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But I also had a constipation problem. I reduced the amount of milk and cheese I eat (drink a glass of soy milk every day instead), and eat yogurt with granola every morning. Regular as clockwork now.
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This ends my poop sharing for the day.
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Something tells me Jamie Lee Curtis will have to start doing movies again...so everybody loses.
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I was hoping the poop yogurt would be a passing thing for her.... so to speak...
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I grew up in a Christian neighborhood, and the reaction when my publicly schooled, non-religious, large family moved in was disastrous. Christian children weren't allowed to play with non-Christian children. Non-Christians couldn't use the common green space on Sundays.
What kind of values are these? What happens when little Jimmy and Sally Christian grow up? What kind of job will they be able to get where only Christians are hired?
Children should learn acceptance. Plain and simple.
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The question is this: do parents have a right to choose what values and beliefs they will teach their children? I think they do. And frankly, while I may think parents have an ethical obligation to allow their children to play with children from different backgrounds, they have no LEGAL obligation to do, and the state does not have the right to impose one.
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The state is not trying to impose a damn thing that at least one of this girl's parents doesn't want. No matter how they ruled, they would have gone against the wishes of one of her parents and with the wishes of the other. And since the parents are the ones who wanted it this way, I don't see the point in getting all bunched up about it.
What we should all glean from this is that we need to be adults and learn how to work out our differences with others- including former spouses- and learn to compromise lest we be tempted to take them to court, thereby running the risk of a verdict against our wishes. If her parents were able to be adults about this (and from the court docs, it sounds like maybe her dad is and her mom isn't) then this wouldn't have ever even been a case.
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This seems like a pretty outrageous case of the courts intervening where the parents should have maybe worked it out between themselves.
That said, homeschoolers ARE super wary of the courts taking away their right to educate at home- the laws vary pretty wildly from state to state, and they often ARE forced to take legal action in order to not lose that right completely.
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It seems, at first blush, to be pretty outrageous, but I see now that the 'homeschool community' is over-reacting and not understanding the legal complications that the custody issues are adding to the situation. 'Cause most homeschoolers, are 2 parent households and mom stays home to teach (most religious ones anyway, not all).
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You are not being persecuted. You are the MAJORITY in this country, you can't be persecuted. At one time, back in the day when the Romans fed you to the lions, yes, you were the persecuited minority. But then you rose up and killed those that didn't believe, erected churches on their holiest sites and forcibly converted anyone who was left. You lost the ability to cry to everyone within earshot about being some downtrodden unfortunate and hated religion around that time.
I don't know if I agree with the judge's decision in this case but, please, for the love of God, stop screaming persecution. Look at what your vote helped do to this country for the last 8 years. Persecution my ass.
thanks,
Sev
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Black peoples in South Africa (or most of Colonial Africa) during Apartheid on line two.
Indigenous folks though Latin America on line six.
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Christians ARE NOT persecuted in America. When is the last time you saw a group of kids screaming slurs at a kid wearing a cross necklace?
I'm not saying there aren't the few stupid idiots out there who burn down a church or two. But Christians places of worship aren't in danger of being destroyed. They don't have to worship in secret because they're afraid someone is going to kick down the door and rip the Bible out of their hands. They don't have to pretend not to be Christians in mixed company. They don't have to worry that their last names are "too Jewish-sounding" or "too Muslim-sounding" when in a new class or on a job interview. (No one ever used Bush's middle name as some sort of signifier of "The Other" like they do for Obama.) No one is petitioning to get Christian places of worshipped moved out of town (see Morgan Spurlock's '30 Days' when he sends a man to live in a small town at war with itself over the influx of Muslim immigrants.)
Like I said, I don't know if I agree with the judge in this case, but persecution of Christians? I don't think so.
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Yes! Depending on where you are. There are secular groups in any large city. I was homeschooled for "educational reasons" in Austin, TX -- the group here, Austin Area Homeschoolers -- is about 700 families strong now, with pickup soccer games twice a week, dances, a yearbook, intensely personal and creative graduation ceremonies, science and math classes taught by community parents who are experts, writing clubs, etc etc. It's great. And check out nbtsc.org for a taste of what being an "unschooled" teenager is like -- totally inspiring stuff. I went there every summer. Recommended reading: anything by John Holt, and Grace Llewellyn's The Teenage Liberation Handbook, plus back issues of Growing Without Schooling magazine if you can find them.
colorme...: I am probably biased, because I firmly think that homeschooling should only be allowed in cases where it would actually be detrimental for the child to go to school
Care to explain why you feel this way? And who decides whether it would be detrimental for the child to go to school? A lot of people -- like my parents -- think it's detrimental for pretty much any child to go to public school, a belief they formed after they sent me and my brother to school and saw our self-confidence and personalities start to melt away.
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