Mount Vernon Tour

Homeschool tour of Mount Vernon and grounds.

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[bduhe219]

but i do understand your point. the size and complexity of the federal system is overwhelming and can make an individual feel unimportant. i do feel the same way at times. i am not happy with 45% of what our government does ..but i need to look at the majority i can understand and hope for a better tommorow.

[bduhe219]

...and to petition our government when we disagree. what empowers us as citizens is our vote. the right to vote is sacred...i think it should even be compulsory to vote in every election. in that we empower the people to choose the government they have and stop belly acheing about it. i think more peole want a government that looks to protect it's citizens and not make necessities in life a privelige of the wealty and influental, but to lay a common ground. oh my...i could go on for days...

[bduhe219]

...i did not created it. i choose to look at people in general 9including our elected officals) as people who go to washington to serve. money (with it's power to help re-elect people) has made the waters of politics very dirty and i am afraid until that power of influence is removed, we will be weighted down forever. i do not think that pelosi ment if you disagree with your government you are a terriost. i think you may have that statement out of context. it is our right to disagree, protest,..

[bduhe219]

i do not fear the government. i think there are many in power who do not focus on what is important, but that is a world problem not confined to the U.S. really though, if there was something of minee, or yours for that matter, that they wanted they would find a legal way of obtaining it. that goes for a rich man of finance, a bank or anyone who had powerful connections. i am not glad of that, but that is the system handed down from generation to generation. i wish it was not this way, but...

[julieification]

@bduhe219 I am not offended by you speaking your mind. I DO distrust the govt. Pelosi stated that all who do are terrorists. So I guess I will be tracked down for this reason as well.

[bduhe219]

@julieification ..remove my post i will. i am just concerned by the misinformation many parent feed their children. i wish our public schools would broaden arts and language and develop a childs spirit and adventure along with the general studies that already are on the agenda. i hope you would agree that a child needs more than what is offered to develop ionto a great person in the future. a society is measure in it's arts and development when all these things are encouraged. thanks

[bduhe219]

@julieification i never once singlesd you out to be the poiint of my objection to this method of home schooling. i never once called you a bad parent for doing this. i stated all my objections from many articles i have read, opinions from teachers as well as members on school boards. i can only say you are an example of how it should be done if an educated parent wishes to broaden their childs educational development. the majority of home schooling parent s are not. if you would like me to...

[bduhe219]

@julieification away from what they deem a "liberal agenda" of schools. as a liberal i am always offended by that gerneralization of an amorlal view of liberals. i think that perception is havested in a "conservative" minded family centered agenda. but...i do not think all conservatives bigots as i would hope consevatives would not think all liberals amoral degenerates. i will end it at that. from yyour comments i take it you are offended by mny assertions of my opinions on home schooling.

[bduhe219]

@julieification ..than good. i have studies the montissory method and fine a liberal arts crriculum and maybe secondary emphisis on general studies a differnt approach to widing a differnt side of the brain (if you know what i mean)....fo me i wish homeschooling was more in this line and public schools as well. i was stating a geralization when i said most home schoolers are isolated from the real world...in most cases on purpose. many families choose taht method to keep their children.....

[bduhe219]

@julieification ...but i will say i fault a govenment who devales the importance of health care, arts, and work opportunity development over tax breaks for those who do not need them and put the burrden of the cost of governmrnt on the backs of middle-class, poor and many who cannot afford to contribute more. i do not think an open exposure to cultures and the development of yhoung miinds to dream to be a bad thinig. i think a conservative crriculum in schools are stagnant and cause more harm...