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CAGiversary!
Common sense lacking
I recently read Mr. Robinson’s Sept. 13 column regarding home schooling and was disgusted. I, like many others, am a mother who’s home schooling my children. I don’t claim to know what’s best for others, so why should anyone else be allowed to ? I, like many other homeschool moms, went to public school. I don’t claim that public schools are terrible when others send their children there. So why should Mr. Robinson act as if he has a clue on what’s best for my or any other family.
There were many subjects in his article that were so absurd I feel some need to be addressed in order to defend my family and others who choose to do what’s right for us. At a glance, someone sending their child to public school may agree with Mr. Robinson’s column, but after reading it through, with a little common sense, surely anyone can see his mistakes. His attitude that teaching children evolution will somehow better them is ridiculous. Our government doesn’t search for the truth to teach our children; if they did, why wouldn’t they tell them that since around 1880 the size of the sun has been measured every year. The sun as we all know burns, and anything that burns gets smaller over time. If we reversed the size of the sun to go back 14 billion years we would realize that the sun would reach all the way to Jupiter. How on earth could the earth even exist ? The truth of the matter is no one really knows. Everyone’s just guessing. Does our government care that our children know this information. No ! Our government and people like Mr. Robinson are so consumed with teaching anything that dismisses Christianity as truth that they don’t even no what’s real anymore.
One reality, however, is that when Christian morals were taken out of our public schools, our school systems had a rapid decline in good student behavior. That is truth in history ! Our great country’s Founding Fathers believed in Christian morals, so why shouldn’t we ? George Washington even stated that any country who removed God as their leader would fall. That is a true historical fact — unlike the “ theory of evolution. ”
There are so many other untruths in Mr. Robinson’s column that I don’t have room to address them all. I would like to end my letter by saying that Mr. Robinson is right in suggesting that parents should be in close communication with their children. That’s why I’m home schooling them ! It’s odd to me that one who views himself so highly knowledgeable as Mr. Robinson wouldn’t be begging parents to remove their children from public schools after all the recent violence that’s taken place. Asking your child the question “ How was school today ? ” seems irrelevant after six of their classmates were held hostage.
Melanie Prince
Prairie Grove
http://www.nwarktimes.com/nwat/Editorial/45803
By the way, as a star ages it will expand into a red giant. It's part of the thermonuclear fusion reaction .
But I guess it IS northwest arkansas....
I recently read Mr. Robinson’s Sept. 13 column regarding home schooling and was disgusted. I, like many others, am a mother who’s home schooling my children. I don’t claim to know what’s best for others, so why should anyone else be allowed to ? I, like many other homeschool moms, went to public school. I don’t claim that public schools are terrible when others send their children there. So why should Mr. Robinson act as if he has a clue on what’s best for my or any other family.
There were many subjects in his article that were so absurd I feel some need to be addressed in order to defend my family and others who choose to do what’s right for us. At a glance, someone sending their child to public school may agree with Mr. Robinson’s column, but after reading it through, with a little common sense, surely anyone can see his mistakes. His attitude that teaching children evolution will somehow better them is ridiculous. Our government doesn’t search for the truth to teach our children; if they did, why wouldn’t they tell them that since around 1880 the size of the sun has been measured every year. The sun as we all know burns, and anything that burns gets smaller over time. If we reversed the size of the sun to go back 14 billion years we would realize that the sun would reach all the way to Jupiter. How on earth could the earth even exist ? The truth of the matter is no one really knows. Everyone’s just guessing. Does our government care that our children know this information. No ! Our government and people like Mr. Robinson are so consumed with teaching anything that dismisses Christianity as truth that they don’t even no what’s real anymore.
One reality, however, is that when Christian morals were taken out of our public schools, our school systems had a rapid decline in good student behavior. That is truth in history ! Our great country’s Founding Fathers believed in Christian morals, so why shouldn’t we ? George Washington even stated that any country who removed God as their leader would fall. That is a true historical fact — unlike the “ theory of evolution. ”
There are so many other untruths in Mr. Robinson’s column that I don’t have room to address them all. I would like to end my letter by saying that Mr. Robinson is right in suggesting that parents should be in close communication with their children. That’s why I’m home schooling them ! It’s odd to me that one who views himself so highly knowledgeable as Mr. Robinson wouldn’t be begging parents to remove their children from public schools after all the recent violence that’s taken place. Asking your child the question “ How was school today ? ” seems irrelevant after six of their classmates were held hostage.
Melanie Prince
Prairie Grove
http://www.nwarktimes.com/nwat/Editorial/45803
By the way, as a star ages it will expand into a red giant. It's part of the thermonuclear fusion reaction .
But I guess it IS northwest arkansas....
