Apparently somewhere on-line some not well educated person started it by saying, "It’s good that Christians homeschool. We need citizens to clean our toilets and mow our lawns. Perhaps some homeschooled Christians will be able to fill these types of jobs. The rest will be unemployable retards like their parents."
To prove a point the folks at the The American Vision then asked home educated graduates to leave a comment describing what kind of work they are doing since completing high school.
The responses are an amazing testament to the educational excellence of the home education movement. This is only a typical post:
We home schooled all three of our children through high school.
oldest, Luke, is a Supply Officer in the U. S. Navy, responsible for $2 million dollar annual budget onboard a nuclear powered submarine.
Our daughter, Shannon, has an associates degree and will be leaving in August for a year in China teaching English as a second language.
My son Matthew is a 3.8 GPA college student entering his Junior year at the University of Oklahoma this fall.
As for mowing the lawn? My homeschooler does it and is thrilled to receive his $4 pay, after all he is only 9. I have drilled into the kids at every opportunity that there are no good paying jobs for uneducated/unskilled people these days, they all been outsourced overseas. If they want to be able to support a family and live a comfortable lifestyle they need to do well in their studies. Otherwise they will be standing behind the counter at McDonald's asking, "Would you like fries with that?"
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You know, those types of comments are really just so unnecessary! It's not just Christians who homeschool.
My son mows the lawn too, but I'm much cheaper than you, he only gets 2.00 per mow, but he is driving around on our fancy lawn tractor, not pushing a mower. :)
I'm not a Christian but my 22 year old daughter got her BS in chemistry and is now a chemist working at the New Mexico Health Department.
She is in the process of buying her own house. Perhaps, when she closes, she'll hire a public school graduate to mow her lawm!
Hrmmmph!
Take a look at the kids of the Bludorn family (http://www.triviumpursuit.com/bluedorn_family.php)
I am in awe of what their kids have accomplished, and they are not alone...I read loads of stories on the marvelous accomplishments of homeschoolers. Make learning a priority in the home--which it has to be if you educate at home--and the kids will see learning as a lifelong pursuit, not something to merely get through and be done with.
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