spawn73: All his children were homeschooled, is that supposed to be good?

No and neither is having 9 of them.

(I think I read it was 9)

gweilo8888: Ah, video edits. The one Fark tag that's consistently not funny except for a couple of people who're pros, just because it's too much work for the average Farker. Been ages since I even saw one...

I'm a "pro" but I'm not really sure what we're supposed to do.

Mugato: gweilo8888: Ah, video edits. The one Fark tag that's consistently not funny except for a couple of people who're pros, just because it's too much work for the average Farker. Been ages since I even saw one...

I'm a "pro" but I'm not really sure what we're supposed to do.

I was going to take the Herman Cain videos and add stuff like "Every single Godfather Pizza comes with extra sausage." But I'm at work, so that's not going to happen.

chopit: Santorum? Hmm, I'm fairly uneducated about his positions or stances on the issues. No matter, I'll just google his name and click the first result. I'm sure I'll learn plenty from this simple exercise.

There's a glitch in the search engine (whichever one you're using, it has a glitch). You have to turn safe search off to get any results.

Wow. I'm surprised all of you haven't gotten your posts [Deleted: off-topic chatter in videoedit thread]. Something like that happened to...a guy I know...in the last Photoshop thread.

feefifofimmy: "All the Santorum children were homeschooled"

Unless you have a PhD and for some reason living over 50 miles from a school with indoor plumbing, are a rabidly fundamentalist Christian who doesn't want your kids exposed to the evils of the Devil's secular culture, there are few sane no reasons to homeschool your children. I think that there is a mental illness that causes people to want to have large families and homeschool them.

It's called Extremist Christianity.

FTFY

I was being a bit snarky above. As it happens, if I had offspring, and the time and income to allow it, I think sometimes I'd be happy to homeschool my kid. Not for ideological reasons, but because I'm not terribly happy with the lack of critical thinking skills offered or nurtured in public schools. The one thing that might keep me from it is what was mentioned directly above; I'd want my kid to have the ordinary sorts of opportunities for social interaction with the people he or she would pick, not simply what's available because of the "homeschool" label. I suppose if it came down to it, I'd find out what the kid likes, then find some kind of social or hobby group that's centered on that interest. When I was a teen, I had a keen interest in medieval history and tabletop gaming, which went hand in hand. I discovered there was a local branch of a medieval re-enactment society, and I went, and eventually joined. I learned a tremendous amount of information I never would have in school, and it gave me about the best socialization experience I could have had as a geeky, socially awkward young teen. Many of the folks I met in the years I was there became lifelong friends.

My goal in homeschooling would be to expose a kid to as much information as is humanly possible; the fundamentalist approach is specifically designed to shield children from any information which doesn't jibe with the fundamentalist account. Seems a pretty basic difference in philosophy, and I'm not sure I, or any kid of mine, would fit in well with these "homeschool social" groups. You'd better believe I'd be teaching my kid to ask the hard questions they don't want to answer.

/ranting. sorry. have a good night.