The most influence of all in school, is the other children. My children had been raised in a Christian home, and had been homeschooled up to the year my husband left us. He demanded they be placed in public school. That year, they learned more on the bus than they did in class. Words that I didn't know existed. The dog-eat-dog world of peer pressure. Behavior that I am sure the bus driver had no idea was going on. Really immoral stuff. I prayed and wept, and God made a way for me, a single mom, to take my children out of public school. Now, they have gotten straightened out... but all that junk is still floating around in their brains. I wish so badly they had never learned about such wickedness.
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Guess what, honey. Unless they live in your basement for the rest of their natural lives, they'll be exposed to the big, bad world eventually. One of the reason why Public School is good...they get familiarized by it a little more slowly, as opposed to it all rushing at them at once.
> The most influence of all in school, is the other children.
Yup. Prepare your kids for that, if you can. And you can probably only do so in generalities. Teach them good manners, teach them the difference between right and wrong (even fundy right and wrong, if you have to), but above all else just try to teach them basic respect for all people.
You know they'll go off the rails once or twice as they grow up, but don't get your tits in a mangle over it. Didn't you make the same mistakes when you were young?
Yes, shelter your children forever, make them live with you until the day you die, never let them know there are other ways of thinking out there because god forbid you may have to think your faith is such a powerful, infallible truth that they'd CHOOSE to believe it over any other philosophy.
Um, while I agree that the socializing of children in an environment like a public school is going to teach them some things they're better off without, keeping them sheltered is fifty times worse. So what if they learn a few swear words. You can't shelter a kid and then expect them to survive in the outside world.
Sounds like your kids are fucked. Way to go.
I prayed and wept, and God made a way for me, a single mom, to take my children out of public school.
Yes, god gave you that ability after you specifically prayed for it; it couldn't possibly have been a preexisting legal process that you just didn't think about before.
While I definitely don't believe in sheltering kids from ideas like evolution and other religions, let's be totally honest here: it is not going to make any child a fundamentally better and more well-rounded person to learn how to call someone a cunt or to be pushed by friends to smoke.
That doesn't mean *adults* should be denied the right to do any of those things, but children aren't adults, they're children, and there are some things it's not wrong to want to protect your child from. And some of those are things which occur regularly in the public schools. Let's not try and pretend that public schools are perfect, because they're not.
Awww, it broke poor Mommy's heart when her kids no-longer worshipped her as the ultimate authority on everything and discovered that there is a big world outside the confines of the kitchen. I'm please they escaped, at least they have a chance at a normal life now, free from the emotional slavery and intellectual poverty of fundamentalist absolutism.
Oh wow - so much FAIL from her in that thread.
"I am very concerned that the public schools have been used by Satan for many many years to brainwash the children of this nation. Some children come through stronger from the struggle. Others are swept away by the tide. My daughter was in public school for one year, and that year almost took her soul. That year, she got into the wrong friends, and was introduced to very evil music, black lipstick, etc. She became defiant and angry."
So she was becoming a normal teenager. The horror!
I met a fundie who was upset because her children learned swear words in the 4th grade. They lived in Northern Canada and the kids went to school with natives, which is what the mother blamed this on.
I laughed and told her the kids definitely needed to go to school in the city. Might as well get that kind of stuff out of the way in kindergarten.
That year, they learned more on the bus than they did in class.
Hopefully, they observed the driver - bus driving may come in handy for them later on.
BTW, my mom told me the first word I ever said was "Goddamnit". (Dad was a soldier)
If they had not been homeschooled, they would have learned how to react to and defend themselves from all the people-interaction and peer-pressure.
Your kids must have had a very long way to school, if the managed to learn more during the bus ride, than during the five hours (more or less) of lectures.
God made a way for you to take the children out? What did he do, open the door for you?
Seriously, though, this is scary. Do people like old daffyducklady here really think that the best way to raise children is to a) fill their minds with rubbish and b) keep them cocooned away from the rest of the world just in case they actually learn something useful?
Where's social services when you need them?
"My children had been raised in a Christian home, and had been homeschooled up to the year my husband left us. He demanded they be placed in public school. That year, they learned more on the bus than they did in class. Words that I didn't know existed. The dog-eat-dog world of peer pressure. Behavior that I am sure the bus driver had no idea was going on. Really immoral stuff. I prayed and wept, and God made a way for me, a single mom, to take my children out of public school. Now, they have gotten straightened out... but all that junk is still floating around in their brains. I wish so badly they had never learned about such wickedness."
Reality. Can be a nasty place for the unprepared. But for those like myself who were never indoctrinated by your fundie poison, at least we can handle ourselves.
As your kids will now be able to, as they start thinking for themselves. It's certainly encouraged in state schools in the UK where I live. It's done me no harm whatsoever. And I like thinking.
Why not try it for yourself, daffodyllady? Put the Bible down, step away from the dogma, and run towards the light - of reason. Mayhaps like your kids, you'll begin to like being an individual, and not a sheeple. Welcome to the Human Race.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
You have obviously failed as a parent AND Christian. If you and your children had any REAL faith, Jebus would have blocked their ears from hearing that atrocious filth. I suggest you bring them to a faith healer, or perhaps have an exorcism performed.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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