You HAVE BEEN Cheated!

A caller to the Neal Boortz radio show said something interesting just now. When she and her husband figured out the quality of education they could provide their children AT HOME using the Abeka curriculum, they felt as if they had been cheated*.

YOU [deleted] HAVE BEEN CHEATED!

You were forced by parents who were either ignorant or cowardly into a government-mandated schooling system. The system was set up by industrialists interested NOT in education, but desirous of producing good little workers who wouldn't aspire too much for better lives.

The quality of your homeschooled childrens' education is going to be so far superior to the education they would have received at the "public school**" down the street, it will not even be worthwhile to compare them.

An ugly thought just occurred to me. In Cambodia, they oppressed (read: murdered, very often) people with glasses because they were assumed to be literate and therefore not close enough to the common man. Professionals of all stripes were made to work fields. In America, before/during/after the coming revolution, what will be the fate of those who received an actual education at their parents' homes? These days, homeschooled people are increasingly accepted as "at least as good as" gub'mint schooled people. In some areas, they have forced the State to recognize their education and allow them into colleges with a homeschool diploma. Will that recognition be removed? Will your credentials be revoked because the first one is a homeschooling?

We'll see.

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*I have the same feeling. I am trying, ever so slowly due to the inconveniences of Life, overcoming my uneducation in the Houston area government schools.

**No it is NOT a PUBLIC school. If it were public, anyone could go. Compare to a public park or public street. The school is built, maintained, funded and staffed by the government. The curriculum is dictated by the government. It is mandated that you send your children there, BY the government. It is a GOVERNMENT school.