Fellow homeschoolers.. I regretfully announce to you your inevitable fate :(
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Critic Claims: “Homeschoolersare only good for cleaning toilets”
by Gary DeMar
The title for this report is taken from a response to one of American Vision’s daily articles. The respondent is an atheist who claims he can refute any argument raised in defense of the Christian faith. I have irritated him so much by answering his poorly researched responses he sends to me that his true character is spilling out in a public way. His personal emails to me are worse than what I have reproduced here. If you want to know what the world would be like with atheists in control, here’s a little taste:
It’s good that Christians homeschool. We need citizens to clean our toilets and mow our lawns. Perhaps some homeschooled Christians will be able to fill these types of jobs. The rest will be unemployable retards like their parents.
Here’s what I want homeschoolers to do: First, reply to this article and leave a comment describing what kind of work you are doing since you completed homeschooling. Second, send this article and its link to every homeschooler and homeschool organization you know and encourage them to leave a comment at the end of this article describing what they are doing since being homeschooled. Third, I don’t want to exclude those who have graduated from a private or church-related Christian school. You can get in on this was well by adding your comments.
The public school graduation rate is around 65 percent, and in large cities it’s lower as this April 1, 2008 report demonstrates. “New York City has one of the nation’s sorriest graduation rates, with less than half of city high-schoolers earning a diploma on time. . . . Even using the most optimistic calculation of the city’s graduation rate—including kids who earn GEDs and excluding special education students from the formula—only 60% of students graduated in 2006” Test scores continue to fall even though education budgets keep growing. It seems that all we hear from government educators is the need for more money. John Stossel’s 2006 “20/20” report “Stupid In America: How We Are Cheating Our Kids” is a real eye-opener, especially when he asks South Carolina school official Dolores Wright, “How much money would be right?” Wright answers, “Oooh. Millions. And it would really make it right. . . . The more, the better.”
Is it any wonder that the judicial numbskulls in California and the new fascists in Germany are trying to wipe out homeschooling? They fear its superior product and how it makes public (government) education look so bad, especially when the cost of educating a student is factored in. While homeschooling has a great academic track record, enough so that some of the best colleges in the nation recruit homeschoolers, one of its greatest social benefits is its demonstration of true liberty. Liberals love to talk about freedom of choice as long as that freedom does not include the freedom to educate their own children. It would have been OK to kill the child while he was still in his mother’s womb, but once he’s born, he belongs to the State and its educational hacks.
Please forward to friends and family!
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Ok, this really made me mad. It contained more links, if anyone is interested. I am also going to make a facebook group about it, and will post it's name on here as soon as it is created.
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Sweet. I was homeschool and was one of the strongest graduate students in my class and now am a speech-language pathologist working both for the school system and in acute rehab in a hospital. It's a shame I had such a poor education (sarcasm).
Sweet! I guess graduating at 16, having a 4.00 GPA in a local community college at aforementioned age and recently being accepted to one of the best photography colleges in the US means I'll be scrubbing toilets and mowing lawns!
"Any aspect of your faith which you do not question, is the one which should be questioned most." "I totally approve of toddlers getting married." -Continental Admiral (aka Baragon)
Wow! This is amazing, I never fully realized my full potential! Though I have not graduated yet, I am already quite adept at cleaning toilets - so much for college!
The plural of anecdote, of course, is not evidence. Homeschoolers do very well when compared, generically, to those enrolled in public school, but that's an extraordinarily flawed metric, since homeschoolers tend to come from intact middle class families, and generally (logically) have parents very invested in their education. The bias introduced by self-selection is enormous. Besides which, for every homeschooler who goes to the Ivies, there are a couple who are struggling to find a steady job. That's how life works; there are no panaceas.
Besides which, I'd definitely prefer any half-decent public school over a curriculum that includes works by such "luminaries" as Gary DeMar.
I, too, seemed doomed to drag on with my current dead-end career while scanning the classifieds in hopes that something in the toilet-cleaning industry will soon open up.
A bit of an over generalization I'm afraid. I know really intelligent homeschoolers... but I know those that would probably use the wrong end of a brush to clean a toilet.
Funny...my dad graduated from the Air Force Academy and is now a retired officer. My older brother is going to his plebe year at West Point. Neither are the easiest colleges to get into, so I'm guessing that neither of them are "retards." My oldest brother is in college and already has a job, also.
However, they all might just be fluke incidents...yeah....right......
Didn't we have some fun, though? Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said, 'goodbye.' And you were like, 'no, wait.' And then I was all, 'we pretended we were going to murder you.' That was great...
While I think it's GREAT that homeschoolers are doing so many wonderful things, and I know the person who made the comment meant it as an insult, I really don't think we should look down upon so-called "lowly" jobs. If you work hard, do your best at a job, and glorify God, that's what's important. There's absolutely nothing wrong with cleaning toilets and mowing lawns. I do both regularly, and I think my family and visitors to our home appreciate having a clean environment.
That being said, homeschooling does equip people well for many different fields. My oldest brother is a doctor, just starting his residency at a top school for surgical studies. My sister is a wonderful artist, photographer, gardener, cook, and is capable of running a home. Watson is almost finished with his electrical engineering degree, wires and installs million dollar equipment in airplanes, plays 6 different musical instruments and can record and mix his own CDs, and plus he can write really well. I'm proud of all my siblings!
The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance. ♡
Wow it is wonderful to know that I will be doing this my whole life. I guess haveing a 3.8 GPA and having a great job and will be going to a great college menas that I will be living off of food stamps.
EUCC wrote:I was homeschool and was one of the strongest graduate students in my class and now am a speech-language pathologist working both for the school system and in acute rehab in a hospital.(sarcasm).
That doesn't sound like it has anything to do with lawns or toilets to me.
Considering I've had scholarships given to me, awards presented, and EVEN OFFERS OF COHABITATION, I think I can safely say that my primary source of income will not be cleaning toilets.
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