18. If you can remember anything from chemistry or calculus class, you're allowed to ask how we'll teach these subjects to our kids. If you can't, thank you for the reassurance that we couldn't possibly do a worse job than your teachers did, and might even do a better one.
Via Hacker News [1], “The Bitter Homeschooler's Wish List [2]”
And there are twenty-four other laments by homeschoolers about people who Just Don't Get It™.
I recieved the following email about this entry:
From: Deborah Markus <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
To: <sean@conman.org>
Subject: Bitter Homeschooler's Wish List
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:25:23 -0800
> Hello—
Could you please link to the magazine that the list is originally from, rather than to the blog that reposted it? Here's a link:
http://www.secular-homeschooling.com [3]
Thanks, > Deborah Markus
Curious.
I appear to have glossed over the wholesale copying of the article, and I'm surprised that Deborah (the original author of the piece) hasn't asked Hannah (who copied the entire piece) to take it down (and the link has been changed in this entry).