I graduated from a public high school and a public college.
Anyone else attend and graduate from a public school?

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I respect your right to have your own opinion,but I do not necessarily respect your opinion.

I read a lot of opinions on this thread.Any facts to back up the rhetoric?

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I respect your right to have your own opinion,but I do not necessarily respect your opinion.

I shore dun did!

I provided facts in my last long post. If you want links--LIIIIINNNKKKKSSSSSSS!!!--then no, I don't have links---LIIIIIIINNNKKKKKKSSSSS!!!!

Tokie

It was an editorial from a website. Largely based on the opinion of the writer...


This whole thread is people expressing there opinions on the matter of education...


Why don't you just get a wikipedia account and go argue NPOV issues with people?

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"It is the Right of the People to alter or abolish the Government"
Declaration of Independence
"Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself."
Thomas Jefferson
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
Milton Friedman

LOL

No, really...an "argument" where all the opponents do is see who can post the mostest links--LIIIINNNKKKKSSSSS!!!--the fastesest doesn't interest you?

Why on earth not!?

Tokie

Home schooling is the last resort of religous whackos, and child abusers and molesters who fear their child having access to adults who might advocate for them, or a school nurse who might ask questions about bruises and problems of vaginal or anal areas.
It is the haven of the ignorant social misfit, who wants to assure that their childeren will never exceed their limited status.
Some States, including mine, have made home schooling almost impossible...and more need to do the same.

Being stupid has us in a war of lies and an economy in the shitter. it's time for smart to make a comeback

Of coarse you have no links, because it was bullshit.
You post was straight from the right wing nincompoop misinformation depository, complete with false stats, half truths and flat out lies.
But in the posts we have seen from you, this is what we have come to expect

The majority of Americans would disagree with you.

You have no regard for people's rights in raising children.

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"It is the Right of the People to alter or abolish the Government"
Declaration of Independence
"Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself."
Thomas Jefferson
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
Milton Friedman

You know GAYDAR, im going to take that as a personal attack, in retrospect. I take serious offense to what you just said.

You basically said I molest my daughter.
You basically said I beat my daughter.
You basically said I am a religious nut job.
You basically said I want to keep my daughter stupid or control her thoughts.

I take serious offense to that.

No idiot, I want to make sure my daughter gets a quality education, and can actually think for herself. I do not want my daughter taught by the curriculums chosen by partisan school board members.

which have an underlying slant in Socialist Ideals. So no, I want my daughter to have all the facts. I would like her to learn both the good things and bad things about the New Deal policies. I want her to learn about the Gold and Silver Standard. The underlying causes of the Mexican American war. I want her to know about every school of Political and Religious thought.

Do they teach that in Public Schools? No they do not.

So fuck yourself.

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"It is the Right of the People to alter or abolish the Government"
Declaration of Independence
"Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself."
Thomas Jefferson
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
Milton Friedman

I certainly was flip, and painted the issue with too broad a brush, however, there was truth in what I said in many cases, and if you choose to admit it to me or not, you know it as well as I do. If you are in the same camp with scoundrals, dont blame me for pointing it out

Having said that, lets take YOUR flip statements and examine them

1. I doubt, in fact I am certain that your local school board does not consist of Socialist marxists, and frankly, for you to make such a statement, leads me to think that your daughter is very much in need of some input from a less bias sourse then yourself. The hypeboly and rhetoric, also paints any arguement you make, as rants from a right wing extremist, be that actual or precieved

2. Call upon you logic and humility, and realize that home schooling assures your daughter will never know more, or acheive more then her teacher (you)
Is that really in her best interest? You dont have to answer me, but you really should ask yourself that question, and think hard about the answer.

3 Public schools do teach most of the things you mentioned. You may not like that fact that they do it in a non Eurocentric, objective, and globalist way, and you may not like the conclusions arrived at by academia, but like it or not, that is what is expected in the real world, and to deprive her of that knowledge because it offends your nateral prejudice, is not the earmark of a parent with a childs best interests in mind

4. You mentioned religion. Allow me to have the uinmitigated gall to point out the constitutional mandate, that public institutions are not the place for that. If aligning myself with the founders of this nation makes me a Maoist, so be it.

6. You mention the Mexican American war ? The issue was thatt Sam Houston needed slaves, and Mexico outlawed slavery, so he hired mercinaries to fight his war. This is the FACT of the matter, but I suspect however, that your version paints a more sanitized picture. Again, all the more reason for the puiblic school counter balance.

7. Do not buy the hype (IE, bullshit) spread by the extreamists who advocate home schooling. The FACT is, most accredited colleges require remedial classes from home schoolled students in their freshman year, and sometimes beyond, and in FACT, at many colleges, home schooling is a red flag against acceptance.

And finally, (take all the offense you like) to put you childs future at risk for a partisan political agenda, is borderline child neglect. If the shoe fits, wear it.