November 08, 2007
MidWest HomeSchool Convention
American Family Association is delighted to announce the 2nd annual Cincinnati Midwest Homeschool Convention!
This exciting Convention will be held March 27-29, 2008. It features an incredible lineup of speakers and a wide variety of the very best educational materials and curriculum. It is being held at the 165-acre campus of Landmark Cincinnati, 1600 Glendale-Milford Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45215-1231.
A PARTIAL LIST OF SPEAKERS INCLUDES:
Tim Wildmon
Jessie Wise
Amanda Bennett
Jeannie Fulbright
Mike Riddle
Gary DeMar
Julie Hiramine
Mark Hamby
Andrew Pudewa
Todd Wilson
David Quine
Michael Donnelly, Esq.
Dr. R. W. Keller
Susan Kemmerer
Dr. Durrell Dobbins
Kathie Morrisey
Jessica Hulcey
Jim Weiss
A PARTIAL LIST OF VENDORS & EXHIBITORS INCLUDES:
Answers in Genesis
American Family Association
A Beka Book
Alpha Omega Publications
Sonlight
My Father's World
Classical Academic Press
Math-U-See
VideoText Interactive
Gravitas Publications
The Book Peddler
Peace Hill Press
American Vision
Excellence in Writing
Lamplighter Publishing
Generations of Virtue
Analytical Grammar
Artistic Pursuits
Cornerstone Curriculum
HSLDA
Please see http:www.midwesthomeschoolconvention.com for more information, or send an email to info@MidWestHomeschoolConvention.com
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November 07, 2007
Why Government Stinks
Wow. I just happened upon a news report for a small town school board race. Voters had to pick one of the following candidates. Using their own words, translated from newspeak, here are your choices:
Candidate #1: Incumbent. Has been board member for 8 years. Was a teacher in the education system for 25 years. Goals: raise test scores, no matter whether kids actually learn anything. Use racist hiring practices to discriminate against people based on the color of their skin. Find more cash to spend on "education." Stop people from having the freedom to build houses on their own land.
Candidate #2: Incumbent. Board member for 10 years. Be nicer to teachers. Spend more taxpayer money on teachers. Spend more "corporate" money on teachers. Will make decisions for everyone else based on what he, personally, wants for his child, no matter what anyone else actually needs.
Candidate #3: College professor since 1982. Wants to shake down private companies and force them to "donate" land to schools. Wants to shake down private companies for "donations" for schools. Also wants to base hiring decisions on the color of someone's skin, rather than on their actual qualifications.
Candidate #4: Clerical assistant at the school. Wants to reduce class sizes even though it does absolutely nothing to increase learning. Wants to increase test scores, no matter the cost or actual learning. Wants to base more decisions on which kids go to school based on their skin color. Wants to "prevent" teachers from leaving the school.
Candidate #5: Former Assistant superintendent. Wants to spend more money on teachers. Wants to spend more on technology, no matter what people need. Wants to force corporations to "give" money to education. Wants to maximize spending opportunities.
Holy crap, what choices, eh? Remember -- the government education system, as can be very clearly seen here by school board candidates -- is about SPENDING MONEY. It has NOTHING to do with educating children, learning, or anything else. They just want more money so they can spend it.
Think I could win this one?
Candidate #6 (Ogre): Thinks the government-run monopoly on education is crap. Will vote against spending any more money for anything related to education. Will not discriminate based on skin color.
Yeah, me neither.
Oh, how I yearn for freedom.
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Having a brother and sister in education, my brother being a principal for many years, I can tell you that most school boards are made up of politicians who had nothing at stake in the system they govern. It is all about money and power and not the kids. Our last superintendant was all about handing out phat building contracts to his relatives in a town that has lost a lot of population from losing 2 GM Plants and several supporting industries. How corrupt is that. We have the highest drop out rate in Indiana for sure. Everyone I talk to is dealing with corrupt, good ole boy school boards. The state of education in this nation is approaching meltdown fast!
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at November 07, 2007 11:37 AM (TzKlC)
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It is, quite literally, beyond repair. The entire government education system should be scrapped because it has no redeeming qualities. Seriously.
Posted by: Ogre at November 07, 2007 12:22 PM (oifEm)
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I hear you. Every year it gets more and more corrupt in every way. I was happy to see my sister retire after about 20 years of teaching 4th grade. The last few years were hard on her as the kids attude changed because the parents were more and more liberal. I really feared for her a time or two because she had some dangerous little boys in her class with a "sue happy Mommy". My brother being a principal, he tells me nightmare stories as well.
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at November 07, 2007 07:09 PM (eaqGd)
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The part so many people cannot understand is that the system is totally evil -- even while individuals in the system are trying to do good. In other words, it doesn't really matter that you know this teacher or that teacher, who are really concerned with teaching and learning. The system is NOT, no matter what the people inside the system want.
And most people simply cannot comprehend that gap.
Posted by: Ogre at November 07, 2007 07:18 PM (oifEm)
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I can think of an example. How stupid is it that if a student comes at you with a knife, you are not allowed to defend yourself??? Teachers, no matter how good they are, cannot maintain control over the classroom! Why??? Because the kids don't fear them or the system in any way. Why? Because Liberalism says they should not be punished or held accountable for their actions, that liberal lawyers will get them off the hook and make lots of money. The schools are run by liberals and the liberal lawyers keep conscience, discipline and God out of the schools. The more failing kids, the more pregnant teens, the more their give-a-way programs will take them over. This is only a small example, but I think you get the idea of what I'm saying. All of this, if you love your kids, is just wrong!
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at November 07, 2007 09:25 PM (eaqGd)
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Indeed -- and that's the way the system is DESIGNED. It has to create a need to exist. The more problems it creates, the more it can prove it needs to exist -- to solve those very problems it created.
I honestly believe that sending your children to public school is child abuse.
Posted by: Ogre at November 07, 2007 09:55 PM (2WD8n)
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I also think most "government run schools" are teacher abusers too. Any teachers who truly care are run off by the "social(ist)" rules" they have to adhere to. Teachers are required to have at least 6 years of college, a rather large investment, and yet they make very little money. Other professions with that much education "name their price". Add to that the fact that teachers are not allowed to run their classrooms and maintain proper discipline, it is a rough profession with very little job satisfaction these days.
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at November 08, 2007 12:17 PM (TzKlC)
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No question about it. The system honestly does not want people who have knowledge and the ability to teach. Instead, they only want people who have followed the state-prescribed courses that tell them exactly what they're supposed to do (not teach). For example, when is the last time you heard about an actual professional teaching in a government grade school? They're NOT ALLOWED to -- because they know too much and might actually teach kids stuff the state doesn't want them to know.
Posted by: Ogre at November 08, 2007 12:39 PM (oifEm)
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The first time I hear David HOrowitz speak, it was on the Commie Channel C-SPAN about 2 years ago. It was about how colleges hire people who don't know squat about the subjects they are supposed to be teaching. Then they espouse their own, usually social(ist), agendas. I was shocked, but it was also an awakening for me. I went out and subscribed to the FrontPageMag newsletter, thus the blinders slowly began to melt away! Government schools seem to only start the process that our Colleges and Universities only started. Ogre, have you read Ann Coulter's account about McCarthy and how history was rewritten by liberals in regard to him and what was really going on in the 1950s?
I read a Coulter newsletter about it last night and I am still reeling. Everything stated was researched and backed up with evidence and we were all taught a lie when we were growing up about it. Amazing, and like you, I do not trust government education anymore.
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at November 08, 2007 05:43 PM (eaqGd)
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If you really want to get the crap scared out of you, read the true history behind the government schools in America. It's a long, long, read, but completely truthful, accurate, and damn scary:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm
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November 01, 2007
Purpose of Public Schools
A school board in Montana
says:
Allowing him to finish school online could have opened the door to allowing other students to take a high number of courses online, reducing the need and benefits of a regular school setting, the board decided.
In other words, their STATED purpose is to put students in a "regular" school setting. They honestly have no interest in education. They don't care about high school diplomas. They honestly do not care if someone learns anything. Instead, their ONLY purpose, according to the school board itself, is to put students in a "regular school setting."
If someone were interested in education and learning, they would have said something along the lines of, "Gee, we'd like this fellow to get an education, and we're willing to work with him and his family to ensure that he gets one." But no, instead they said they ONLY wanted students. They want warm bodies in seats because that's where they get more cash. Nothing else matters to the public school system in America. Seriously.
If your child is in a public school in America, keep in mind those who are "Educating" them are only interested in them as a body to get them cash. The system seriously does not care if they learn one single thing.
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But don't you think that its important for children to go to school and learn how to socialize with peers and function in a society? I met most of my friends in school and had some of my fondest childhood memories took place there. I learned how to interact with people, deal with problems, and work hard, and I feel like my experience is typical. Is this not worth our tax dollars? Despite the issues you have with greedy officials and with the quality of the education, doesn't a child benefit from being around children his own age?
Posted by: Brian at November 01, 2007 09:35 PM (fzGw8)
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Not one bit.
Why should children be limited to only associating with people who are their same chronological age -- and not with people who are their intellectual peers and/or mental peers? Why should we limit children to only one speed in classrooms, artificially teaching smarter children to slow down and NOT work?
Children very clearly DO NOT benefit from only being around children their own age. Every last person that I have met that has been homeschooled, I can tell in an instant. The children who are not forced into a public school are able to interact with people of ALL ages, not just their own -- and they've learned to work hard at their maximum capacity, instead of the state-mandated minimum capacity.
Posted by: Ogre at November 01, 2007 09:45 PM (2WD8n)
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I think you would do well to go to a high school football game. Look at the team, who have probably played together for ten or twelve years, and see the brotherhood that they share. Look at the band, and see how hard they work at what they do. The rest of the student body at the game, enjoying life forming relationships. These are experiences that are difficult to replicate with home schooling. Isn't it easier to make friends with people your own age. I have had a different experience with people who are home schooled. I find them to be sheltered and less social than most.
Posted by: Brian at November 01, 2007 10:16 PM (fzGw8)
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I see the "brotherhood" shared by forced segregation by age. I see the dumbing down and holding back of students because they don't want to "offend" any other student who's dumb.
And without a single exception, every homeschooled person I've ever met has had an easier time talking to people not of their age. In fact, there's been various studies done that show homeschooled children are MORE socially adept than those who have been forced into a public school.
The relationships from sporting and other events are incredibly easy to recreate because of various recreation departments. In the area I live there are over 90,000 kids who are homeschooled. They have their own football league. They have tons of activities -- many, many more physical activities than public schools could ever dream of.
Posted by: Ogre at November 02, 2007 01:46 AM (2WD8n)
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What would you reccommend for families where both parents need to during the day, or single parent homes. How could they provide a good education on their own?
Posted by: Brian at November 02, 2007 05:57 PM (fzGw8)
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In the home where both parents work, I would suggest they get a less material-focused lifestyle so that one can work and the other can stay home. I'm willing to bet in nearly all those cases, they are working to pay for a lot of luxuries they don't truly need. Having children should require sacrifice. Those who don't want to sacrifice their lifestyle at all for their children are being very selfish.
To those who are single parents, I suggest not becoming a single parent. I realize that sometimes it is through no fault of their own, but often it is through personal choice. And even when stuck as a single parent, I'd suggest finding their own family. Everyone has parents. If families were a lot stronger, they could stay together and raise their children.
Finally, if government completely got out of education, there were be TONS of opportunities for children to get educated. Even now there's co-ops and church organizations. If government got out of the way, I'd open a school tomorrow myself. And many, many more churches and organizations would open up educational institutions.
Posted by: Ogre at November 02, 2007 06:15 PM (oifEm)
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I'm adding this. when kids paricipate in YMCA sports, many times they are able to participate on teams in some of the private schools, like church schools, YOu have lots of different sports going on outside the realm of public school in every communuity. I do know many home schooling parents utilize the sports teams at private schools by enrolling their kids in after school care on the days they will be practicing with the team. I used to work in a church school daycare when my son was going to the school. There was a huge spirit of cooporation between the home schoolers and the Christian private schools and those kids didn't miss anything. I worked in after school care when I was a single Mom in order to get half price tuition for my son and took night classes at the local University. It wasn't easy, but it was doable. In many ways, I felt the home schooled kids adapted better socially than the private school kids. Go figure.
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at November 05, 2007 10:48 PM (eaqGd)
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It's because the home school kids learn to deal with different types of people and different aged people while public school kids ONLY learn how to act with others of their own age -- usually without adult supervision.
Posted by: Ogre at November 06, 2007 01:40 AM (2WD8n)
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