Bravo Mike Huckabee. there are a lot of different reasons to homeschool because there are a lot of different problems with school. I've set out my views in a vid - THE PROBLEM WITH SCHOOL - and invite you to watch it and comment
I'm coming from Germany, and (sadly), I'm in a public school. My dear classmates had fun mobbing me, and of course, no teacher noticed anything until I stopped going to school for 2 weeks. Public school prepare students for "the system", nothing else. Socializing? Each student I know doesn't leave the house during the week, they simply use the internet. >>
Home Education was a great experience that allowed me to travel and to learn first hand. I met and socialized with several people all over the US. In HS(high school) I did well because of study skills and advanced courses I was allowed to take. My teacher was excellent, never pushed specific views on me,and she taught me it was okay to be whatever I wanted. I was very well adjusted for HS, while others were discovering who they were, I knew myself. Not to say I was perfect. I am only human.
DO NOT HOMESCHOOL YOUR CHILDREN. MY CHURCH MOLESTED AND RAPED well over a dozen boys over a decade. Had I had secular influence - I would have been aware that it was not "God's law" that ministers rape boys. Huckabee is friends with Lou Engle who is friends with Rich Manley, the primary organizer of this child-molestation gang: seekgod.ca/thecalldc.htm
DO NOT HOMESCHOOL! DO NOT FEED MOLESTERS IGNORANT, PLIABLE KIDS!
@bloomingdedalus I was homeschooled by non-religious parents. I could read when I was 3 and when I was 8, I was reading on a 9th grade level. Which to my parents was lacking for an 8 year old. You are just a naive loser, that is why you were molested. Molesters go after losers like you because you lack any form of common sense. It's sad and uncalled for but true.
By the way... My parents were poor. My mothers best year was $11,000 gross and my dad received disability payments.
@shartasticful In fact, your assertion is so naive and blatantly offensive that it only lends to the case that Homeschooling should be illegal because you clearly lack any perception of the existence of other people and differing experiences. Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers was allegedly molested by the same man as myself, he's not a loser, he's more wealthy than you'll ever be.
@shartasticful Money does make people higher than others - it gives them a license to kill, allows them to manipulate huge groups of people, gives them access to the government that others can't get, gets them friends, allows them to invest and make more money, allows them to buy people and things... Money is everything little man.
@bloomingdedalus Actually, money is a ploy for weak people that can't access those things throught force and coercion. Weak people use money to replace guts aka balls. Did the Bolsheviks have money when they accessed the Government of Russia and turned it into the U.S.S.R.? You are a fool that believes money is everything. It's great but not needed to make a point or statement that will forever be known throughout time on this planet.
@shartasticful Ok, if you can successfully submit the military and police to your will by being a one man invincible machine of force - money isn't everything. I think you will find it a lot harder than bending people to your will with large amounts of currency.
Better be careful about mocking molestation victims - if they don't do anything about these things - organizations who employ and protect child-molesters might just get their hands on your kid next. I don't think you'd laugh then.
There are all types of homeschool families just like there are all types of public school families. Homeschoolers are not any more weird than anyone else, and IMO, they generally have better values and less social problems over all. I could go on, but I strongly believe that homeschooling is BY FAR the best education option for nearly every family. Let's raise our own kids and quit giving them over to the government!
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I have heard horror stories about those weird homeschool kids....they drool alot, they talk to loud, they have dreams of killing babies....thank god i was never homeschooled.....
@CanonD265 I agree that public schools suck, but at least it teaches kids to be sociable and not be arrogant and weird. Take your comment for example, "I am way smarter than a lot of my friends." I'm sure you are if you were home schooled, but you're also very arrogant. That's also a result of home schooling. I'd rather my kids have friends than know calculus.
@shaunmason220 That's not "arrogance" it's "confidence" and it's a total different meaning. What is it with you people so worried about socialization? I guarantee u all 6 of my homeschooled kids ages 9-27 r more capable of socializing than any public school child. Cause my kids havn't been locked up 8-3 all daylight hrs most of their life. They get to interact with real people everyday! You wouldn't want ur hubby locked up but yet you send your children everyday. Ever wonder how ur child feels?
It's really wonderful to see how many people don't understand the issue at hand. They talk about how the homeschoolers don't understand evolution, religion, etc. Off topic: this is complete rubish. Homeschoolers dominate the spelling bee, and other academic contests. The real topic is about what the role of government should be. Should they be allowed to force your children into their system? In a free country, everbody should have the right to live their lives without the intervention of Gov.
The government is very lucky that time has shown Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein correct, i.e. that genes are more important than environment. That's the only reason many brilliant students still come from the public schools, because public education has deteriorated. Almost nobody intelligent goes into teaching. They go to these useless teacher colleges which are so dumbed down it's incredible. Everybody should have the right to keep their children away from the beuracracy.
homeschooling is not useless i was puplic schooled till 2 grade then i was raped by this kid in high school homeschool helped me get through what hapened to and is i mean i have lot of friends.really homeschoolers are just like puplic schooled kids i just do my school at home so give us homeschooled kids a brake were all homeschooled for a reason.
Er... I didn't say anything about Darwin - and actually he did. A lot of crops etc that are grown these days have been developed through the understanding of how evolution works - which without Darwin would not have been possible. Stop being so ignorant!
What the hell are you talking about? Darwin didn't doubt his own theory, stop making up non sense. And I said a lot of what is done in crop science would not be possible without an understanding of evolution (hence the "which without Darwin would not have been possible") - not that Darwin did a lot of work on crops... learn to read!
"as there is not enough evidence to support my theory i dought it's validity."
quote#2Darwin confessed, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."
The first quote is not even real. As for the second one, why don't you write down the full quote here? It continues like this "Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case;
cont; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real.""
Yeah, except you ignored the full quote in the first case (read what I wrote - that's the rest of that quote). The first one is not from anything he ever wrote, its a common lie spewed by creationists... please cite the book in which he said the first quote.
Are you incapable of reading through an entire paragraph? Darwin clearly goes onto say that although it might seem absurd reason tells us that it isnt so absurd. Read the actual book instead of quote mined bits of information on idiotic creationist websites!
If I didnt read the book how would I know the full quote, which shows he's saying the opposite thing to what you said he is saying? If YOU read the book you would have realized that the things you quoted were wrong! How do you explain the full quote? Liar!
abitcrunchy is obviously an egomaniac with an inferiority complex: eternally laboring under the delusion that the world will simply fall apart if he/she doesn't post an opinion umpteen times. What a fucking bore.
I havent heard about homeschooling before! I cant say if its right or wrong but I wonder how come the parents have so much time to raise their children and be professors and teachers at the same time! Dont they have to go to work or something so they can afford to pay for them to go to college for instance... this is a really hard job they have chosen.
They believe it's worth it. I also believe that if the funds followed their kids where they wanted like in Belgium they probably wouldn't homeschool. They just want their kids to have the best education they can provide and I can't blame them for that. Unfortunately our educational system has become a racket for extracting dollars from citizens and citizens don't get what they paid for which supposed to be better education in our schools.
We don't have professors in our government schools. Our government can barely afford to pay teachers so the pay is well under what a college professor would earn. When people choose to be teachers, their college education is a lot about how to control the classroom, how to maintain the political correctness and how to deal with crazy parents. Homeschool parents are only teaching what they themselves learned in K-12. If you can write and read then you can teach from a school textbook!
GOOGLE up "stupid in America" 20/20 special it confirms what I've suspected about public schools for quite awhile. That their too over bloated and inefficient. Pay attention to the Belgium school that's what I'd like to see happen in America. Screw the bureaucracy.
I watched that when it first came out, it's hard to watch. I know that if many parents had any clue what goes on in schools, they would be shocked. The reason that parents don't know is because school systems and teachers have special protection from lawsuits. Not only that, the media rarely reports on the reality of what's actually going on. They hide every little incident that can be hidden. The ones that can't be hidden are toned down and are hardly mentioned.
I'll tell you when I turned against the school district and figured it for the racket it is. In Oregon they passed the state lottery out the assumption that profits would be going to the schools. It turned out that it that very little went to the schools and then they wanted to raise taxes specifically for schools. I realized then it was a racket and they actually keep kids dumb for an excuse to extract more money from the public.
You know, the same happened here in GA. We got the lottery and it was only about 2 years later that I started hearing about how we needed more money for schools. My husband and I didn't have kids at the time. We kept asking ourselves "What are they doing with the money?" Because we know the money is there...the lottery is big business. The word "racket" certainly fits!
From the report - "We tried to bring "20/20" cameras into New York City schools to see for ourselves and show you what's going on in the schools, but officials wouldn't allow it. "
That's a lie! My sister home schools her children, and they have a co-op that gets together, and my nieces graduated with honors!! Unless you have done it for your children, shut up and stop bashing home schooling!!
There has been success and failure with any kind of schooling. The whole point is to be able teach your children the way you think they need to be taught. Most parents (not all) are very aware of what their children need to succeed. Because of homeschooling my children are able to take so many classes that follow their interests at their particular level. They can spend more time doing the things they love and less time being taught to pass tests mandated by the govt.
As I've stated in other posts I've seen both. My sister failed at home schooling for several reasons. My sons have done well in public schools, and have been fortunate enough to have parents actively involved in their education.
We're on the same page. No prob. Choice is all I ask. Glad to hear your sons are doing well. One of my daughters would probably do well in public school, but she chose to be homeschooled for now...
As a taxpayer, my only real objection to home schooling is when the home schooled brats want a slot on a school team,a place in the school band, or other such exercises in cafeteria-style public school enrollment. Scares resourses are then expended on non-enrolled students for which the district doesn't receive per capita state funding.
Fortunately, our local districts don't allow this sort of pick-and-choose nonsense: if you want the perks of the public school, you have to enroll your kid.
If the government can manage Band, Track and Football - just what makes you think that a group of homeschoolers can not??? Our group has all that plus proms, dances and graduation ceremonies. In addition we have many resources that are not available to the public schools, like a swim team and clubs such as Astrology and Chess and other Science clubs. Some activities require equipment that often gets destroyed by public school kids so the ps kids don't get the same learning opportunities.
the laws should not violate people's rights this is a law.the people are not for the law, it sounds like we are enslaved to respect them, as you see so many people act without thinkin. they just act on their primitive instincts like they are in a jungle and try to survive.the dangers are other this time but obeying the laws can give us so much more protection.people are making the laws.they are idealists, it doesn't mean thought that they will respect them, you see yourself doesnt want to do so
i was homeschooled my whole life and i hated it. it turned me into a momma's boy she was the only person i new since i never got out of my house (partly due cuz it took me forever to get my subjects done) religion being shoved down my throat constantly made it even worse (i'm a preachers son) when i was welcomed to the REAL world, i STILL don't feel socialable still uncomfortable talking to more than one person at a time. it pisses me off! i feel i need to take some sort of special social class
Feeling uncomfortable speaking to more then 1 person at a time, sounds more like you're an introvert then it being due to hs'ing....check out your myers briggs personality. And smothering mothers are a problem whether you're hs'ed or not....I know by experience.
"Too bad the people that are home schooled are weird... "
Hey, just because their parents are xenophobic bigots who don't want their little darlings to associate with kids who are racially, religiously or ethnically different than they are, doesn't mean the kids are "weird", does it?
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The problem with homeschooling is that people who want to homeschool their children do so out of ignorance, because they're afraid of the "left-wing propaganda" in the public school system, which sane people understand to be "reality". Homeschooling allows the religious extreme right to indoctrinate a new generation of ignorants, to teach them only their own personal values, and hide them from any opposing opinion.
I don't know why, but for some reason I feel sick to the stomach that people who can take such offense and respond in such an immature way are allowed to act as surrogate teachers for their children.
tirentu: Homeschoolers on average are superior in achievement than public school students and that is why wise parents have opted to do the work themselves. The Colorado system is so bad they are drastically changing this next term and doing away with grade levels. Our school systems have made "failing" decisions for decades but even worse are parents that have equally failed by not taking the responsibility and leadership to provide homes conducive to their child's learning and discipline.
My problem isn't with the concept of homeschooling, it's how it restricts outside influences during important developmental stages. While I'm sure all homeschoolers aren't crazy fundamentalist nuts, I know for sure that some are. I'm also sure that many parents aren't as qualified as high school teachers to, well, teach.
tirentu: I'm not a parent but if I were I WOULD WANT RESTRICTION OF OUTSIDE INFLUENCES because that is how learning happens by focusing on the needed subjects. More often now we see and hear news reports about outrageous distractions like teachers molesting students. For every bad report about homeschooling it pales in comparison to what's happening at public institutions not the least of which is lack of learning the good stuff!
I'm not referring to negative outside influences (say, drugs, alcohol, 4chan), but rather the influence in general of the world outside the house. Of course there are dangerous aspects to, well, life in general, and keeping children away from them throughout their developmental stages doesn't adequately prepare them for reality. That's my problem with homeschooling - and I don't think most parents are qualified to educate their children. Not only in an educational sense, but in a general one.
Well, many parents are more qualified than many high school teachers (at least in latin america). The kids can get outside influences in free courses of foreign idioms, Dance, Music, Boy Scouts,sculpture, ..i am a very enthusiast of homeschooling, believe me , in Central America, the education system stinks...
The religous extreme.hum.. I know many people who homeschool that are not religious in fact some are athiest, they do it because of the quality of education they desire for their children. Which I can tell you had very little because of your lack of intellingent use of words. (Public School?) I would suggest educating yourself before you start trashing others for caring about their kids. Oh- by the way we teach english and speech at 10am at our home, your welcome to stop by for a lesson anytime!
I would suggest that you leave the ad hominem attacks by the wayside before you continue with your criticism. I'm a grade 12 student, and you can't spell intelligent. Or atheist. And you misuse "your".
Here, I'll give you a short english lesson, because you don't seem to be qualified to teach your own children. You see, "your" is a possessive pronoun used to express just that, possession of an object, while "you're" is a contraction of "you are", what you were trying to say.
"Hey, just because their parents are xenophobic bigots who don't want their little darlings to associate with kids who are racially, religiously or ethnically different than they are, doesn't mean the kids are "weird", does it?"
you are an idiot. do not speak again.
I was homeschooled my entire life. I have always had plenty of friends through homeschool programs organized my parents who care. Lots of my friends are ethnically different; you are the racist one for even thinking that.
almost all of my best friends have different religious views. I dont have a problem with it, never did.
I went to public school last year and hated it. My friends dont do drugs or have sex in their spare time. I've been brought up with a strong sense of morals, and set up sports programs with my friends. I take college classes for high school, since my parents can no longer teach me. I will graduate high school a year early. How could my life possibly be any better in public school?
What is weird is you thinking such nonsense. My kids are around kids who are different than them every single day. If they went to public school they would not be exposed to as many racially, religiously or ethnically different children as they are being homeschooled. In public school, my kids would go to the very same school as every other child in their neighborhood.
When my kid went to private school he was only exposed to parents with money who wanted a Christian education. I think there was one Latino child in the entire school, two Chineese children and less than a dozen African American children.
I was homeschooled my whole life, received my GED at 16, attended Northwestern where I received a BA in Economics, then attended the University of Chicago where I received my law degree, graduating in my class' top 5%. I now practice law in St. Paul, Minnesota, where I make six-figures a year. My wife is a stock broker. I'm Buddhist, liberal and grew up in an inter-racial household. My father was a surgeon; my mother wrote for the Chicago Tribune. So much for homeschoolers being "rednecks".
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Unfortunately, you my friend are the exception to the rule. My newphew is currently being "homeschooled" by his high school drop out mother. If what you said is true, your parents were obviously more than qualified to teach you. Many aren't. Your point advocates on behalf of regulating this system that currently has zero oversight, especially in Illinois.
My comment was in response to the vast amount of discrimination that homeschoolers face on a daily basis in this country as the result of a stereotype created by the media and fueled by propagandist proponents of public education. I advocate that the rights of American families not be infringed upon by their overbearing government. I respect your opinion, though I do not agree with it.
@SunnDesert33 Lucky you - I was homeschooled by christian fundamentalists till 9th grade. I was taught that the world was going to end in my late teens so saw school as tangential to saving people from the wrath of God. My homeschooling enabled my church to molest me for two years under the pretense it was "God's law" and without external influenced I was left to discover it myself in the Bible and feared being put to death as the Bible said. The molesters took full advantage of this fear.
@SunnDesert33 You are not the only person to homeschool. Please don't apply your success which is readily attributable to you socio-economic class to begin with. You say yourself both your parents had high-level education and professional careers. I was homeschooled in a family of 5 making $25k a year, at good times. I will always be opposed to the legality of homeschooling for these reasons. You had everything, there are many home-school children who do not have parents like yours.
Homeschooling is little more than a trojan horse for fundies to teach creationism (which Huckabee subscribes to) and a way for backward Southern states to try to save a few bucks. For the vast majority of the population, there is no substitute for state-provided education, either because of practical or economic considerations (most parents have full time jobs).
I'm technically not opposed to homeschooling, but it should be accompanied by mandatory periodic state testing.
Our state does and always has required the homeschoolers to take the same dumbed down tests that government school children take. And guess what? They surpass the scores of kids in private and public schools almost every single time! Today's government education is creating a society of uneducated adults. I used to teach Remedial Math to 1st year college students so I am well aware of how high school graduates are seriously lacking in Math skills, it's down right pathetic!!!
Congrats to you, then. As I've said, technically I'm not opposed to homeschooling - assuming those who provided it have at least a BA. That said, mass education is *only* possible with gov't intervention - that's the way every modern, industrialized state does it in order to keep an innovative, high-tech economy working. Look at EU member states, especially Denmark, the Netherlands & Finland, which, according to internat'l tests, provide the *best* primary & secondary education in the world.
"mass education is *only* possible with gov't intervention - that's the way every modern, industrialized state does it in order to keep an innovative, high-tech economy working."
Homeschooling is proving to be SO successful that it's threatening the "institutionalize" system of schooling. If kids are getting a better education AND taking the burden off the public schools why would anyone criticize it? My observation is that only anti-Christians and their allies are critical of homeschooling.
I have been homeschooled since I was in second grade. I am in ninth grade now.I just recieved my standardized test scores and I scored in the ninety first percentile. I'm absolutely not saying I'm better or smarter than anyone in the public school system, but I know there are plenty homeschoolers out there that are good, respectable, people.Just something to think about,
Where in this video was there anything said about religion; this is about homeschooling ditzo! It's obvious where you went to school;you certainly don't have any esteem in yourself if you have such a grudge on those who are doing better than you obviously are. You can't even speak without using low-down gutter talk; don't have the vocabulary or just don't care? An obvious sign of lack of self worth.
2 years ago i was in reg. school and i was in the ER all my life becuase of school my teacher used to hit me and yell at me but then one say i just snapped and call her the b word n slapped her. my mom put me in homeschooling and i hate it! i wanna go back to a diff. school. i been to 13 schools in my life because of me hitting/calling teachers names and trying to hit other ppl but thats because they try to bully me n when u bully me ur dead. :( i hate homeschooling
This is America. Parents should have the right to decide what education is best for their kids, not the government. It's not about anti- or pro-public schools, or even anti- or pro-religion. You don't have to be Democrat or Republican to respect educational freedom.
Parents already DO decide their kids education. Assuming homeschooling is legal, they're already "responsible" for it. But you can't seriously claim that all parents know their kids. The choice should be left up to the KIDS. Why are kids miserable in school? Because their parents sent them there.
The problem with homeschooling is that the results vary widely. There should be structured laws to prevent the next generation from being under educated.
jonell caldwell was an ugly bitch in the little unsoalized war against not degradeing kids by locking them up at home. it's allways a good idea to sheild your children from the world and their suroundings. go jonell! :D
it takes a village.. hil hitler send them to the education factory.. follow the party line. ill dare people want the LIBERTY to raise there children as THAY see fit in this FREE country.. are LIBERALS for LIBERTY???
mike1111qq is the posterboy for the sad state of the American education system. Here we see someone with sub-par spelling and grammar skills. How is a person such as this qualified to teach children, given his inability to express himself in his *native* language? Absolutely disgraceful!
Liberal yuppy? Hahaha! I'm the son of white immigrant trash factory workers. That said, please don't send your kids to any tertiary education institution. People like me literally have a monopoly on dispensing university degrees and are hell-bent on turning the children of ignorant NASCAR Confederate-flag waving creationist rednecks into open-minded, cosmopolitan members of society.
wow i should feel ashamed of my self i should have vote for Huckabee but because I'm a black woman i went democrat I'm 100% for home-school and yes children don't belong to the state government for now on i will look at the candidate back ground not the color of skin or party they in.
Usually when I see these videos and people making comments supporting homeschooling (in California), they make themselves look like the innocent little group of rebels trying to break free of the big mean authority. It is in fact the other way around: the California supreme court is going way beyond its authoritative boundary and trying to deny the rights of the people. The people rightfully own the government, and it is making such a sad little effort to rebel against the people.
By the Constitution, the government is merely a guard to protect the security of the people and keep order by exercising justice, issuing a standard currency system, documenting citizens, managing visitors and immigrants, etc. The California court is now acting as if the people who created it are merely tools that it can use, shaping the future of the world as it pleases.
ya gurl is persistant, she aint stoppin I keep the purp by the pound the trunk stay bumpin, yall know we run the town hood nigga and i keep a bad bitch around thick bitch, long hair, yellow, white, red, brown hood nigga and my chevy sittin on 24's flats look like flapjacks, pancakes you aint know hood nigga im a play the game how it go they can take me out the hood but im a keep it hood folk
i'm homeschooled and i've never had social issues haha. i have friends who go to public and private school, and other homeschooled friends. it's chill.
Hey everyone, check out this video about how parents don't have a right to home school their kids. Here is the video: "Law News: No Constitutional Right to Homeschool"
fuck huckabee! i cant see his oldass running the whitehouse! i aint just gonna sit around and let some cracka ass pussy try to run where i live, on top of that, he's going to try to shove his "believe" shit down our throat! vote obama goddamnint! inless your a racest stuckup ass cracka pussy bitch. he's gona end the war and make shit beter! fuck huckabee he doesent give a shit about nothin sept homeschooling and relidion and shit. hit me up bitches! i wana see some replys and comments and shit.
um, first of all dude, you need to look into something before you go and make a jackass of yourself, yes, obama may be black, but if you actuly get off your lasy homeschooled ass and look him up, you will understand his true heritage. dont jump right to rasest shit because he is black, thats judgeing someone with in the bible says is "wrong". so, how do you like it when your own relidgion is forced back on you? go hide your face from the world somemore. maybe you'll die or something.
I was home schooled from 6 grade to graduation. I hated every single day of it, I had to go through therapy to learn how to interact with people, and I'm still anti social.
Sure I'm incredibly smart and ace all the tests because I had learning tailored to me, but at what cost? All the people I know who were home schooled have troubles with their social lives.
i was homeschooled, and while it may not have been the most social experience in my life, it was definately not traumatic. it just gives me an intersting background. and doggy, do you realize how ignorant and irrational you look when you use that language?
you gonna come to my house and stop me? if you vote huckabee, things may end up like nazi hitler shit... he wants to do-away with medicail weed... if people dont get it, they will go blind. there is proof it works. see, thats what i mean. he makes things harder than they really are by being so "inocent" and godley. like my good friend Theshiz said. i think he will run the country with bible thumper policies. come on people, i believe in god and i love him, but dont hide behind bible thumping.
fuck you cracka, trying to shove shit down peoples throat. it's the reason we have war, people shove shit down others throat. you racest bitch. im white, but i know a shitload of black people. goahed, say that to someones face see what happens. regaurdless of race, people who are black, oriental, whatever they are people. you stuckup bitch, i bet you think white people are fuckin god dont you? their not! when i see stuckup bitches like you it offends me. go suck a dick you racest bitch.
School did not work for my child. She was withdrawn at 6, knowing less and having less confidance than when she entered at 3.5. She was convinced she was stupid and had already been exposed to bullying. She wouldn't speak to any adults or children, and was constantly crying. She has far more confidance now, but we still have a long way to go to repair the damage school did her. We do live in a good area, but our schools are just the same as anywhere else,too busy too big to teach one on one.
My LEA Officer was a high school teacher and she said the teachers who had the most success were the ones who continued to learn along side the children. The ones who didn't were stagnant in their methods. The only qualifications needed to teach your children is A, the desire and B, the abillity to learn with them.
I've learnt more in teaching my children these past years than all my school years put together (I was a social butterfly and spent more time talking then learning).
Homeschooled kids can do much more than a public schooled kid. I, myself, am a homeschooled kid, and still am.
Here's a question for you people who believe homeschooling is bad; how many of you, or your kids, can recite the Declaration of Independence without looking it up? How many even know what it is? I can recite it, and I know what it is, and what it means for America.
Here's another one: How many public schooled kids know what the Constituion is without looking it up? How many know their rights? Every public schooled kid I've ever asked these things has looked at me with a stupid look on their face and said "What?"
If these kids don't even know what the Declaration is, then they're going to be to easy to control, and to easy to influence by someone else.
Yet another thing; all these public school shootings blamed on homeschooling. Here's a bit of a shocking statement; maybe if those kids in the public schools were homeschooled, they wouldn't have been in the school that had a crazed homeschooler in it, and therefor gotten killed.
I know it's cold, but it's the truth. I do not like to say it like that, but it really is the truth.
yeah.. alot of kids in school know what it is... and can recite it.. ploy the reason they looked at you stupid, is because... thats just not something you go up to a person and say.. example. i know nothing about this, i only learned a few things from my brother so dont call me nerdy or somthing. what if i just randomly walked up to you like in the mall or something, and asked you, "do you know in the third halflife, people think Gman is the dude you play as in the future??"what would you think?
Bravo Mike Huckabee. there are a lot of different reasons to homeschool because there are a lot of different problems with school. I've set out my views in a vid - THE PROBLEM WITH SCHOOL - and invite you to watch it and comment
SlowWalkHome 4 months ago
I'm coming from Germany, and (sadly), I'm in a public school. My dear classmates had fun mobbing me, and of course, no teacher noticed anything until I stopped going to school for 2 weeks. Public school prepare students for "the system", nothing else. Socializing? Each student I know doesn't leave the house during the week, they simply use the internet. >>
Rimfaxe96 8 months ago
Home Education was a great experience that allowed me to travel and to learn first hand. I met and socialized with several people all over the US. In HS(high school) I did well because of study skills and advanced courses I was allowed to take. My teacher was excellent, never pushed specific views on me,and she taught me it was okay to be whatever I wanted. I was very well adjusted for HS, while others were discovering who they were, I knew myself. Not to say I was perfect. I am only human.
OpiumPawala 11 months ago
DO NOT HOMESCHOOL YOUR CHILDREN. MY CHURCH MOLESTED AND RAPED well over a dozen boys over a decade. Had I had secular influence - I would have been aware that it was not "God's law" that ministers rape boys. Huckabee is friends with Lou Engle who is friends with Rich Manley, the primary organizer of this child-molestation gang: seekgod.ca/thecalldc.htm
DO NOT HOMESCHOOL! DO NOT FEED MOLESTERS IGNORANT, PLIABLE KIDS!
bloomingdedalus 1 year ago
@bloomingdedalus I was homeschooled by non-religious parents. I could read when I was 3 and when I was 8, I was reading on a 9th grade level. Which to my parents was lacking for an 8 year old. You are just a naive loser, that is why you were molested. Molesters go after losers like you because you lack any form of common sense. It's sad and uncalled for but true.
By the way... My parents were poor. My mothers best year was $11,000 gross and my dad received disability payments.
shartasticful 1 year ago
@shartasticful That's ridiculous - they go after sheltered and naive people. Your parents should be in jail for child abuse.
bloomingdedalus 1 year ago
@shartasticful In fact, your assertion is so naive and blatantly offensive that it only lends to the case that Homeschooling should be illegal because you clearly lack any perception of the existence of other people and differing experiences. Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers was allegedly molested by the same man as myself, he's not a loser, he's more wealthy than you'll ever be.
bloomingdedalus 1 year ago
@bloomingdedalus So you are one of those people that think money makes people higher than others? Go preach your bullshit somewhere else.
By the way. Keep that butthole closed, a preacher might try to fuck it.
shartasticful 1 year ago
@shartasticful Money does make people higher than others - it gives them a license to kill, allows them to manipulate huge groups of people, gives them access to the government that others can't get, gets them friends, allows them to invest and make more money, allows them to buy people and things... Money is everything little man.
bloomingdedalus 1 year ago
@bloomingdedalus Actually, money is a ploy for weak people that can't access those things throught force and coercion. Weak people use money to replace guts aka balls. Did the Bolsheviks have money when they accessed the Government of Russia and turned it into the U.S.S.R.? You are a fool that believes money is everything. It's great but not needed to make a point or statement that will forever be known throughout time on this planet.
shartasticful 1 year ago
@shartasticful Ok, if you can successfully submit the military and police to your will by being a one man invincible machine of force - money isn't everything. I think you will find it a lot harder than bending people to your will with large amounts of currency.
Better be careful about mocking molestation victims - if they don't do anything about these things - organizations who employ and protect child-molesters might just get their hands on your kid next. I don't think you'd laugh then.
bloomingdedalus 1 year ago
God bless you Mr. Mike.
saqib09 1 year ago
this just further emphasizes the statement, "Don't Mess With Texas!"
Bellerophon2200 1 year ago
Omg Mike is my dads bestfriend!!!!!
bueatyrocks 1 year ago
@bueatyrocks OMG, Mike is my child-raping minister's employer's friend!
bloomingdedalus 1 year ago
Keep it up Mike, your a blessing to Arkansas!
boltsc 1 year ago
Homeschooling can fix education along with just hiring private tooters.
cpblackangel88 2 years ago
There are all types of homeschool families just like there are all types of public school families. Homeschoolers are not any more weird than anyone else, and IMO, they generally have better values and less social problems over all. I could go on, but I strongly believe that homeschooling is BY FAR the best education option for nearly every family. Let's raise our own kids and quit giving them over to the government!
cpinokc 2 years ago 2
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I have heard horror stories about those weird homeschool kids....they drool alot, they talk to loud, they have dreams of killing babies....thank god i was never homeschooled.....
John69tea 2 years ago
I am homeshcooled.
I believe that the public school system fails at teaching kids!
I am way smarter than a lot of my friends.
Most of them do not remember simple math and english skills.
A homeschooled student can be taught whatever they want and not the garbage that public school teaches.
btw check out my channel. :P
CanonD265 2 years ago 17
@CanonD265 I agree that public schools suck, but at least it teaches kids to be sociable and not be arrogant and weird. Take your comment for example, "I am way smarter than a lot of my friends." I'm sure you are if you were home schooled, but you're also very arrogant. That's also a result of home schooling. I'd rather my kids have friends than know calculus.
shaunmason220 11 months ago
@shaunmason220 That's not "arrogance" it's "confidence" and it's a total different meaning. What is it with you people so worried about socialization? I guarantee u all 6 of my homeschooled kids ages 9-27 r more capable of socializing than any public school child. Cause my kids havn't been locked up 8-3 all daylight hrs most of their life. They get to interact with real people everyday! You wouldn't want ur hubby locked up but yet you send your children everyday. Ever wonder how ur child feels?
researchologist 11 months ago
@CanonD265 are you also going to teach me that the earth was made 4,000 years ago and dinosaurs coexisted with humans?
claton95 4 months ago
It's really wonderful to see how many people don't understand the issue at hand. They talk about how the homeschoolers don't understand evolution, religion, etc. Off topic: this is complete rubish. Homeschoolers dominate the spelling bee, and other academic contests. The real topic is about what the role of government should be. Should they be allowed to force your children into their system? In a free country, everbody should have the right to live their lives without the intervention of Gov.
sirglickness 2 years ago 7
The government is very lucky that time has shown Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein correct, i.e. that genes are more important than environment. That's the only reason many brilliant students still come from the public schools, because public education has deteriorated. Almost nobody intelligent goes into teaching. They go to these useless teacher colleges which are so dumbed down it's incredible. Everybody should have the right to keep their children away from the beuracracy.
sirglickness 2 years ago
homeschooling is not useless i was puplic schooled till 2 grade then i was raped by this kid in high school homeschool helped me get through what hapened to and is i mean i have lot of friends.really homeschoolers are just like puplic schooled kids i just do my school at home so give us homeschooled kids a brake were all homeschooled for a reason.
jacksonsavannah09 2 years ago 4
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This is pathetic! Home schooling is useless... that's the kind of thing that breeds idiots who think the world is 6000 yrs old etc... morons!
pubuman 2 years ago
Darwin ain't never put food on my plate.
lcamp1977 2 years ago
Er... I didn't say anything about Darwin - and actually he did. A lot of crops etc that are grown these days have been developed through the understanding of how evolution works - which without Darwin would not have been possible. Stop being so ignorant!
pubuman 2 years ago
@pubuman
Darwin doubts his own theory and his family line no longer exists because of his theory.
ever heard of eugenics?
and darwin did not do anything with crops as some may think.
juggernautxtr 1 year ago
What the hell are you talking about? Darwin didn't doubt his own theory, stop making up non sense. And I said a lot of what is done in crop science would not be possible without an understanding of evolution (hence the "which without Darwin would not have been possible") - not that Darwin did a lot of work on crops... learn to read!
pubuman 1 year ago
umm you better read the book again buddy darwin did doubt his own theory.
juggernautxtr 1 year ago
What book? Are you talking about the Origin of Species ? Care to point me to where he doubts his own theory?
pubuman 1 year ago
in his own words
"as there is not enough evidence to support my theory i dought it's validity."
quote#2Darwin confessed, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."
juggernautxtr 1 year ago
The first quote is not even real. As for the second one, why don't you write down the full quote here? It continues like this "Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case;
pubuman 1 year ago
cont; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real.""
pubuman 1 year ago
both quotes from darwins books you better learn to read if you haven't yet dude.
juggernautxtr 1 year ago
Yeah, except you ignored the full quote in the first case (read what I wrote - that's the rest of that quote). The first one is not from anything he ever wrote, its a common lie spewed by creationists... please cite the book in which he said the first quote.
pubuman 1 year ago
Are you incapable of reading through an entire paragraph? Darwin clearly goes onto say that although it might seem absurd reason tells us that it isnt so absurd. Read the actual book instead of quote mined bits of information on idiotic creationist websites!
pubuman 1 year ago
Why are you resorting to such dishonest practices? Its shameful!
pubuman 1 year ago
dishonest is you saying that what he said is a lie.
sounds to me like your taking someone else's word for it in stead of reading the damn book.
are you another dumbed down public school moron?
juggernautxtr 1 year ago
If I didnt read the book how would I know the full quote, which shows he's saying the opposite thing to what you said he is saying? If YOU read the book you would have realized that the things you quoted were wrong! How do you explain the full quote? Liar!
pubuman 1 year ago
w00t 4 arkansas education! w00t w00t
poopstainsmcgee 2 years ago
abitcrunchy is obviously an egomaniac with an inferiority complex: eternally laboring under the delusion that the world will simply fall apart if he/she doesn't post an opinion umpteen times. What a fucking bore.
BenAliGtor 2 years ago
You have nothing intellectual or helpful to say so you just resort to name calling and hatefulness? How pathetic!
Sounds like you're the one with some sort of complex. Get a life!
abitcrunchy 2 years ago
You are so ignorant to assume that homeschool means never leaving the house!
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UltimoQueso 2 years ago
I havent heard about homeschooling before! I cant say if its right or wrong but I wonder how come the parents have so much time to raise their children and be professors and teachers at the same time! Dont they have to go to work or something so they can afford to pay for them to go to college for instance... this is a really hard job they have chosen.
mycophenolatmophetil 2 years ago
They believe it's worth it. I also believe that if the funds followed their kids where they wanted like in Belgium they probably wouldn't homeschool. They just want their kids to have the best education they can provide and I can't blame them for that. Unfortunately our educational system has become a racket for extracting dollars from citizens and citizens don't get what they paid for which supposed to be better education in our schools.
pdxeddie1111 2 years ago
We don't have professors in our government schools. Our government can barely afford to pay teachers so the pay is well under what a college professor would earn. When people choose to be teachers, their college education is a lot about how to control the classroom, how to maintain the political correctness and how to deal with crazy parents. Homeschool parents are only teaching what they themselves learned in K-12. If you can write and read then you can teach from a school textbook!
abitcrunchy 2 years ago 3
GOOGLE up "stupid in America" 20/20 special it confirms what I've suspected about public schools for quite awhile. That their too over bloated and inefficient. Pay attention to the Belgium school that's what I'd like to see happen in America. Screw the bureaucracy.
pdxeddie1111 2 years ago
I watched that when it first came out, it's hard to watch. I know that if many parents had any clue what goes on in schools, they would be shocked. The reason that parents don't know is because school systems and teachers have special protection from lawsuits. Not only that, the media rarely reports on the reality of what's actually going on. They hide every little incident that can be hidden. The ones that can't be hidden are toned down and are hardly mentioned.
abitcrunchy 2 years ago 3
I'll tell you when I turned against the school district and figured it for the racket it is. In Oregon they passed the state lottery out the assumption that profits would be going to the schools. It turned out that it that very little went to the schools and then they wanted to raise taxes specifically for schools. I realized then it was a racket and they actually keep kids dumb for an excuse to extract more money from the public.
pdxeddie1111 2 years ago
You know, the same happened here in GA. We got the lottery and it was only about 2 years later that I started hearing about how we needed more money for schools. My husband and I didn't have kids at the time. We kept asking ourselves "What are they doing with the money?" Because we know the money is there...the lottery is big business. The word "racket" certainly fits!
abitcrunchy 2 years ago 3
From the report - "We tried to bring "20/20" cameras into New York City schools to see for ourselves and show you what's going on in the schools, but officials wouldn't allow it. "
Hum...wonder why!
abitcrunchy 2 years ago 4
Its always good when goverment has less to say!
dealerovski82 3 years ago
That's why Gov. Huckabee passed the law to protect home schooled kids and their parents.
bunnyluv41 3 years ago
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Fuck Huckabee, and you, "Bunny".
BenAliGtor 3 years ago
I've seen success and failure with homeschooling. Children who are isolated from society fare less well.
Isabella8466 3 years ago
That's a lie! My sister home schools her children, and they have a co-op that gets together, and my nieces graduated with honors!! Unless you have done it for your children, shut up and stop bashing home schooling!!
bunnyluv41 3 years ago
Within three sentences you have called me a liar, denied my familial experience without knowing what it is, and told me to shut up.
TOS seems to be a personal issue for you. I'll simply mark this as spam.
Isabella8466 3 years ago
You just gave your opinion, wow some people just get you on anything lol!
RockyBalboa211 3 years ago
I was just sayin' :)
Isabella8466 3 years ago
I never enter a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
Isabella8466 3 years ago 2
There has been success and failure with any kind of schooling. The whole point is to be able teach your children the way you think they need to be taught. Most parents (not all) are very aware of what their children need to succeed. Because of homeschooling my children are able to take so many classes that follow their interests at their particular level. They can spend more time doing the things they love and less time being taught to pass tests mandated by the govt.
JJandKKole 2 years ago
As I've stated in other posts I've seen both. My sister failed at home schooling for several reasons. My sons have done well in public schools, and have been fortunate enough to have parents actively involved in their education.
Isabella8466 2 years ago
We're on the same page. No prob. Choice is all I ask. Glad to hear your sons are doing well. One of my daughters would probably do well in public school, but she chose to be homeschooled for now...
JJandKKole 2 years ago
As a taxpayer, my only real objection to home schooling is when the home schooled brats want a slot on a school team,a place in the school band, or other such exercises in cafeteria-style public school enrollment. Scares resourses are then expended on non-enrolled students for which the district doesn't receive per capita state funding.
Fortunately, our local districts don't allow this sort of pick-and-choose nonsense: if you want the perks of the public school, you have to enroll your kid.
BenAliGtor 3 years ago
If the government can manage Band, Track and Football - just what makes you think that a group of homeschoolers can not??? Our group has all that plus proms, dances and graduation ceremonies. In addition we have many resources that are not available to the public schools, like a swim team and clubs such as Astrology and Chess and other Science clubs. Some activities require equipment that often gets destroyed by public school kids so the ps kids don't get the same learning opportunities.
abitcrunchy 2 years ago
THANK YOU.
david69f 3 years ago
im gonna let my kids do watever they want. schools are prisons. education is a service provided by the government, not a mandated requirment.
bigajosep 3 years ago 2
i think education is a law
pdxeddie1111 3 years ago 2
we have to obey the laws so we can leave harmoniously in a society. If we dont obey them it would have been a total chaos in our lives!
mycophenolatmophetil 2 years ago
and the laws must respect the constitution , and the civil rights ,
the laws are for the people,..
the people are nor for the law...
enricucho33 2 years ago
the laws should not violate people's rights this is a law.the people are not for the law, it sounds like we are enslaved to respect them, as you see so many people act without thinkin. they just act on their primitive instincts like they are in a jungle and try to survive.the dangers are other this time but obeying the laws can give us so much more protection.people are making the laws.they are idealists, it doesn't mean thought that they will respect them, you see yourself doesnt want to do so
mycophenolatmophetil 2 years ago
live***********
mycophenolatmophetil 2 years ago
i was homeschooled my whole life and i hated it. it turned me into a momma's boy she was the only person i new since i never got out of my house (partly due cuz it took me forever to get my subjects done) religion being shoved down my throat constantly made it even worse (i'm a preachers son) when i was welcomed to the REAL world, i STILL don't feel socialable still uncomfortable talking to more than one person at a time. it pisses me off! i feel i need to take some sort of special social class
iceddust69 3 years ago
Feeling uncomfortable speaking to more then 1 person at a time, sounds more like you're an introvert then it being due to hs'ing....check out your myers briggs personality. And smothering mothers are a problem whether you're hs'ed or not....I know by experience.
APA892005 3 years ago 4
i'm a product of public education and I'm introverted so maybe people like us just gotta get out there and kick life in the nuts.
pdxeddie1111 3 years ago
Im sorry that you missed so much ..people have to learn to socialise since they are kids so it can come out naturally
mycophenolatmophetil 2 years ago
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Too bad the people that are home schooled are weird...
Willemims 3 years ago
There's plenty of weird public schooled kids. I bet the ratios would be higher there.
APA892005 3 years ago 6
"Too bad the people that are home schooled are weird... "
Hey, just because their parents are xenophobic bigots who don't want their little darlings to associate with kids who are racially, religiously or ethnically different than they are, doesn't mean the kids are "weird", does it?
BenAliGtor 3 years ago
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The problem with homeschooling is that people who want to homeschool their children do so out of ignorance, because they're afraid of the "left-wing propaganda" in the public school system, which sane people understand to be "reality". Homeschooling allows the religious extreme right to indoctrinate a new generation of ignorants, to teach them only their own personal values, and hide them from any opposing opinion.
tirentu 3 years ago
Well stated, tirentu.
BenAliGtor 3 years ago
i home school my kids and it is so so much fun and my kids love it so fuck u.
mathew7678 3 years ago
I don't know why, but for some reason I feel sick to the stomach that people who can take such offense and respond in such an immature way are allowed to act as surrogate teachers for their children.
tirentu 2 years ago
tirentu: Homeschoolers on average are superior in achievement than public school students and that is why wise parents have opted to do the work themselves. The Colorado system is so bad they are drastically changing this next term and doing away with grade levels. Our school systems have made "failing" decisions for decades but even worse are parents that have equally failed by not taking the responsibility and leadership to provide homes conducive to their child's learning and discipline.
visualvirtue 3 years ago
My problem isn't with the concept of homeschooling, it's how it restricts outside influences during important developmental stages. While I'm sure all homeschoolers aren't crazy fundamentalist nuts, I know for sure that some are. I'm also sure that many parents aren't as qualified as high school teachers to, well, teach.
tirentu 2 years ago
tirentu: I'm not a parent but if I were I WOULD WANT RESTRICTION OF OUTSIDE INFLUENCES because that is how learning happens by focusing on the needed subjects. More often now we see and hear news reports about outrageous distractions like teachers molesting students. For every bad report about homeschooling it pales in comparison to what's happening at public institutions not the least of which is lack of learning the good stuff!
visualvirtue 2 years ago
I'm not referring to negative outside influences (say, drugs, alcohol, 4chan), but rather the influence in general of the world outside the house. Of course there are dangerous aspects to, well, life in general, and keeping children away from them throughout their developmental stages doesn't adequately prepare them for reality. That's my problem with homeschooling - and I don't think most parents are qualified to educate their children. Not only in an educational sense, but in a general one.
tirentu 2 years ago
Why in the world do people think that homeschoolers never leave the house???
And what does "reality" have to do with being restricted to a room of same-age students for 6 hours a day or more?
abitcrunchy 2 years ago
Well, many parents are more qualified than many high school teachers (at least in latin america). The kids can get outside influences in free courses of foreign idioms, Dance, Music, Boy Scouts,sculpture, ..i am a very enthusiast of homeschooling, believe me , in Central America, the education system stinks...
enricucho33 2 years ago 3
The religous extreme.hum.. I know many people who homeschool that are not religious in fact some are athiest, they do it because of the quality of education they desire for their children. Which I can tell you had very little because of your lack of intellingent use of words. (Public School?) I would suggest educating yourself before you start trashing others for caring about their kids. Oh- by the way we teach english and speech at 10am at our home, your welcome to stop by for a lesson anytime!
happymomtomany 2 years ago
I would suggest that you leave the ad hominem attacks by the wayside before you continue with your criticism. I'm a grade 12 student, and you can't spell intelligent. Or atheist. And you misuse "your".
Here, I'll give you a short english lesson, because you don't seem to be qualified to teach your own children. You see, "your" is a possessive pronoun used to express just that, possession of an object, while "you're" is a contraction of "you are", what you were trying to say.
kthxbai
tirentu 2 years ago
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"Hey, just because their parents are xenophobic bigots who don't want their little darlings to associate with kids who are racially, religiously or ethnically different than they are, doesn't mean the kids are "weird", does it?"
you are an idiot. do not speak again.
I was homeschooled my entire life. I have always had plenty of friends through homeschool programs organized my parents who care. Lots of my friends are ethnically different; you are the racist one for even thinking that.
UltimoQueso 2 years ago
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UltimoQueso 2 years ago
cont*
almost all of my best friends have different religious views. I dont have a problem with it, never did.
I went to public school last year and hated it. My friends dont do drugs or have sex in their spare time. I've been brought up with a strong sense of morals, and set up sports programs with my friends. I take college classes for high school, since my parents can no longer teach me. I will graduate high school a year early. How could my life possibly be any better in public school?
UltimoQueso 2 years ago
"do not speak again."
Well, guess what? I AM speaking again, you miserable little cock sucker ! LOL
BenAliGtor 2 years ago
Wow, you really outsmarted me there.
UltimoQueso 2 years ago
What is weird is you thinking such nonsense. My kids are around kids who are different than them every single day. If they went to public school they would not be exposed to as many racially, religiously or ethnically different children as they are being homeschooled. In public school, my kids would go to the very same school as every other child in their neighborhood.
abitcrunchy 2 years ago
When my kid went to private school he was only exposed to parents with money who wanted a Christian education. I think there was one Latino child in the entire school, two Chineese children and less than a dozen African American children.
abitcrunchy 2 years ago
ron paul was bigger on homeschooling then mike huckabee
la8erdude 3 years ago
I was homeschooled my whole life, received my GED at 16, attended Northwestern where I received a BA in Economics, then attended the University of Chicago where I received my law degree, graduating in my class' top 5%. I now practice law in St. Paul, Minnesota, where I make six-figures a year. My wife is a stock broker. I'm Buddhist, liberal and grew up in an inter-racial household. My father was a surgeon; my mother wrote for the Chicago Tribune. So much for homeschoolers being "rednecks".
SunnDesert33 3 years ago 17
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Unfortunately, you my friend are the exception to the rule. My newphew is currently being "homeschooled" by his high school drop out mother. If what you said is true, your parents were obviously more than qualified to teach you. Many aren't. Your point advocates on behalf of regulating this system that currently has zero oversight, especially in Illinois.
Bunny456 3 years ago
My comment was in response to the vast amount of discrimination that homeschoolers face on a daily basis in this country as the result of a stereotype created by the media and fueled by propagandist proponents of public education. I advocate that the rights of American families not be infringed upon by their overbearing government. I respect your opinion, though I do not agree with it.
SunnDesert33 3 years ago 13
@SunnDesert33 Lucky you - I was homeschooled by christian fundamentalists till 9th grade. I was taught that the world was going to end in my late teens so saw school as tangential to saving people from the wrath of God. My homeschooling enabled my church to molest me for two years under the pretense it was "God's law" and without external influenced I was left to discover it myself in the Bible and feared being put to death as the Bible said. The molesters took full advantage of this fear.
bloomingdedalus 1 year ago
@SunnDesert33 You are not the only person to homeschool. Please don't apply your success which is readily attributable to you socio-economic class to begin with. You say yourself both your parents had high-level education and professional careers. I was homeschooled in a family of 5 making $25k a year, at good times. I will always be opposed to the legality of homeschooling for these reasons. You had everything, there are many home-school children who do not have parents like yours.
bloomingdedalus 1 year ago
homeschooling is a lot better than school
kid4jesus 3 years ago 6
old hippies brains are mush..
mike1111qq 3 years ago
not a big fan of homeschooling but with the way schools are thes days it seems to be the better way to go.
taiken5968 3 years ago 2
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wow... yeah it needs fixed alright.
homeschooling sucks... I know from experience unfortunately...
pinksocksandstufff 3 years ago
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I know a guy [bible beater with IQ of less than 80] whos 22 year old son raped a 13 year girl....
yeah- homeschool.....
make a more stupider america.
fuck chuck and all bibleBeaters
groanmaggot 3 years ago
And something like that couldn't happen with kids in a public b&M school?Why blame homeschool for it?
sagwasundae 3 years ago 2
And that is different than a public school kid who rapes a 13 year old girl - on the school campus?
abitcrunchy 2 years ago
Homeschooling is little more than a trojan horse for fundies to teach creationism (which Huckabee subscribes to) and a way for backward Southern states to try to save a few bucks. For the vast majority of the population, there is no substitute for state-provided education, either because of practical or economic considerations (most parents have full time jobs).
I'm technically not opposed to homeschooling, but it should be accompanied by mandatory periodic state testing.
FranklyMisterShankly 3 years ago
Right on. Homeschooling should be subject to the same minimum standards as public ed.
Bunny456 3 years ago
Public Schools have a minimum standard? How often is a public school closed down because their students aren't doing well academically?
Davidizer 3 years ago 4
Our state does and always has required the homeschoolers to take the same dumbed down tests that government school children take. And guess what? They surpass the scores of kids in private and public schools almost every single time! Today's government education is creating a society of uneducated adults. I used to teach Remedial Math to 1st year college students so I am well aware of how high school graduates are seriously lacking in Math skills, it's down right pathetic!!!
abitcrunchy 2 years ago
Congrats to you, then. As I've said, technically I'm not opposed to homeschooling - assuming those who provided it have at least a BA. That said, mass education is *only* possible with gov't intervention - that's the way every modern, industrialized state does it in order to keep an innovative, high-tech economy working. Look at EU member states, especially Denmark, the Netherlands & Finland, which, according to internat'l tests, provide the *best* primary & secondary education in the world.
FranklyMisterShankly 2 years ago
"mass education is *only* possible with gov't intervention - that's the way every modern, industrialized state does it in order to keep an innovative, high-tech economy working."
Well that explains it then.
abitcrunchy 2 years ago
Homeschooling is proving to be SO successful that it's threatening the "institutionalize" system of schooling. If kids are getting a better education AND taking the burden off the public schools why would anyone criticize it? My observation is that only anti-Christians and their allies are critical of homeschooling.
randy95023 3 years ago
I have been homeschooled since I was in second grade. I am in ninth grade now.I just recieved my standardized test scores and I scored in the ninety first percentile. I'm absolutely not saying I'm better or smarter than anyone in the public school system, but I know there are plenty homeschoolers out there that are good, respectable, people.Just something to think about,
Thanks
rang3king15 3 years ago 5
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This piece of shit is bound and determined to turn this secular country into a theocracy.....the people have spoken......
GO GET FUCKED HUCK !!!
Support Science not Superstition !!!!!
PissOnChristians 3 years ago
Where in this video was there anything said about religion; this is about homeschooling ditzo! It's obvious where you went to school;you certainly don't have any esteem in yourself if you have such a grudge on those who are doing better than you obviously are. You can't even speak without using low-down gutter talk; don't have the vocabulary or just don't care? An obvious sign of lack of self worth.
jedially 3 years ago
Yes ladies and gentlemen ... this is the product of the public school system.
theoneandonlyDoot 3 years ago
2 years ago i was in reg. school and i was in the ER all my life becuase of school my teacher used to hit me and yell at me but then one say i just snapped and call her the b word n slapped her. my mom put me in homeschooling and i hate it! i wanna go back to a diff. school. i been to 13 schools in my life because of me hitting/calling teachers names and trying to hit other ppl but thats because they try to bully me n when u bully me ur dead. :( i hate homeschooling
JillianCurtis12 3 years ago
siunds more like your attitude, than people.
Yes teachers and students can be rough, but when you already have a chip on your shoulder, then you will see things worse than they are
bloodbought4life 3 years ago
This is America. Parents should have the right to decide what education is best for their kids, not the government. It's not about anti- or pro-public schools, or even anti- or pro-religion. You don't have to be Democrat or Republican to respect educational freedom.
heavytomthumb 3 years ago 2
Parents already DO decide their kids education. Assuming homeschooling is legal, they're already "responsible" for it. But you can't seriously claim that all parents know their kids. The choice should be left up to the KIDS. Why are kids miserable in school? Because their parents sent them there.
youvebeenthunderstru 3 years ago 4
The problem with homeschooling is that the results vary widely. There should be structured laws to prevent the next generation from being under educated.
onenessbaycity 3 years ago
jonell caldwell was an ugly bitch in the little unsoalized war against not degradeing kids by locking them up at home. it's allways a good idea to sheild your children from the world and their suroundings. go jonell! :D
howtoball101 3 years ago 2
it takes a village.. hil hitler send them to the education factory.. follow the party line. ill dare people want the LIBERTY to raise there children as THAY see fit in this FREE country.. are LIBERALS for LIBERTY???
mike1111qq 3 years ago
mike1111qq is the posterboy for the sad state of the American education system. Here we see someone with sub-par spelling and grammar skills. How is a person such as this qualified to teach children, given his inability to express himself in his *native* language? Absolutely disgraceful!
FranklyMisterShankly 3 years ago 2
and i dont want my kids anywhere near an analretentive elitist liberal yuppy fucktard such as you and your kind....
mike1111qq 3 years ago
Liberal yuppy? Hahaha! I'm the son of white immigrant trash factory workers. That said, please don't send your kids to any tertiary education institution. People like me literally have a monopoly on dispensing university degrees and are hell-bent on turning the children of ignorant NASCAR Confederate-flag waving creationist rednecks into open-minded, cosmopolitan members of society.
FranklyMisterShankly 3 years ago 3
yeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaa !!
alvarodelamo 3 years ago
wow i should feel ashamed of my self i should have vote for Huckabee but because I'm a black woman i went democrat I'm 100% for home-school and yes children don't belong to the state government for now on i will look at the candidate back ground not the color of skin or party they in.
ecloveanimals 3 years ago 3
Yay for homeschooling! Go Huckabee!!
rosey4exclaim 3 years ago 3
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nobody likes homeschoolers.
home school kids, do us all a favor,
the bridge is that way ----->
howtoball101 3 years ago
go balla101!
=D
theshizproductions 3 years ago
yeeeeeee nigga!
howtoball101 3 years ago
Usually when I see these videos and people making comments supporting homeschooling (in California), they make themselves look like the innocent little group of rebels trying to break free of the big mean authority. It is in fact the other way around: the California supreme court is going way beyond its authoritative boundary and trying to deny the rights of the people. The people rightfully own the government, and it is making such a sad little effort to rebel against the people.
h4l0gen 3 years ago
By the Constitution, the government is merely a guard to protect the security of the people and keep order by exercising justice, issuing a standard currency system, documenting citizens, managing visitors and immigrants, etc. The California court is now acting as if the people who created it are merely tools that it can use, shaping the future of the world as it pleases.
h4l0gen 3 years ago
doggylife023 3 years ago
Those kids are freaks.
skyfire1 3 years ago
exatly... i cant stand awkward ass people... i like seeing red thumbs down. it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
=]
doggylife023 3 years ago
i'm homeschooled and i've never had social issues haha. i have friends who go to public and private school, and other homeschooled friends. it's chill.
66rox 3 years ago 4
Hey everyone, check out this video about how parents don't have a right to home school their kids. Here is the video: "Law News: No Constitutional Right to Homeschool"
253169 3 years ago
fuck huckabee! i cant see his oldass running the whitehouse! i aint just gonna sit around and let some cracka ass pussy try to run where i live, on top of that, he's going to try to shove his "believe" shit down our throat! vote obama goddamnint! inless your a racest stuckup ass cracka pussy bitch. he's gona end the war and make shit beter! fuck huckabee he doesent give a shit about nothin sept homeschooling and relidion and shit. hit me up bitches! i wana see some replys and comments and shit.
theshizproductions 3 years ago
would you rather (h)obama run the country and turn it into Africa?
rockondiehard 3 years ago
um, first of all dude, you need to look into something before you go and make a jackass of yourself, yes, obama may be black, but if you actuly get off your lasy homeschooled ass and look him up, you will understand his true heritage. dont jump right to rasest shit because he is black, thats judgeing someone with in the bible says is "wrong". so, how do you like it when your own relidgion is forced back on you? go hide your face from the world somemore. maybe you'll die or something.
doggylife023 3 years ago
so you just assume I said that because he is black? you need a little more information before you should those kind of assumptions
rockondiehard 3 years ago
shut your rascest ass.
theshizproductions 3 years ago
hahahahahahahaha omfg.. im sorry but that was so funny !!!
Giovanni8874 3 years ago
lol comments and shit.. i can give u shit but im too tired to comment.
Giovanni8874 3 years ago
quotes from the bible and shit?
get a life.
theshizproductions 3 years ago
there arent armed guards in the uk thats just rubbish
murraymcmillan 3 years ago
I was home schooled from 6 grade to graduation. I hated every single day of it, I had to go through therapy to learn how to interact with people, and I'm still anti social.
Sure I'm incredibly smart and ace all the tests because I had learning tailored to me, but at what cost? All the people I know who were home schooled have troubles with their social lives.
kmtopper 3 years ago
exatly, they act werid and whatnot. i just dont see the point inless you really, really need to.
doggylife023 3 years ago
i was homeschooled, and while it may not have been the most social experience in my life, it was definately not traumatic. it just gives me an intersting background. and doggy, do you realize how ignorant and irrational you look when you use that language?
brandigirlio 3 years ago 3
you gonna come to my house and stop me? if you vote huckabee, things may end up like nazi hitler shit... he wants to do-away with medicail weed... if people dont get it, they will go blind. there is proof it works. see, thats what i mean. he makes things harder than they really are by being so "inocent" and godley. like my good friend Theshiz said. i think he will run the country with bible thumper policies. come on people, i believe in god and i love him, but dont hide behind bible thumping.
doggylife023 3 years ago 2
I agree with this guy. I have the same king of issues because I'm homeschooled. Though my brother had it worse and he dropped out at grade 7.
skyfire1 3 years ago
fuck you cracka, trying to shove shit down peoples throat. it's the reason we have war, people shove shit down others throat. you racest bitch. im white, but i know a shitload of black people. goahed, say that to someones face see what happens. regaurdless of race, people who are black, oriental, whatever they are people. you stuckup bitch, i bet you think white people are fuckin god dont you? their not! when i see stuckup bitches like you it offends me. go suck a dick you racest bitch.
doggylife023 3 years ago
School did not work for my child. She was withdrawn at 6, knowing less and having less confidance than when she entered at 3.5. She was convinced she was stupid and had already been exposed to bullying. She wouldn't speak to any adults or children, and was constantly crying. She has far more confidance now, but we still have a long way to go to repair the damage school did her. We do live in a good area, but our schools are just the same as anywhere else,too busy too big to teach one on one.
hicsumfabulalepus 3 years ago 3
My LEA Officer was a high school teacher and she said the teachers who had the most success were the ones who continued to learn along side the children. The ones who didn't were stagnant in their methods. The only qualifications needed to teach your children is A, the desire and B, the abillity to learn with them.
I've learnt more in teaching my children these past years than all my school years put together (I was a social butterfly and spent more time talking then learning).
hicsumfabulalepus 3 years ago
All right, I wasn't going to, but I'm going to.
Homeschooled kids can do much more than a public schooled kid. I, myself, am a homeschooled kid, and still am.
Here's a question for you people who believe homeschooling is bad; how many of you, or your kids, can recite the Declaration of Independence without looking it up? How many even know what it is? I can recite it, and I know what it is, and what it means for America.
Lairial1 3 years ago
Here's another one: How many public schooled kids know what the Constituion is without looking it up? How many know their rights? Every public schooled kid I've ever asked these things has looked at me with a stupid look on their face and said "What?"
If these kids don't even know what the Declaration is, then they're going to be to easy to control, and to easy to influence by someone else.
Lairial1 3 years ago
Yet another thing; all these public school shootings blamed on homeschooling. Here's a bit of a shocking statement; maybe if those kids in the public schools were homeschooled, they wouldn't have been in the school that had a crazed homeschooler in it, and therefor gotten killed.
I know it's cold, but it's the truth. I do not like to say it like that, but it really is the truth.
Lairial1 3 years ago
I could go on all day with facts that homeschooling can produce better people later in life, but I'll restrain myself.
Lairial1 3 years ago
yeah.. alot of kids in school know what it is... and can recite it.. ploy the reason they looked at you stupid, is because... thats just not something you go up to a person and say.. example. i know nothing about this, i only learned a few things from my brother so dont call me nerdy or somthing. what if i just randomly walked up to you like in the mall or something, and asked you, "do you know in the third halflife, people think Gman is the dude you play as in the future??"what would you think?
doggylife023 3 years ago