When fires are burning at oil refineries in Saudi Arabia and Texas, radical Muslims will be celebrating in Europe. The idea of Planet Earth colliding with debris from space when solar flares affect rotational gravity will cause anguish for many scientists who fear devastation. Renewed hope for human survival will be created in failing hearts when sightings of alien ships over major cities are verified. In days before missiles from Russia are being shipped to Iran, Chinese officials will be scheming against Jerusalem
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Just reading that causes headache.
<off topic rant> As i said before, home schooling isnt just for irrational inbred fundy nutcases. Much has improved in homeschooling programs. Don't fall into a popular misbelief that homeschooling isnt effective and advantageous when done right. Look what Kansas is trying to do to their public schools...
Didn't mean to knock home schooling in general. In some cases, you can get an outstanding education, better than you would get in a regular school. But it also allows for some individuals (if only a tiny fraction) to become teachers who wouldn't pass the laugh test at a public school.
The biggest obstacle that my wife and I have with family and friends on homeschooling is the "how will your child be properly socialized" issue. That's always the first comment and its the biggest misunderstanding that people have. In fact, public schools foster hierarchys, or social groups, in kids (the jock/nerd groups) which is more detrimental to childhood development.http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/lwc_cda_article/0,1643,A%253D161130%2526X%253D1%2526M%253D50088,00.html
Homeschooling allows children to learn at their speed. They get extra attention if stuck on something, and quickly move ahead thru the easy stuff. This article talks about how it actually benifits kids to move them ahead when the lessons arent challenging them :
http://geniusdenied.com/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=46
And finaly, a nice article on why students tend to be MORE socially adept then public school kids :
http://www.struggler.org/WhyParentsHomeschool.html
Sorry to go so OT here. This is just a sore point with me because I am constantly at odds with family and friends who simply assume what most people say about it is true.
My sister is being homeschooled, It's much easier on her to learn away from constant social pressures.Being profoundly deaf, we've tried finding a good school for her.This hasn't worked out.She's much better at teaching herself than listening to a fat redneck hick of an "Educator".
to respond to Elijah - um, dude, those spotty mushrooms are not for you.
Just Rick: When I first started high school, I assumed it would be a hierarchial popularity contest, as depicted by US television. Upon actually experiencing it, however, I found that there were no such clear "jock/nerd" distinctions. In fact, in my first year there, the Year 9 volleyball team was handpicked entirely from my class (the top one, streamed-wise), and in Year 11, the fastest runner in the year won an award for comprehensive academic excellence. I have met few people who could truly be labelled as either 'jock' or 'nerd', and I found the social structure to be rather like 1900 points with various lines connecting random ones, with no one on top.
When my cat's feces self-erupt into the conflagration of all time, and all of Paraguay, yea, even Bolivia, is engulfed in the all-consuming wrath of the American Chestnut Tree (Praise His Holy Name!), and Saturn loses its rings, thereby signaling the Zoroastrian Revival, then lead-tainted toys from China will flood the Land (According to Prophecy) and the WPDs, heretofore unfound and, well, unfounded, will rise up with a mighty WHOOSH against the Perfidy of Luxemburg!! Thus saith the Litterbox!
rotational gravity ? wut ?
Dont you watch any movies ? an armada of alien ships over cities means an attack is about to happen. Aliens pulling brains from people to power other alien bodies.
China could just send 10 million tourists to israel and take over the country.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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