tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post5147445089464136309..comments2023-12-25T01:24:48.957-05:00Comments on Republic of Gilead: The Botkin's "Ready for Real Life" Webinar, Part VAhabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14675629709031865432noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post-46890553569637053492013-11-11T11:51:51.841-05:002013-11-11T11:51:51.841-05:00NatureLover -- :: snorts :: That's for sure.NatureLover -- :: snorts :: That's for sure.Ahabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675629709031865432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post-80836276573706185382013-11-11T11:40:06.108-05:002013-11-11T11:40:06.108-05:00Nothing says "up-to-date" critique of th...Nothing says "up-to-date" critique of the public educational system like pulling in Dewey and Rugg.NatureLoverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16919335747836432630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post-83696582399600798562013-11-04T10:53:25.347-05:002013-11-04T10:53:25.347-05:00Anonymous -- Thanks! I'm glad that you escaped...Anonymous -- Thanks! I'm glad that you escaped fundamentalism. You're absolutely right -- t's important to keep an eye on the Religious Right, because their impact is destructive.Ahabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675629709031865432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post-40463126251057997202013-11-04T10:21:48.823-05:002013-11-04T10:21:48.823-05:00Thank you so much for doing what I frankly don'...Thank you so much for doing what I frankly don't have the stomach for, and that is to sit and listen/watch to these people. I am a former fundamentalist homeschool Mom who drank the Koolaid for 20 plus years. I still homeschool but from a secular/freethinking perspective. Others would say it isn't important to "follow" these people but they most likely do not understand that these people want to change our society where all of us will have to be under their dominion...via far right politics, etc. I love your blog and it is one of "go to" places for information. Thank you for doing what you do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post-20525744194806631962013-11-04T06:29:44.642-05:002013-11-04T06:29:44.642-05:00Christine -- Aye. One of the many drawbacks of thi...Christine -- Aye. One of the many drawbacks of this kind of homeschooling is that all subjects get filtered through the parents' fundamentalism, and a lot of facts and perspectives get left out. The result isn't pretty.<br /><br />My hope is that children raised in these environments somehow tap into fresh knowledge and supportive, open-minded people so they can escape fundamentalism someday.Ahabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675629709031865432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post-63068629467809392013-11-03T21:41:22.078-05:002013-11-03T21:41:22.078-05:00Exhaustive! Thank you for writing this out! I don&...Exhaustive! Thank you for writing this out! I don't have the stomach right now to imbibe in any more patriarchal God-speak first hand for awhile... so thanks for writing it filtering it for me.<br /><br />I don't know where to start. Okay. Lets try that if I as a deconverted avangelical fundamentalist, now atheist, woman represents the status quo... I need to start tapping into my mainstream blase options! And yes... I am violently (sick) against what they are doing to children and women, but I can be so easily dismissed as a demon-filled backslidden raving hysterical femi-nazi lunatic that I unfortunately represent very little harm to their work.<br /><br />Other than I am standing open-armed to the children that leave like a bat out of Hell.<br /><br />Also... working at a library, I can't help but notice that homeschoolers get to pick and choose the facts they want their kids to learn... if that means overexposure to outdated material, it's going to take a lot more than one dose of critical thinking skills to deprogram children & young adults taught to believe something other than the choices of history filtered through their parents.<br /><br />But ... yeah... I'm still optimistic. It's not the status quo they need to worry about and fear... it's their own children... for what they will create and the extremes they may go through to have it all make sense or rebel. Christine Vyrnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15125525692093575724noreply@blogger.com