May Old Categories Be Forgotten? Hell No!
I haven’t talked much about the H word in the last year or so. There’s a very good reason for it. I was sick and tired of all the crap. I was tired of the labeling. I was tired of feeling the need to explain or defend my choices. I didn’t want to offend anyone or make them feel I thought less of them because they chose a different path. I was also having a hard time finding a way to talk about something that was so much a part of who I am and what I believe without it sounding either self righteous or contrite. So I removed my old posts and chose to ignore a very large part of who I am and what I believe. It was a mistake. I think my dwindling posts and general lack of enthusiasm for my blog attests to that.
It doesn’t matter if I want the label, and stereotypes, and judgments, or not. I am a homeschooler. I was a homeschooler before I even knew the word homeschooler and I can’t imaging myself in any other role. I truly believe that knowledge and education is not the responsibility of the local school board. It is your responsibility to educate yourself, as you see fit, by whatever means you have available. It is a parents responsibility to ensure their children have the skills to seek out and effectively utilize those means, for their own self-chosen goals. So, I’m putting my homeschool category back on my site and I will be adding to it when and if I have something to post. If you have a problem with that, I’ll find a nice place for you in between the mail order brides and the Viagra ads in my spam queue. Have a nice day.
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Welcome back!
Thank You.
Great! I’m glad that part is back. Homeschooling rocks! And I love reading all about it your days and your ideas.
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Thanks. I hope that people see it as a legitimate option and not a sub-culture or negative influence. I also hope people realize it isn’t the only option. There are weirdo’s on both side of that argument. Luckily most of the homeschoolers that show up around here anymore are cool like us. (That counts for you too, Phil)
I will be pleased if you post more about homeschooling. We are getting more interested in it, having recently received notification from the States of Jersey that Bean ought to enroll in his twenty free hours of preschool per week from age 2. There States teachers will teach him about his own emotions, sexuality for under-threes (yes really), and the food pyramid. Also, dental hygiene. We will most likely have moved by the time he turns two, but bejesus all the same.
^^ and I know 20 FREE hours will sound great to many in the USA where there’s no such thing available, but at the same time it’s all part of the Nanny-State-Machine here and in the U.K. (and in N.Z.). Mothers can stop ‘wasting’ time caring for their their own children since free care can be provided by the government, thus freeing the mothers up to pay taxes. Urgh.
It’s crazy. I remember when people were shouting about NOT putting young children in daycare because it was bad for them.
My kids went to half-day pre-school (Y only lasted 6 months but
we tried)and it was a pre-school I chose and managed by people that I knew. And there was no sex ed, they were Catholics! They did learn about dental hygiene because one of the parents was a dentist. But yeah, I know what you mean about the nanny state.
I wonder if that is why I get so many people from the UK searching for my educational anarchy post.