Re: POLITICS - Education (was Carbohydrate requirements?)

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Long story on why I homeschool in the first place. Let me just say

this: physical restraint of a non verbal asd kindergarten child by 3

adults with the subsequent recommendation from an advocate from the

state Dep. of Ed. that I seek child abuse charges against the

district. He ground his baby teeth to nubs in the months after this

episode. And it soon became apparent that it was easier to do what I

wanted done for him than to fight for it with the school. Said child

now going through high school, albeit a bit late - actually beyond

compulsory years - but no problem there. (Heck, Masterjohn is going

back to school <g>.) But in p.s., DS would have failed in the regular

classroom and been absolutely ruined in special ed. Younger child is

a year a head schedule and pretty darn savvy in the many areas. He

has a wicked coins/bill collection (Gawd I wish I had the money he

does). Among many older foreign goodies, he's got a 1964 two headed

Kennedy half dollar he got from my Dad - cool piece that, as it flips

side to side, not like regular US coins are readable flipped on end.

Sorry for the tangent, but he is showing me the whole enchilada just

now, lol.

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> Interesting. And both ends of the spectrum are such double-edged

swords...

Yes, yes, maybe so. It's probably a good thing to have some sort of

accountability. But when certain states put warning labels on biology

textbooks that evolution is just a theory (so is a huge chunk of

chemistry, physics and geology, etc.), or go back and forth on

evolution in the courts, what happens to the kids in those years. I

was a product of the " new math " of sets ruling the day, but thankfully

survived it to excel in that particular subject. But lives and years

of school hang in the balance whilst politicians and courts haggle

this stuff out.

I do teach my kids to think for themselves, which is the best

education that I can give them. Yes, my biases come in to play, but

my limited indoctrination of this and that is much better than Channel

1, vending machines, low fat nutrition, and no PE (we do martial arts,

among other things). I mean, at least I expose them to different

paradigms of thought.

> Yeah, I'm not sure what to tell you. Plainly they need to be aware

> of mainstream doctrine, but actually teaching them that nonsense

> would be horrible.

Well, we talked about the carbs from many perspectives, including

those of the late cardiologist, Dr. Atkins. Lipids were worse in this

books, as I feared. But at least they were kind of skimmed over (like

milk, hee hee), so I will be able to demonstrate much more basic

knowledge from NT and other sources when I lecture on it. I tend to

stress the Paleo type diet that we have evolved to handle. We talk

much about seasonal availability, storage and how foods make us feel.

Deanna

[Guest guest]

> Long story on why I homeschool in the first place.

Deanna, isn't it always?

Lynn S.

homeschooling two little girls in Portland, OR

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