Kindergarten fun?!?!?! - rant - Page 6

[2tadpoles]

Originally Posted by Mom4tot

No, I do not buy innocent curiousity all the time either. People are curious, but they are also threatened by change....by people who they view as "different". My children shouldn't have to explain why they are at the grocery store at noon.

ITA!

Always thought the following was funny....especially number 5.

Top 10 Answers You Should NEVER Give to the Question "What?! No School Today?"

10. Well, normally yes, but this time of year I need help with the planting and plowing.

9. Goodness, no!!! I graduated 18 years ago, but thanks for the compliment!

8. No, we homeschool. We're just out to pick up a bag of pork rinds and some Mountain Dew, then we gotta hurry home to catch our soaps.

7. What?! Where did you guys come from?! I thought I told you to stay at school! I'm sorry. This happens all the time. (sigh)

6. There isn't? Why, you'd think we'd see more kids out then, don't you?

5. We're on a field trip studying human nature's intrusive and assumptive tactics of displaying ignorance and implied superiority. Thanks for the peek!

4. On our planet we have different methods of education. (Shhh! No, I didn't give it away...keep your antennae down!)

3. Oh my goodness! I thought that today was Saturday...come on kids, hurry!

2. Noooooope. Me 'n Bubba jes' learns 'em at home. Werks reel good!

And the number one answer we should NEVER give to the question: "What? No school today?"

1. "What? No Bingo today?"

[GoodUserNamesTaken]

Rofl!!!!

[RiceMomma]

My daughter begged for a long time to go to "candy-garden" where they "ride in the cool bus and play soccer all day." And lunch boxes look pretty cool too.

But when I explained to her that she wouldn't get to be with her brothers and sister all day, she stopped begging.

[*jeanine*]

Well now, "candy-garden" *does* sound fun!!

[Needle in the Hay]

Originally Posted by mommy68

deleted by me because I'm unable to share my POV.

Mommy68, this is not directed at you personally but I have noticed on this board people will come to debate homeschooling and then finally leave the thread with a rant about not being allowed to express their views here and that the Hsers are close-minded, etc.

I would think posts defending circumcision would not be all that well-received on that board, or posts defending formula-feeding by choice on the breastfeeding or lactivist boards, or posts describing all the benefits of a letting a child CIO on the co-sleeping board and so on. If someone is posting on the Learning At School board they probably don't want to defend and debate their choice of sending their child to school.

So either everyone on this site is close-minded and thinks their way is the only way or people are more willing to apply a double standard to the homeschoolers. Since I don't require people to think all choices are equally great to be open-minded, I would say it's the latter.