tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381224391260954323.post1252968796934365133..comments2023-05-26T01:08:22.886-07:00Comments on The Religion Virus: US Grants Asylum to ... Germans? For Home Schooling?Craig A. Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10569974341270668010noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381224391260954323.post-25978643469109389972012-06-02T08:53:48.083-07:002012-06-02T08:53:48.083-07:00Happened upon your blog today... I am a 17 year ol...Happened upon your blog today... I am a 17 year old homeschooler. My 7 siblings and I have been homeschooled all our lives. Honestly, I don't know how to say this, but I find your post/argument very weak and one sided. I have a friend who has friends in Germany that homeschool their children... one day the parents were (without warning) placed in jail, with their children seized and placed somewhere. (I can't remember, but I think it was a orphanage-home-thing at first, until friends were able to acquire temporary guardianship.)<br /><br />Anyway, the thing I find one sided is this... you assume the basis of the judge's ruling, and even the basis behind the family's homeschooling is merely because of Christian influence. You insinuate that these children should know what their govt. wants them to learn, in the way they want them to learn it, and nothing else/different.<br /><br />Even if these first two are true, does that weigh heavily enough on your moral scale of judgement for govts. that you scorn them so heavily, not inquiring into the German govt's. motives and/or the moral (or immoral) basis behind their action in the matter?<br /><br />Let me see... what political formula does this (these children should know what their govt. wants them to learn, in the way they want them to learn it, and nothing else/different.)follow... communism? (No, I'm not calling you a communist, because I doubt you are, but maybe you should re-analyze your thinking?)<br /><br />If I wanted to learn the way the US would have me educated by now... I would not have accomplished nearly as much as I have in my schooling. I am a junior... I have written plays, acted in them, taken art lessons, I play 3 instruments, played 3 different sports (Without being particularly good at any, save one.), entered into county fairs, written 2 books, this year I finished my math course-work in March, I substitute high-school text books with college ones. (Written from an evolutionary point of view, usually.) I am headed to law school after my senior year. My mother taught us English, my dad taught us science and math. (And we've given them a lot of grief, believe me. They're the bravest people I know.) I have an active social life, I love helping old people, which is something I have noticed a lack of in the general public-school crowd... tell me, which would you rather have; "enlightenment" by evolutionary means, and the current youth attitude, or "religionism", and my attitude...<br /><br />Another question, do you know any Christian homeschoolers? Or even devout/not contradictory Christians? While governments and social formulas can be analyzed from a distance, what do these *people* you chastise think? If you had/have children, and the time, and wouldn't sacrifice anything either way, which would you choose... public school? Or homeschool?<br /><br />This would mean that you spend as much time or more with your children than they do with their friends. You invest in them. You help them on their journey in life. And while I'm not saying non-homeschool parents don't do this, I'm eternally grateful for the sacrifices my parents have made for me, not for them.<br /><br />P.S. my married siblings are home-schooling their children... all 14 of them. :)Homeschool Birdihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05407796142021189127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381224391260954323.post-33964481166662392042010-03-08T16:35:23.588-08:002010-03-08T16:35:23.588-08:00I agree with you!I agree with you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com