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While we admit we have learned very few things during our
\n half-century on this planet one of them is that as weird as we feel
\n sometimes, we are a veritable paragon of moderation and mental health
\n compared to many of our fellow humans. The world is full of some really
\n fucked up people, and in the far majority of cases they were fucked up
\n early by living in some really fucked up families.<\/p>\n
We are convinced that for many Americans the family
\n is a cauldron of torture and abuse, physical and mental. And yet growing
\n up in a dysfunctional, even an abusive family is not a guarantee of
\n a messed up life. For millions of kids public schools are a refuge and
\n a window on another life, an escape or end to the torture, and a door
\n to the future. Yet now, even that door is being shut for many of them.<\/p>\n
Increasingly, families with things to hide are joining \n ARLINGTON — On a spring day, Susan Lawrence was flipping through a The ad shocked Lawrence, a Lutheran who home-schools her "This is the dark side of home schooling," according to Though corporal punishment is on the decline in the United States and Is it just us, or does anyone else get the sense that from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While we admit we have learned very few things during our half-century on this planet one of them is that as weird as we feel sometimes, we are a veritable paragon of moderation and mental health compared to many of … Continue reading
\n families hiding from things like sexuality and evolution in the burgeoning
\n Home
\n Schooling movement<\/a>. It is hard to believe this is still going on
\n in America. Home Schooling is the biggest step backward in American
\n education since free public education was introduced in the early 1800’s.
\n Check out the open hawking instruments of human abuse – kiddie whips
\n to torture the victims of this sick inbred gulag: <\/p>\n\n
\n magazine, Home School Digest, when she came across an advertisement
\n that took
\n her breath away. In it, ”The Rod," a $5 flexible whipping stick,
\n was described as the ”ideal tool for child training."<\/p>\n
\n children and opposes corporal punishment. She began a national campaign
\n to stop what she sees as the misuse of the Bible as a justification for
\n striking children. She also asked the federal government to deem The
\n Rod hazardous to children, and ban the sale of all products designed
\n for spanking<\/p>\n
\n Lawrence.<\/p>\n
\n the American Academy of Pediatrics strongly opposes the practice,
\n spanking children remains common. National polls in 2002 indicated
\n that two-thirds
\n of American parents approved of spanking, and more than 20 states
\n sanction corporal punishment in schools. Most parents said they use
\n bare hands
\n if they spank a child, though roughly one-third of parents in a 1995
\n Gallup poll said they had used ”a belt, hairbrush, stick, or some
\n other hard object" to strike their child’s bottom.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n a higher than usual percentage of our future politicians AND serial
\n killers will turn out to have been home schooled?<\/p>\n