In our society, the state is supposed to be accountable to us. We are not accountable to them unless they have reason to believe we are doing something illegal.

Sometimes when I read those sorts of comments, I wonder who is really being reflected in a worse light. The person in the anecdote being shared or the person who was publicly educated and just can’t accept them for their differences.

I had not interest in popular television shows when I was in school. It had nothing to do with parenting, school or anything else. It was just me.

And I know a lot of people upset about Dawson’s Creek who weren’t homeschooled…even some pretty liberal teachers I taught with in Texas who weren’t particularly happy with the obsession.

I just don’t like pegging people’s interests on homeschooling and then using that to somehow prove that homeschooling raises “unsocialized” children. Why can’t we just accept that some children like physics and would prefer to talk about it? Regardless of their educational background.

I honesty don’t think the statement was a comment that one aspect was better than another or that missing out on popular culture was an awful thing… just that it tends to add to a divide that seems to already exist.

Anyways… just my take. I didn’t find that statement/article all that disturbing.

It’s all interesting and important, so I thank you for contributing this post to this week’s Carnival of Family Life, hosted at A Child Chosen. The Carnival will be live on Monday, February 5, 2008, so I hope you and your readers will stop by and check out all of the fabulous entries included this week!

The odd thing with the gizmo is that I’ll get notices for “moderated” comments that I can’t ever find in the program’s cache (and from what I can read in the email notice, they’re usually spam), but yet authentic comments get eaten without notice.

Oh, well. Such is life in Computerland.

Thanks again for mentioning it.

And that is just a travesty. To be more interested in physics than Dawson’s Creek. Whatever the reason is. I knew people like that in high school…in fact, that would have been me and my friends, although physics wouldn’t have been the topic. More history and politics. : )

The other homeschoolers I met, more often than not, could talk about physics for three hours but couldn’t (or weren’t allowed to) have a conversation about the latest episode of Dawson’s Creek.

Wow.