James:
I don't normally quote a whole long message like this but you wrote the
following to Chris and Donna:
JP> Excuse me for poking my nose in here, but I take it you ladies are home-
  > schooling your kids?  Why?  Don't you think they will ever amount to 
uch?
  > You think that by home schooling they will be able to qualify for the 
bette
  > scholarships from the better universities?  Unless your children are in-
  > valids or totally retarded, you are just taking advantage of a law that 
was
  > set up for children in that situation, those who could not attend a 
ublic
  > or private school because of their physical or mental disabilities.....
JP> Seems to me that if you really cared about your children's welfare, you 
wou
  > be doing everything you could to keep them in school, not dragging them 
out
  > and hiding them in a closet someplace.  School is not just Reading, 
writtin
  > and arithmatic, it is also where children learn social interactions, how 
to
  > get along in stressful situations, and where they learn 
discipline.....also
  > where the parents can dump their kids for 8 hours per day, 5 days per 
week!
JP> Being an educator, that is what I see more and more each day, parents 
sendi
  > their kids off to to the "professional babysitter" and not taking a lick 
of
  > interest in what or how the child does in school.
JP> Filling out those forms are mandatory and failure to do so can lead to 
he
  > removal of the child from the parents custody for the welfare of the 
child.
  > You might not like it, I might not like it, but that is the law.  A law 
tha
  > really does not care what the parent does, only that the child is well 
care
  > for, as it should be.  Now damn it, you made the children, you and your 
hus
  > band or boyfriend, now be responsible enought to give them half the 
chance 
  > getting off of the welfare roles.....send them back to school where they 
do
  > belong!!!
I, for one, really do not understand why you felt the necessity to write
this. I noticed that you also wrote a long message of the same ilk in a
previous posting.
Please take note that _I_ am not homeschooling my children - who are
grown up now ...and never did. I am also an Educator i.e. accredited
teacher and so is Donna.
You come into this echo and attack the parents that are homeschooling
without knowing anything about them or their reasons to be doing it.
I, however, have come into this conference to offer any assistance that
anyone need in the area of ideas for teaching etc.....as everyone has
here that is homeschooling their children.
Having been a participant on this echo for about 9 months I can say that
the majority of the posts here come from concerned parents who have the
best interests of their children at heart and have very good reasons to
homeschool.
Obviously something made you post this message and I would like to know
what. You obviously have an axe to grind but are sharpening it on the
wrong people.
                        -Ruth
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