Is this quote offensive??

[Stayseeliz]

I saw this elsewhere and wanted to put it it my siggie..It is too offensive??

"We homeschool because we've seen the village, and don't want it raising our children!"

[blsilva]

Well, I like it, but I'm odd that way.

[joandsarah77]

Lol I used to have a modified vertion of that on my siggy at another board. I stole it from someone on here. :

[lilyka]

I have seen that before and always thought it was funny. may be offensive though to people without a good sense of humor.

[clane]

I like it But there is always someone that will be offended by anything.

[Nimbus]

I think it's funny, too. This may be naive, but the people who would find that offensive would be the village. Right? Or maybe just have more faith in the village than others...

[Stayseeliz]

Originally Posted by Nimbus

I think it's funny, too. This may be naive, but the people who would find that offensive would be the village. Right? Or maybe just have more faith in the village than others...

That's what I was thinking. "The Village" would be offended!!

[Dar]

See, I'm homeschooling because I *do* want the village "raising" my child (well, I don't like the whole idea of "raising" children, but that's another story... ). I want the village to be part of her life, and I want her to know lots of people and learn from them and with them. I don't want her spending her days in a school with the same adult and kids day after day. I love the diversity of opinions and experiences the whole world has to offer.

To me, the quote seems to imply that you are homeschooling to avoid having your children exposed to opinions and ideas besides the ones you want to teach them... that you're homeschooling to keep them away from the world. I suppose that I would identify more with the village than with you, and some people might take it to mean that you think you're better than everyone else... I dunno. I wouldn't feel offended, but I would probably feel the need to assure people that not all homeschoolers believe that, if it was mentioned somewhere...

dar

[ericswifey27]

That slogan pretty much captures why even I feel homeschooling is a better choice, and I work in the public school system.
Much of what is going on (or not going on, for that matter) is pretty:.

[SagMom]

I always thought that bumper sticker was a dig at the Clinton administration.

Having a supportive village/community in which to parent would be my ideal, but Hilary's speech took that nice, warm cozy idea and turned it into something uncomfortable. I don't want The Government raising my kids.

Is the bumper sticker offensive? Someone is always going to be offended. If you take the quote in its original meaning, I guess we should all be offended, as we are the village.

[DTmama1]

Originally Posted by Dar

See, I'm homeschooling because I *do* want the village "raising" my child (well, I don't like the whole idea of "raising" children, but that's another story... ). I want the village to be part of her life, and I want her to know lots of people and learn from them and with them. I don't want her spending her days in a school with the same adult and kids day after day. I love the diversity of opinions and experiences the whole world has to offer.

To me, the quote seems to imply that you are homeschooling to avoid having your children exposed to opinions and ideas besides the ones you want to teach them... that you're homeschooling to keep them away from the world. I suppose that I would identify more with the village than with you, and some people might take it to mean that you think you're better than everyone else... I dunno. I wouldn't feel offended, but I would probably feel the need to assure people that not all homeschoolers believe that, if it was mentioned somewhere...

dar

Ditto, you put that into better words than I would have come up with Dar.

[reeseccup]

Originally Posted by Joan

I always thought that bumper sticker was a dig at the Clinton administration.

... but Hilary's speech took that nice, warm cozy idea and turned it into something uncomfortable. I don't want The Government raising my kids.

Is the bumper sticker offensive? Someone is always going to be offended. If you take the quote in it's original meaning, I guess we should all be offended, as we are the village.

That is how I take it as well. I also agree that I DON'T want the "village"(understood as "the government") helping me "raise my children".

I get a good chuckle out of that bumper sticker as well, but because I agree with it. If someone dissagreed (was a government school worshiper), I'm sure they'd be offended.

I don't believe in the "village raising the children", I believe in the parents doing it, and part of being the parent is to get their children out into real life situations and interact with people of the community and out outside of it. I don't consider doing that as the "village raising the children", rather experiencing a diversity in real world situations. The "village" is not in my home helping me care for my children, do the majority of their education, guiding them with values as a family we hold dear, nor paying for any of my childrens wants or needs. In fact, I don't wish for anyone else to hold that possition in my childrens lives.

[Rivka5]

I don't find it offensive. But it seems to me to be based on an underlying attitude that most people (the "village," the mainstream, people who aren't part of a carefully selected elite) are no good. If that's not the attitude you mean to express, you might want to reconsider the .sig.

(Obviously, if it *is* the attitude you mean to express, then pay me no mind.)

[chfriend]

What Dar said.

[Ravin]

I think I'd only want the village to raise my child with me if it was an ACTUAL village, kwim? If I lived in a little town of population just a few hundred, a significant percentage of them related to me, in a close-knit community, that sentiment would have some valid meaning.

[eco_mama]

I like it. I find it funny...and true!

[Rikki Gard]

I think it is funny

[Stayseeliz]

Originally Posted by Dar

See, I'm homeschooling because I *do* want the village "raising" my child (well, I don't like the whole idea of "raising" children, but that's another story... ). I want the village to be part of her life, and I want her to know lots of people and learn from them and with them. I don't want her spending her days in a school with the same adult and kids day after day. I love the diversity of opinions and experiences the whole world has to offer.

To me, the quote seems to imply that you are homeschooling to avoid having your children exposed to opinions and ideas besides the ones you want to teach them... that you're homeschooling to keep them away from the world. I suppose that I would identify more with the village than with you, and some people might take it to mean that you think you're better than everyone else... I dunno. I wouldn't feel offended, but I would probably feel the need to assure people that not all homeschoolers believe that, if it was mentioned somewhere...

dar

I was kinda taking the idea of a "village" as the government. I firmly believe that I can and should do a better job than that government would do in raising my child. But I guess in one sense I am homeschooling to keep them away from the "world" until they're old enough to be able to say NO to things that are inappropriate or wrong.

I wish I personally I had more of a network or village of people that would want to have a hand in helping with my kids. But sadly I don't.

[sewingmama]

I don't find it offensive; I find it funny and pretty accurate to how I feel. But like OPs said, I think it's important to know who you mean by "the village." I take it to mean the government, and I don't want that village raising my children. But a variety of caring people who want the best for my children and who expose them to new and different ideas and things, but who ultimately leave me in charge, well, that would be much more welcomed.

[Hera]

I know what you mean, and I think it's cute, but I can be unbearably pedantic so I have to point out that there is a difference between a village and an institution. I prefer to keep my kids out of school so they can participate in a village instead of being raised in an institution, kwim?