Okay so the title is a little extreme but I had to get your attention some how. Has anyone ever watched "Captian Planet?" A children's cartoon that I myself used to watch until I got old to figure out what it was realy saying. One of this shows main characters was a hunter portrayed as a dirty trigger happy wart hog. The symbolism is quite obvious.
You must be a little younger than me. I stuck to pro gun things like Transformers, G.I. Joe, Robotech, Voltron, Thundercats etc.. When Captain Planet came along (think I had just gotten into 6th or 7th grade), I knew INSTANTLY what it was about. Just listen to the theme song. Even minus it's leftist messages, this queer looking silver man flying around with green hair and these goofy looking kids with rings saving the planet with their mother nature rings held absolutely no interest for a guy when you got through watching giant robots with big guns save the world or warriors with swords and other cool weapons defeat the bad guys or soldiers with rifles, guns and tanks blow each other away.
Ya know, I think the time Capten Planet came along was when they sissyfied G.I. Joe when it went from Sunbow to DIC. It was more loony toonish, they started coming out with the GI Joe anti pollution force
, anti drug force
and they never would punch or hurt anyone
. :barf: I remember all our friends then started Watching Batman The Animated Series and X-Men on FOX.
All the crapola you saw on captain planet is also taught as "science" in the schools. The wife and I have decided to homeschool when the time comes. We don't care to have our children taught that we came from apes or that their parents are stupid for believing otherwise.
Good for you!!! I don't see how anyone can believe we came from apes and the world and all it's life came from some explosion. That sounds more superstitious and ignorant to me. And they (who believe all came from chaos) call religious people ignorant and superstitous for believing in created order?
As far as Homeschooling kids having social development, the answer is not putting them in a government indoctrination center (AKA public school) so they can dodge gangs and get a lousy education. The answer is putting them in social settings in your local community that you, the parents, have control over such as the church. Interact with other children in healthy settings not poor ones. Public schools and their so-called standards :barf: are not the end all and be all of life (far from it) And you have to be a good parent and raise your children. It's not all about what's in a text book, it's about teaching them social skills and good manners and being considerate of others.
The children were FAR behind the other children in peer socialization skills, adult interaction (lacked proper boundries), and almost every other developement stage of growing up. The level of their actual knowledge base varied very widely also. Some were actually more advance in math and reading, and such but most were behind the curve here also due to lack of proper oversight.
I question a lot of those conclusions. Some of this I mentioned above. Another thing I will say about social skills being difficult is this: This is not necessarily a bad thing (not neccessarily a good thing). Between what public school kids value (or don't value) and what a lot of homeschoolers value, it's awful hard to find anything in common. If I have a kid who is not interested in M-TV, or watching graphic slasher horror movies, or going deaf listening to rap "music" in the car, or impressing everyone by showing them how many four letter words I can use in one sentence I'm going to have an awful hard time finding anything in common with public schoolers. If I believe in saying Yes Sir and No Sir, Yes Ma'am and No ma'am and being respectful to adults and not flipping them off when their back is turned to the blackboard (or to their face) or not spray painting someones car or sneaking out of the house to go do drugs I am going to have an awful hard time getting along with public schoolers. If I have good manners and they don't, I am going to have an awful hard time getting along with home schoolers.
Some of what you say lies not in the fact that they didn't go to a public school but that they got education but no rearing. I know two guys that grew up stuffing their brains with knowledge and education. BUT, to this day they have no people skills. Knowledge base (parents may not be good teachers...public schools are even worse. Solution, find a good teacher not send to public school). Who says public school standards are THE standard for life anyway.
So as someone who has looked at homeschooling from both the job of a counselor and a teacher I am usually against it. The children seem to benefit more from a traditional education. Alot of people homeschool for the wrong reasons. To protect their children from a different point of view.
Well, I don't want my children told that they evolved from someone crawling on the ground and what they are taught in Sunday School is hogwash. You say traditional education, that depends on what you mean by traditional. Public schools as they are now are far from traditional. The way parents train their children (actually maybe I should say they way they just have children and let them grow like weeds) is far from traditional. We need to get away from this idea that education is the one goal in life.
There is a huge difference between "educating" and "indoctrinating".
Right. Educating=public schools Indoctrinating=homeschool or traditionals school (mostly Christian as one poster up the page put it....which BTW served this country well since the 1600s until the 1950s)
As for my children, if by God's grace, I ever have any, we will either send them to a good private traditional school or home school and raise them with good social skills and manners and get them involved with peers in healthy environments like the church
