Home schooled kids campaign for Michele Bachmann and call it "class"

[Minnesota Raindog]

And these are the people who want vouchers so they don't have to send their kids to those liberal-indoctrinated public schools:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2008/11/the_last_day_home-schooled_kid.shtml?refid=0

[October]

1. Liberal Home Schooler Here

My son is VERY well educated in politics -- at 11.

We're not religious.

You should hear his quips!

Just making a point here that not all local public schools are liberal. Ours is affluent and VERY right-wing.

[bluemarkers]

2. my hs'd kid

ran a Kids Vote polling place four years ago. :) now a sophomore at at State university and voted early for Obama!

[dkofos]

3. Where is my ACME grenade launcher??

[Critters2]

4. This is the problem. They can call anything "class" or a "project".

I used to be in a food co-op with a woman who was "homeschooling" her kids. She'd bring 'em to buyers' meetings and to the divides. They'd just hang around or color or whatever. I said something about it once, and she told me this was "class" for her kids. "No matter what we're doing with kids, they're always learning something". I wondered why it wouldn't be just as easy to send 'em to school as to drag them all over town while you run errands and what not.

So, I can easily see them calling campaigning for Palin a "class project".

[October]

5. Well, a good 10 minutes of every class in school is spent taking attendance

And I'm being generous in not counting the behavioral issues.

If the student/teacher ratio is 30:1, and the class is 40 minutes long minus 10 minutes for attendance. That's 1 minute per student.

Home schooling isn't just for religious fundies. I know we're not in the mainstream, here. I take a lot of heat. Honestly, we never set out to home school; it just turned out to be the best option for us. Our district is very right-wing, nutso. Affluent communities often have aspiring politicians who start out on school boards. Businessmen, too, like to sit on school boards for networking purposes. It's an avenue taken by a lot of right-wingers and in our case it has impacted negatively on the school district policies/atmosphere.

We follow a curriculum at home, and it's carefully monitored. We conference with a teacher more than I ever did in our public school setting -- and I get answers immediately when I need them. Plus -- we can make a class last longer if we're loving the topic.

It's really VERY liberal.