The Homeschool Matrix

Homeschool


Some people wonder why we do it. Some people wonder how Tawna keeps her sanity without a "break" from the kids during the week. The general public never ceases to amaze me with it's level of moral depravity. I pose that it should be the homeschooling families asking public schoolers why they continue to allow other people take responsibility for their children. There are thousands of cases where teachers have over stepped their bounds with someone elses child.

For example....

There was a teacher in California (which as we know is the moral center of this country), who taught English and Social Sciences. This obviously moral and upright person (all "highly educated" people are) was having a somewhat recreational relationship with one of her students. This was not a Berkeley professor (surprisingly), it wasn't even a high school teacher (as you would expect). This 33 year old "educator" was having a physical relationship with a 14 year old MIDDLE SCHOOL student. The principal goes on record as saying "She is a great teacher, and this was a big surprise". I'm surprised only by the fact that they didn't add "Phys Ed" as one of her classes. There will be some long drawn out explanation as to why she continued it. She was molested as a child, mommy and daddy didn't love her, whatever. I'm sure that the BOY was a VERY mature 14. He was WAAAY past his Hannah Montana crush, his comic books and baseball cards. He was prepped and ready for his portfolio to take off and set his nest egg for the rest of his life. He had one paid off mortgage and another property the rent on the first one was paid for. NOT TO MENTION that he was fully prepared emotionally to handle all the garbage that comes with a physical relationship. 


Seriously, there are 30 year old MEN out there that aren't ready for a physical relationship. There is nothing that anyone can say that would justify what happened. how ludicrous.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588707,00.html

ANYWAYS...


Why in the world would I risk the possibility of this happening to my sons or daughter? I know for a fact that this will not happen in my house. I also know exactly what my kids are learning, who they're learning it from, and how well they learn it. This is one of the many reasons we keep our kids at home for school. There are so many reasons to NOT put your kids in public school, and only to do it. needing a break from them before you go crazy? How fair is that to your kids that you are gifted with? Think about that.

"I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of homeschoolers. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a school without bells. A school without classes and desks, without buses or boredom.  A school where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."
Neo (slightly modified)

Talk about a double standard…

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/03/04/hosts-view-sexually-harass-male-guests/?test=faces

The View is on ABC. PTI (Pardon The Interruption) is on ESPN. Both networks fall under the ABC family of networks. This knowledge helps highlight exactly how ludicrous the following actions are.

PART ONE…

Tony Kornheiser was suspended from appearing on HIS show PTI for two weeks due to criticism towards Hannah Storms fashion sense. I’m no expert, but I’m going to put a picture in and you can judge for yourself (personally I think he was right on)…

Criticizing someone’s fashion should not be a suspensionable offense, Even if ESPN has a policy of not being critical inside the network. Tony Kornheiser is a critical person, this is why they pay him to be on TV in the first place. To criticize and analyze what sports people do. He just happened to do it to a fellow ESPN personality instead of the latest drug fueled football player. GET OVER IT! Maybe he went to far in his comments, maybe he didn’t two week suspension from the show? Not so much, maybe an on air apology for something that most people never even heard (he produced said criticism on his Washington D.C. radio show), would have been better. Who knows; too late now?

PART TWO…

There has been some talk recently about how men that go on The View are talked to in a certain way. Let’s be honest, I’ve probably seen the show a couple times, and didn’t really pay attention to it then either. The hosts of the show are given credibility by the simple fact that “Barbara Walters” is on the show (yes I put her name in quotes because it’s like talking about Michael with Basketball, Tiger with golf, or Sampras with tennis). Who had ever heard of anyone else on the show before this show started? Not many.

That being said, when young(ish) male stars come on the show they are spoken to, and questioned, about VERY personal things. Robert Pattison (Harry Potter, and Twilight) was recently asked about his… um… package and why he decided to cover it while doing a “physical scene” in a new movie. 

REALLY?! 

Let me think, maybe because it’s not appropriate to go waving your privates around for everyone to see? Regardless of his reason, who are these OLD LADIES (sorry Hasselbeck)to talk about this stuff? I wouldn’t even sit there and listen to my mom talk about this stuff (some things just aren’t right), let alone Barbara Walters (no quotes for this one) who is 80 something years old! No-one would ever accuse Joy Behar of being classy, or Whoopi Goldberg of being soft spoken, but does that mean they should be able to talk to/about their “guests” like that? When is ABC going to ask for a suspension, or an apology? What would happen if David Letterman started asking Megan Fox about why she doesn't display her privates in her next movie? What if Jay Leno asked Miley Cyrus when she was going to pose for a mens magazine? Pick a guy on TV, insert a young females name from show business and imagine the reaction! It would be outrageous and the people who would be saying the most/loudest would probably be, wait for it…

THESE “LADIES” ON THE VIEW! Why is it different for men then women? Should it be? I think that it's ridiculous that not only is it acceptable for these ladies to get away this. All the guys (that don't wear pink shirts) should march on their studio and kick them out. Then we can hijack their broadcast and talk about guns and cars for an hour! That would be a much more productive use of time than what they're currently doing. Or is it that all the women who watch The View are so in need of living vicariously through them that we would be the bad guys, and considered chauvinists because we don't appreciate the female point of "View"? In the end does it really matter what words the talking heads on TV are spouting, or what his "motivation" is for being naked in a movie? I don't think so. What about you?

I’d like to end with Ben Steins’ most famous words,

“Hate dry eyes? Get clear eyes, with Visine.” Not what you expected?

Sorry, “Bueller…Bueller?” Is that better?