Ron Paul sez: More women should sacrifice their careers to homeschool their kids

[KamaAina]

Last edited Thu Sep 19, 2013, 07:10 PM - Edit history (1)

http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2013/09/19/ron-paul-more-women-should-sacrifice-career-to-homeschool-kids/

America needs more home-schoolers, ladies. Yeah, you probably have a day job and can’t afford to take the time off to properly educate your offspring at home. But that’s just an excuse, you wimp. Even a woman working two jobs and living at a homeless shelter could find time to teach her child. Well, according to a twist of reality espoused by former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) anyway.

“I want people to be able to home-school their children,” he said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to promote his book about the education titled “The School Revolution.” “Not everybody – this is designed to pick out the leaders who want to. And maybe 20 percent might be interested in doing this. But these would be leaders who would be talking about running for Congress and understand why the Federal Reserve is a problem.”

BBC anchor Katy Kay this morning asked Paul if his libertarian aim to have so many more children home-taught would hurt women, since they’re the ones typically expected to take on domestic roles. Plus, wouldn’t that exact a terrible blow on the workforce – to take out a fifth of its working women?...

Paul, by the way, launched his own homeschooling curriculum earlier this year that teaches Biblical principles of self-government, the Austrian school of economics, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution and how it’s been hijacked and how to run a YouTube channel, among other things. Presumably, there’s no favorable mention of the Civil Rights Act, and based on the beliefs of the folks associated with the project, there’s probably a lot of talk about Christians taking theocratic dominion over the earth, or at least America. It basically turns your little ones into Paul’s intellectual offspring.

Good thing all those Paulbot trolls here went back under the bridge after the 2012 primaries!

[gopiscrap]

1. Fuck Ron Paul

[csziggy]

3. EWWWWWWWWW - who'd want to?

[SomethingFishy]

2. Does he have many fans on DU?

Or is this one of those "you agree with him on Pot laws so you must be a fan" things?


Ron Paul is an ass. But I agree with him on a few issues. Does that make me a fan? Just trying to clarify.

[KamaAina]

5. You'd be surprised.

The Paulbot temperature here has, I'll admit, cooled off considerably in recent months. But we've had some scorchers!

[Quantess]

8. No, there actually aren't many Rand Paul fans here.

There are plenty of people, however, who are not fans of the NSA's overreach, and who appreciate Glenn Greenwald and Snowden. That large group of people was maligned as being "Paulbots" without any real basis. Are you talking about those DUers?

[KamaAina]

9. No, this is Ron Paul, his dad.

His son the "Rug Doctor" is universally reviled here, as he should be.

[Quantess]

34. "Rug doctor"

Anybody who embraces libertarianism needs to look to Somalia or Liberia as natural outcomes of libertarianism in a capitalist world. This documentary is really fascinating and horrifying: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023697358

[KamaAina]

38. I yoinked that from another DUer

[Iggo]

14. No, you're right.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. I know Ron Paul considers himself a Libertarian

But given who else has been a Libertarian, I no longer see him on the far right fringe of it. I see him as a theocrat and a fascist.

And yes, he is nutz. Even if he made some sense some of the time, the principle of broken clocks applies here, just like his son.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. We all liked the fact that Paul opposed Bush's wars

I don't think anyone here is a 'fan' of his, though.

[KamaAina]

7. You may be right

It just now occurred to me that the pro-Paul sentiment that used to be quite evident around these parts may well have been fueled by trolls.

[Bluenorthwest]

11. It needs to end, this bullshit of claiming that DUers are fucking Ron Paul fans.

The man is a right wing, racist, gay hating Republican. Insulting the DU community with absolutely no basis in truth. Support for Republican candidates is PPR land around here. There is no 'pro Paul sentiment' allowed. There is none held.
Unsupported arch insinuations are an unwelcome tactic.

[KamaAina]

12. On second thought, the pro-Paul wave here coincided with the 2012 primaries

leading me to conclude that the Paulbots here were in fact trolls sent by his campaign.

[Bluenorthwest]

13. I think instead that your trope did not fly like you thought.

The 'pro Paul wave' is a figment of your imagination. Such crap is not and has never been accepted on DU nor by this community. To say that it has been is both incorrect and insulting.

[YoungDemCA]

21. There are no "Paulbots" here

And I almost never see Libertarian bullshit here.

But thanks for your concern.

[maddezmom]

26. A lot of them sign up but don't last that long.

[KamaAina]

32. There were last year

Lots of 'em.

Then after the primaries, they went away. Must have been trolls.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. There were plenty of non-asshats who opposed the wars.

The Fawning all over Paul that some engaged in was disgusting. Shit, Pat Buchanan opposed the war in Iraq, too.

Broken Clocks, and all that.

[99Forever]

10. Fans?

What a bunch of stinkbait.

Like chum for amateurs.

[Iris]

16. Men can't home school? n/t

[demwing]

17. Yes we can!

thank you

[demwing]

18. Does Ron Paul sey: More MEN should sacrifice their careers to homeschool their kids?

does he sey that?

[KamaAina]

19. Of course not, silly.

[demwing]

20. OW, stop that! Well at least he practices what he doesn't preach

Ron Paul never said men should drop their career for their kids, and he didn't!

That Ron Paul, he's nothing if he's not consistent!

[etherealtruth]

22. Ron Paul says a lot of asinine things

I generally choose not to listen!

[Zater]

23. Could anyone please find the paragraph where Paul said that?

I couldn't find it in the OP.

[Ohio Joe]

28. It is not in quotes...

It is the only logical conclusion I can arrive at from the little fuckers mumblings. What do you get from it?

[maddezmom]

37. It is paraphrasing

What the POS said.

[no_hypocrisy]

24. Homeschooling nearly ruined my client's life.

She married a psycho and had five children with him. He wouldn't let her leave their home unless he was with them. He physically, psychologically, and emotionally abused and controlled her. He was very religious but wouldn't let any of the children go to school, even to a private religious school with a scholarship. He insisted that she homeschool the children. She wasn't qualified and didn't have the time, taking care of the home and five children. The closest the kids came to homeschooling was watching "Sesame Street".

Fast Forward. Child Protection removed the children on an unrelated matter but decided the children were educationally neglected as the eight year old couldn't go past the letter "J" in the alphabet. The children were put in a foster family and sent to school. The lack of qualifiable homeschooling was a big deal in trying to prevent my client's parental rights from being terminated and she almost lost her kids because of it.

Epilogue: She divorced her abuser; we prevented her rights from being terminated; her children were returned to her and they live together in another state; the kids are all in school and are in honors programs.

Homeschooling is not the best choice for everyone.

[angstlessk]

25. Like I asked in the other thread...what homeschooled person has ever done

anything noteworthy?????

When you can line up homeschooled to all the other schooled...and claim they are the inventors/entrepreneurs...then get back to me.

[KamaAina]

30. My dear friend Sunaura

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunaura_Taylor

Also, occasional DUer Ava.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava_Lowery

[MrsKirkley]

27. Homeschooling can be a better option

if a child suffers from excessive bullying at school.

[KamaAina]

31. Indeed.

Just not with Ron Paul's curriculum.

[arely staircase]

29. and lets not forget how fast young black men run

as anyone knows who has been robbed by one. Also barbara jordan was a moron.

More Ron Paul "wisdom"

[fujiyama]

33. What a whackjob...

If I had kids, I'd be tempted to home school them because school textbooks have been hijacked by the types of idiots that put him in office!

[HappyMe]

35. Just another reason to say

fuck Ron Paul. Fuck Rand Paul too.

[LWolf]

36. Oh, yes.

Please do. That will increase the number of students I get every year that didn't learn anything in the months that they were home schooled. I need more students that I'm supposed to perform miracles for in catching them up to everyone else in less time.

Home schoolers returning to school in my classroom this year so far: 6. And it's only September. At least these 6 are here to start the year.

Paul should sacrifice his political career to teach his own "home schooling curriculum." We could evaluate him, and his curriculum, with one of the new teacher evaluation systems mandated by RTTT and the NCLB waiver. That would be fun.

[Scurrilous]

39. @#$% Ron Paul.