I don’t think I’ve played Simon Sez in more than 35 years. I can’t honestly say that I’ve missed it. I don’t have any especial expectation that I’ll walk into work on a particular Monday morning, and there will be my boss waiting to have a go at us. Or at least I hope not, and I’d have even less desire for it to happen on a daily basis. Read More...
Homeschooling and socialism
Exclusive: Samuel Blumenfeld urges parents
to resist government efforts to usurp rights
By Samuel Blumenfeld (WorldNetDaily)
Is homeschooling compatible with socialism and vice-versa? Apparently not, for homeschooling means parental control of education, and that is anathema to socialists.
The most important institution in a socialist society is a government-owned and -controlled education system in which children can be indoctrinated to willingly accept state control of their lives. Public-school teachers are not freedom fighters. They are government employees who must obey the mandates of the state.
In a socialist system, the state owns the children. Parents are merely breeders, and since homeschoolers tend to like large families, the population-control socialists will no doubt try to abolish homeschooling.
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Homeschooling, a family in a class of its own
January 7, 2010 (Upstate Today, SC)
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It wasn’t easy for Michele Patton to make a decision to keep her children out of the public school system.
Friends had warned her that the kids wouldn’t get the crucial social and educational skills they would need to succeed later in life and why a stigma against the practice should be all she needed to remain pro-public.
But after some careful consideration and research, Patton now looks back on five fruitful years as a home schooling parent.
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http://www.upstatetoday.com/news/2010/jan/07/homeschooling-family-class-its-own/
