"The homeschool movement has produced over two million of the finest human beings that America has seen in recent generations. Parents took it upon themselves to provide their children with a premeditated and sometimes prefabricated culture based on Biblical principles. Every aspect of their lives is deliberate rather than accidental. They protected their kids from the world and from unsavory influences, even going to the extreme of restructuring their church or designing small home churches where associations and influences could be controlled, leaving nothing to chance. They took into account and provided proper socialization, instilled life skills, and acquainted their children with music, art, and the sciences. For them, virginity at the marriage altar has become the unquestioned norm."
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The homeschool movement [...] acquainted their children with [...] the sciences.
The sciences like flat earth geography, geocentric cosmology, creationist biology and prayer to cure disease medicine.
"Premeditated and sometimes prefabricated".
New from Jesus' Enterprises it's "Truth in a box". With this Bible, cross and list of Cristian websites, you can convince your kids the world is what you wish it to be.
As a special bonus we will include a list of wise sayings like:
"If you don't like a book? Burn it!"
"If you don't like a T.V. station? Boycott!"
"If you don't like your kids Beliefs? They'll burn in Hell!"
"They took into account and provided proper socialization, instilled life skills, and acquainted their children with music, art, and the sciences."
I am soooooo glad I'm not teaching anymore! It was bad enough to try to get students from IIT to understand not every problem was in the textbook, I don't want to have to argue not every science problem is in the bible either.
I hope your god grants you a critical fail on your college admission exams, or at least the graduate school ones... maybe then some "real" science can be learned.
I have an idea, Michael. I'll raise my children without your horseshit. I'll tell them personal responsibility, critical thinking, give them confidence, and ensure highest quality education I can give them.
Then, when my children and children raised by your crap leave the nest, we'll see who has a better sense of reality and is able to function in the normal world.
"two million of the finest human beings that America"
Less than 50% of the people in America have a high school degree or GED.
Less than 10% of these people in America have a Bachelor's degree.
Less than 5% of these people in America have a Master's degree.
A vast majority of Americans do not understand the basics of the scientific topics such as the theory of evolution, and walk around believing that whatever some 2,000 year book says is true regardless of the meticulous efforts of people who are studying the world around them.
I can guess where these 2 million Americans are.
How do you know that all 2 million homskool'd persons are "of the finest human beings that America has seen in recent generations?"
"Every aspect of their lives is deliberate rather than accidental."
So they have no experience coping with the non-deliberate aspects of a real life?
"For them, virginity at the marriage altar has become the unquestioned norm."
Not that I'm encouraging warped, controlling asshats like you to do pelvic exams, but I think you may be wrong about that assertion.
Leaving nothing to chance. And then turning them out into the real world. It's no wonder he goes on to talk about how common it is for them to fall away once they get there. Fine human beings with absolutely no true *faith*, only ignorance, because they've been protected their whole lives from any difference of opinion.
So what does he blame? They aren't Christian enough! A girl who's afraid of sex just isn't a true follower of God, that's why she's so freaked out now that she's married--it can't possibly be that her parents have been telling her for her whole adolescence that to so much as hold hands is a sin. The abusive husband is a bad Christian, it's not that his parents instilled in him that his wife was supposed to be submissive no matter what.
Scary article, really. He thinks it's a sign of the end times when a five year old doesn't know one particular Bible story and has seen Spongebob. The end times!
I'm going to go hide under a rock now, at the thought of people like this really out there. :/
"Hey there Johnny! Out you come! It's time for you to start your first day of work."
"Argh! My eyes! Mom... the light... my eyes are stinging!"
"Of course they're stinging sweetheart, you've been nailed up in a crate for eighteen years. Now did you read that sheet of bible verses I pushed through the airhole in 1995?"
"Yeah mom. Hey listen, what's the outside world like? I mean if i'm going to work today i'd better know something about it."
"Now Johnny, your father and I have gone to great lengths to keep you seperated from the evils of the world. If we taught you about them it would defeat the whole purpose."
"Yeah but when I go out i'm sure to encounter them. If I don't know anything about-"
"That's it mister, back in the crate! Let's see if you're less rebellious when you're thirty!"
"protected their kids from the world"
Enough said, really. Sometimes no snide comment seems necessary.
"They took into account and provided proper socialization, ..."
Hah!
"... instilled life skills,"
Ho ho! Hah hah!
Homeschooling isn't necessarily a problem. Locking your kids in your own narrow world, however, is. I am glad I won't live in the world this fundie homeschool movement is creating. I had better hopes for the future than what is to come.
All the Biblical shit I was taught from the age of 12 in homeschool (2002) to present has had the adverse effect: I'm a homosexual atheist.
Well fuck me up the ass and call me a bitch!
I know plenty of others like me, too.
Reading this guy is so weird, knowing he's not a poe. I think he should rent his brainwashed masses as hollywood extras, for scenes involving millions of metal munching moon mice, and things like that.
"They took into account and provided proper socialization, instilled life skills, and acquainted their children with music, art, and the sciences."
That part -- you couldn't be further from the truth.
Life's a lot more fun when you get to live it and make choices. If my parents had tried to homeschool me I would simply not have allowed it.
Yeeeeah, uh, hate to burst your bubble, Mikey mah boy, but no. I'm glad my mom decided to homeschool me simply because I got to spend a lot more time with her and my brothers; however, she expected me to be a self-starter on all of my schoolwork, resulting in my abysmal math grades.
Oh, wait, I'm sorry...you didn't list math up there...huh...
Dear Mr. Pearl,
Please shut the fuck up.
Thank you.
Good, glad those finest humans are dumb as bricks thanks to the prejudices and willful ignorance of their teachers, and they won't compete with my kids for jobs and scholarships. Keep up the good work!
"Hothouse Flowers for Jesus" award?
Oh wait, wait, I've got an even better one: "Moral Infants for Jesus" .
I try not to be that big a dick or be hateful or anything like that.
But.
Michael Pearl, I must break you.
Yeah, that certainly describes the homeschooled guy that lives down the road from me (I live in South Carolina). He doesn't actually have down syndrome, but you couldn't tell that from looking at him.
As a homeschooling parent myself, I'd like to point out that the Pearls are asshats who horrify even most fundies, and that most homeschooling families aren't religiously motivated.
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The homeschool movement has produced over two million of the most atrocious bumpkins that America has seen in recent generations. Parents took it upon themselves to provide their children with an inane and mostly fabricated culture based on Biblical principles. Every aspect of their lives is deliberate rather than accidental. They protected their kids from the real world and from unsavory facts, even going to the extreme of restructuring reality to coincide with their small home churches where control, leaving nothing to chancehas become the unquestioned norm.
There, typos fixed again
I went through homeschool and it was living hell. It was so freaking boring that out of the five years I had it, I only have memory of a good two weeks. Thats five FUCKING YEARS out of my life, five years I did not enjoy and that I will never get back. And other children lose their whole childhoods.
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