Stale Air
Did anyone else catch NPR's Fresh Air interview of Michael Farris, founder of the HSLDA, yesterday? It was breathtaking to hear how, within a space of about fifteen minutes, Farris and Terri Gross managed between them to commit all of the Forbidden Phrases of homeschooling. It went something like this:
Terri: So what do you say to the well-founded concern many people have that homeschooled children are unsocialized, isolated sociopaths and probable future domestic terrorists, whose parents are obviously unqualified to teach?
Michael: Maybe we should talk instead about the socialization of institutionalized children who are locked into prison-schools and forced to hate Christianity.
I was ready to rip the radio out of the wall.
Did anyone else catch NPR's Fresh Air interview of Michael Farris, founder of the HSLDA, yesterday? It was breathtaking to hear how, within a space of about fifteen minutes, Farris and Terri Gross managed between them to commit all of the Forbidden Phrases of homeschooling. It went something like this:
Terri: So what do you say to the well-founded concern many people have that homeschooled children are unsocialized, isolated sociopaths and probable future domestic terrorists, whose parents are obviously unqualified to teach?
Michael: Maybe we should talk instead about the socialization of institutionalized children who are locked into prison-schools and forced to hate Christianity.
I was ready to rip the radio out of the wall.
posted by The Opinionated Homeschooler at 7:58 AM
3 Comments:
um, ok. No, I didn't catch that one. So that the concert that our children are going to be sociopathic terrorists is well-founded? She could have dropped the "well-founded" or stooped at "socialization."
An argument really should be answered directly at its flaw rather than with a "well, at least were not as bad as the alternative."
Well, I'm not sure I got it verbatim; but I think I pretty much captured the tenor of the conversation.
Well, then, I completely retract anything I said in your "cliches about homeschooling" post earlier.
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