Progressive unschooling with two great kids and DH in FL. ... and a proud member for 2 years 19 weeks

Progressive homeschooler, unschooling with two great kids and DH in FL, co-owner of PDE website and list (www.ParentDirectedEducation.org).

My Latest Post:

Progressives and Homeschoolers

I'm getting pissed off! And what better place to talk about it than here! I have just read and posted at a few liberal blogs and am tired of having to justify my life and learning choice -- we are homeschoolers. Yep. I could stop reading what other people have to say. I could stop caring and responding. And I do that. Sometimes. Sometimes people are beyond any sort of rational discussion. There's no point. But these are left-leaning blogs. Places run by people I generally agree with politically. People I would like to interface with. People I don't expect to smack me in the face every time I read what they have to say. And that's what it feels like. There is a rude and presumptuous attitude that it is OK to question and attack homeschoolers as if we are all bible-banging, child-beating, isolationist, creationist idiots. This is sometimes followed up with a half-assed apology that the questioner didn't mean ALL homeschoolers. I think progressives should speak up when they see this sort of attack. Try to imagine the same attack but substitute "black" for "homeschooler." Now, progressives, figure out how outraged you would be and say something! Say something about being open-minded. About knowing what you are talking about before speaking. About respecting privacy. About the family value called choice!