AcceptanceWithJoy's commentsComments On: EverythingArticles Blogs Journals Photos created by: EveryoneAcceptanceWithJoy For the Last Time, Homeschoolers are Not Strictly Conservative Christian - Blog Entry11 Mar 2008 11:04 AM I am glad you pointed out that you self-identify as Christian. I would be classified as a Conservative Christian, but I don't home school because I am [blindly motivated to separate and cloister out kids from others in a blind effort to keep our kids innocent, and protect them from the heathens]. My daughter was in public school through the 7th grade. She is developmentally disabled and did not transition into Jr. High well. I came home to school because I didn't see any way the school and I could reach any sort of agreement as to how she could best be educated. Oh, and even if she had a 1:1 para, even if she was identified as a "flight risk," they lost her one day for several hours and NEVER called me. I learned she had been truant when she didn't come home on the school bus one day. When I called the office, I was informed she had been given detention. The VP called and apologized and said, "With my regular ed kids, I call their parents. But I thought you would have been called by the Special ed staff." I still don't know where she was or what she was up to for those hours. Another Homeschool Tragedy in the News - Blog Entry10 Mar 2008 12:59 PM I too am tired of the mainstream media trying to create a link between family dysfunction and home schooling. But, I have to say that I strongly disagree with your assessment of the "problem." [the problem came from child parents trying to raise more children] She would have been 21 when she gave birth to her first child. When my mother was 21, she had 2 children. She had her third, and last, child when she was 24. Statistics from the CDC indicate that in 2000 the average age for a woman giving birth for the first time was 25, up from 21.4 in 1970. I don't know what the average age of a woman giving birth for the first time was in 1992. I suspect it was somewhere between 21 and 25. Whatever the case, this mother was not several standard deviations below the mean. She was an "average" mother. Twenty-one year olds are adults who can vote, enter a marriage contract, drive a car, join the military and die for our country... and have a child and successfully parent it. No way would I consider this woman a "child parent." |
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