>      It seems that our local *Professional* educators
 > have designedmethods of dealing with children that they think are
 > unable to be taught due to the childs inability to sit still in a
 > classroom.  They forgot that children haven't really changed since THEY, 
the
 > *Professional* educator were young.  Seems they have lost the
 > patience and time to findthe right method of teaching those children that 
they
 > possibly were given when they were in school.  Thus, the development
You (and others here) may not like this, but I'm going to stand in defense of 
teachers here. It should be known by most folks here that I have problems 
with the "system"...most of it being in the admin and state educ departments, 
as well as the textbooks...rather than problems with teachers. Teachers hands 
are often tied.
Discipline is probably the biggest problem that teachers face. So many of the 
old discipline methods that were once used are no longer allowed to be used. 
Now, true, some of those needed to be gone: the dunce cap, name calling, and 
so forth. Other methods were successful and have also been eliminated. Still 
other methods are permitted, and can't be made to work because the parents 
whine about it, make excuses for the child's behavior, or simply override the 
authority (which tells the child that the teacher has no authority and 
therefore is not to be respected).
The homeschool parent is also the teacher. From what I've observed about the 
majority of homeschoolers, they are well behaved children. Parents are not 
similarly limited (except if they have a neighbor who might call CPS if they 
slap a child's hand).
                                 -donna
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