October 21, 2007...7:53 pm
What are the other 9,999,999 reasons like?
Michelle Malkin has a post about a student group in Colorado that proposed an altered version of the pledge of allegiance:
this: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Would be replaced by this:
“I pledge allegiance to the flag and my constitutional rights with which it comes. And to the diversity, in which our nation stands, one nation, part of 1 planet, with liberty, freedom, choice and justice for all.”
Michelle concludes by saying:
File under: Reason number 10,000,000 to homeschool your children.
Is that really a reason to home-school your kid? First, I forgot where it said that the pledge of allegiance was a prayer that was given to us by God and that we can’t alter. Second, the stuff the kids want to add in there are quite good. Are we not on 1 planet? Do we not have constitutional rights? Finally, if you have to worry about your kid because he is exposed to that, then you should really worry. Fear of drugs, sex, crime, all those would be terrific reasons to home-school your kid. But that a bunch of students got together to contribute something positive is a reason to send your kids to school.
When we all die, it’s our kids that will decide what to do with the country. I much prefer to have them able to use their brain than to simply repeat verbatim what we told them to.
Filed under: 10,000,000 reasons to be proud of the next generation.
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October 24, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Michelle & others that prefer homeschooling invariably trot out their list of ‘famous homeschooled’. Naturally, this mostly includes
people from the last century, when no schools were available. But, on their list is General Patton, hero of the right. The fact of the matter is that Patton had dyslexia as a child, and was kept home until he was eleven. It took him five years to get through West Point. He was a great general, despite some bizarre foibles, and his
bronze likeness stands proudly among the other
famous generals on the plains of West Point:
appropriately, it is the ONLY statue that faces
AWAY from the library.
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