We're Freaks - We Want a Decent Education For Our Kids

Have you ever noticed that homeschoolers are portrayed as freaks for homeschooling?

Yeah, I'm a freak.  I'm a freak because my wife and I are homeschooling our kids.


I'm a freak because I think it is better for my children to be educated and supervised by an R.N. who is smart as a whip, loves them more than anything else in the world, and can immediately and effectively discipline them without red tape. We don't want them sitting in a room with a teacher who is a pervert, or burnt out, or powerless, overwhelmed and a captive to a union, or worse yet, believes all of the junk the union promotes and hasn't been fired because of the union. We don't want them sitting a room with a bunch of disruptive kids who have no parental supervision and were "raised" by hired help, such as a "day orphanage", or have chaotic home lives involving stepparents, stepsiblings, or a revolving door of their parents' lovers.

We want our kids to be "socially retarded", by denying them the opportunity to fornicate in a full classroom or at a school dance on the dance floor, or to learn the latest combination of derogatory terms, or the latest lies, excuses, and techniques kids are employing to subvert teacher and parental authority. We want  them to have a little more trouble contacting the drug dealers in the schools.


We don't want to fight over uniforms or no uniforms, or dress codes where our child can't wear a t-shirt reflecting his or her religious beliefs but is ineffective at keeping girls from dressing like "hos".


We don’t want to deal with endless appeals for money or employing my child as a shill to raise funds, even though we're already paying plenty in taxes to fund the school.


We don't think "one size fits all" or even very few sizes fits all. Frankly, my kids are smarter than most their age.


We don't want our kids to have to deal with bullies who are not removed from the school after proving themselves to be thugs. In the adult world, the bullies get fired from the workplace.


We don't want to deal with endless PTA and school board squabbles.


We don't want to fight over class placement.


We don't want to fight with administrators over testing methods, or the content or method of textbooks or curricula, including material that attacks our faith, asserts philosophical naturalism, promotes pagan or New Age concepts and practices, embraces environmental alarmism, twists history, bashes America and its founders, denies the positive Judeo-Christian influence in this nation's history, or denies the Bible's influence on government, law, and the arts.


We don't want to fight over which languages will be taught, or the emphasis, funding priorities, or other decisions applied to electives, sports, physical education, arts courses, etc.


We don't want to fight over the content of assemblies.


We don't want our kids to have to use substandard facilities, especially dirty restrooms.


We want our children to know that getting the right answer the right way and applying it to the right uses, and other accomplishments is the key to self-esteem, not touchy-feely motivational programs about how they're "okay" no matter how badly and often they screw things up when they should know better.


We want to be able to let our kid know when he or she gets a wrong answer – with a red marker even, and help them figure out how to get the right answer instead of telling them the wrong answer is okay.


We don't want to fight over the food offerings and quality at the school.


We don't want to fight over reading selections and whether or not they include enough works from obese disabled crossdressing lesbian Buddhist Marxists of color.


We don't want to fight over the nature and amount of homework.


We don't want to have to structure our lives around the school's schedule, or fight over extending the school year or school day. We want to spend time with our kids.


We don't want to fight over what to call vacations and activities clearly scheduled around Christian holidays, or struggle to allow our kids to express their celebration of those holidays.


We don't want our children prevented from citing, referencing, or mentioning the Bible or Jesus Christ in their schoolwork.



We don't want to fight over school prayer, or the even the school mascot.


We don't want our children being taught the bogus notion that disapproving of a behavior or disagreeing with an opinion makes someone intolerant or bigoted. We don't want them subjected to speech codes with which we disagree.


We don't want our grade-schooler accused of sexual harassment for hugging someone.


We don’t want someone else teaching our children in a way that normalizes fornication when we're raising them to value the sacredness of marital lovemaking.


We don't want school officials aiding and abetting statutory rape by taking our daughter to get an abortion without our knowledge.


We don't want our children being taught that homosexual sodomy is no different from heterosexual coitus, or that there is no difference between a couple of both sexes and a couple missing one of the sexes.



We don't want our children being taught that if they have some sort of emotional or psychological difficulty, that they must be homosexual or are really the opposite sex and should have body parts lopped off.


We don't want our children taught relativism, postmodernism, or multiculturalism, or otherwise subvert what we're teaching them.


We want to teach our children with an integrated, logical, consistent worldview, to judge people based on their actions as individuals, that it is good to have traditional values and to make moral judgments, that not all religions, customs, or cultures are the same or equivalent, that some actions AND ideas are evil or just plain stupid, and that feelings can change, can be managed, and don't necessitate action.


We know better what's best for our child than lawmakers in Sacramento and Washington D.C, who want to micromanage.  I see all of these battles over every aspect of public schooling as arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.  The government should get out of the education business, and I vote against using any more tax money (including bonds) for public schools.


I respect school teachers, I really do.  I had some great ones myself and I have family members who are or have been school teachers. Almost all of my formal education was in public schools. But times have changed too much, and especially in California, the public schools have far too many problems.


Plus, I know my kids will not get shot at home.