do the job.
Third problem: the schools tend to be wildly unsuccessful at most of the educational systems they are attempted to deliver. The primary reason for this is that are not experienced enough to account for the variations in their populations that occur naturally. They are like the auto mechanic who is trying to fix a computer: they have an idea of what to do but it only works on a certain subset of students. Their ability to adjust to the wildly diverse problems presented in the classroom is thus limited.
Sorry, long-winded this evening.
one would have to be really exceptional (this is not impossible, just rare) to have real answers at 24.
How old is Big Media Matt?
They are trying to keep their child from "those types" or religious indoctrination, or both
Their chilluns might be exposed to that rap music...or worse! Literature!
The best schools in the world are private schools.
I just got the CD for
George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue Michael Tilson Thomas Dir.
Doug...that's one of my favorite
CDs of all time.
The small jazz band orchestration
actually makes it sound a little
bit like American Kurt Weill.
And Gershwin plays the piano part
like a jazz guy...fools with the
rhythm (because he recorded it
solo) in ways he never would have
playing with an orchestra.
Just a gorgeous version...
I like to play with my dogma. She brings me joy.
The best primary schools are private Catholic Schools.
Wouldn't want anyone to think the right thing to do about inadequate public schools is to, say, support them, financially and politically. Or that one can be involved in an education a child gets outside the home. Or that someone who's dedicated a life to teaching might have a trick or two up a sleeve that might help a kid?
I am perpetually amazed at the disconnect between the importance of education and the way it is treated in this country. Unless their parents can afford private school, kids are basically at the arbitrary mercy of whether they live in a poor neighborhood or a rich one. Education should be federally and equally funded.
Our current system is designed to ensure that the rich and the poor stay that way.
Oh, and maybe college tuition being prohibitively expensive isn't such a great idea either...
DWD, most parents who homeschool have neither the training nor the skill sets to do the job effectively.
And the ones that arrive in my classroom have no sense of getting along in a competitive environment. they are singularly unwilling to accept judgment from an outsider (the instructor) and have terrible classroom etiquette.
I've had my fill of them.
Jenny:
If you're still here, at that cylinder
site there's a link to the excellent
Sunday NYTimes piece about the
project. Recommends some interesting
artists....
If they're paying the property tax, what the hell do you care if they opt for a primary school?
I do have a problem with the rabid ideological indoctrination a large number of home schooled children are obviously subject to.
this is the problem with the majority of those who are homeschooled.
It has everything to do with ideological indoctrination.
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What about the brainwashing of liberal public school indoctrination, from secular humanists and greedy union types? Why is that OK, but some alternate views on science, politics, religion is forbidden? And you wonder why we are abandoning the money pits known as public schools en masse?
Are you afraid that your dogma doesn't play well in Peoria?
Freedom Never Falters
actually he's balacning the centre-right with his extreme neo-fasism
HOME SHCOOLING IS GREAT! WE NEED TO DEVELOP A SOCITEY IN AMERICA WHERE PEOPLE SPEND ALL THERE TIME AT HOME AND LESS TIME OUT ON THE DIRTY STREET WHERE THEY CAN RUN INTO BAD INFLUENZES AND COMMIE IDEAS
SHUT DOWN THE PUBLIC SQUARE AND SEND OUT FOR DOMINOS - SMELL THE TOPPLING BABY ITS THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRITY
Their explicit goal is the destruction of public schools, especially in predominantly black areas, and their primary fuel is not concern for any children but the white suburban sense that they are being robbed through taxes by black city-dwellers.
kei & yuri | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 10:45 pm | #
I thought that was the explicit goal of vouchers.
And the Duncan/MediaMatters smear campaign begins.
the idiot's own words smear him (Atrios and Media Matters didn't have to embellish). You know, the same way your limited courage keeps you from signing up for this war you so desperately believe in you pathetic big talking coward
Quite seriously, though, what can a 24-year old have done to justify this kind of a plum assignment?
If the WaPo tilts left. I guess orgs like newsmax are just center right.
Ben, a little advice for you. Stay far away from Charles Krauthammer!
Sure, he seems like a nice guy at first, and he says he only wants to "show you the ropes" but when he invites you into his office to show you his "talking points" run!!
It was only a matter of time before jackoff jack the pontificating sloganeering jerkwad started spouting his jizz on here
Can't we talk about chocolate and oranges? Thinking is so HARD.
and why does somebidy named "freedom nevr falters" start his post with "shut up!" that's just taking away the freedom fo dissension
why does freedom never falters hate freedom
now i'm really gone
Evacuee--I don't doubt that there are successful charter schools, but overall, the data are not encouraging.
What about the brainwashing of liberal public school indoctrination, from secular humanists and greedy union types?
Hey David Horowitz, Jr. -- your herpes sores are showing through your fly.
GAH! What a little pod person. What the fuck is wrong with the idiots at the WaPo? They LIKE being played by ideologues and zealots?
Well, yeah.
Because the people in charge at the WAPO are idealogues and zealots themselves.
Their chilluns might be exposed to that rap music...or worse! Literature!
watertiger | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 10:46 pm | #
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That music is called literature and poetry yet in public schools, more and more reason to leave the cesspool of moral relativist and multi-cult "anything goes" behind.
The best places to have your kid
sodomized or generally brutalized
are private Catholic schools. Sheesh...
who doesn't know that?
Quite seriously, though, what can a 24-year old have done to justify this kind of a plum assignment?
He was already known to the Washington Post, given what he writes at his blog. He had an article published in the WaPo in, what, 1998? And he was profiled as a rising star, if I remember correctly.
The rich and poor should be segragated.
Until the real problems of social justice are fully addressed, it's not good for a poor kid to get blown away in the game of life by rich kids.
Public schools do nothing to correct social injustice.
And you wonder why we are abandoning the money pits known as public schools en masse?
Freedom Never Falters |
why do you hate education?
Quite seriously, though, what can a 24-year old have done to justify this kind of a plum assignment?
Probably just lied his ass off, like that George Deutsch motherfucker.
Here's the link (and it's all free)
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
steve simels
stunning stuff
he's blmainhg liberalism for the underfunding of No child left behind?
24 year olds that graduate the Ivy League get plum assignments all the time.
He was already known to the Washington Post, given what he writes at his blog. He had an article published in the WaPo in, what, 1998? And he was profiled as a rising star, if I remember correctly.
It's a success story, about a young kid making good despite the incredible odds stacked against him.
Quite seriously, though, what can a 24-year old have done to justify this kind of a plum assignment?
Color me fucking annoyed, but I agree.
A column at a major newspaper should be earned by someone with some skill and experience.
Not some fucking little twit who probably is still a fucking virgin.
do you think liberals should be put in camps , Freedom never falters?
Public schools do nothing to correct social injustice.
jack
many school boards have 'anti bullying' strategies. the companion to that is developing a sense of empathy.
Until the real problems of social justice are fully addressed, it's not good for a poor kid to get blown away in the game of life by rich kids.
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That's right, better they not get too close and uppity and asking for things society cannot provide if they or their family did not earn it.
bah
i'm off
And he was profiled as a rising star, if I remember correctly.
Oh, right.
And how did he get that article published. Let me guess. Daddy's connections helped him out.
Quite seriously, though, what can a 24-year old have done to justify this kind of a plum assignment?
Echidne of the snakes
Nothing, and that's the point.
This is a payoff to someone, pure and simple.
That's right, better they not get too close and uppity and asking for things society cannot provide if they or their family did not earn it.
Freedom Never Falters |
particularly poor black children, right?
Public schools do nothing to correct
my undescended testicles.
And you wonder why we are abandoning the money pits known as public schools en masse?
Freedom Never Falters |
why do you hate education?
Freedom doesn't just hate education. He and his ilk hate America. They want to separate themselves and their kids from it, they think they'll catch a disease or something.
It's a success story, about a young kid making good despite the incredible odds stacked against him.
Not unlike the candyass king.
"Congratulations, dad!"
What about the brainwashing of liberal public school indoctrination, from secular humanists and greedy union types -
yeah those damn secular humaists taught me to care about my fellow human no matter what color or creed - WTF were they thinking? we didn't have too many union guys in my elementary school or high school...
are you a parody of a parody? or just a fucking moron? [not rhetorical]
I thought that was the explicit goal of vouchers.
Evacuee | 03.21.06 - 10:48 pm |
Vouchers take money and children (and therefore more money) away from public schools. It is comparalbe to other privatization scams: do nothing about the real problems facing the public version, so it gets worse, then make it easy for people to flee to an inferior but more profitable alternative that does nothing for large swaths of the population.
do you think liberals should be put in camps , Freedom never falters?
olexicon,Sir Humpty | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 10:52 pm | #
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Yes, for their own protection. Once the next attack comes, patriots will be going door to door rooting out the liberal traitors who defended terrorists and attacked our President.
BTW, if you want to let the Post know what you think of Young Ben, here's your chance!
As per usual, Young Ben's "blog" doesn't allow comments.
Once the next attack comes, patriots will be going door to door rooting out the liberal traitors who defended terrorists and attacked our President.
Make sure you knock on my door, you pustulent little pissant.
24 year olds that graduate from the
Ivy League get to fondle my balls
all the time. It's only fair!!!!
The Washington Post hired a home-schooled creationist who encourages Al Gore to "suck it."
Where do I subscribe??
Yes, for their own protection. Once the next attack comes, patriots will be going door to door rooting out the liberal traitors who defended terrorists and attacked our President.
Freedom Never Falters
like hitler put the jews in camps for "their own protectioN'?
Um, the anti-homeschooler bias here is pretty breathtaking. Especially since it all seems based on presumptions of what homeschoolers are like. We homeschool our boys; the 7 year old reads at a 5th grade level and I'm teaching the 10 year old algebra. We take advantage of the freedom of scheduling we have to expose the boys to as wide a range of experiences as we can afford (time and money) to.
Yes, I know there are a lot of right-wing Christian homeschoolers, but the only word for what I've seen in these comments is "bigotry". People homeschool for a lot of different reasons, and the families that homeschool are as varied as those that don't.
Admittedly the public school system sucks. Only because there is no desire to see it succede from those that would fund it. I really have no idea why the government has decided that public schools should be phased out.
I don't really care to hear the conspiracy theories that abound about how the right wants to do away with black education or what not. I really don't see what the motivation is. oo many people left and right rely on the public school system. To tear it down like the bush party is in the process of only denigrates all of society.
A column at a major newspaper should be earned by someone with some skill and experience.
Not some fucking little twit who probably is still a fucking virgin.
fourlegsgood | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 10:52 pm | #
Not to worry!
Unmarried fundie boys play a little-known fundie game called Work the Nail into the Urethra.
Loads of fun.
Evenin'
After listening to this, I don't believe that I've ever heard a performance of RhapsodyIB that sounded this good. The more modern interpretations of this piece sound slow and wooden.
Doug, | 03.21.06 - 10:39 pm | #
I can't believe I've never known about this one before. Thanks.
SHUT DOWN THE PUBLIC SQUARE AND SEND OUT FOR DOMINOS - SMELL THE TOPPLING BABY ITS THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRITY
Merkin Patriot
wtf? 
LENNONIST DOGMA
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As in, Instant Karma Gonna Get You?
And you wonder why we are abandoning the money pits known as public schools en masse?
Hey, take your brain damaged little rug rats and fucking go.
No one will miss you.
Freedom Never falter's sounds belarussian
little bennies
i want some of what ever Atrios is taking.
i have freinds who home schooled, they aren't religious nuts, but had some of the same concerns. overall, bad idea.
Yes, for their own protection. Once the next attack comes, patriots will be going door to door rooting out the liberal traitors who defended terrorists and attacked our President.
Freedom Never Falters
Sounds like Kristallnachtto me. You give Freedom a bad name.
Unmarried fundie boys play a little-known fundie game called Work the Nail into the Urethra.
Oh, gah.
Mike Jones--you are the exception, not the rule. Clearly, you're intelligent and capable. Unfortunately, I don't find this to be the case of most parents who homeschool.
For the record, 5 years in Juvie, 11 years in public schools, 12 at the university level. I think I know whereof I speak.
True patriots would be wondering how the President failed them...
Dear everyone making blanket statements about home schooling,
You are fucking ignorant.
Carry on.
Wow. It doesn't sound like many commenters here know any homeschoolers. Nor do you guys know much about homeschooling.
Homeschooling is not just for right-wing fundamentalist fruitloops and it never has been. My homeschooling friends are the farthest thing from Republicans. They all hate Bush with the heat of a thousand flamewars.
Rightwing fruitloops are fruitloopian no matter where their kids go to school.
Lord knows Our President is too weak to withstand a verbal "attack," so Freedom Never Falters and his pals really ought to call out the troops to protect the weeping Fautleroy before he soils himself.
Again.
Like he did in the schoolroom.
Recent research is showing that even poor kids with academic credentials and scholarships still have lower graduation rates.
I would imagine even those who graduate fair worse in the labor market over a lifetime.
Being (relatively) poor does far reaching psychological damage.
my homeschooled students are just plain stupid. can't understand the concepts, can't do anything if it hasn't been rote drilled into their tiny little brainpans. and their writing, it is just horrid sentence fragments ful of passive voice problems, comma erros up the wazoo, and a generally limited (retarded would be the less kind descriptor) vocabulary.
but as the troll said, as long as they pay their propert taxes these kids are just that much less interference for the education the normal kids get from overworked teachers in the public schools.
You give Freedom a bad name.
Gary Queen of Scots
a great Bon Jovi song
Freedom Never Falters = Soaring Patriotic Eagle
Lame, unfunny parodies.
Please don't engage.
And of course, as usual, Young Ben is all gung-ho about the war in Iraq, but at 24, is apparently way too old to even think about enlisting...
Once the next attack comes, patriots will be going door to door rooting out the liberal traitors who defended terrorists and attacked our President.
Is this before or after they crap their pants?
Um, the anti-homeschooler bias here is pretty breathtaking
Hey, this is America, and we are all
free to believe any cockamamie thing
we want.
I personally believe the homeschool movement,
no matter how well intentioned you may
be personally, is pernicious on a zillion
levels.
Deal.
You can always tell when I'm here because I'm a pathetic loser who namesteals trolls yet who claims to ignore trolls.
Can someone fuck me up the ass now?
Yes, I know there are a lot of right-wing Christian homeschoolers, but the only word for what I've seen in these comments is "bigotry". People homeschool for a lot of different reasons, and the families that homeschool are as varied as those that don't.
Mike Jones
i know a homeschooler. while i question the lack of social interaction her children recieve I know they take many classes in the community as 'extra curricular' learning venues.
And they are wonderful children being raised with progressive values.
And of course, as usual, Young Ben is all gung-ho about the war in Iraq, but at 24, is apparently way too old to even think about enlisting...
He found a "better" way to serve his cuntry.
Um, the anti-homeschooler bias here is pretty breathtaking.
Gee. Sounds like there are an awful lot of first time commenters here who just "happen" to successfully homeschool.
What are the odds?
"Been watching O'Reilly again? I swear, the crazier that man becomes, the more sense he makes to y'all."
Funny you should say that, 'cos I've noticed that O'Reilley's position within the war-monger peloton seems to have altered in recent months. It used to be that he was always near the front, leading the spittle-laced vitriole-charge of the wingnuts. But these days, as evermore of the less-insane-and-stupid bush-enablers have woken up and jumped ship, O'reilly's rhetoric has gotten left behind by the sheer insightless cruelty of the handful of truly insane and vicious thugs that remain, oblivious.
Ironically now, it seems he has to play catch-up to the "hard" core of delusional brownshirts like cog, who see him as too moderate and reasonable!
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Cardinal Fang--as university professors, we have to live with the results of homeschooling. It's not encouraging.
Britney Spears was home schooled.
Freedom Never Falters = Soaring Patriotic Eagle
ahhh, but of course! thanks for the spot Buzz Bomb - will comply.
Sallyh -- What level classroom? What percentage of homeschoolers? I don't know the answers, since each family and child are different. I do know that there are many students in public or private schools that don't learn what I would think they should and that at least some homeschoolers do very well.
Homeschooling is regulated on the state level and here in NY we have to do a fair amount of reporting and testing. Not that I think that tests necessarily prove anything. In some states there is no regulation.
So far my son has been successful when he has done outside courses and on SAT's and AP tests, but I suppose you could argue that he'd be doing better if he was going to school. Who knows? You can't go back and try a different way.
Dear everyone making blanket statements about home schooling...
Of course, home schooling advocates never make blanket statements about public school students.
There's idiots everywhere. Both systems turn out their share of morons. The percentages just seem higher amongst the home-schooled crowd because of the idiocy of most of the parents involved.
Smalfish, the public schools are doing the best they can with what we are given. They suck? Bullshit. Children in my charge have their reading scores elevated by an average of 2.5 years in the nine months I teach them. Some are much much greater.
The problem is not with the schools it is with the damned expectations of what we can and cannot do. Schools are the first and best choice for ANYONE with a social idea to promote. Whether it is the non-bullying bullshit to the creationists: they all target the schools.
In my twenty years as a teacher no one has bothered asking me what I want and need to do my job better. Someone (politicians, parents, outside experts, and administrations) always tells US how to our damned jobs.
Best solution is to leave the teachers to teach what is necessary and support them as much as possible. A pipe dream I guess.
I lack social interaction and look how well I do!
Want a bumpersticker?
Poor kids with great academic credentials
should not get the same breaks as rich
kids because they'll be very depressed.
Let's just eat them.
"... anti-home schooling bias"
I also have an anti-tards-in-the-White House bias.
I guess it's like profiling or something, and therefore somehow wrong.
That music is called literature and poetry yet in public schools, more and more reason to leave the cesspool of moral relativist and multi-cult "anything goes" behind.
Freedom Never Falters
You really need to read John Derbyshire on Bush-as-multiculturalist.
Plus, he attacks all those difficult jargon words like "texts." I think you'd find that his idiocy broadens and implements your own.
Gee. Sounds like there are an awful lot of first time commenters here who just "happen" to successfully homeschool.
What are the odds?
We'd have to ask a genius like Ben Domenech who understands that the probability of a rectum evolving is so low that Jesus must have risen from the dead.
I don't care if people homeschool, but criticizing it isn't "bigotry."
I just put this out there for information. I didn't go dumpster diving or pull up his myspace account (I actually think we need a more complex understanding of what "personal privacy" means when it comes to the internet). His parents decided this should be on CNN. No one shoved cameras down their necks.
Add ben to the wanker-of-the-day watchlist.
My homeschooling friends are the farthest thing from Republicans.
Same goes.
SHUT DOWN THE PUBLIC SQUARE AND SEND OUT FOR DOMINOS - SMELL THE TOPPLING BABY ITS THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRITY
Merkin Patriot
Unless you can come up with parody this good, please stop clogging the threads with your "imtitations" of trolls. At least go to open mic night at your local comedy club, where the people who are subjected to your lame attempts at humor can actually retaliate by throwing sharp and heavy objects at you.
Vouchers take money and children (and therefore more money) away from public schools. It is comparalbe to other privatization scams: do nothing about the real problems facing the public version, so it gets worse, then make it easy for people to flee to an inferior but more profitable alternative that does nothing for large swaths of the population.
kei & yuri
but, you see this is part of the right-wings goal. Eliminate free education, you have a permanent underclass who will work for minimum wage or less, thus allowing those who can afford an education to profit from the slave like labor pool that is left.
There is a genuine desire by the elitist right to return to the days of the robber barons.
'night, all
No one should cameras down their necks.
Word.
What are the odds?
maybe Bill Bennett knows?
Gee. Sounds like there are an awful lot of first time commenters here who just "happen" to successfully homeschool.
What are the odds?
fourlegsgood
The same one-man band that was defending gang-rape a few threads down, would be my guess.
I spelled imitations "imtitations." That was a typo, but at least it contains the word "tit."
oops. maked that shoved.
Yes, for their own protection. Once the next attack comes, patriots will be going door to door rooting out the liberal traitors who defended terrorists and attacked our President.
Freedom Never Falters
and they will be getting shot in the face, by TRUE patriots. i'm sure you'll understand.
I've known people who homeschool for a variety of reasons. Every year that my kids get bitchslapped by No Child Left Unscrewed makes me seriously consider homeschooling, so that they might ENJOY learning. I've got several degrees and I know my limitations-I also teach Montessori and I've taught at every level from Elementary to Jr. College. I could do it and do it sucessfully.
I don't...yet, for several reasons.
1. Thus far they have had at least one teacher every year who is managing to convey a little wonder and excitement in their subject to my kids, in spite of the assinine stupidass test prep.
2. My kids learn a lot from me already. I consider it my role as their parent to teach them by example, to encourage them to question and doubt, and to share my pleasure at finding out somehting I didn't know. I am doing ok in giving them an ethical foundation and the tools and freedom with which to question it. I don't beleive I would be as sucessful at imparting academics to them, and I don't want to jeopardize this aspect of our relationship.
3. I can't afford to. It IS a full time job.
If things do not change in this country, there may be a time when the only way to receive an education that is not targeted at producing thouroughly indoctrinated drones will be to teach outside of the public education system.
Britney Spears was home schooled.
Stunt Woman | 03.21.06 - 10:59 pm | #
What a shock.
And yet, she grew up on the mean
streets of the Mickey Mouse Club.
Unless you can come up with parody this good, please stop clogging the threads with your "imtitations" of trolls. At least go to open mic night at your local comedy club, where the people who are subjected to your lame attempts at humor can actually retaliate by throwing sharp and heavy objects at you.
Buzz Bomb
thanks jerry lewis
I would think that the results from homeschooling depend greatly on the parents. If the parents are well educated themselves they are likely to do well, assuming that they can exert the discipline needed to keep the children learning. And given the small size of the class this kind of education can be far superior to group classes. It may also be best for certain children who'd do poorly in groups.
On the other hand, the majority of parents are not qualified to teach, and when a family has, say, five children under ten, it's hard to see how one parent can do it adequately. There are also the problems with socialization and the brainwashing idea that some touched upon. Plus it's a very expensive way of educating children compared to schools as every parent doing it loses whatever earnings he or she would have.
Do those posters who support homeschooling disagree that indocrtination is a potential problem that homeschool parents must guard against? Or that some parents use homeschooling specifically to indoctrinate their kids in one way or another?
Because, as far as I can see, that is all that's being said against it.
.
Do those posters who support homeschooling disagree that indocrtination is a potential problem that homeschool parents must guard against? Or that some parents use homeschooling specifically to indoctrinate their kids in one way or another?
Because, as far as I can see, that is all that's being said against it.
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The problem is not with the schools it is with the damned expectations of what we can and cannot do. Schools are the first and best choice for ANYONE with a social idea to promote.
Yeah. Any clear-eyed look at the history of American public education will show that it works perfectly. You just have to get that it is primarily a playground for adults to fight over their political fantasies, and only secondarily a way of giving knowledge to children.
There is a genuine desire by the elitist right to return to the days of the robber barons.
David (Austin Tx)
We are already there.
And yet, she grew up on the mean
streets of the Mickey Mouse Club.
steve simels
lmao. very excellent simels
And yet, she grew up on the mean
streets of the Mickey Mouse Club.
The horror!!
You want democracy? Provide high quality public education for all. You won't have it with homeschooling.
There is a genuine desire by the elitist right to return to the days of the robber
barons.
David (Austin Tx) | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 11:01 pm | #
And schmucks like George F Will are
totally explicit about this. The say
it publically with no sense of shame.
i heard a funny commercial
this guy is booking a 'convention' at a hotel
for his 'graduating class'
but it turns out he was 'home schooled'
so he only needs rooms
for himself and 'mom'
steve--thanks again for the link. What joy there is in that music. Tuesday night is my big night: my friend makes supper for my family (meat!) and I bring a bottle of wine (tonight was a delicious zin). And he also shared some Count Basie vinyl that he picked up at the dump. My girls and I did some fine dancing!
Some people may be qualified to teach their kids.
I don't believe most parents are.
We despise hate speech laws perhaps irrationally because the overwhelming majority of serious hate speech proposals come from fucking indefensible crimnal liars who want to invalidate legitimate criticism as bigotry. We heard that trope so long from the likes of Jeff Sessions claiming that being pro-choice is actually a hateful anti-Catholic position that when a smart, reasonable guy like David Neiwert tries schilling for hate speech laws (because God knows neo-Nazism won't exist if you persecute it) we have no patience for it.
I don't think anything's wrong with homeschooling per se. I think the culture of homeschooling born out of paranoia and anti-modernity is a problem...but being as that's pretty much a fundie/conservatarian maneuver, I see it as a grain of sand in the desert of their worthlessness.
Tangential.
I have a question: Given that tests are required at so many levels of education (not sure if they're the same in all states, so I'm being vague), why aren't any of those tests at the high school level linked to college admission?
This really pisses me off. Of all the writers in the world they give a column to this little twit?
My tinfoil hat says word must have come down from above, perhaps over poker, or out at the links, or down at The Club over brandy & stinkbombs. This jerk is qualified to park my car, and that's about it. That's not the worst, though; he lies, and never feses up. That's what sucks. If it weren't for nepotism, people like this would be "Can I have your order please?"
And I'd be going "I want a cheeseburger! And a Large Orange Drink! Drink! Ahhhhhhhh!!!"
I see it as a grain of sand in the desert of their worthlessness.
I think I'll sew a sampler of this quote and frame it above the mantle.
Some people may be qualified to teach their kids.
I don't believe most parents are.
Most adults aren't qualified to be good parents. Should we have mass sterilizations?
BENJAMIN DOMENECH: My mom really does make sure we learn something. I mean, you can't just go halfway.
Domenech went all the way with his mom.
how very very very special.
why aren't any of those tests at the high school level linked to college admission?
Evacuee
Or better yet, to being president?
They suck? Bullshit.
Let me clarify. Public schools only suck because they are severely underfunded. Teachers having to buy thier own supplies to make the lessons work. Class sizes way over the limits of what one person can really and properly handle. Room sizes altogether too small. On and on I could go. But the public school system makes do with what it has and does it as well as can be expected.
It could be MUCH better. If only the right would stop their blatant attacks on education, and start properly funding them and get onboard. Lets do away with all the other types of schooling ideas and concentrate on making what we have work to it's fullest extent.
Back to idiot young Ben.
He is an idiot.
Most adults aren't qualified to be good parents. Should we have mass sterilizations?
Why that's an excellent idea!!
Thanks for proposing that.
There is a genuine desire by the elitist right to return to the days of the robber
barons.
David (Austin Tx) | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 11:01 pm | #
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I call it a return to personal responsibility.
My family has just gotten on the school bus: my oldest is in kindergarten. And I thought about homeschooling because here in my town, the families who home school are of the Mike Jones variety: intelligent people who share my values. I want to support public school because I want to support the ideal, but at the same time, I am afraid of my children being ginnea pigs in the how-bad-can-public-school-get-before-we-call-it-
military experiment.
Most adults aren't qualified to be good parents. Should we have mass sterilizations?
No. But we should protect kids from mental and physical abuse by unfit parents.
Should we have mass sterilizations?
Bill | 03.21.06 - 11:08 pm | #
Yes?
As a matter of fact, something did crawl up my ass and die.
There is a genuine desire by the elitist right to return to the days of the robber
barons.
David (Austin Tx) | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 11:01 pm | #
--
I call it a return to personal responsibility.
How is the world of robber barons about personal responsibility?
Let me clarify. Public schools only suck because they are severely underfunded.
Because their funding is local. If the people in the district have money, the school has money. If they don't, it don't.
You want democracy? Provide high quality public education for all. You won't have it with homeschooling.
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere
this is the thing. some people can do homeschooling, and do it well. most can not.
i'd have to look into little bennie a bit more, but i'd bet at the least he's steeped in religious bigotry and right wing extremism. however homeschooling started, it's certainly a tool of the ricky dog on man's of the day.
if you can provide, do so, but recognize it's dangers.
Why that's an excellent idea!!
Thanks for proposing that
Really? What are going to be the standards and how will it be enforced?
More importantly, which chickenshit politicians will push for it?
As a matter of fact, something did crawl up my ass and die.
jack | 03.21.06 - 11:10 pm |
Try luring it out with your face.
fourlegsgood--Gee. Sounds like there are an awful lot of first time commenters here who just "happen" to successfully homeschool.
What are the odds?
There were only 2. Perhaps I was inspired to comment because I feel strongly and it is an issue that I don't think my point of view will be represented here if I don't.
Also, yes, choose. They are 15 and 17, but its always been their choice.
You want to address social injustice?
Guarantee an income for the legacy poor.
Brilliant Daily Show! That montage was fantabulous!
I call it a return to personal responsibility.
Freedom Never Falters | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 11:10 pm |
Would you please just blow me already,
okay?
By which I mean, as you know,
again.
And then take personal responsibility
for it.
Thank you for your diligence in this
regard.
I call it a return to personal responsibility.
Freedom Never Falters
The link to Fox News as its homepage is the giveaway that it's a parody. It's always that or Free Republic or some other popular conservative site, never a personal site or blog.
Drive-by--Awaiting The Daily Show with some dreadful cartoon on, I just saw an ad for The Godfather: The Game.
The game had a CGI Brando narrating, and apparently involves lots of fistfights and multi-car crashes. The ad also used both the Godather logo and The Godfather Waltz, so someone (Who?!?) sold them lotsa rights.
Personally, I'm waiting for Camille The Game ot Last Year at Marienbad: The Game.
Daily Show on--I'll catch up on the Domenech family sage later
Because their funding is local. If the people in the district have money, the school has money. If they don't, it don't.
To me that is the tragedy of our society- the type of education you get depends on what neighborhood you are born in.
That's just not right.
Would the person pretending to be jack please restore his/her normal screen name?
annieangel is my lover
How is the world of robber barons about personal responsibility?
they take it as their personal repsonsibility to screw as many people out of as much money as they can, pollute the air and water as much as they can get away with, and play their paid servants in Congress like fiddles to get as much welfare and protection as they can.
for them, it's personal.
Personally, I'm waiting for Camille The Game ot Last Year at Marienbad: The Game.
I liked when Simpsons had a My Dinner With Andre videogame.
"...a fucking virgin."
fourlegsgood
OK, I only had a public school education, but how is this even possible?
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Home schooling by the rich does not necessarily mean the parents are the teachers. I have a few customers who have their kids "homeschooled" by a private tutor. All the kids I have seen in this environmnet have been wildly spoiled.
jack was homeschooled by a colony of bacteria.
oops. maked that shoved.
NO FLIRTING.
That montage was an example of why the Daily Show, at its best, is superior to any television news source out there.
both my parents were college educated, god forbid they should have been responsible for my education.
To me that is the tragedy of our society- the type of education you get depends on what neighborhood you are born in.
That's just not right.
Ah, but if you equalize it, some of those uppity poor people might start making more money, and that would totally fuck up the natural order of things.
Really? What are going to be the standards and how will it be enforced?
Eli and I shall choose.
We're fair.
And then take personal responsibility
for it.
So what does that involve? Clean-up with a warm washcloth?
I liked when Simpsons had a My Dinner With Andre videogame.
Eli | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 11:13 pm |
Tell us more.
I call it a return to personal responsibility.
Freedom Never Falters
Yeah, that's what I miss about the days of the Robber Barons. Jay Gould could teach us all a lot about personal responsibility.
The New York Times has an editorial slamming the Administration for their:
accommodation of the mining industry — notably by packing the mine safety agencies with pro-management appointees — has produced a marked decline in major fines for negligent companies. A recent data analysis by The Times documented a risky, business-friendly downturn in penalties since 2001.
Sadly, the professional journalists at the Times couldn't so the five minutes of research that would have told them that - with the exception of an outlier to date this year - deaths under the Bush Administration are significantly lower than those under pro-labor Clinton.
Home schooling by the rich does not necessarily mean the parents are the teachers. I have a few customers who have their kids "homeschooled" by a private tutor. All the kids I have seen in this environmnet have been wildly spoiled.
DO they read a lot of Jane Austen novels?
I went to private school. my parents could afford it.
Would the person pretending to be jack please restore his/her normal screen
name?
Evacuee | 03.21.06 - 11:13 pm | #
For a change, it's not me. Although
it was way upthread. I think.
At least occasionally.
It
was so long ago...
nice kittens today 4LG, want to see another one?
http://www.dailykitten.com/
Home schooling by the rich does not necessarily mean the parents are the teachers. I have a few customers who have their kids "homeschooled" by a private tutor. All the kids I have seen in this environmnet have been wildly spoiled.
Um, is this because of the tutor, or the fact that their parents can *afford* a tutor?
The free market guarantees each man is paid according to his marginal moral contribution.
A good man is a rich man, a poor man evil.
What the fuck is up with this kid's hair?
I'm concerned about the idea of homeschooling in this country largely because the threads that bind people to the country are already more frayed here than in other places I've lived, and the less shared upbringing people have the more those threads will fray.
Jon Stewart just had a great piece up on Bush's "STUMPED SPEECH" - taking clips from speeches over the years -very funny!!
Young republicans shit old republicans nearly as much as they shit everyone else. Republicans are old assholes, who only like other old assholes.
My uncle, a surprisingluy likeable conservative curmudgeon, says that these smarmy,entitled little pastel-sweater-wearing frat assholes revolt him. Real republicans, he'd say, don't whine, they work.
The only exceptions to this general rule are the young, creepy monied republicans like Bush was and Benny is, who are being groomed for a political tilt.
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I was the Anonymous at 11:13. I'm not the real Anonymous
Last Year at Marienbad: The Game.
You mean that one with the sticks?
Tell us more.
I think its very existence was the sum total of the gag, actually.
It was good enough for me...
jack is a very common name. there could easily be more than one.
I call it a return to personal responsibility.
Freedom Never Falters
The link to Fox News as its homepage is the giveaway that it's a parody. It's always that or Free Republic or some other popular conservative site, never a personal site or blog.
jack | 03.21.06 - 11:12 pm | #
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Shut up you stupid liberal.
nice kittens today 4LG, want to see another one?
Always!
And then take personal responsibility
for it.
So what does that involve? Clean-up with a warm washcloth?
dave™© | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 11:15 pm | #
LOL!!!!!!!
with the exception of an outlier to date this year - deaths under the Bush Administration are significantly lower than those under pro-labor Clinton.
nyt sucks | 03.21.06 - 11:15 pm | #
That's a pretty significant outlier. Shall we ignore it? Yes, let's.
What are the odds?
maybe Bill Bennett knows?
Mrs. Ibrahim al-jaafari
If bennett gave a fat flying fuck about odds, he wouldn't be in Vegas, jerking the One Armed Bandit. He'd be at home, waxing the One Eyed Weasel, 'cause that one always pays off...
I'm concerned about the idea of homeschooling in this country largely because the threads that bind people to the country are already more frayed here than in other places I've lived, and the less shared upbringing people have the more those threads will fray.
Echidne of the snakes | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 11:16 pm | #
Yes.
"I went to private school. my parents could afford it."
I bet they wish they could have afforded boarding school. In Mexico.
.
Either make the rich disguise the fact that they are rich,
or keep rich and poor segregated.
I AM SPARTAJACK!!!
I'm no liberal, that's another jack
If you liked that, you're gonna love this. Check out the picture of Ben as a Union soldier.
I went to private school. my parents could afford it.
jack
They should ask for their money back.
jack is a very common name. there could easily be more than one.
jack | 03.21.06 - 11:16 pm | #
By my count, there may have been
at least five different jacks over
the last week or so.....
It was good enough for me...
Eli
I think they were looking for a trenchant insight, or bon mot...
deaths under the Bush Administration are significantly lower than those under pro-labor Clinton.
Link or lie, sport.
LOL!!!!!!!
Thank you... you're a lovely audience... I'll be here all week!
Shut up you stupid liberal.
Freedom Never Falters
You'll be among the first up against the wall, when the time comes.
Radiohead star Thom Yorke has revealed that he turned down a meeting with the prime minister to discuss climate change.
The singer was asked to visit Downing Street by campaigners last September, in his role as ambassador for environmental group Friends of the Earth.
But he dismissed Tony Blair as a man with "no environmental credentials" and said dealing with Labour spin doctors had made him feel ill.
Explaining why the meeting did not come off, the singer told New Musical Express: "Initially when it came up I tried to be pragmatic. But Blair has no environmental credentials as far as I'm concerned. I came out of that whole period just thinking, I don't want to get involved directly, it's poison. I'll just shout my mouth off from the sidelines."
I'm concerned about the idea of homeschooling in this country largely because the threads that bind people to the country are already more frayed here than in other places I've lived, and the less shared upbringing people have the more those threads will fray.
I'm concerned about it because education is one of the most important things there is, and homeschooling increases the odds of putting it in the hands of someone unqualified and/or with a completely skewed worldview, which the kids will become completely indoctrinated with.
Not saying all homeschoolers are unqualified, just that the ones who are are a menace.
I think they were looking for a trenchant insight, or bon mot...
I got nothin'.
Most blacks prefer historically black colleges.
What we need are historically poor colleges.
I always thought if I'd gone to private school my life would be a lot easier.
Newt Gingrich thinks things are good
in Afghanistan?
Oh lordy....what a schween.
Remember: that dumb putz couldn't even
get tenure at the jerkwater college
he taught at.
Homeschooling = child abuse
End of Story
I'm not a first time commenter here. I don't comment often, but I'm a regular reader.
While rightwing fundamentalist loons and their loathesome organization HSLDA (Homeschool Legal Defense Association) pretend that only rightwing "Christians" homeschool, they are lying. Don't believe their propaganda. Stop tarring all of us with their brush. The best guess is that half of homeschoolers are "Christians" and the other half are normal people.
That, too, Eli. The only home-schooler I know is in my extended family. She has five children under ten and she herself never finished high school. The kids are not learning, except religion.
I'll be here all week! And next week! And the week after that!
I'll be buried with a laptop in my coffin. I'll write a program to go "brownshirt fuck" and "Zzzzz" every five minutes. You'll never realize I'm actually dead!
Want a coffee mug?
Criticizing homeschooling isn't "bigotry." Talking about how all homeschoolers are loony is.
I support public schools. I vote for school budgets even though my family doesn't directly benefit. I've had friends with kids in school who voted against the budget because they thought the teachers are paid too much when I was voting for it.
Bill O'Reilly just said "I'm a
historian."
And I agree with him, because I'm a
psychiatrist.
Um, is this because of the tutor, or the fact that their parents can *afford* a tutor?
From what I've witnessed, it has been that the male of the family makes oodles of moneies, the mother spends the days shoe shopping and the kids get lessonised, for short periods of time. The remainder is spent roaming the house in search of something to do with very little guidance or restrictions.
Homeschooling fits perfectly with american traditions of radical individualism.
all these jacks are cracking me up. whiskeyina's jack in particular.
That, too, Eli. The only home-schooler I know is in my extended family. She has five children under ten and she herself never finished high school. The kids are not learning, except religion.
Oh heavens.
homeschooling increases the odds of putting it in the hands of someone unqualified
Do you have any idea how stupid the average publlic school teacher is?
I don't get the joke.
don't forget me
But he dismissed Tony Blair as a man with "no environmental credentials" and said dealing with Labour spin doctors had made him feel ill.
Sounds about right to me. Maybe Bono should hire him as a consultant. And voice teacher.
You know, I really must apologize for my stalker... he's a product of home-schooling.
annieangel is my lover
jack | 03.21.06 - 11:13 pm | #
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In your damp little dreams, Richard.
From what I've witnessed, it has been that the male of the family makes oodles of moneies, the mother spends the days shoe shopping and the kids get lessonised, for short periods of time. The remainder is spent roaming the house in search of something to do with very little guidance or restrictions.
Yeah, the tutor's not the problem; the tutor's another symptom.
You'll be among the first up against the wall, when the time comes.
jack
Jefferson Airplane?
Muther Fucker.
.
I support public roads. I vote for road budgets even though my family doesn't directly benefit. I've had friends with kids using the roads who voted against the budget because they thought the roadcrews are paid too much when I was voting for it.
Bill O'Reilly just said "I'm a
historian."
He's also been in combat.
"Homeschooling = child abuse
End of Story"
Ah, proving once again that the only thing republicans have left in their tank is to deliberately mis-represent the position of those who disagree with them.
Thanks for showing your hand, sissie.
.
Public schoolteachers are very often the product of extreme Leftist indoctrination: Whitey is The Problem, see.
That's one reason why I left the profession.
Child abuse = lots of fun!!!!!
End of story!!!!!!
ooh! shoe shopping!
jack is a very common name. there could easily be more than one.
jack
This does not matter you are all jack offs.
I support public roads. I vote for road budgets even though my family doesn't directly benefit. I've had friends with kids using the roads who voted against the budget because they thought the roadcrews are paid too much when I was voting for it.
LOL.
Sacre bleu! Un liberale l'Americains, they are, how you say, tres stupide!
I'm concerned about the idea of homeschooling in this country largely because the threads that bind people to the country are already more frayed here than in other places I've lived, and the less shared upbringing people have the more those threads will fray.
That's the whole point with this WaPo kid. He is a hothouse flower, whose whole shtick is that he represents the "real America." It's a load of crap.
I have to make an apology for my knee-jerk hyperbole. As I have no life, the notion that I have a stalker makes me feel important.
How about a t-shirt? Everyone needs clothes, right?
Sucky for $5? Anything?
No, I'm the REAL jack. And you all know it!
And I agree with him, because I'm a
psychiatrist.
steve simels
I agree with him because he's the modern St. John Chrysostom of shrieking-head opinion-mongering.
oh god, the Austin Nazi is here.
smelling annieanal is bad enough, but Our Eugenecist Friend is one worm too many.
Do you have any idea how stupid the average publlic school teacher is?
Bill
I had a whole bunch of them growing up. Most of them were really smart. Sure, there were a few bad ones, but they never lasted long.
Bill O'Reilly is emphatically not an historian.
That's the whole point with this WaPo kid. He is a hothouse flower, whose whole shtick is that he represents the "real America." It's a load of crap.
Maybe living in a bubble *is* the real America now.
That's one reason why I left the profession.
Well, we certainly know it wasn't to enlist.
Little punk-ass chickenhawk that you are.
Jack is the declarative sentence troll.
all these jacks are cracking me up. whiskeyina's jack in particular.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-jaafari | 03.21.06 - 11:22 pm | #
Huh? Wha?
Ah, the Little Sociopath(TM) is
here.
Hey Tobes -- what did you think
of Bush's Freudian slip today?
You know, when he admitted that this
war in Iraq
will never end in our lifetime?
I'm telling you, that George is
a foreign policy genius!!!!!!
I call it a return to personal responsibility.
Freedom Never Falters
So why are you letting us hold you back? Move into a cave somewhere and make your own clothes out of buckskin and tree fibers or whatever.
Me, I like being part of my American community. I like driving on American roads and drinking American water from my tap. I like my American Internet and my American chocolate-covered peanut butter-filled pretzels (salted) and my fairly traded coffee (brokered by forward-thinking Americans).
You don't want to pay taxes for social services? Don't make any money and don't buy anything. But stay off our American roads, if you please.
ooh! shoe shopping!
jack
where?
This whole thread seems like it was homeschooled...
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That's one reason why I left the profession.
Oh gross. Keeping Toby the fuck away from kids is a public good.
Fuck off with your Jew hating.
BTW, I can't wait for Gilliard to sink his teeth into Young Ben's jugular...
He is a hothouse flower, whose whole shtick is that he represents the "real America." It's a load of crap.
You know what kind of flower he is?
That one in London that smells like a rotting corpse.
joycamp | 03.21.06 - 11:27 pm | #
Don't drink the water!
Well the WaPo makes lots of smart decisions. Here is tomorrow's lead editorial:
PRESIDENT BUSH should hold more news conferences. In his hour-long exchange with reporters at the White House yesterday, he was considerably more effective in explaining...
I don't know what channel Fred Hiatt was watching....
That's the whole point with this WaPo kid. He is a hothouse flower, whose whole shtick is that he represents the "real America." It's a load of crap.
Yes. Do you think he has any experience in debating at all? I doubt it.
Liberty University has the best debating team in the country.
I can't wait for someone smarter than me to actually take this guy to task. All I have in my arsenal are weak-ass novelties and about 5 different pat phrases.
Someone please shoot me.
You know what kind of flower he is?
What my mother would have called a "fart blossom"...
too fuckin' weird!
this is the new bush propoganda strategy: just freak people out.
I hear that CNN will no longer be swinging on the Gallup Poll.
I've been trying to remember what this WaPo hire reminds me of...
Has anyone read any of Degenerate Ben's "blog posts" yet?
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I don't know what channel Fred Hiatt was watching....
Hiatt can come over here and fucking jump on my razor sharp pitchfork.
Let's see. The Little Sociopath(TM)
supports torture, advocates burning
dogs, and is for the death penalty
even though innocent people get
convicted.
He's not on fire, so can we all just
piss on him?
Thersites, you are a liar. I do not hate Jews. You do.
Well the WaPo makes lots of smart decisions. Here is tomorrow's lead editorial:
PRESIDENT BUSH should hold more news conferences. In his hour-long exchange with reporters at the White House yesterday, he was considerably more effective in explaining...
I don't know what channel Fred Hiatt was watching....
Every goddamn time. They're in a completely different reality. And it's not just WaPo, it's *everybody*.
Remember: that dumb putz couldn't even
get tenure at the jerkwater college
he taught at.
steve simels | 03.21.06 - 11:21 pm | #
Do you remember Gingrich's videotaped lecture series from that college? (Kennesaw State?--I haven't memorized his bio
He was trying to hawk them for outrageous price. You'd get such insight as women were unsuited for the army. Men are genetically programmed to be dirty and hunt giraffes, but women aren't.
I wanted Clinton to ban him from the National Zoo as a threat to the giraffes.
I love annieangle.
BTW, if you are interested in seeing the Spelling Bee Champ Rebecca Sealfon in action, keep an eye out for Cheap Seats on ESPN classic. They have devoted several episodes to the Spellling Bees of the mid-90s, including her year as champion.
I have no intention of reading any of Domenech posts or other machinations. The guy is clearly a freak.
I bet this guy got his sex education from his mom when he was 19 years old.
Tell me Ben, just how wet did you make your mom?
Ewwwwwwwwww!
MYOB'
.
Bob Jones University has the best
all-pro fondling my balls
team in the country.
That's one reason why I left the profession.
Toby Petzold
I thought it was the Scansion Police who tossed you out of academe.
Although I'm sure the barnyard stench didn't help, either. Pretyy hard for the kids to read their Westbrook Pegler when the offgassing from your musty old balls is making their eyes water.
Man, this reminds me of those salad days of the "Ted Smith"-troll...
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Every goddamn time. They're in a completely different reality. And it's not just WaPo, it's *everybody*.
I say let's call the whole thing off and move to France.
I'm tired of this shit.
richard=annieangel=jack.
i am jack's raging bile duct
The truth, you lying piece of shit, is that you have no character.
jack=steve simels=richard=annieangel.
Man, this reminds me of those salad days of the "Ted Smith"-troll...
What a tosser.
I thought it was the Scansion Police who tossed you out of academe.
Stalker!
I've taught a lot of products of homeschooling at the college level. Many are bright and friendly and industrious. A certain amount are rock stupid and horribly ignorant. About to the percentages of the general population of students, frankly. But they do have some issues with relating to different opinions. And a definite percentage have a palpable contempt for my profession because of what they have been taught about "professors," and that is really fucking obnoxious.
Hey Toby:
How's the war in Iraq going?
annieangel lets me do anal
"Thersites, you are a liar. I do not hate Jews. You do."
Oh touche'!
Heckuvajob, Petzold! Thers not comin' back from that. You are on fire.
.
I agree with Fred Hiatt that Bush should hold more press conferences. The more he holds, the faster his approval ratings will drop.
Well, I think it's about time for some animal cuteness.
Feingold on TDS tomorrow!
I say let's call the whole thing off and move to France.
Okay. I'll sign up for yard duty, but somebody else has to cook. We all do our own laundry. and I'd like to be within stumbling distance of a bar.
how come Dave gets two different stalkers in six months? what's he been doing on the Internets?
Thank you, Fourlegsgood!
Simels, why are youn using pseudonyms? It's childish bullshit. Like being a pussy who hides behind the name of Thersites.
4LG: saw it already...want more!
Wait wait. its too classic. So he's home schooled and [i] Then [/i] goes to college? You think that's the LAST place his parents would want him to go, you know the booze sex drugs...
The truth, you lying piece of shit, is that you have no character.
The truth hurts, doesn't it, you cowardly racist motherfucker you?
We have come across stupid teachers, but it's much easier to be a moron in a private school in some kind of humanities field (we have met some real airheads that way). A lot of public school teachers are not only brilliant but very dedicated, and have to be because of their position.
Don't forget to leave a note on the Post's blog since RedAmerka doesn't allow comments. Leave your (polite and courteous) thoughts here:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/
w...a.html#comments
The truth, you lying piece of shit, is that you have no character.
The truth is, if you had any character, you'd march right down to Dobie Mall tomorrow morning and enlist.
You'd put your ass on the line for the war you love so much.
...how come Dave gets two different stalkers in six months?
(Sticks tongue out!)
Here's how it works: Thersites doesn't know anything about Jewish culture, so when he hears someone refer to a shtetl, he thinks it's a dirty word. That's what it boils down to: ignorance.
Where'd you get your diploma at, liar?
Thank you, Fourlegsgood!
You're welcome.
we are so fucked.
good nite.
The only two homeschooling families I've known were one: 1) batshit crazy sorta libertarian quasi-fundies (I can't explain them any better, but lovely people) and 2) a family who had to pull their kid out of school cause of bullying. I don't know if it's Asberger's or whatever but the poor kid just can't fit in.
Kids are rotten. I know, I used to be one.
In public schools, the gym teacher teaches physics.
Hey Toby:
Did ya see Bush's press conference
today?
How cool was it that a frail old
lady kicked his ass?
What a frickin' coup for your side...
Looks like somoen pissed off the wanna be freinds trool.
jack evidently believes that self love is the greatest love of all.
annieangel lets me do anal
jack
How often do you get to wear the strap-on?
according to recently released memos from the Austin School District, it was Toady Petzold's failure to shower more than once a month that led to his dismissal, and not, I repeat NOT, his abberant behaviour with the anatomy classroom skeletons.
We have come across stupid teachers, but it's much easier to be a moron in a private school in some kind of humanities field (we have met some real airheads that way). A lot of public school teachers are not only brilliant but very dedicated, and have to be because of their position.
kei & yuri | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 11:36 pm | #
I can't address the typical private school teacher, but.... I attended private school, and many of the teachers had PhDs in their fields (which doesn't necessarily make them brilliant, I admit).
What? you mean "Toby"... "Pezold"... is your real name?
'splains a lot...
.
And a definite percentage have a palpable contempt for my profession because of what they have been taught about "professors," and that is really fucking obnoxious.
Thers, Paterfamilias
I disagree. I've heard of some of the crazy-ass things you people talk about, like "power relations" and "texts" and "discourse."
Take that shit back to France already. When you academics are willing to give Edward de Vere his due, I'll send my kid to your "schools." But that would mean giving a nobleman credit for being the greatest author of all times? And what would that do to Marxism?
(stay calm tc, we're addressing college rethug guys)
Talk about "values" and "character" betrays the femininity of the rightists. There are no values that outlast hard, penetrating facts.
In private schools, the gym teacher teaches sodomy.
WTF was that about Ed Sullivan and the plates???
Eli
Ooooh, I do,I do! |(Jeez, I'm old.)
There was someone on the Ed Sulllivan show waaaay back when who twirled three plates simultaneously on the ends of three sticks. We were easily entertained in those days, I tellzya.
Newt Gingrich, Phil Graham and Dick Armey all have PhDs. And the Shrubb has degrees from Harvard and Yale. Nobody knows how dumb a PhD can be till you go through grad school, IMHO
I stuck my tongue out but no one offered me their cock.
I am such a loser.
How about a mouse pad? Surely you need a mouse pad. It's got a funny picture of Bush on it.
In public schools, the gym teacher teaches physics
I would hope that would be the case. I don't want my child just being some kind of jock that runs square into brick walls without knowing the consequences of immovable object meeting irresistable force.
Talk about "values" and "character" betrays the femininity of the rightists. There are no values that outlast hard, penetrating facts.
NO FLIRTING.
Helen Thomas? That fucking tuber? Looks like something I could pull out of the ground and put some lipstick on. What a fucking Islamofascist sympathizer.
When you academics are willing to give Edward de Vere his due, I'll send my kid to your "schools."
Seriously though, I always thought that theory was plausible.
But what do I know? I went to public schools.
BTW, I vaguely remember the "other" stalker, but I'm pretty sure they're one and the same. The color gives it away (green)...
many of the teachers had PhDs in their fields
We went to a good public school and a lot of our teachers did too. This really doesn't take or add anything.
I do wish I could attract a somewhat higher calibre of stalker, however. This guy makes Brownshirt T look like Edmond Rostand...
What a fucking Islamofascist sympathizer.
Toby Petzold
No kidding. She's the type that would probably go around holding hands with members of the Saudi Royal Family.
The Colbert Report is getting better.
When Ben gets married not only will his wife be making him sam'iches they will need to be prepared just like mom makes them. Five'll get ya ten he favors big boobs and wears a white undershirt under everything. Oh, and a comb in his back pocket - complete with little white flecks.
Helen Thomas? That fucking tuber? Looks like something I could pull out of the ground and put some lipstick on. What a fucking Islamofascist sympathizer.
Toby Petzold
What a wanker for bothering to post this drivel.
"Islamofascist"? Helen Thomas? What the fuck does that mean?
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Off topic, or speaking of Ben Domenech....
Ben Domenech, 24 year old, should be the subject of two googlebombs by all bloggers.
The goal is to make the first google result for Ben be a link to goarmy.com, and the second google result for Ben be a link to Operation Yellow Elephant.
On odd days, bloggers mentioning Ben Domenech should googlebomb him with http://goarmy.com. On even days, bloggers mentioning Ben Domenech should googlebomb him with http://operationyellowelephant.b...t.blogspot.com/
Today is an odd day, so I have googlebombed him with http://goarmy.com
The truth hurts, doesn't it, you cowardly racist motherfucker you?
dave™©
Take a deep breath, or 3.
It's not worth it.
,
"Islamofascist"? Helen Thomas? What the fuck does that mean?
That she's a Muslim and wants to take away all our precious freedoms (which she hates).
Can't you read?
Oh, and a comb in his back pocket - complete with little white flecks.
Nits or dandruff?
I have a jack in my car.
No. Really.
Oh, and a comb in his back pocket - complete with little white flecks.
And a good tounge licking after every use!
When you academics are willing to give Edward de Vere his due, I'll send my kid to your "schools."
One of the funniest things I ever saw in politics was Pat Buchanan, Bill Bennett and the rest of the aging Hitler Youth working themselves up into a tizzy when a bunch of English programs were granting BAs to students who had never taken a course in Shakespeare, cause you just know at Heritage they spend a lot of time debating MacBeth and King Lear (my two favorites, plus maybe Richard III)/
bonsoir WalterNeff!
Toady P's repeated calls for eugenics-based final solutions, as well as his open contempt for "those people" clogging up Austin, along with his overall racism, misogyny, and Bush-worship, puts him firmly in the Troll Hall of Fame.
urinate upon at your own discretion.
Regarding odd and even days, are we using the Julian date, or what?
"Helen Thomas? That fucking tuber? Looks like something I could pull out of the ground and put some lipstick on."
Man you have some weird fantasies.
"What a fucking Islamofascist sympathizer."
When has she ever sympathised with "islamofascists"? She has her hands full twisting off the tiny nuts of the home-grown christo-fascists.
.
"Helen Thomas? That fucking tuber? Looks like something I could pull out of the ground and put some lipstick on."
Man you have some weird fantasies.
"What a fucking Islamofascist sympathizer."
When has she ever sympathised with "islamofascists"? She has her hands full twisting off the tiny nuts of the home-grown christo-fascists.
.
Quite a few parents of Asperger's kids take their children out of school and homeschool them. According to those parents (and I believe them) the schools don't do enough to protect their children from bullies.
Not all schools are like that. But some are, and if your child is in one of them, you have to do what you have to do to protect the kid.
Hey Toby:
Bill Buckley and George Will both
say the war is a disaster.
Are they Islamofascist sympathizers?
(PS: For extra credit,
please explain how the term
Islamofascists makes any sense,
since fascism is defined as the
congruence of state and corporate
power, with a little ultra-nationalism
on the side? I.e., it has nothing to do with
religious fanatics.....)
Bait that bores. Click.
Do you have any idea how stupid the average publlic school teacher is?
Bill
Smart enough to spell PUBLIC?
(PS: For extra credit,
please explain how the term
Islamofascists makes any sense,
since fascism is defined as the
congruence of state and corporate
power, with a little ultra-nationalism
on the side? I.e., it has nothing to do with
religious fanatics.....)
No, no, steve, "fascist" simply means bad and oppressive. All that corporatist stuff is just liberal fascist projection.
Can't you read?
Eli
Again, sorry, public-schooled.
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the schools don't do enough to protect their children from bullies.
sadly I think that's true of all victims of bullying, whether due to Asbergers (which I don't really know about, I just know its getting a lot of attention these days) or not
Toby,
I recall a television show from my youth. It starred Micky Dolenz as Toby Tyler. But it's not the character's name that reminds me of you, it is the show's title:
Circus Boy.
Do you have any idea how stupid the average publlic school teacher is?
Bill
Smart enough to spell public
THOMAS: Come back. All is forgiven.
BLITZER: You are going to forgive us? You are part of the news media too.
THOMAS: Right.
...
BLITZER: I'm trying to did the best I can, like you.
That she's a Muslim and wants to take away all our precious freedoms (which she hates).
Can't you read?
Eli
I know...what's so fucking hard to understand about this?
We like Helen Thomas because she sympathizes with Islamofascists who want to impose their religion on the entire world, and hate gays and women.
If you don't understand that, you don't understand modern liberalism. Basically, we're atheist commie moral relativists who want to live under Wahabbism.
Cardinal--I am not saying public schools are perfect. Far from it. But funding them well would go a long way towards solving the problem, and treating teachers like professionals wouldn't hurt, either.
No, no, steve, "fascist" simply means bad and oppressive. All that corporatist
stuff is just liberal fascist projection.
Eli | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 11:46 pm | #
Oops. I forgot. Thanks for the
heads-up on that.
And a definite percentage have a palpable contempt for my profession because of what they have been taught about "professors," and that is really fucking obnoxious.
Thers, Paterfamilias
Which brings up the question, WTF are they doing in College, anyway?
Newt Gingrich, Phil Graham and Dick Armey all have PhDs. And the Shrubb has degrees from Harvard and Yale. Nobody knows how dumb a PhD can be till you go through grad school, IMHO
DemByDefault
I had a paleontology professor, a Berkeley PhD, who was as stupid as shit pie.
Can I please be a "Pacifascist"?
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we're atheist commie moral relativists who want to live under Wahabbism.
Phila | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 11:48 pm | #
Hey, I'm not an atheist! 
as stupid as shit pie.
Buzz Bomb
Stolen!!
LOL
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jack
agave to the rescue!
Melissa needed help at her school. I was there with an extra set of car keys.
Fuck! Where u guys?
.
Take a deep breath, or 3.
It's not worth it.
I gotta say, the only moronic brownshirt fuck I actually enjoy baiting is Brownshirt T.
He's always guaranteed to rise to it!
Basically, we're atheist commie moral relativists who want to live under Wahabbism.
Phila
And our imams ride in limousines.
Basically, we're atheist commie moral relativists who want to live under Wahabbism.
We're also latte-sipping snooty elitist welfare queens.
Circus Boy.
Neff, WalterNeff | 03.21.06 - 11:47 pm | #
I love you. In a totally wholesome
un-gay way, I might add.
4Legs--now that captures Maxx wonderfully! He looks so...conspiratorial
This kid Ben Domenech is in way over his head. He's a young white male Michelle Malkin. Why would WaPo hire someone with such an available history?
In Detroit the city officials just literally steal from the funding like some third-world country and a lot of the annual teacher protests are about that specifically: but we never knew that until we talked to a Detroit teacher, because the media, eager as they are to demonize black politicians, always makes it sound like it's just greedy millionaire inner city public school teachers screwing up public order for more money.
"Helen Thomas? That fucking tuber? Looks like something I could pull out of the ground and put some lipstick on."
Ugh. I'm picturing that well-thumbed, stained issue of "Pumpkins With Holes" next to Toby's bed...the one with the instructions on making a special "Ejac-o-lantern" for Halloween.
"Bait that bores. Click."
teh end?
.
Richard wishes he was Steerpike.
treating teachers like professionals wouldn't hurt, either.
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 11:48 pm | #
Sure, first we treat teachers like professionals, then we start paying them well. Next thing you know, we start paying everyone a living wage, and the economy collapses. Right?
Evacuee--oh, don't go there
Sure, first we treat teachers like professionals, then we start paying them well. Next thing you know, we start paying everyone a living wage, and the economy collapses. Right?
Again, how is this country stupid enough to consistently skimp on something as important as education?
I guess it's self-perpetuating...
I wonder why nurses and schoolteachers are underpaid? I just can't imagine any social or cultural explanation for this....hmmmmm
Neff, WalterNeff
(Cue twangy guitar and blaring horn section with smooth violins under...)
Quite a few parents of Asperger's kids take their children out of school and homeschool them. According to those parents (and I believe them) the schools don't do enough to protect their children from bullies.
As some may recall, I am the parent of an Asberger's kid: She's now 24. And I agree with this post. However, we wanted her to stick it out through the bullying; we felt the isolation of having a private tutor would be worse. We always reminded her that the bullying would lessen each year as kids got older - and it did. She graduated, went to community college and got her two year degree in three years. Huzzah!
She has her own apartment and I talk to her everyday through the magic of Apple's iSight camera.
This kid Ben Domenech is in way over his head. He's a young white male
Michelle Malkin. Why would WaPo hire someone with such an available history?
Balzac | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 11:51 pm | #
Said this downstairs, but -- I don't
think Ben is gonna have his job very
long.
This is a colossal public relations
disaster for the WaPo. Kid's obviously
an idiot, a plant for the administration,
and an unqualified loony.
I give him a week.
Smart enough to spell public
I'm impressed. I've been busted by the Typo Police.
As long as we're being petty, one usually puts quotes around a word that's being referred to in a sentence.
I wonder why nurses and schoolteachers are underpaid? I just can't imagine any social or cultural explanation for this....hmmmmm
Because they don't perform any useful function in society, of course...
Sure, first we treat teachers like professionals, then we start paying them well. Next thing you know, we start paying everyone a living wage, and the economy collapses. Right?
Evacuee
Hey, it's the GOP precautionary principle. Unless you can prove that a humane democratic society absolutely, definitely won't cause the world to end, you have to err on the side of caution.
Mister X--it's not as if our Left Coast weather has been any better than yours.
And how are Missus, Master and Missy X?
We're also latte-sipping snooty elitist welfare queens.
Eli
Were it not for that welfare, I never would have been able to buy that new Jaguar XJ.
Eli--and, don't forget that a lot of them are women.
Eli--and, don't forget that a lot of them are women.
Well, yeah, 'cuz women don't like to do anything productive.
Ugh. I'm picturing that well-thumbed, stained issue of "Pumpkins With Holes" next to Toby's bed...the one with the instructions on making a special "Ejac-o-lantern" for Halloween.
Phila
Whoa, nelly!
I'm certain that even if bush's numbers were in the single digits toby would still be here sucking his miniscule flaccid cock.
Go toby, go!
joycamp | 03.21.06 - 11:27 pm | #
Don't drink the water!
Evacuee
Fear not--any surviving bugs in the water I've ingested are drunk and stoned. They're running around and bumping heads all Three Stooges-like.
Kid's obviously an idiot, a plant for the administration, and an unqualified loony.
Never stopped Tierney.
She graduated, went to community college and got her two year degree in three years. Huzzah!
Well, she beat me!
So Walt, are you in Kiwiland now?
They're running around and bumping heads all Three Stooges-like.
joycamp
Keep 'em away from lumber.
I'm certain that even if bush's numbers were in the single digits toby would still be here sucking his miniscule flaccid cock
He'd have to fight his way around Mt Tweetysass to get to it.
omenech is in way over his head. He's a young white male Michelle Malkin. Why would WaPo hire someone with such an available history?
Balzac
They were told to.
Ok, I'm going to be dickish and pick on a 14-year-old (although she's about 23 now, I think). In fairness to me, I was at the NSB when she was in it, and was only 14 too at the time:
Rebecca Sealfon talking about what's "unnatural" and what isn't is absolutely hilarious. If you've ever seen her in action, you'd know that she is one of the 3 or 4 most antisocial people you've ever come across. *Incredibly* awkward - she probably didn't even realize that she was coming off as obnoxious and rude to the judges when she was constantly demanding the language of origin, using words in a sentence, etc. There's a nice way to ask for these things and a bitchy way. Rebecca seemed as if she was raised in a way that made her unable to tell the difference. Raising your kid in a way that makes everyone who meets her think she's kind of creepy? That doesn't seem like the most "natural" thing to me.
She and Domenech are probably two peas in a pod - fairly bright people who *never* entertain the possibility that they just might not be right about everything.
I give him a week.
steve simels
Based on the quality of his first two posts, I suspect you're right.
"Hopefully today's military action will be the first of a long campaign, though I've always preferred drop teams to smart bombs."
--Ben Domenich
I wonder why nurses and schoolteachers are underpaid? I just can't imagine any social or cultural explanation for this....hmmmmm
Well, Nietzsche said that when a woman becomes a scholar, it's usually because something's wrong with her sexual organs. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Deli break....
see you in five!!!!
This kid Ben Domenech is in way over his head. He's a young white male Michelle Malkin. Why would WaPo hire someone with such an available history?
Balzac
They are STUPID!?
.
I don't think Len Downie and Jim Brady can admit mistakes any more than Shrubb. And it's not like the people they listen to will be complaining.
Keep 'em away from lumber.
Max Planck
And hot tar. And rivet guns...
And how are Missus, Master and Missy X?
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere
Well, MasterX got his c-ball jersey today (GO NUMBER 14!), MissyX helped me clean out the fireplace and then we made orange jello with mandarin orange slices, while MissuX went in for her cortisone shot for her bulging disk, but was put off until Friday... she's been like a human question mark for the past two months, but all we have is welfare insurance, so we takes what we gets...
How's bayou?
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Well, Nietzsche said that when a woman becomes a scholar, it's usually because something's wrong with her sexual organs. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Whoa. I always thought "Those who can't do, teach" meant something a little different.
I've got nuthin'...
Whatchoo got?
"Hopefully today's military action will be the first of a long campaign, though I've always preferred drop teams to smart bombs."
Like a virgin saying he prefers doggie style to the missionary position.
Based on the quality of his first two posts, I suspect you're right.
I tried to look at the links on his bio page. After hitting three "404 page not found" errors, I gave up.
Steve--NY cheesecake, please, with strawberries.
Ugh. I'm picturing that well-thumbed, stained issue of "Pumpkins With Holes" next to Toby's bed...the one with the instructions on making a special "Ejac-o-lantern" for Halloween.
Phila
"Well, as long as the boy ain't fuckin' the farm animals, I guess it's OK."
-Toby's Dad
Boy, did Steve Kroft *suck* in that bit.
Based on the quality of his first two posts, I suspect you're right.
Jim Brady will never admit he fucked up on this. The only reason he hired this moronic brownshirt fuck in the first place was to "stick it" to the liberal bloggers.
This kid will have a job as long as Brady's in charge.
And BTW, have you seen the godawful mess the portal for the WaPo's "blogs" is? There's no separation of "opinion" columnists from "blogs." And when you do find a list of "blogs" - dear God, what a pathetic bunch of crap!
Atrios will be a tv star, check the new thread
Deli break....
see you in five!!!!
steve simels
Get me a salami and swiss on rye please.
"Hopefully today's military action will be the first of a long campaign, though I've always preferred drop teams to smart bombs."
I know I'm handicapped, having gone to public schools, but drop teams of what...?
I give him a week.
steve simels
Based on the quality of his first two posts, I suspect you're right.
David (Austin Tx)
We're assuming here that they've never read any of his posts. And, come to think of it, that's actually quite possible.
Mister X--pretty well, I'm sorry to hear of Missus X being in pain.
Your situation illustrates with clarity the need for national health care.
I know I'm handicapped, having gone to public schools, but drop teams of what...?
DemByDefault |
Why, Starship Troopers, of course...
NY cheesecake, please, with strawberries
Speaking of which. I have some chocolate cheesecake from a new bakery I found when I was wandering around Missoula yesterday. I'll be back in a second with a piece.
"I've always preferred drop teams to smart bombs...
...as long as the 'drop teams' are made up of stupid spics, niggers, and white trash. Me? I'm sitting this one out! BWAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Hopefully today's military action will be the first of a long campaign, though I've always preferred drop teams to smart bombs."
--Ben Domenich
Oh, sweet Jeebus. Is the Wapo serious with this shit? I'd like to "drop team" this fucker out a four-story window. Head first.
Speaking of a pathetic bunch of crap, surely you'd like to buy some commemorative coasters. The ones that say "Buck Fush" are 1/2 off!
I like saying "niggers".
Your situation illustrates with clarity the need for national health care.
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere
True dat. We are very happy there IS any safety net at all, as we have no other options at this time... onward and upward though! The kids bring joy to the household, so there is that!
-
A PhD essentially means learning more and more about less and less until you know everything about nothing.
Christ it just occured to me that Li'l Gunner Ben is of prime fighting age! Operation Yellow Elelphant should be on this one.
left field--do you have one?
Homeschoolers just want to keep their kids home with the teacups. We all want to do it. Think when your kids were little, didn't you in your heart of hearts want to keep them at home all the time? But someone made you see the insanity of it and that you were really only thinking of yourself.
But homeschoolers don't have anyone to tell them that they are only thinking of themselves, for what reasons, I can only guess.
I think of myself, as the shyest child in the room and what if I had been homeschooled. I'd still be in that room.
"Hopefully today's military action will be the first of a long campaign, though I've always preferred drop teams to smart bombs."
Always? You have to be at least thirty-five to claim you always prefer A over B.
Dave the Troll (tm):
Here, I'm going to teach you a new skill:
Dave the Troll™
Learn a trade or you'll never get laid.
Sallyh,
I bailed about 12 hours shy. I got sick of being a poor student, and the politics of acedemia. And I had already put in my 14 years in college.
Here, I'm going to teach you a new skill:
Dave the Troll™
Thanks! I love advice I don't need.
You like bumperstickers?
mom teaches 15-year-old Benjamin, 12-year-old Emily, 10-year-old Alice, and little Florence
So WhoTF is "Ellis?" He/She is apparently Ben's brother/sister:
http://elsdman.blogspot.com/
2002...an_archive.html
Sallyh, I pay my taxes for public school, and I support public school. But I'm going to do what I think is best for my own children, and so is every other parent. Some theory that maybe public schools would be better if they were different than they are now is not going to help my child, who would have to go to school now and not in some misty future.
As to Rebecca Sealfon, the homeschooled spelling champ-- I don't know about her in particular, but a lot of those spelling champions have Aspergers-ish traits. Sending a kid with Aspergers to school is not going to cure the Aspergers. My Aspergers brother had 13 miserable years in public school.
How do I start.
Mouth inane platitudes.
Believe it or not, some of us who homeschool are liberals, Jews, Muslim, and have lives. Our children are quite well socialized in the real world, not in age-segregated prisons called classrooms.
Thanks for reminding me that stupidity and intolerance is not just a conservative trait. Think outside the box, people.
Ben Domenech may well be a political hack from just another crony family but his homeschooling is not the issue.
Ruth in NC
I don't care if someone is home-schooled or not, although that route tends to reduce the amount of life experience the student gathers within the social interaction of school.
What concerns me more is that Post couldn't have found someone more experienced than a 24-year-old political operative for a blog. What could this guy possibly know about anything and why should any rational adult take him seriously?
Ben Domenech loves men in uniforms.
Congrates WaPo... it looks like you got yourself a winner there.
It's great to have another voice from the "Red States". God know we can't get any of those talking points anywhere else.
Guy | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 10:33 pm | #
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Domenech is a ringer. He runs the RedState blog and now has a column (which he calls a "blog") at washpost.com.
Here is washpost.com's new resident whacko:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/
r...st_red_ame.html
"Public schools only suck because they are severely underfunded."
No. Public School suck because it's run by the government and the unions.
1. The administration is overbloated so less dollars get to the classrooms, where we need it.
2. Get rid of most of the counselors and streamline the administration.
3. The unions have screwed it up by supporting incompetence in the teachers ranks in that it takes an act of God to fire a bad teacher.
4. The unions also don't really seem to much care about their members salaries (which are low in comparison even to the military) as much as they care about the incoming member dues, so the incentive is to keep bad teachers on the rolls in order to get their cash.
5. They should make the unionizing of public employees illegal, like it is for the military. They should also hold teachers to defined standards and rate them honestly and make their jobs dependant on at least adequate performance. I'm sorry but tenure for primary skills teaching is ridiculous and counterproductive.
Oh, and also, Homeschoolers have lives. It's called their families. They don't think warehousing their children to learn self esteem without accomplishment, how to put condoms on bananas or that America is the most violent nation on the planet (according to Geography teacher Jay Bennish, who apparently has never heard of Hitler, Stalin or Mao) is the way to raise kids. They even actually take responsibility for theie kids education, unlike some type A career driven idiots who think it's someone elses job to raise their children. They don't buy your bullshit.
As to the rest of this boards leftist hatemongers: Replace "rethuglican" with "Jew" or "Nigger" and this would be like some Klan or white supremist BBS. What a bunch of bigots and totalitarians. Thank God you don't have any real power to act out your hate.
Re: Home-schooling is like a lot of Rethug ideas, insidious once you understand its effects but incuous when you hear about it and never really examine it.
kei & yuri
I dunno, Kei & Yuri. I'll bet he can spell "innocuous".
Sending your child to public school should be criminal.
Multiple studies have shown the home educated to not only continuously score higher than public as well as brick and mortar private schools on achievement tests (between the 80th and 90th percentile), but have also proven to be more responsible, civically active, socially active and happier individuals. They are known on university campuses for their great study habits and leadership skills.
I'm sure stories about the socially inept, unintelligent, sociopath they met that happened to be educated at home can be found but in the face of what statistics show to be opposite in the majority of home educated children, it just goes to prove that they're not all being "brainwashed" after all.
We can't all be so perfect, you know.
Studies also show that the large majority of children have enjoyed home schooling so much that they either educate their own children at home, or plan to when they have children.
I applaud any parent who dedicates themselves to their child no matter their color or creed.
I am an American Indian, libertarian, and single mom who can be found hanging out with conservative and liberal home school families alike. My best friends are two male public school teachers left over from childhood friendships (one is a liberal and one a moderate republican) and I was home educated myself.
I have a life and have even been labeled, dare I say, a hottie.
This entire thread is foolish and insulting, reflecting poorly upon those who make such ignorant claims about the home educated. It's always a good idea to do your research before making such sweeping generalizations in order to not appear to be either a liar or a blooming idiot. An even better idea would be to use correct spelling a grammar when calling others stupid, especially if you're one who is paid to achieve higher education via my pocketbook.
The teachers posting here should be busy trying to improve their pathetic performance at work. Failing schools don't improve with more money and bigger teacher payouts; the same ineffective teachers just make more money. If you believe in federal funding of schools, you can have it! Send your kids to one of those fantastic DC schools. But I'd rather have my kids watch mtv than let them suffer the dis-education that America's public schoolteachers provide.
**Mike Jones--you are the exception, not the rule. Clearly, you're intelligent and capable. Unfortunately, I don't find this to be the case of most parents who homeschool.
For the record, 5 years in Juvie, 11 years in public schools, 12 at the university level. I think I know whereof I speak.
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere | Homepage | 0**
That's your problem; you've been institutionalized your whole life. How could you be expected to understand homeschooled kids?
**my homeschooled students are just plain stupid. can't understand the concepts, can't do anything if it hasn't been rote drilled into their tiny little brainpans. and their writing, it is just horrid sentence fragments ful of passive voice problems, comma erros up the wazoo, and a generally limited (retarded would be the less kind descriptor) vocabulary. Mrs. Ibrahim al-jaafari**
Let's see, just in this one paragraph we have capitalization errors, misplaced commas, misspelled words and run-on sentences. Yep, you certainly should judge homeschoolers. Uh-huh.
FYI, when homeschoolers are tested, they kick public school kids' ass in every instance.
That's not fair. I think most kids will test better than US public school kids. Kids in Argetina probably test better than the US.
Basically any place that does not have a teachers union will do better.
Let's let the institutionalized products of institutions train our kids to be like they are.
Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.
Those who teach are far removed from the main stream.
My encounters in the business world with public education have NOT been good. They can't string together a coherent sentence, can't spell without using "spell check" and seem to think they're entitiled to summers off! Seems to me, they're the ones being sheltered and out of touch. The posts here are the same old talking points put out by the NEA. Please..GET A NEW PLAY BOOK! You are, quite frankly, boring.
The liberals can't stand that their free reign is over. For years they've had the media and the education system to indoctrinate the masses. But now, it's over. There are finally alternatives for free thinkers! People are no longer believing the lies and the manipulation that have come from the left for the last 30 years. That is why there is so much anger on this site. It wasn't supposed to happen!! The left can't tolerate opposition! They can't tolerate people thinking for themselves and not following the elitists off the cliff.
The left can't tolerate opposition!
Who was it again that was using their political operatives (impersonating the Secret Service) to eject quiet, peaceful dissenters from public areas?
Here's a hint: it wasn't "the left"
Quiet, peaceful dissenters, huh? Like those union thugs that ripped away the little girl's sign and made her cry. Or the lefties who fired shots into Republican campaign offices.
Tensharp's got it just right.
Don't forget the quiet, peaceful union thugs that threatened and bullied several Bush campaign operatives here in Philadelphia. Where would we be without the liberal, progressive, open-minded and compassionate democrats? Where are they???
"Who was it again that was using their political operatives (impersonating the Secret Service) to eject quiet, peaceful dissenters from public areas?"
Fidel Castro? Hero of the left wing nuts?
Where are they? Mike, right now, they're in school...teaching your kids! YIKES!
In Seattle during the 2004 election, they stormed Bush headquarters and broke a guys arm. The one found guilty of that assault said he'd do it again. "He had it coming for supporting the war".
Tell you a lot about them, doesn't it?
I'm a personal friend of Ben Domenech. I've known him for 14 years, and couldn't be more pleased at his new job opportunity! I hope the rest of you folks get a chance to appreciate his many fine qualities over time.
Then there were the fine, upstanding scions of Milwaukee Congresswoman and former Mayor arrested for slashing tires on Republican get-out-the-vote vans.
I wish I was taught at home by my parents with graduate degrees rather than the pathetic excuses for educators I had to suffer. It was pretty telling that the top of my graduating class went into business, law, medicine or science while the bottom part went on to be education majors. What is so great about pubic schools? It was a total waste of my time. Spent more time worrying about our self-esteem, saying no to drugs and not getting pregnant; and hardly any on the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic. Any wonder why we are the laughing-stock of the world when it comes to secondary education? I envy those who got to avoid the hell of public school.
A lot of teachers aren't qualified to teach. I guess when teachers have a success rate parallel to the kids that are homeschooled, then they can be taken seriously on the subject. Until then, it looks as if you have enough on your plate that YOU can't handle. Perhaps your time would be better spent doing your job and minding your own business.
The skills set that the public school kids enter the workforce with are really quite deficit and need to be addressed. Pronto.
Bertrand Russell was homeschooled. Yehudi Menuhin was homeschooled. The singer Jewel Kilcher was homeschooled. Homeschooling parents do not need to know everything; there are these amazing resources called "books". All homeschooling parents need is love and basic literacy. The most important factor in student success is motivation. Children, especially young children, work for love, and parents are a more reliable source than teachers.
I was for ten years a HS Math teacher. Currently I tutor. One of my (homeschooled) pupil just began work on his Masters (Math). He turned 17 on January 31.
School is bad socialization. In Hawaii juvenile arrests for assault fall in summer, when school is not in session. Juvenile arrests for drug possession and drug promotion fall in summer. Juvenile hospitalizations for human-induced trauma fall in summer. Reported burglaries fall in summer. Schools do not prevent crime, they cause it.
http://www.rru.com/~meo/hs.minski.html (One page. Marvin Minsky comment on school. Please read this.)
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere: Thank goodness my kids will never get anywhere near a teacher like you (if you really are a teacher).
Your performance on this thread has been added to my 99 reasons for homeschooling (and I've been on the political left since I voted for Barry Commener in my high school mock-presidential election).
Sounds to me like the liberal loonies are a tad threatened by those that refuse to follow the status quo. Their fat, lazy asses can continue to regurgitate the same old arguments while defending their failures in the public education system. Leave the thinking to the rest of us.
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere... talk about pretentious. I'm sure you're students don't laugh at you... much!
"Home schooling is certainly an effective way for abusive parents to avoid detection." The vast majority of abused kids go to public school and the schools, the neighbors, and the social workers turn their heads. In almost every instance of child abuse reported in the news, lots of people knew about it and did nothing. Homeschooling has nothing to do with child abuse.
"That's the whole point of home schooling. To keep the kids from being exposed to actual thought."
Obviously, you have bought the stereotype, hook, line, and sinker. Like, me, most of the homeschoolers I know are homeschooling (in part) to keep kids from being told there is only one right answer, that only the "experts" know what is worth knowing, and that only they are capable of teaching you what you "should" know.
"Yes, folks, it is LEGAL in Amerikkka to brainwash your helpless kids into believing all kinds of sick false bullcrap, using the fear of death at the hands of demons and separation from mommy and daddy as a whip."
How do you propose to legislate that away? Put kids in institutions from birth, so they will all receive the prescribed dosages of truth as the government deems fit? Oh, yeah, who *are* the folks who would determine this, who *is* running the government?
"I want to support public school because I want to support the ideal, but at the same time, I am afraid of my children being ginnea pigs in the how-bad-can-public-school-get-before-we-call-it- military experiment."
Thank you! Very well said. I pay my taxes to support public education, and I volunteer in the classroom, but I am not willing to sacrifice my children's wellbeing and education on the altar of the *supposed* public good--just to prove I am a good little Liberal.
Homeschool is the very best way to educate a child. The public school system is irrevocably broken and the product they are putting out is not able to function in society.
I am a black homeschooling mom who is completely non-religious. I am also a very part-time free-lance writer. There appears to be a lot of ignorance about homeschooling, which is understandable. People tend to fear and stereotype anything that is different from the status quo.
But the Department of Education did its own study (under a liberal coordinator who was surprised at his results). These results confirm the results other other studies.
The results show that homeschoolers surpass public school kids in every subject in every grade k-12. They do better the older they get. Hoemschoolers were found to be well-socialized. Religion was not the primary reason people homeschooled. Homeschoolers were involved in a variety of community classes and activities.
And by the way, homeschoolers do learn to care for other people and to respect other people's opinion. I've found them generally were more open to others than most public school kids.
Every city has at least one homeschool group. My mid-sized city has two. One is secular (the one I belong to), and the other is Christian. Ours is bigger. The kids are not at all isolated. In fact, public schools kids go to neighborhood schools in which most kids are in the same socioeconcomic group. Hmeschoolers, on the other hand, draw from a much wider group. My kids were exposed to more diversity economic and racial divesity as homeschoolers than when they were when in public school.
These are just some of the facts. Remember, at one time people feared the effects of public education. We've gone from providing a much-needed service (public schools), to believing homeschooling is the only or best way kids can be educated. That's a big jump indeed. There is more than one way to educate a critical thinking, thoughtful, caring child. There is more than one way to socialize children.
Liberal homeschoolers are not just a tiny minority. One size doesn't fit all. Public school truly doesn't work well for some kids. Society is enriched when children get what they need to succeed.
Cynthia
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