Accent on the opinions. More unsolicited negativity about homeschooling, this time from USA Today founder Al Neuharth. It seems that the anti-homeschooling tongue lashings just keep coming. Maybe this time the opinions were brought on by the flurry of excitement over BACK TO SCHOOL. (Should we make this event a national holiday?) I arrived at the article courtesy of Cocking [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Columnists’ opinions
Posted in homeschooling, opinions, unschooling on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
All ready for school?
Posted in homeschooling, unschooling on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I will seriously gag if I hear one more person ask my child, “are you all ready for school?” Sometimes I forget that the rest of the community is actually going to be going back into a classroom in 3 days. By the way…we are always ready for school.
Tag surfer
Posted in insanity patrol, religion on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Just tag surfing WordPress for the magic word RELIGION makes me wonder…do these people think that God has wireless access?
Training the future taggers
Posted in evolution, humor, science on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Looking for a cool art lesson that doubles as science? Grab some spray paint and download this stencil. Now go ahead…paint the town. You know you want to.
Raise em’ free
Posted in atheism, curriculum, freethought, religion, science, secular homeschooling, unschooling on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Check out the Richard Dawkins Foundation 2-disc DVD set, Growing up in the Universe. This product has the best tag line of any product that I have ever seen…Science as Epiphany. Damn that rocks.
If I had no conscience…
Posted in atheism, humor, religion on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It is painfully clear that if I was interested in making some quick cash, the easiest thing to do would be to set up shop selling religious articles. All I would need is a smooth marketing gimmick and alot of Biblelicious merchandise and I would be in serious business. Exploiting the easily exploited is like [...]
The atheist revolution
Posted in atheism, freethought, politics, religion on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So much bullshit, so little time. So the atheists are out of the closet. Now what? What should us atheists be doing to…you know…change the world? I struggle with this ‘atheist revolution’ that is everywhere these days. I’ve always been a nonbeliever. I have never needed a word for it until now. Suddenly everyone is [...]
Presidential nonsense
Posted in politics on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There is nothing that irritates me more than the ‘poop surge’ of political doublespeak that accompanies an upcoming election. I have always had a difficult time choosing a candidate simply because I really don’t trust anyone that steps up to run for office. All of the red-white-and-blue schmoozing is enough to make anyone distrust public officials. [...]
Faith has no chance against reason
Posted in evolution, freethought, religion, science on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I stumbled across Pharyngula while on a militant search for evolution resources. I don’t drop in on the blog because the links are scattered across every pro-science website on the web, I read because the commentary makes perfect sense. “…college professors and administrators don’t even try to divorce students from religion — despite my evil [...]
Homeschooling debate
Posted in homeschooling, unschooling on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Did I mention my distaste for the overused debate on homeschooling vs. public school? How many times can one be expected to read the same arguments and not want to rip your hair out? Socialization, socialization, socialization. ((Gag!)) The term is sickly misrepresented. There is no real threat of homeschooled children becoming socially inept as a [...]
