In early February Julius Blumfeld did a piece here about why he favours homeschooling for his children. Today, long after it would be noticed by anybody in the normal course of events, this very scary comment was attached to Julius's piece, from one Moira Rogow. I want, as they say in California, to share it with you.
My husband and I never (and I mean NEVER!) thought of home-schooling our kids, but I used to threaten them with homeschooling from time to time and it really put 'the fear of God into them' as they say. We were in no position to follow up on this threat, but the kids didn't know and the thought of being stuck at home with one of us instead of at school often helped 'bring them around'.I didn't remember that until I read your blog!
Ah, happy days.
It kind of puts a new slant on the relative attractions of staying at home or going to school, doesn't it?
Well, when our kids won't behave we threaten to send them to the government school. They know we're kidding.
I am considerably less nice when teaching my own kids than when teaching other peoples' kids, so I get what she means.
To quote Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Have you considered home schooling? It's not just for scary religious people any more".b
(At the end of the second season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Buffy is expelled from high school for excessive vampire slaying. This comes up as part of the discussion about what to do).
Reminds me of the homeschooling book I read about the family who'd made a schoolroom in their garage where they forcibly "taught" their kids in between the kids' forced chores. The daughter was apparently not entirely co-operative. Ewwwww. Child exploitation and abuse: it shouldn't be allowed.
