OK, here is the really important issue...
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Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gus - Nov 12, 2005 12:56:45 pm PST #3537 of 10006
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
beth b - Nov 12, 2005 12:57:23 pm PST #3538 of 10006
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Actually, the worst reason I saw for parents to homeschool - is that both had a terrible time when they went to school. and I got to say though their kids are smart and nice - the two girls I know best - are just a little too sheltered from the real world. R- the oldest hasn't realized she can stand on her own. S is a little better. Sadly, I think they have caught mom and dad's fear of people without the experience to back it up.
sarameg - Nov 12, 2005 1:01:05 pm PST #3539 of 10006
Random observation: sparrows are vicious little suckers. Outside the store, two of them had a third down on its back, and they were trying to steal whatever was in its mouth. Dang. Little sparrow muggers.
tommyrot - Nov 12, 2005 1:01:49 pm PST #3540 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So what are the religious reasons for home schooling? Is it just to keep the kids out of the secular cultural environment? They don't want their kids learning about evolution? They want their kids to have a religious education (Biblical history, etc)?
Gus - Nov 12, 2005 1:03:26 pm PST #3541 of 10006
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
sarameg is depressing me.
Tom Scola - Nov 12, 2005 1:08:55 pm PST #3542 of 10006
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
One year growing up in New Jersey, I noticed that every single church in town suddenly had a religious school, when only the Catholic church had one before.
Years later, I realized it was because NJ had passed a (the first in the country?) mandatory sex education law.
ChiKat - Nov 12, 2005 1:09:51 pm PST #3543 of 10006
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
tommy, I have access to Nexis and Science is part of that. Which issue/articles do you want and I can email them to you.
Laura - Nov 12, 2005 1:09:55 pm PST #3544 of 10006
Our wings are not tired.
I don't know much about the religious homeschooling, but almost all the site I found for assistance were religious in nature. And they had some great resources.
Laura - Nov 12, 2005 1:11:14 pm PST #3545 of 10006
Our wings are not tired.
You know really we should avoid teaching the wacko religious kids about teh sex because they're just going to go and reproduce if we do.
Jesse - Nov 12, 2005 1:11:21 pm PST #3546 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What all y'all said is what I meant by the varying definitions of "sucks" -- schools can suck for a given kid for any number of reasons -- too easy, too hard, mean kids. etc.
The spelling bee champion kids are usually homeschooled, aren't they? So they can really focus on the spelling.
And the religious issues, same thing -- maybe it's evolution, maybe you don't want your kid in a co-ed class, etc., etc.