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"....why don't they just put it in High school and make it a requirement to graduate?"
Years back, there was such a required class in Texas. I don't remember its designation or name. I don'r think the requirement stated that it was required to graduate, but it required the class be taken (eight or ninth grade) at an age that the student was still below the age that he could quit school without a court order and his parants permission. It also included some stuff about driving standards and protocal and stuff about certain deseases!
I don't know when it was discontinued. Wouldn't work now, anyway, since the "school vouchers" groups have mamaged to rescend all the laws requiring kids go to school at all.
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I here homeschoolers are turn up alot more and are alot smarter than the other products. They're even offering scholorships for home schooled. One of the colleges even commented on homes-choolers saying they "they learn alot quicker, from having the ability to teach themselves"
something to think about
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There have always been those in Texas that were "home schooled". (Though all were quite literate and could handle discussions on literature and history and even knew algebra and geometry and a bit of trigonometry, none of my grandparents had a school to attend.) Even today, there are children that live nowhere near any school and have to be taught at home.
In my very first college class ever, one of the students was a girl that had grown up on a ranch whose main gate was about 200 yards from my grandparents house. It was another 12 miles to her home and she was taught her ABCs and arithmatic and algebra and so on 'til she went off to the BIG COLLEGE when she was 18 by cowboys and ranch cooks and such.
After her very first day in a class ever she stopped by and explained her situation to the teacher and admitted she was scared she wouldn't be prepared. She needed not fear.....all these years later I still rank he as one of the very best students and best prepared I ever saw.
Then there are some others that never had much chance because their "home school" failed....completely.
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Most of the people I knew when I lived in Nashville sent their kids to private schools.
The public schools there had been decimated during the civil rights movement, when the majority of white folks pulled their kids out to avoid integration, then went further and tried to eliminate any money going to the public schools, in order to punish the blacks for upsetting their world. Years later, when I was there, they were still hardly worthy of being called educational.
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My brother and his wife home school their children and the kids are very smart compared to other kids (mine) who attend public schools. I think a lot of the childrens sucess in home school's depends on the parents drive and ambition. Public schools however, the childs success is determined by their own drive and ambition to succeed. My brother and his wife both did very well in school and they both have nice looking degrees so she can afford to stay home and take care of the kids while my brother works.
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The major influence on kids is the attitude of the parents. Kids whose parents enjoy reading and learning tend to be the same and kids whose parents spend their time politicizing the schools see that too.
School isn't about abortion and birth control and racial crap and politics, it is about learning how to learn. Parents that see schools as a political tool to push their ideas about morality and their political and religious agendas end up with kids that don't understand what knowledge and education are and can do. They are the loosers.
Teach them to think.....on their own....and they will be educated.
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seig heil' I agree, and on that same note, the school system has no right to tell my child what and how he should feel and what and what not he is allowed to do between its walls (within the law of course)
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And how dare they not teach intelligent design along with evolution! This exact situation would also teach them about the CLUSTERFUGK within politics.....without bringin politics into the schools
Nice post cj......not the seig heil one...the first hand informative one.
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c'mon now the seig heil' one was pretty good too though Is that what they are calling creationism now, intelligent design? Good lord. I learned both and not sure I believe either one.
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Isn't CLUSTERFUGKin an instinctive behavior rather than a learned response? Like doin dope and tattoos and wearin your pants down low enough to show off your CLUSTERFUGKin equipment? Ain't thaat all natural?
(Now, I repeat, "Parents that see schools as a political tool to push their ideas about morality and their political and religious agendas end up with kids that don't understand what knowledge and education are and can do.")
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Is that what they are calling creationism now, intelligent design? Good lord. I learned both and not sure I believe either one.
