Delicious Wingnut Outrage: Team Obama wins fight to have Christian home-school family deported

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125. It has much to do with the things that are around school, like the home life, the culture

they live in, and especially how and whether their guardians, whoever it is, are educated.

I learned that in school where we were taught inside, then went outside where parents were teaching their kids hate by encouraging them to fight, turn over buses, etc. And the schools pretty much stayed out of it.

A whole lot of what is done wants to ignore the part outside because it is hard and expensive, and big people are a lot less easy to manipulate, and they sometimes ask questions which are inconvenient to answer. <G> But then when we don't get the results we expect, we blame the kids, the teachers, the taxpayers. But if the parents don't think it important and serious, something worth respect, it likely won't be treated that way. And if the schools don't treat the parents with respect, not just tolerate them, then they can't expect the same in return.

There are places where there is more expansion of that concept to welcome the home into the process, quit telling people they have graduated, and really embrace the "lifelong learning" that schools give lip-service to. When one finds it they can see where this affects some of the things that matter most in ways that traditional structures can't. But it's difficult, a hard thing to maintain.

Not saying even possible in some cases, but there is a lot of learning that takes place outside of school that we lose the opportunity to be involved in because of our structure, and the great walls we build.