Utterly Meaningless

It’s getting to where I’m embarrassed to say I am a homeschooler. I think I’ll just start telling people that my kids attend a very private school.

Sigh.

I got that way about the Republicans, the Democratss,the Libertarians, the Methodists, the Baptists, the Presbyterians, the news media, lobbyists and oh, public schoolteachers, Southerners are barely hanging on by a thread with me — so might as well add homeschoolers to the list? 😉

Heh…I entered. My story is a winner 🙂

Wow, the injustice of it all. We homeschoolers should stand up for our rights, and demand that uh…what the hell was I saying? Oh yeah, free sandwiches for the oppressed!! Homeschooling power!!!

Geez, why can’t these people get a life? Subway is a private business and if they want to give prizes away, they can set the rules about who can enter. Get over it already.

This was on the local support group Yahoo loop this a.m. What I don’t get is…this bunch of wonderful people who get all up in arms about homeschoolers’ rights on account of a contest that some sandwich peddler is sponsoring is the same bunch who let NCDNPE tell them to jump and they ask, “How high, oh authority that God has placed over me?”

Gag.

Channel your energy where it counts.

I’ve been arguing it on a local list, and I just gave up. The last straw was one of the other members — who has been homeschooling “for years” and has a 9-year-old — is comparing it to discrimination against blacks and women. On another list, posters have talked about the contest making their children feel excluded and hurt.

I try not to describe us as homeschoolers anymore.

Such wasted energy. Why not put all that energy toward establishing playgrounds for hsing groups, if there’s such a huge need?

Nance

I agree with what everyone has said, but as marketing goes, it wasn’t a brilliant move.

And as for blogging it, hey, I gotta write something. ;>

The parents of a homeschooled “3 year old” wanted to enter a story on her behalf. She cried & cried when told she wasn’t eligible. Yikes!!!
This is scary in so many ways to me!!!!!!!!! I had to go back & dbl check to see that I really did read & understand that correctly & she is 3yrsold. I wonder if they also color her pictures for her coloring contests.
After reading her story on the parents blog, clearly the little darling should not be homeschooled but directly enrolled in an Ivy league college or something WOW!!! Opps but then college students aren’t elligible either.
Maybe they can dry her tears with the big fat check they get from her first novel, if she isn’t too damaged from this all to write again. Clearly this child is a prodigy & would hove won hands down if only she were able to enter. Ugh the utter injustice of it all.

We eat at subway quite often. I have never seen the contest posted at our local store. In fact the first I heard about it was here online & then it was about this crazy protest of it.

Honestly, I am more concerned about the idea that everything in life should be fair & inclusive & if it isn’t throw a fit.

Hello! there are much bigger things in this world to worry over people!
This all sounds like a good old fashioned Pity Party as my mom would say. Time outs for everyone !!!! Including home schoolers!!!

Yeah– terrible optics. So, how’d it feel to use up a chunk of your 15 minutes on WorldNutDaily? 🙂

It cracks me up that the ones shrieking loudest about this being a case of “discrimination” seem to overlap with the ones who are also shrieking loudest in favor of official discrimination against those darn evildoin’ man-on-man gay-marryin’ types.

Well, maybe not “cracks me up” so much as “does not surprise me at all.”

This recent trend of “contest the contest” so that if you personally don’t win, you make everybody a loser, isn’t a homeschool-based meme. Apparently we’re pretty well-socialized into the public mainstream after all.
Case in point — anybody see HBO’s Recount last night? Love, JJ the Tallahassee Lassie

You’re right, Daryl. I think I frittered away my 15 min. ;> Oh, well. My cats still like me.