B & T Simpson

this was sent to me by a non homeor unschooler, but I thought it was
interesting how it seemed to show many of the reasons we choose to
home/unschool!
Tanya OHio


Paul Harvey read this on his radio show.

For the life of me, I can't understand what could have gone wrong in
Littleton, Colo. If only the parents had kept their children away from the
guns, we wouldn't have had such a tragedy. Yeah, it must have been the guns.

It couldn't have been because of half our children being raised in broken
homes.

It couldn't have been because our children get to spend an average of 30
seconds in meaningful conversation with their parents each day. After all,
we
give our children quality time.

It couldn't have been because we treat our children as pets and our pets as
children.

It couldn't have been because we place our children in day care centers
where
they learn their socialization skills among their peers under the law of the
jungle while employees who have no vested interest in the children look on
and
make sure that no blood is spilled.

It couldn't have been because we allow our children to watch, on average,
seven hours of television a day filled with the glorification of sex and
violence that isn't fit for adult consumption.

It couldn't have been because we allow (or even encourage) our children to
enter into virtual worlds in which, to win the game, one must kill as many
opponents as possible in the most sadistic way possible.

It couldn't have been because we have sterilized and contracepted our
families
down to sizes so small that the children we do have are so spoiled with
material things that they come to equate the receiving of the material with
love.

It couldn't have been because our children, who historically have been seen
as
a blessing from God, are now being viewed as either a mistake created when
contraception fails or inconveniences that parents try to raise in their
spare
time.

It couldn't have been because we give two-year prison sentences to
teen-agers
who kill their newborns.

It couldn't have been because our school systems teach the children that
they
are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial
soup of mud . . . .

It couldn't have been because we teach our children that there are no laws
of
morality that transcend us, that everything is relative and that actions
don't
have consequences. What the heck, the president gets away with it.

Nah, it must have been the guns.

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In a message dated 6/17/99 9:11:55 AM EST, michigan@... writes:

<< his was sent to me by a non homeor unschooler, but I thought it was
interesting how it seemed to show many of the reasons we choose to
home/unschool! >>
Tanya,
Thanks for sharing this, it really says so much about our society today.
Teresa