Another of the Infinite Number of Reasons Why We Home-School

Student Suspended For Buying Skittles In School

Lets think about this... we'll ruin the school record of a kid, who looks to be pretty bright (honor student, class vice president), negatively impact his chances of getting into top colleges (maybe even impact his chances of getting scholarships), thus potentially lessening his potential career options and/or earning potential...

...all for a bag of skittles.

You know, I don't like Tort lawyers, they're pretty much all vultures and ambulance chasers in my book. But if somebody puts together a class action suit against all these draconian, zero-tolerance, all-kids-must-be-punished bureaucrats, I will stand up and cheer!

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." - Winston Churchill

The Compassion...

...of the religion of peace, or maybe it’s the International Left. This one could be either or both. But compassion is the obvious underlying motivation of someone calling themselves "Crackers_Child Turkish Defacer" who today has hacked the State of Maine page of the website of The Homeschool Magazine. Wonderful compassionate four letter epithets about President Bush, and other pleasantries. I won't link to it, because it's not work safe, and is obviously not what the site is really supposed to be about. Thankfully, The Homeschool Magazine is a website for parents seeking support and information for schooling their kids, and not a site for kids themselves.

Apparently another part of the site was hacked back in February.

Oh yeh, we want to be tolerant, all cultures are morally equivalent, they only want peace, they have very strong family values, they have stronger moral values than the decadent West...how long before these lies get called out for what they are. Both the Left and Radical Islam shout down and intimidate the truly moral and moderate members of their communities, and the rest of us all just smile and nod, grasping desperately a the illusion of peaceful co-existence.

I get pretty hacked off at cowards who think insulting families from the safety of some apartment 10,000 miles away and think that they're part of some "spiritual battle."

Come into my neighborhood and say this kind of garbage to my kids or my neighbor's kids and you'll get your spiritual battle.

Stupid punks!

Why we home school our kids


Are the core institutions of the west all being run by idiots?

Historic Homeschooling Material at the Lilly Library at Indiana University




Repository:
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452 Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
Creator: Johnson, Jane, 1708-1759
Title: Johnson, J. mss.,
Dates: ca. 1740-1759
Extent: 438 items
Abstract:
The Johnson, J. mss. consists of materials devised by Jane (Russell) Johnson primarily for the instruction of her son, George William Johnson. The materials consist of 438 items and are arranged in 24 groups. Included are alphabet cards, religious and secular lesson cards, all hand-made. Some contain colored illustrations and are decorated with multi-colored Dutch paper.
Collection number: LMC 1649
Language: Materials are in English






These are beautifully photographed and digitized materials. The search function is a little cumbersome, choosing a topic from the list on the left does not hyperlink to the correct spot in the more detailed list on the right. Just scroll down the page to see the individual image links.

H/T BibliOdyssey

Sigmund, Carl & Alfred have an excellent piece on the continual and premeditated failure of the education system. It is a long post, but if you have kids, want to have kids, or care about kids it is well worth reading and following the links.

When stuff like this is going on, I can't help but wonder why so many people look at us strangely when we say we homeschool our kids.

Images from our family trip to the Higgins Armory Museum

Polychrome figure, German


Saint George, German (?Tulip Wood)



Austro-German Figure presenting a church


Armor

The New England Homeschool Resource Guide

My wife and a good friend have put together a book listing resources for homeschoolers in the New England states. If you homeschool, or just like to do quality extra-curricular things your kids, then you should check it out.