... or you can homeschool. the majority of homeschool families I know are very pro 2A by default. My parents raised and homeschooled myself and three younger siblings on a single income. It takes sacrifice but it can be done, and pays off in the end. If you're here on THR chances are the security will also be top-notch.
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We homeschool, and it takes a lot of hard work, but is worth it. As Jeff Cooper liked to mention, we constantly hear all this talk about the separation of church and state, but what we need is a separation of school and state.
Vouchers. Fight for vouchers.
We homeschool because of things like this. Also, there is over a 30% drop-out rate in our school district.
We homeschool because of things like this. Also, there is over a 30% drop-out rate in our school district.
When I was about 11 or 12 I found the frame of a 38? revolver buried in a vacant lot. Of course I took it to school. A teacher saw it and asked me where I'd gotten it. I told her. Never heard another word..
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Oh yeah! This was about 1950.
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Oh yeah! This was about 1950.
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Looks to me like just more of the conditioning process used by collectivists schools to make kids feel guns are bad and feel guilty if they like them.
Government and frightened people prefer passive people who won't defend themselves, and decades of deliberate conditioning seems to have worked on a significant portion of the citizenry.
The think that hacks me off it that the anti gun liberals think they are morally and intellectually superior, and look down on people who value their own lives enough to want to be able to defend themselves.
I look at it like insurance. I don't expect my house to burn down or my car to crash, but I certainly want to cover them with insurance since the cost is low relative to the potential loss. Guns at the very least are low cost insurance against unexpected aggression from others, not to mention the pleasure they bring from hunting, target shooting, and just plain admiring their beauty.
Government and frightened people prefer passive people who won't defend themselves, and decades of deliberate conditioning seems to have worked on a significant portion of the citizenry.
The think that hacks me off it that the anti gun liberals think they are morally and intellectually superior, and look down on people who value their own lives enough to want to be able to defend themselves.
I look at it like insurance. I don't expect my house to burn down or my car to crash, but I certainly want to cover them with insurance since the cost is low relative to the potential loss. Guns at the very least are low cost insurance against unexpected aggression from others, not to mention the pleasure they bring from hunting, target shooting, and just plain admiring their beauty.
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They did a study where young boys who had never been exposed to guns were put in a room and allowed to play with toys. The boys still found items that they used to represent guns and started playing army. I wish I had the link.
My son bit his toast into the shape of a gun once at daycare. One of the women at the daycare made a huge deal out of it and claimed it was a violation of the safe schools act. She then asked me if I hunt. I responded, "Yeah, but I don't hunt people!" I was teaching junior high school at the time (I still hold a certification) and pulled rank on her. I then presented the study to her the next day. She dropped it. I did coach my son against any further creative art.
My son bit his toast into the shape of a gun once at daycare. One of the women at the daycare made a huge deal out of it and claimed it was a violation of the safe schools act. She then asked me if I hunt. I responded, "Yeah, but I don't hunt people!" I was teaching junior high school at the time (I still hold a certification) and pulled rank on her. I then presented the study to her the next day. She dropped it. I did coach my son against any further creative art.
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I know that this is the High Road, but the thread is going to home schooling. I guess I will put my two cents in. You people give the reason that you want to home school to protect your children from conditioning instead of actually becoming members of your communities and getting involved. It sounds like a lot of excuses to me. So allow your children to stay in your four walls. Don't allow them to be exposed to the outside world and possibly think for themselves. Don't allow them to see someone else argument and possibly defuse it. Don't fight the ideas you don't agree with that are presented in school, just give up. That makes a lot of sense to me 
When I was in art class in the 7th grade, we had a project to make an object with poster board, and cover it in magazine clippings which related to it.
I made a scoped rifle and covered it in clippings from NRA's Insights magazine. That was about 20 years ago...the art teacher even told me I should try to make it shoot with rubber bands.
There was absolutely no thought of any discipline because that is what I made.
Another kid made a folding knife
The public in general is becoming a society of cowards...and knee jerk reactionaries.
I made a scoped rifle and covered it in clippings from NRA's Insights magazine. That was about 20 years ago...the art teacher even told me I should try to make it shoot with rubber bands.
There was absolutely no thought of any discipline because that is what I made.
Another kid made a folding knife
The public in general is becoming a society of cowards...and knee jerk reactionaries.
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I'm curious if they'll start suspending educators if they use the word "gun" or show pictures of "guns" during history lessons?
As already said, the "educators" pushing these issues aren't qualified to teach other than the credentials they hang on their walls.....no different than an engineer that can explain all of the workings of an IC engine but is not capable of removing a valve cover.
I'm certainly relieved that my kids aren't in school anymore because I'm sure I'd spend a great deal of my time in the "office"....I am relieved though that I get to spend time with my grandkids and teach them the stuff schools SHOULD teach but don't....like common sense.
As already said, the "educators" pushing these issues aren't qualified to teach other than the credentials they hang on their walls.....no different than an engineer that can explain all of the workings of an IC engine but is not capable of removing a valve cover.
I'm certainly relieved that my kids aren't in school anymore because I'm sure I'd spend a great deal of my time in the "office"....I am relieved though that I get to spend time with my grandkids and teach them the stuff schools SHOULD teach but don't....like common sense.
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The school board is typically THE most powerful group within any municipality. Running for a seat will not fix it. Voting will not fix this. Being nice will not fix this.
Home schooling helps. proper parenting helps.
Other options I don't want to mention but feel free to draw your own conclusions.
You had better start saving your money and learn how to live on less. And what you do for your first kid, you will need to have the money to do for your subsequent children. Private schools, good ones that is, are very expensive, and they are not an education utopia. My wife teaches at a private Christian school. Private schools have their own set of politics and problems that can drive you crazy, and the ones we know of and attended are no safer than public schools. Private schools are full of parents who think their kids are entitled to special treatment because "they are paying good money to send our kids to your school and if you don't do X, Y or Z, we will pull our kids and our money faster than you can blink an eye!" And the school boards of private schools always have a couple of Prima Donnas who make life miserable for teachers and staff. We have home schooled, private schooled and public schooled. Home schooling was the only one we had complete control over and if something was not working it was easy to identify the issue and quickly resolve it.
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Kids don't typically refute what grownups tell them--part of that "young and impressionable" thing. The job of responsible parents is to make the right impressions upon their children while they are still maleable. Kids are there to be shaped and guided by those around them. Only when they're old enough that their core values have solidified would I want a child exposed to influences contradictory to their taught worldview.
We have to teach children (or "indoctrinate" them if you prefer) because they don't learn everything they need on their own. Children aren't grownups; they don't have a right to the whole unfiltered truth.
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You can contact Park Elementary School to let them know how you feel about this idiocy at:
Park Elementary
201 E. 11th Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21225
Phone: 410-222-6593
Fax: 410-222-6596
Their webpage is http://www.aacps.org/aacps/parkes/index.asp
Park Elementary School
www.aacps.org
Park Elementary
201 E. 11th Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21225
Phone: 410-222-6593
Fax: 410-222-6596
Their webpage is http://www.aacps.org/aacps/parkes/index.asp
Park Elementary School
www.aacps.org
The areas in this country with the highest divorce and teen pregnancy rates are not the most liberal ones.radar1972 said:
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