Comments on: Passing stereotypes as fact

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:05:19 +0000

Homeschoolers, headed mainly by elitist country bumpkins, are calling for an end to all television programming besides Fox so that they no longer have to monitor television viewing.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:19:55 +0000

Homeschooling advocates, headed mainly by people who like to point out the obvious, are calling for others to realize that pointing to isolated cases of abuse/educational neglect as a reason to pass stronger regulation of homeschooling, or doing away with it all together, works both ways.

I’m sure those districts that have graduated a barely literate student or had a teacher convicted of sex abuse will understand that the above means the entire system needs oversight or possibly dismantling right away. Since the government has failed, it will have to be left to the parents.

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Corn and Oil » Horton Hears A What?! — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:33:31 +0000

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By: Sunniemom

Sunniemom — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:33:27 +0000

Homeschool advocates, headed by those can also use multisyllabic words and but actually manage to say something sensible, are positively thrilled when generously degreed nimrods prove their points about the quality of public and higher education and the lack of healthy socialization in federally controlled educational institutions.

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:10:12 +0000

Homeschool advocates, headed mainly by snarky mommybloggers, are overwhelming the servers over at the Daily Titan with twenty five times its normal traffic.

By: Principled Discovery » Homeschooling: elitist and anti-democratic

Principled Discovery » Homeschooling: elitist and anti-democratic — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:26:05 +0000

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By: Katherine

Katherine — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:16:40 +0000

I’m just giggling at all of this. It is so wonderful to know that there are still people in the world that share my thoughts and views- Contrary to what the media would have us to believe.
I like Mandy Mom’s rendition especially
“I’ll be back” hehehe!

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:03:57 +0000

Yikes, Crimson Wife. Thanks for the link…I think.

By: Crimson Wife

Crimson Wife — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:21:57 +0000

Homeschoolers, headed mainly by elitist, overly involved “Type A” moms who feel a compulsion to have our kids “step over others, be the envy of others, and rise above the mass of others”, are calling for the repeal of democracy.

With a couple of nods to Professors Douglas & Michaels of “The Mommy Myth” and Coombs & Shaffer of the LAT op-ed

By: Crimson Wife

Crimson Wife — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:11:18 +0000

The “Titan” editorial can be passed off as just the ignorant rant of some college kid, but today’s L.A. Times has a similar stereotyping-cum-opinion piece by a couple of professors from Cal Poly Pomona.

A snippet:
“It’s evident that the vast majority who teach their offspring in front of the television do so because they don’t want their children to be subjected to such dangerous doctrines as evolution, abortion, global warming, equal rights and other ideas abhorrent to the evangelical mantra….

There has always been something decidedly elitist and anti-democratic in home schooling. It smacks of a belief that privileged children should not have to associate with the other kids in the neighborhood and that by staying home, they would not be subjected to the leavening effect of democracy.”

Makes me just want to scream…