Meh.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Yep, it was a loaded question. Patagonias are NFH Repubs. MHs are actual people. You are a demon in human's clothing.

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I'm the fifth column. Be afraid, be very afraid.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
A co-worker homeschools her kids, and they seem like normal, well-adjusted kids. They socialize with other homeschooled kids in the neighborhood and they do a lot of reading.

She's not super religious or intolerant, and I've never really asked why she went the homeschool route instead of the normal school route. But the kids seem ok.

I don't think the point is that home-schooled kids are by default completely screwed up (although I bet the lack of real world socializing increases the percentages of wackjobs).

I think the point is that it is easier to turn your kids into complete psychos because you are able to limit their exposure to other ideas.

TM

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I don't think the point is that home-schooled kids are by default completely screwed up (although I bet the lack of real world socializing increases the percentages of wackjobs).

I think the point is that it is easier to turn your kids into complete psychos because you are able to limit their exposure to other ideas.

TM

'Zactly.


[Though Penske might raise the argument that the VLWC (through AFT/NEA and the like) does the same thing within the Public School Systems.]

* [And if he wants to make that argument, I suggest not doing so here, lest the board rebel.]

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
A co-worker homeschools her kids, and they seem like normal, well-adjusted kids. They socialize with other homeschooled kids in the neighborhood and they do a lot of reading.

She's not super religious or intolerant, and I've never really asked why she went the homeschool route instead of the normal school route. But the kids seem ok.

How does that play out, if she's working with you and schooling the kids?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I don't think the point is that home-schooled kids are by default completely screwed up (although I bet the lack of real world socializing increases the percentages of wackjobs).

I think the point is that it is easier to turn your kids into complete psychos because you are able to limit their exposure to other ideas.

TM

OTOH, perhaps you could expose them to more open and progressive ideas and teaching methods and materials if you are without the constraints of the institutional bureaucracy.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
OTOH, perhaps you could expose them to more open and progressive ideas and teaching methods and materials if you are without the constraints of the institutional bureaucracy.

Can't you do that anyway? (Night school, as it were)

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
[not a political commentary, but more a parental lament] Maybe because the public school systems suck and not everyone can affourd private? [/not a political commentary, but more a parental lament]

I think that's probably the case.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Like your mother likes it. Right up the ass, no lube.

TM

Just the way Trebek likes it!

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[dtb]

I need some good ideas for a husband/wife going to a costume party. They're pretty whitebread, so nothing too racy.

My suggestion of priest and young boy was soundly rejected.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
How does that play out, if she's working with you and schooling the kids?

Her husband is a stay-at-home Dad. She's also on flex time, so she's here four days a week and at home three days a week.

Today is her last day here. She's quit for another opportunity elsewhere. I'm going to miss her.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
OTOH, perhaps you could expose them to more open and progressive ideas and teaching methods and materials if you are without the constraints of the institutional bureaucracy.

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[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by dtb
Can't you do that anyway? (Night school, as it were)

No. It would interfere with their TV and internet time.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by dtb
Can't you do that anyway? (Night school, as it were)

But what if your "progressive ideas" are being directly contradicted by the schools? What if, for example, the schools are too ignorant to teach that evolution is directly disproved by the second law of thermodynamics?

Better to just keep the kids out of that corrupting environment altogether.

[Southern Patriot]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Fun! Can I play?

Most of my friends are music marketing execs, audio and video editors (and post-house owners), hedge fund managers, investment bankers, lawyers/ex-lawyers, consultants, bartenders (who want to be directors and/or producers) and doctors.

I won't eat at Red Lobster, so if that is the prize, I donate my winnings to Ms. gwnc, my internet girlfriend.

Most of my friends are fine upstanding Americans, like Halliburton executives, lobbyists, gun manufacturers, supreme court justices (and justices to be), Time Magazine reporters, and Patent Attorneys.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by dtb
I need some good ideas for a husband/wife going to a costume party. They're pretty whitebread, so nothing too racy.

My suggestion of priest and young boy was soundly rejected.

George Bush and his "White House Wife" Hairyette Miers.