ML> On 16 Sep 96 11:52pm, James Prior wrote to Donna Ransdell:
 
 -=>> Donna Ransdell was yaking to James Prior all about Principal
 ML> praises home sc on 14 Sep 96  04:11:04 <=-
 DR>> Whose statistics were these?????? I've always read just the opposite
 DR>> - most homeschoolers are two years ahead of their schooled peers, and
 DR>> are grabbed up by colleges (Harvard and Yale included!).
 DR>> I'm going to be nosey and ask you just how old you are, how long
 DR>> you've been teaching (since you mentioned that you are an educator),
 DR>> what age levels you teach/have taught, and why you are in this echo?
 JP> I am 53 years of age, I never said I was a teacher, I said I was an
 JP> educator. I was educated at Wisconsin State University, Erlangen
 JP> University (Erlangen, W. Germany) and received my Doctorate from
 JP> Cambridge.  I am fluent in 15 lan- guages. I was 17 years of age when I
 JP> received my BA from WSU and was a 2nd Lt. before I turned 18.
 JP> Why am I in this conference.  Simple, I am doing research on a thesis
 JP> for a second doctorate.  I hope to have a Phd in sociology by the end
 JP> of this semester.   What is your reason for being here?
 JP> Take care, luck be yours and God bless you and yours til next we met!!
 
 JP> James Prior
 ML> The arrogance of people like you never cease to amaze me. You get a
 ML> fancy sheepskin and you immediately think that you are superior to
 ML> everybody else. Further more you have a lot of gall to use this echo
 ML> for your research to get another useless non-contributory degree.
 ML> You have the nerve to tell people to get a life when in reality it is
 ML> you that has no life outside of academia. It is time to come out of
 ML> your little utopian world and see what is really in the "real" world.
 ML> The people that post in this echo due so because of their desire to
 ML> give their children a better quality education than the "public"
 ML> schools can provide. 
 ML> You may ask why the public schools are inferior in their standards;
 ML> the answer is simple, because of arrogant liberal blithering idiots
 ML> like you running the schools.
 ML> I am sorry if this reply offends other people in the echo but I am
 ML> feed up with this arrogant pompous twit. I would also like the
 ML> moderator to send him a warning and if he fails to heed it then have
 ML> his feed cut. People don't post here to be ridiculed or be made part of
 ML> a study for somebody to get their degree.
 Well, he can always be put into a twit filter or two!  (BG)
 Quite frankly, posts like the above leave me worried.  Worried because
 by arguing with this man, it takes away from what all of you are on here
 for, home-schooling.  I say we all drop this thread and get back to the
 matters at hand, home-schooling the children.  Thank you.
 Chris
                                                            
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