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Critic Claims: "Homeschoolers are Only Good for Cleaning Toilets"

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Critic Claims: “Homeschoolers
are only good for cleaning toilets”
by Gary DeMar

The title for this report is taken from a response to one of American Vision’s daily articles. The respondent is an atheist who claims he can refute any argument raised in defense of the Christian faith. I have irritated him so much by answering his poorly researched responses he sends to me that his true character is spilling out in a public way. His personal emails to me are worse than what I have reproduced here. If you want to know what the world would be like with atheists in control, here’s a little taste:

It’s good that Christians homeschool. We need citizens to clean our toilets and mow our lawns. Perhaps some homeschooled Christians will be able to fill these types of jobs. The rest will be unemployable retards like their parents.

Here’s what I want homeschoolers to do: First, reply to this article and leave a comment describing what kind of work you are doing since you completed homeschooling. Second, send this article and its link to every homeschooler and homeschool organization you know and encourage them to leave a comment at the end of this article describing what they are doing since being homeschooled. Third, I don’t want to exclude those who have graduated from a private or church-related Christian school. You can get in on this was well by adding your comments.

The public school graduation rate is around 65 percent, and in large cities it’s lower as this April 1, 2008 report demonstrates. “New York City has one of the nation’s sorriest graduation rates, with less than half of city high-schoolers earning a diploma on time. . . . Even using the most optimistic calculation of the city’s graduation rate—including kids who earn GEDs and excluding special education students from the formula—only 60% of students graduated in 2006” Test scores continue to fall even though education budgets keep growing. It seems that all we hear from government educators is the need for more money. John Stossel’s 2006 “20/20” report (also see here and here) “Stupid In America: How We Are Cheating Our Kids” is a real eye-opener, especially when he asks South Carolina school official Dolores Wright, “How much money would be right?” Wright answers, “Oooh. Millions. And it would really make it right. . . . The more, the better.”

Is it any wonder that the judicial numbskulls in California and the new fascists in Germany are trying to wipe out homeschooling? They fear its superior product and how it makes public (government) education look so bad, especially when the cost of educating a student is factored in. While homeschooling has a great academic track record (also see here and here), enough so that some of the best colleges in the nation recruit homeschoolers, one of its greatest social benefits is its demonstration of true liberty. Liberals love to talk about freedom of choice as long as that freedom does not include the freedom to educate their own children. It would have been OK to kill the child while he was still in his mother’s womb, but once he’s born, he belongs to the State and its educational hacks.

Please forward to friends and family!

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04:32, 2008-Jun-25 .. Posted by Belle

Oh....that is very sad. I don't know how people can say such mean things.

Belle

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07:42, 2008-Jun-25 .. Posted by gokings13

Proverbs 13:3
He who guards his lips, guards his life,
but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin.

Proverbs 14:7
Stay away from a foolish man,
for you will not find knowledge on his lips.

Proverbs 17:19
He who loves a quarrel loves sin
he who builds a high gate invites destruction!

PROVERBS 19:11
A MAN'S WISDOM GIVES HIM PATIENCE;
IT IS TO HIS GLORY TO OVERLOOK AN OFFENSE.

Proverbs is chalked full of advice on how to handle these types of situations.

Laura

It takes all Kinds....

12:41, 2008-Jun-26 .. Posted by Belle

Hello Kim,

I was thinking about your post today.

First, in dealing with this situation, I have to ask myself.."What would Jesus do?" I want to be Christ-like in all that I do.

I don't think it would be Christ-like to form a posse to go tell this man off, put him in his place, or try to shove my ideas down his throat.

I think that it is best not to argue with this person. I think that this person is entitled to his own opinion, just as we are to our's. I don't think that anything will change his thinking and he will most likely say more mean things.

If this person thinks that homeschoolers will olny be good for washing toilets, mowing lawns, and they will be retarded and unemployed, I think that we should just consider that as his opinion. Maybe many
homeschoolers will be toilet washers and grass mowers and possibly retarded and unemployed...maybe he is right. It isn't so bad to be a toilet washer, my own father is a toilet washer. He makes an excellent income, but...he wasn't homeschooled...he went to college too. His job isn't so bad...actually... he LOVES his job!!

As for grass mowing, I have many friends who mow grass and weed-eat for a living. They make excellent money and that is all that they do for a living. I don't see anything bad about being a grass mower.

Now, unemployed retards.....maybe, all of the homeschoolers he knows are unemployed and retarted. Maybe, he doesn't know any smart homeschoolers.

It may be so, that some homeschoolers will end up unemployed, that't okay. My mother is unemployed and very happy with her life.

I think that it would be a great waste of time to argue with this man and it wouldn't be pleasing to God.

What you wrote was the man's opinion. Everybody has an opinion, maybe your opinion is that every homeschooler will be a doctor, scientist, or lawyer. I can not tell that man he is wrong for his opinion and I can't tell you you are wrong for your opinion.

We can't all be doctors and lawyers, somebody out there has to wash the toilets and mow the grass. It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round and I am very thankful for those people who clean the public toilets that I use.

Please, do not judge this man by his opinion. He has his and you have your's, nobody can change his mind or your's.

Belle