I love (sarcasm) people who seem to think that I can’t raise and educate my children without intervention from the government. They are delusional at best. They have this mentality that if they can’t do it, then I can’t do it.

On second thought, maybe it isn’t the government that can’t cut it as much as it is lazy parents with no drive or ambition to take care of their own who can’t.

Maybe if “Dr.” Parker would spend his energy on revitalizing the school system, then we wouldn’t have so many unproductive and undeducated citizens being turned out in our society every year, who have been taught that the world owes them and that they are entitled to a government to answer their call to do everything that it can to save them having to do some real work in life.

I also have gotten to the point that I laugh at people who seem to think that only people with “Dr.” or other titles in front of or behind their names are the final authority on what is best for children. Heck, I have known my medical doctor for years and I don’t trust him that much. If he gives me a medication to take that I am not familiar with, I check it out before I swallow the first pill. Just because he has “Dr.” in front of his name doesn’t mean he can’t be wrong, and he has on several occasions. HE IS HUMAN JUST LIKE ME! The point I am making is that all too often people blindly follow the “professionals” without checking with their own brain first as to whether what that “professional” is saying fits within their own common sense and experience in life. They “need” someone to tell them how to think simply because they are too lazy to think for themselves. “Professionals” have been wrong in the past and continue to make mistakes now. THEY ARE HUMAN JUST LIKE YOU! Use your own brain and judgement. If you feel school is best for your child because you have THOUGHT about it and came to that conclusion, then fine, more power to you, but what is good for one person isn’t necessarily good for another.

No one here has said that homeschooling has anything to do with keeping children from learning what their “comrads” learn. Or to keep them from succeeding later in life. My only points here (and I stand by them both) are that 1) “amateurs” are perfectly capable of educating their own children and certification is unnecessary and 2) anecdotes do not really qualify as solid evidence. I could as easily condemn the school system or call for drastic security reforms because of some of the recent abuse cases which have been publicized.

But we have to spend our legislative energy and property taxes (which are above the national average) to chase down homeschoolers to solve a “problem” that isn’t even proven to exist?

I wrote WebMD and asked if Dr. Parker’s grossly ignorant post (the man admits to having barely any contact with homeshoolers) passes as expertise on WebMD and if WebMD is comfortable with allowing this as a reflection of its content quality and accuracy. It will be interesting to see if I get any response.

Yeah, they were. Now they are “your vocabulary here” because of the introduction of professionals into the games.

Just like education.