I am a homeschooling mom...

[agilebrit]

And I will not wank. No, I won't. Not there, anyway. Eh. *grabs a tissue and cleans up* Seriously, I couldn't let that go.

However, all you have to do is look at the "quality" of fic at FFN to see the sort of "education" that public schools are churning out. Semi-literate snowflakes who bristle at the merest hint of criticism? Pretty much.

Yeah, not in my house. Da Boy already gets corrected if he doesn't capitalize "I" or the word at the start of a sentence, and he's seven. And I don't think I'm stunting his creativity.

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[palmaceae.livejournal.com]

i'd rather, i dunno, sell my house and live in the ghetto than send any kid of mine to public school (private parochial school only, or maybe homeschooling). the lack of any standards whatsoever, educationally or morally. and yeah, i bet i am generalizing, but i have no faith in the system.

GOD FORBID YOU CRITICIZE YOUR CHILD'S SPELLING. IT MIGHT HURT HIS SELF ESTEEM.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. I'M SCARRING HIM FOR LIFE, I TELL YOU. ON PURPOSE, TOO.

I worked with people who couldn't put a coherent sentence together on paper to save their lives. I see signs all over the place with extraneous apostrophes. And I'm becoming more and more convinced that it's because they're not being taught the difference between "their" and "they're," and that an apostrophe doesn't mean "HEY, THERE'S AN S COMING!"

I'm also convinced that kids don't learn anything good from each other. Seems to me that "socialization" in the classroom setting comes down to "survival of the fittest."