why you should home school!!!

[koenig]

Prevent you're kid from waiting for rain to wash the car! What liberal bull shit. I'm never buying any Toyota product because of this commercial!

[video=youtube;pUvWwAgOo6E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUvWwAgOo6E[/video]

 

[Ziggy]

Prevent you're kid from waiting for rain to wash the car! What liberal bull shit. I'm never buying any Toyota product because of this commercial!

[video=youtube;pUvWwAgOo6E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUvWwAgOo6E[/video]

The oxymoron with the whole ad is they obviously used a hose to water down the driveway to put a dry car on it... I shake my head every time I see it.:rolleyes

 

[koenig]

I just noticed the driveway was wet before the rain starts. Bastards!!! Now I really hate Toyota.

 

[ParkerRat]

why you should home school!!!

Already do, anyone else homeschool?

 

[koenig]

why you should home school!!!

Already do, anyone else homeschool?

So the liberals in public school can't teach the children its a good idea to wash a car in the rain!

I don't actually have any known children. I just go with what my brother does with my nephew. He works full time and his wife is a Chinese immigrant, so neither can homeschool properly or they would. Instead my atheist brother sends him to Christian private school.

 

[allblowdup]

You should home school so you don't have your kid come home one day and tell you that you are an infidel and hes joining ISIS. Fuckers!

 

[wash11]

why you should home school!!!

Already do, anyone else homeschool?

Sure do. Would never go back.

 

[RiverDave]

I guess I am missing the home school and liberal connection.. I agree it does seem a little ridiculous

 

[Gelcoater]

Sure do. Would never go back.

Please,share with the class!
The thought has crossed my mind,the last couple of years dealing with the public school system has been a real pita.
Part of me resists the urge to take the plunge.Mostly based on some social skills I feel are lost by not interacting with a wide demographic kids are exposed to.Learning to deal with it basically.
How old are your kids?How does the program work?

 

[Gelcoater]

I guess I am missing the home school and liberal connection.. I agree it does seem a little ridiculous

The liberal connection applies to public schools.
Shit like this...

A National Guard recruiter was instructed to stop handing out promotional T-shirts at a New York high school after teachers complained that the shirts featured a soldier holding a weapon.

?A pointed gun is just not appropriate for a high school,? said Alan McCartney, the interim superintendent of the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk School District.

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Last Friday, a recruiter for the New York Army National Guard was on campus handing out swag ? including a shirt with the logo of a silhouetted soldier aiming a rifle. The silhouette was framed by an American flag and the words ?National Guard.?

?A couple of teachers realized it showed a silhouette of a rifleman on it,? McCartney told me in a telephone interview. ?I realize some students look at the T-shirt and all they see is the National Guard. And that is a good thing. Others look at the shirt and all they see is the rifle.?

The recruiter had already given away as many as 20 shirts when the principal showed up and asked him to stop. The recruiter complied with the principal?s request and left the campus.

McCartney told me the shirts violated the school?s dress code.

?Our code of conduct says no T-shirts depicting violence or weapons,? he said.

National Guard spokesman Richard Goldenberg told me this appears to be the first time a school has taken issue with their shirts. Nevertheless, he said the Guard was willing to be accommodating.

?We were happy to oblige the superintendent and remove them from any further distribution,? Goldenberg said. ?We are always respectful of all different school policies.?

And for what it?s worth, he said the National Guard did not take offense at the T-shirt ban.

CBS 6 in Albany reports that students refused to take off the shirts ? calling it disrespectful. The superintendent told me any student who shows up wearing the shirt again will be told to either turn it inside out or to change clothes.

?Where do you draw the line?? the superintendent asked. ?Is it okay to wear this weapon because it?s a National Guardsman wielding it? (But it?s not okay) if you?ve got a T-shirt on from a video game that shows somebody aiming a gun at somebody?s head??

The school system tries to be consistent, he said.

?We are here to educate students to be neutral,? McCartney said. ?To create an environment where there isn?t a lot of controversy within the environment.?

I?d say the school got a failing grade on that task.

Outraged moms and dads and students lashed out on social networking and called the school district?s patriotism into question.

?As a mother, when I first saw the shirt, I saw the American flag, the silhouette of the soldier,? parent Jennifer Delisle told CBS 6. ?I didn?t even notice the gun and the children I?ve talked to said it had nothing to do with the gun being on it. It had to do with the honor and respect to the National Guard.?

The superintendent said the National Guard is more than welcome to return to campus ? provided they come with school-compliant clothing.

?This has nothing to do with patriotism,? he said. ?This has more to do with the world we live in. We live under the shadow of a lot of bad things that have happened.?

 

[wash11]

Please,share with the class!
The thought has crossed my mind,the last couple of years dealing with the public school system has been a real pita.
Part of me resists the urge to take the plunge.Mostly based on some social skills I feel are lost by not interacting with a wide demographic kids are exposed to.Learning to deal with it basically.
How old are your kids?How does the program work?

Several years ago it was suggested by a school administrator that my daughter be medicated to help her be ?more compliant? and ?focused?. Not because she had discipline issues or was disruptive in any way, the problem as they saw it was her ?doodling, reading and not being a part of class or discussions?. Straight ?A?s? were always a breeze for her and easily tested into advanced or honors classes. We worked with teachers and administrators for years to challenge her all the while questioning ourselves as parents because our youngest wasn?t the model student everyone expected her to be.

As she approached the teen years boredom and frustration started hitting new levels and I believe we had hit a wall with the public school system and its ability to stimulate or challenge this young mind. By this time we had been looking at the scary proposition of homeschooling for quite awhile. So we took the plunge and never looked back. It took a LOT of getting used to but we saw immediate benefits. Boredom and frustration all but gone. We had given her the tools to challenge herself along with equal parts freedom and responsibility. She taught herself Calculus in a couple of months, raised rabbits and grew gardens for her science and biology lessons, wrote short stories and poems for English and took a surprising interest in Bastiat economics (my little Libertarian). She started her first job at the local movie theater at 14 (another plus of homeschooling is open daytime schedules- jobs are plentiful for her age group as most kids are in school) to put dough away for her first car and does volunteer work for a youth group. With the newfound freedoms and responsibilities she has matured and gained the confidence to attack her next adventure. College.

After jumping through some hoops, testing and a lengthy meeting with and a blessing from the dean she declared a Life Science major at our local community college through a Northern Arizona University extension program.


Here is my 15 year old right after registration.

 

[wash11]

Several years ago it was suggested by a school administrator that my daughter be medicated to help her be ?more compliant? and ?focused?. Not because she had discipline issues or was disruptive in any way, the problem as they saw it was her ?doodling, reading and not being a part of class or discussions?. Straight ?A?s? were always a breeze for her and easily tested into advanced or honors classes. We worked with teachers and administrators for years to challenge her all the while questioning ourselves as parents because our youngest wasn?t the model student everyone expected her to be.

As she approached the teen years boredom and frustration started hitting new levels and I believe we had hit a wall with the public school system and its ability to stimulate or challenge this young mind. By this time we had been looking at the scary proposition of homeschooling for quite awhile. So we took the plunge and never looked back. It took a LOT of getting used to but we saw immediate benefits. Boredom and frustration all but gone. We had given her the tools to challenge herself along with equal parts freedom and responsibility. She taught herself Calculus in a couple of months, raised rabbits and grew gardens for her science and biology lessons, wrote short stories and poems for English and took a surprising interest in Bastiat economics (my little Libertarian). She started her first job at the local movie theater at 14 (another plus of homeschooling is open daytime schedules- jobs are plentiful for her age group as most kids are in school) to put dough away for her first car and does volunteer work for a youth group. With the newfound freedoms and responsibilities she has matured and gained the confidence to attack her next adventure. College.

After jumping through some hoops, testing and a lengthy meeting with and a blessing from the dean she declared a Life Science major at our local community college through a Northern Arizona University extension program.


Here is my 15 year old right after registration.

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Unrelated, why does the forum kill punctuation on anything I type in Word when I post it?

 

[Gelcoater]

Several years ago it was suggested by a school administrator that my daughter be medicated to help her be ?more compliant? and ?focused?. Not because she had discipline issues or was disruptive in any way, the problem as they saw it was her ?doodling, reading and not being a part of class or discussions?. Straight ?A?s? were always a breeze for her and easily tested into advanced or honors classes. We worked with teachers and administrators for years to challenge her all the while questioning ourselves as parents because our youngest wasn?t the model student everyone expected her to be.

As she approached the teen years boredom and frustration started hitting new levels and I believe we had hit a wall with the public school system and its ability to stimulate or challenge this young mind. By this time we had been looking at the scary proposition of homeschooling for quite awhile. So we took the plunge and never looked back. It took a LOT of getting used to but we saw immediate benefits. Boredom and frustration all but gone. We had given her the tools to challenge herself along with equal parts freedom and responsibility. She taught herself Calculus in a couple of months, raised rabbits and grew gardens for her science and biology lessons, wrote short stories and poems for English and took a surprising interest in Bastiat economics (my little Libertarian). She started her first job at the local movie theater at 14 (another plus of homeschooling is open daytime schedules- jobs are plentiful for her age group as most kids are in school) to put dough away for her first car and does volunteer work for a youth group. With the newfound freedoms and responsibilities she has matured and gained the confidence to attack her next adventure. College.

After jumping through some hoops, testing and a lengthy meeting with and a blessing from the dean she declared a Life Science major at our local community college through a Northern Arizona University extension program.


Here is my 15 year old right after registration.

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Dude,that's awesome:thumbup:
Is the curriculum a state or national thing?Online I assume?
I'm going to have to have a real discussion with the wife on this,and dare I say it?Show her a thread on RDP:yikes
Worlds collide episode of Seinfeld flashing through my mind.

 

[wash11]

Dude,that's awesome:thumbup:
Is the curriculum a state or national thing?Online I assume?
I'm going to have to have a real discussion with the wife on this,and dare I say it?Show her a thread on RDP:yikes
Worlds collide episode of Seinfeld flashing through my mind.

There are plenty of programs that simply take the student out of the public school environment and allow them to work from home but really that's not homeschooling. Ours was kind of a freestyle curriculum that we let her put together with the goal of scoring high on the compass test and clep exams for college placement. It's a pretty personal thing as you know your kids best, luckily there are many resources online to help out. It was as much an education for us as it was for her.

 

[Wicky]

I pay to get my vehicles washed now but, back in the day, I always liked to wash my car in the rain because it would presoak all the dirt and make it easier to clean as I would go a couple months at a time without washing vehicles. Granted, I waste water like a fucking elephant at high tide.

 

[Wicky]

OK, just watched the commercial...that makes me want to puke

 

[wash11]

BTW, once we had a good understanding of Common Core we were done. That was the final push for us to make the move. For us, Common Core was a good thing because our beliefs pushed us to do something we should have done years ago which was stay the hell away from any Common Core curriculum.

 

[Uncle Dave]

Seems like nobody taught the kid about soap.

UD

 

[BHC Vic]

When I went to western christian they had a homeschool program where kids took like two or 3 classes at the school and could play sports and did the rest at home. Some were socially awkward others fit right in. Most enjoyed being at the school though as far as I remember

 

[River Lynchmob]

I feel the same what about Coke after their super bowl commercial last year...I will never again drink any Coke product.

 

[koenig]

I feel the same what about Coke after their super bowl commercial last year...I will never again drink any Coke product.

Same, although I have cheated and bought coke. I switched after the commercial to a grocery store chain here no name brand cola. Its just as good and a lot cheaper.

Our public schools are very liberal. The "constitution" has a section on equality rights:

The courts have held that section 15 also protects equality on the basis of other characteristics that are not specifically set out in it. For example, this section has been held to prohibit discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.

So the schools not only don't discriminate based on sexual orientation they teach being gay is perfectly normal and even something to be proud of. They start in kindergarten.

 

[RiverDave]

Unrelated, why does the forum kill punctuation on anything I type in Word when I post it?

Always wondered that myself.. I know the solution though. When you click submit reply in the top left hand corner there is a button that looks like it has two A's on it. Click that and then paste the text and it won't happen.

 

[Chili Palmer]

That kid's an idiot - nobody gets that excited about a Prius, not even his parents.

 

[JL2Party]

I love my kids private school. You would never see a sign for guns and ammo at a public high school football game.

 

[koenig]

I love my kids private school. You would never see a sign for guns and ammo at a public high school football game.

That's cool. My brother buys my five year old nephew toy guns when he can find them. He asked if he could bring them to school. It was o.k. by them. All the preschools said no way.

 

[RiverDave]

I still don't get the jump from the Toyota commercial to home school..

 

[koenig]

I still don't get the jump from the Toyota commercial to home school..

I was going by the assumption the kid got the washing the car in rain to conserve water from school, not the parents. Even though the parents in the commercial are impressed by the kids liberalism. I know a grade 3 teacher, she took her class to our water reservoir. They told the kids we are running out of fresh water due to climate change. Scared the teacher and the kids.

 

[HBCraig]

I still don't get the jump from the Toyota commercial to home school..

Or the thinking that folks that go to public schools are liberals. I dont get it.....

 

[koenig]

Or the thinking that folks that go to public schools are liberals. I dont get it.....

Not the kids. But the teachers in public school are mostly liberal. Its worse here, I know teachers. They teach in kindergarten that having two Daddies or two Mommies is better then traditional families here. As an example of liberalism.

 

[Sleek-Jet]

I was going by the assumption the kid got the washing the car in rain to conserve water from school, not the parents. Even though the parents in the commercial are impressed by the kids liberalism. I know a grade 3 teacher, she took her class to our water reservoir. They told the kids we are running out of fresh water due to climate change. Scared the teacher and the kids.

Uh, what? You think a commercial about a guy buying his second Prius 14 years after the first and his kid got the idea of washing the car in the rain from the school? Toyota is essentially poking fun of itself. It's subtle, but it's there.

 

[BHC Vic]

To me it's just the chances the kid might lose. That big sports scholar ship or even all the memories from those games or going on trips w your class
Mates. 6th grade camp was one of the best times of my life. Long weekends by Sunday i was always missing school and my friends. Same w summer couldn't wait to get in class to tell everyone what we did.

 

[74 spectra20 v-drive]

We home School! All three kids, oldest just graduated. Work thru a "Clasical Converaations" group, these kids are amazing. Never worried about the whole socialization issue as i dont like too many people any way. With family, River, Sports, Church, the kids get all the interaction they could ever want and or need.

 

[dribble]

I still don't get the jump from the Toyota commercial to home school..

As I read through this thread I'm wondering the same thing. Where there might be many good reasons for some parents to take their kids out of the public school system, that idiotic fictional Toyota commercial isn't one of them.

 

[dribble]

Not the kids. But the teachers in public school are mostly liberal. Its worse here, I know teachers. They teach in kindergarten that having two Daddies or two Mommies is better then traditional families here. As an example of liberalism.

If you are the predominate influence on your kids, not only do they learn to see that nonsense for what it is, they learn that there are people out there who think like this, and they are better prepared to deal with them as adults. Our three kids went to public schools and listened to that drivel for years and all three are as conservative as they get.

Also, I seriously doubt that they teach kids that having two same sex parents is "better" but I have no doubt that they try and teach them that having same sex parents is normal.