Our child is 5 this year, next year it's off to public schools.  Forever changing the control we have over the very safe, very educational life that is had. 

Or do we?  Can we possibly try homeschooling? 

I'm not religious so that would not be our basis for a home schooled child.  My basis would be that I want more for my child.  I want our child to learn at their own desired pace, putting emphasis on the subjects that interest them as an individual.  Maybe math, maybe science or art, but that can be supplied at home or through specialized paid tutors.

I bought a book about homeschooling as this has been our goal since our child was born.  The book was about pleasing God and it's just not for me or my family.  Maybe I should write one for anarchist parents?

Our child is naturally social, naturally bright, naturally a firm speaker and does not need the public school system to ruin that.   For what?  What exactly does a school provide that can't be provided BETTER at home?  Childcare?

I've been a stay at home mom for 5 years, living a life free of excessive money or property or THINGS.....  so that I can stay home with our child.  I could easily find a job within my many realms of careers and bring home more money but WHAT IS THE LOSS?  The loss is my child and raising them the way as Mother Nature intended, by their mothers!

Single moms......  This doesn't apply, my mother was a single mom and I really stand firm that Single Moms have it hardest of all of us.  How they do it, I'll never know.  My respect to all single mothers out there, raising children, working and paying for it all by themselves.

Back to Home schooling:

I am not a teacher, nor do I claim to make a good teacher as my patience wears thin easily.  That is my biggest fear, is that I am not patient enough to provide an excellent education to our child.  If I'm after mediocre or average, then public schools would be great for that.  I want our child to be challenged in a way that I never was, I needed desperately to be challenged and involved in the public schools.  I was ignored and as a result - I found trouble and the art of manipulation.

I believe through my perseverance and my will, our child will grow to be a very educated, very well adjusted, strong child.  Our child already is all of those things, I'd hate to throw it away to the "dumbing down school system".   How easy to maintain this child's behaviors AT HOME, safe and secure.

It takes emmense strength to live this way.   The powers that be have made it so much easier to just lay down and do as told.  Sure, I'd love 6-7 hours of free time each day, but the pay off is that SOMEONE ELSE IS RAISING OUR CHILD.  7 hours a day, every single day.

I know I can't be the only one out there,  my partner agrees with me on this.....  So that makes 2 of us.

Is your lexus or bmw that important to you?  Important enough to change the ENTIRE LIVES of your children?  Important enough to put the lives of YOUR CHILD into anothers' strange unloving hands?  

Think about Teachers, think about the shit they put up with for the pay that they get?  I recently read Micheal Moore's Book "Stupid White Men".  (Which I hated)  and one of the only things in that book that I enjoyed was his parent thought to a teacher....  It goes something like this:

"Teachers, thank you so much for devoting your life to my child.  Is there ANYTHING I can do to help you?  Is there ANYTHING you need?  I am here for you.  Why?  Because you are helping my child - MY BABY - learn and grow.  Not only will you be largely responsible for her ability to make a living, but your influence will greatly affect how she views the world, what she knows about other people in this world, and how she will feel about herself.  I want her to believe she can attempt anything - that no doors are closed and that no dreams are too distant.  I am entrusting the most valuable person in my life to you for seven hours each day.  You, are thus, one of the most important people in my life!  Thank you."


So if we turn down the public school system, we don't use police protection, we don't travel in the inner city streets, we don't fly and we don't attend public sporting events - WHY DOES OUR FAMILY PAY TAXES?

That's a whole other subject for another time.

This article is great for reading about how the public school system is dumbing down our children.


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