Comments on: A few links of note http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/01/23/a-few-links-of-note/ If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do? --Psalm 11:3 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:36:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dana http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/01/23/a-few-links-of-note/#comment-4342 Dana Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:30:02 +0000 http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/01/23/a-few-links-of-note/#comment-4342 By the way, I think there is some difference between an overzealous homeschooler questioning the parenting of others and the state devising laws to restrict parental rights. Of course, they are related. If Germans did not feel in some way that homeschooling were abusive, the law wouldn't come about. But there will always be someone out there holding to any number of opinions. By the way, I think there is some difference between an overzealous homeschooler questioning the parenting of others and the state devising laws to restrict parental rights. Of course, they are related. If Germans did not feel in some way that homeschooling were abusive, the law wouldn’t come about.

But there will always be someone out there holding to any number of opinions.

]]> By: Dana http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/01/23/a-few-links-of-note/#comment-4338 Dana Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:00:44 +0000 http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/01/23/a-few-links-of-note/#comment-4338 Yeah, I've run into them, too. I'm all for passion in our choices, and educating others to the possibility of homeschooling. But sometimes some of that passion is a little...overzealous. We talked about that a little before: <a href="http://principleddiscovery.com/2007/11/03/a-flawed-argument-for-and-against-homeschooling/" rel="nofollow">A flawed argument for and against homeschooling</a> It isn't the kind of argumentation I like. I think it backfires, anyway, because it falls right into the stereotype of homeschoolers as "whackos." I think it comes down to something I've been trying to formulate into more of a post...but it is the basic notion that anyone who disagrees with me must either not really be thinking or must be flawed themselves. There is little real respect of people holding opposing viewpoints. Yeah, I’ve run into them, too. I’m all for passion in our choices, and educating others to the possibility of homeschooling. But sometimes some of that passion is a little…overzealous. We talked about that a little before:

A flawed argument for and against homeschooling

It isn’t the kind of argumentation I like. I think it backfires, anyway, because it falls right into the stereotype of homeschoolers as “whackos.”

I think it comes down to something I’ve been trying to formulate into more of a post…but it is the basic notion that anyone who disagrees with me must either not really be thinking or must be flawed themselves. There is little real respect of people holding opposing viewpoints.

]]> By: Stan http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/01/23/a-few-links-of-note/#comment-4335 Stan Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:08:03 +0000 http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/01/23/a-few-links-of-note/#comment-4335 I've been somewhat surprised at the other side of the coin. There are those in the homeschooling movement that suggest that sending your children to school is the equivalent of child abuse. That one caught me off guard. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that someone would suggest the reverse. I’ve been somewhat surprised at the other side of the coin. There are those in the homeschooling movement that suggest that sending your children to school is the equivalent of child abuse. That one caught me off guard. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that someone would suggest the reverse.

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