only about a third of the home schooled kids are home schooled for religious reasons
random thoughts Send a noteboard - 16/05/2011 09:35:36 PM
I have considered homeschooling my daughter and I am agnostic at best. I won't do it because we have a very good school right down the street but if that wasn't true I would consider it.
OK, Once and for All, WTF Is WRONG with Kids Today?
- 04/05/2011 01:28:52 AM
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I guess I have a pretty bright Child. and a good school district.
- 04/05/2011 04:28:24 AM
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You really have to wonder if our culture is decadent? *NM*
- 04/05/2011 06:24:25 AM
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Not at all, but it does make me wonder if we're TOO decadent.
- 06/05/2011 01:38:42 AM
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I agree. *NM*
- 09/05/2011 10:36:40 PM
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Hope for the best and plan for the worst, I suppose, but that's what unnerved me here.
- 10/05/2011 03:14:24 AM
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How is it the kids' fault that they are not taught (to care) about recent history? *NM*
- 04/05/2011 06:54:16 AM
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I just asked my son, and he said he was a boss of a criminal organisation who was responsible for
- 04/05/2011 06:56:18 AM
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Yes and no, but I'd think an international network trying to kill you would motivate self education.
- 06/05/2011 01:57:06 AM
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Good teachers don't allow overeager students to monopolize the classroom.
- 06/05/2011 02:52:27 AM
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We covered the material.
- 06/05/2011 02:57:52 AM
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If they don't know about the terrorist organisation to begin with, why would they self educate?
- 13/05/2011 08:06:07 AM
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If completely ignorant of terrorism itself, they wouldn't, but if not I'd expect they'd get informed
- 14/05/2011 03:01:37 AM
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What?!? There are terrorists roaming the US, killing kids in their beds?!?
- 14/05/2011 07:45:27 AM
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They're certainly trying.
- 14/05/2011 10:43:48 AM
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Oklahoma city bombing was by American citizens, completely unrelated to Al Qaeda...
- 15/05/2011 08:02:11 AM
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They were both terrorist attacks.
- 15/05/2011 02:53:51 PM
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Obesity is a much bigger killer than terrorists
- 15/05/2011 04:01:51 PM
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Sure, but obesity covers a lot of ground.
- 15/05/2011 04:19:51 PM
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Obesity is a new problem
- 15/05/2011 06:09:33 PM
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I gave you my explanation, but can reiterate it.
- 15/05/2011 08:00:03 PM
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For god's sake... I didn't attribute all of obesity to sugar addiction.
- 15/05/2011 08:10:44 PM
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No, you blamed advertising and bad schools, too.
- 15/05/2011 08:20:32 PM
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That's because you are incredibly annoying and I am wondering if you will ever not reply
- 15/05/2011 08:26:12 PM
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An odd reason to stereotype the third most populous nation on Earth.
- 15/05/2011 08:52:57 PM
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only about a third of the home schooled kids are home schooled for religious reasons
- 16/05/2011 09:35:36 PM
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how many times have i told you "it's the internet, it's not real life"?? *NM*
- 04/05/2011 07:43:01 AM
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I met a lady who didn't know who Justin Bieber was. I told her I was very impressed
- 04/05/2011 06:49:49 PM
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You should be? 
- 06/05/2011 02:09:47 AM
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- 06/05/2011 02:09:47 AM
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He may have been dreaming about killing them but he was actually doing anything *NM*
- 06/05/2011 03:09:49 AM
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The short answer is "yes".
- 06/05/2011 03:19:31 AM
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you would of have had to know who he is to know he was doing that though
*NM*
- 08/05/2011 06:16:39 PM
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*NM*
- 08/05/2011 06:16:39 PM
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Yes, and the fact he WAS doing that is why I expected nearly everyone to know who he was.
- 08/05/2011 07:12:41 PM
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I am not saying they shouldn't know who he is just that is isn't that shocking that some don't
- 09/05/2011 02:35:02 PM
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I get that, it's the size of the "some" that kinda floors me.
- 09/05/2011 05:02:46 PM
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Rumsfeld was a bit of a tool but he was right about a lot of stuff
- 09/05/2011 05:05:56 PM
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I did think he took heat unfairly for that comment; he's an interesting figure.
- 09/05/2011 05:59:58 PM
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see that is why political comedy isn't really comedy
- 10/05/2011 02:15:48 PM
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He was a college offensive lineman.
- 12/05/2011 01:47:52 AM
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It was the media tqaking offense not just internet nutjobs
- 13/05/2011 04:16:34 AM
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You're "the media" now?
- 13/05/2011 10:27:42 PM
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you live in a fantasy world *NM*
- 16/05/2011 02:27:20 PM
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Not a rebuttal.
- 16/05/2011 09:10:33 PM
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I am trying to be more concise and that summed it up *NM*
- 16/05/2011 09:26:32 PM
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Concise is nice, but that response was solely about me rather than my arguments.
- 18/05/2011 11:30:38 PM
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No it was about your reply I am just to lazy to break it down
- 19/05/2011 12:54:38 AM
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13-17 year olds.
- 05/05/2011 01:51:27 AM
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Call me crazy, but I tend to notice people who want to kill me when they've shown the ability.
- 06/05/2011 02:53:26 AM
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Re: Call me crazy, but I tend to notice people who want to kill me when they've shown the ability.
- 06/05/2011 09:21:10 PM
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As I asked below, did you click the link?
- 06/05/2011 11:35:45 PM
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Re: As I asked below, did you click the link?
- 09/05/2011 05:37:29 AM
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And yet you found a way; full marks for effort.
- 09/05/2011 07:50:32 AM
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Re: And yet you found a way; full marks for effort.
- 11/05/2011 02:52:45 PM
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Well, based on the consensus, I can't really argue with that first line.
- 11/05/2011 11:33:53 PM
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well then, let us who've somewhat recently been educated as to internet searches assure you...
- 11/05/2011 11:41:54 PM
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Educated about how to conduct them, or how they ARE conducted?
- 12/05/2011 01:13:25 AM
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Re: Educated about how to conduct them, or how they ARE conducted?
- 12/05/2011 04:50:23 AM
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So we're back to criticizing claims of superiority I've never made? 
- 14/05/2011 07:06:10 AM
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- 14/05/2011 07:06:10 AM
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Thanks for the mis-analogizing.
- 10/05/2011 06:26:40 AM
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Not a mis-analogy, but perhaps ambiguous.
- 10/05/2011 07:02:31 AM
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What are you doing to earn a living now? *NM*
- 05/05/2011 03:04:28 AM
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Jeg øver norsk, men ikke mer nå.
- 06/05/2011 02:54:44 AM
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Debt collection is kind
- 06/05/2011 07:16:53 AM
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Just don't repeatedly say you're seriously buying tickets to come kill them. 
- 06/05/2011 11:40:51 PM
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- 06/05/2011 11:40:51 PM
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Theres a reason you're banned from skype chat. Dont be a cunt
- 07/05/2011 02:22:30 AM
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You threadjacked me to take a potshot, so I don't want to hear it.
- 07/05/2011 03:57:47 AM
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it must be a very good reason if they haven't banned you as well
- 09/05/2011 05:09:07 PM
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Joel decided it would be fun to blackmail us with filing a false poilce report. *NM*
- 10/05/2011 12:07:46 AM
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I sent Skype the log; they said to contact the police.
- 10/05/2011 03:54:51 AM
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Re: I sent Skype the log; they said to contact the police.
- 15/05/2011 11:55:23 AM
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I think most of the relevant details have been covered here.
- 15/05/2011 04:06:09 PM
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*NM*
Now I am certainly not going into skype chat.
- 17/05/2011 10:36:04 AM
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Can't say I blame you, but that's always a possibility online.
- 17/05/2011 05:07:23 PM
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Re: Can't say I blame you, but that's always a possibility online.
- 19/05/2011 12:59:14 AM
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For people who categorically objected to all bans of any kind ya'll embraced them very abruptly.
- 19/05/2011 01:50:26 AM
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You failed to respond to the main thrust of my argument, but, whatevs.
- 19/05/2011 03:01:07 AM
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I did, but will try again; then I'm done with this subject and rebutting Adams false accusations.
- 19/05/2011 03:51:24 AM
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I joked to Roh "If I kill him will you be my alibi... Great, I'm pricing tickets on travelocity now!
- 17/05/2011 12:02:28 AM
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It is nice to see even without chat the chat drama still seems to bleed into the main pages *NM*
- 10/05/2011 02:17:11 PM
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And that is your analysis? Really. Kids sure are dumb to ask questions and do research.
- 06/05/2011 10:15:41 PM
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No, but any kid whose research beings by finding out who he even WAS is dumb, period.
- 06/05/2011 11:31:08 PM
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Any kid whos research doesnt start by finding out who he was must have been born with the knowledge.
- 06/05/2011 11:39:56 PM
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Finding out, yes; finding out by actively searching, no.
- 06/05/2011 11:42:34 PM
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Any rational person wouldn't do a yahoo search. Other than that, the questions you posed are
- 15/05/2011 11:28:02 AM
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So their search engine makes them dumb, but their questions are OK.
- 15/05/2011 02:57:27 PM
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By gods, you are hopeless to talk to. *NM*
- 15/05/2011 03:56:27 PM
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I repeat, one of us certainly is.
- 15/05/2011 04:20:07 PM
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If you learned people are sometimes flippant
- 15/05/2011 06:13:52 PM
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I'm sometimes flippant, too, but have always been adherent of Poes Law.
- 15/05/2011 08:11:04 PM
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So quipping that rational people wouldn´t use a certain search engine is really about terrorism?!?
- 15/05/2011 08:14:59 PM
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I don't think the article says much of anything at all.
- 07/05/2011 03:28:35 AM
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Maybe; I don't always appreciate deadpan jokes online.... 
- 07/05/2011 03:43:51 AM
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- 07/05/2011 03:43:51 AM
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I think the linguistic conventions governing search engines and typical conversation differ is all.
- 07/05/2011 04:00:38 AM
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Hopefully that's all it is.
- 07/05/2011 04:17:21 AM
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actually, search engines are getting better towards "questions" now
- 11/05/2011 11:06:42 PM
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I think you're reading too much into this
- 10/05/2011 12:58:20 AM
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Possibly; I really hope so.
- 10/05/2011 04:01:50 AM
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Re: Possibly; I really hope so.
- 10/05/2011 05:18:43 AM
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Again, fair enough.
- 12/05/2011 01:52:07 AM
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Re: I'm more disgusted by this thread than by its original topic of conversation. *NM*
- 15/05/2011 09:41:43 PM
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