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Document 029.0.0.0  # 1.  Home schooling Has Come A Long Way.
 My psychological batteries were just recharged by attending a remarkable
convention of Florida home schoolers in Orlando. The 10,000 conventioneers
who overflowed the Gaylord Palms Resort should have been serenaded with
"You've come a long way, baby."
 The Florida Parent-Educators Association has grown from a handful of
parents 15 years ago to a three-day convention with 100 workshops, 131
booths selling curricula and software, high school graduation ceremonies,
and a college scholarship to Harvard. Home schooling has become big
business.
 The Florida Department of Education reports that the number of Florida
children registered in home education programs has grown from 5,313 in
1990-91 to 41,128 in 2000-01. The number is probably even higher because not
everyone registers.
 Parents who have been home schooling since the early 1980s can remember
less happy times when they felt it advisable to conceal what they were
doing. In 1984, five Florida home schooling families were prosecuted for
truancy and one family temporarily lost custody of its children.
 Home schooling parents often had to suffer the disdain of neighbors,
ignorant accusations of child abuse, and the hostility of the teachers
union. The Florida State Legislature got the message in 1985 and legalized
home schooling.
 It takes uncommon commitment by parents to undertake a home school regimen,
but they soon discover they can do in a couple of hours what takes all day
at regular school. Home schooling parents can save lots of time since there
are so many courses they don't have to teach.
 They don't have to teach multi-cultural-ism, the peculiar notion that other
cultures should be preferred to our own, or teach a course in Islam, such as
is now taught in California schools. Home schooling parents are free to
teach that their religion and their country are the best.
 Home schooling parents do not have to teach political correctness, such as
the dogma that all academic subjects must be taught through the prism of
gender and race oppression. They are free to teach that America is not a
land of victims but a country of freedom and opportunity for all.
 Home schooling parents do not have to teach the androgyny demanded by
radical feminism. They are free to teach boys and girls separately and
differently and let their boys enjoy plenty of recess to work off their
excess energy and avoid giving them Ritalin to make them behave like girls.
 Home schoolers do not have to take a course every year in Diversity, the
code word for gay rights, as is now mandated K-12 by the California State
Legislature. Parent educators are free to teach that it is OK to be
judgmental about illegal and immoral acts.
 Home schooling parents don't have to teach revisionist history that deletes
mention of Washington, Jefferson and Franklin, as the New Jersey State
Department of Education tried to do, but had to back down after a parental
uproar.  Home schoolers have academic freedom to study the Founding Fathers
and read the writings of the DWEMs (Dead White European Males) who
contributed so much to Western Civilization.
 Home schoolers do not have to study global education that is designed to
promote global interdependence and citizens of the world instead of the
U.S.A.
 Home schooling parents do not have to teach Environmental Education
fantasies such as that humans exist to serve the earth instead of vice
versa.
 Home schoolers don't have to study fuzzy math, whole math, new math, new
new math, or rainforest math. They won't waste math time discussing,
coloring, playing games, or telling their parents how good they feel about
incorrect answers.
 Home schooled children will learn to read using authentic phonics as their
first order of business, so they won't have to take remedial reading after
three years of failure. They won't be inflicted with Whole Language, which
fraudulently teaches children to guess at words from the pictures, skip over
difficult words, and substitute any words that seem to fit the context.
 Home schoolers will save lots of time because they don't have to read
typical middle school assignments of depressing modern fiction by "nobody"
authors writing about drugs, violence, sex, runaway teens, witchcraft, and
other depressing subjects.
 Home schoolers can read books about heroes and stories that build
character, courage, patriotism, and
virtue.
Homeschoolers won't have to spend time filling out nosy questionnaires about
sex, drugs and suicide. The public schools are obsessed with asking students
impudent personal questions such as how many times have you felt
depressed and tried to commit suicide.
 There are many more worthless courses taught in public schools on which
home schoolers will not spend their precious time, such as courses in murder
(forensics is the latest fad), suicide, death and dying, evolution, and
self-esteem.
 Home schooled students won't have any problem with self-esteem because
their self-esteem will be earned by achievement in mastering the important
truths of history, literature, math and science.

Phyllis Schlafly column 6-05-02

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"I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the
most corrupt government on earth." Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 1800.
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the
argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves." William Pitt speech to the
House of Commons.
"You shall have one world government, whether or not you like it, by consent
or by conquest." Former FDR aide, James Warburg  CFR/TC, in testimony before
the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 17 Feb 1950.


 

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