{"id":5945,"date":"2006-01-07T20:09:13","date_gmt":"2006-01-08T01:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2006-01-15T18:44:05","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T23:44:05","slug":"why-we-homeschool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5945","title":{"rendered":"WHY WE HOMESCHOOL"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Editorial comment– This post was originally intended for Week 2 of of Carnival of Homeschooling. For reasons beyond my control, it was not included. I’ve submitted it for Week 3 even though it might not exactly match the theme. Caveat reader.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

That’s the topic for this week’s Carnival. I haven’t ever listed our reasons, so here’s my chance. Y’all might guess, given the topics that we usually cover here at HE&OS, that we’d be entirely secular, but you’d be wrong. <\/p>\n

We pulled our kids out of the local public schools so that we could teach them our religion. We found that our religious values just would not be, just could not be<\/em> taught in the public schools. Our kids were being taught all sorts of things that directly conflict with our beliefs. Things like Intelligent Design\/Creationism. Yeah, Adam and Eve and all that. In our home, we know that the Flying Spaghetti Monster created everything starting with a mountain, some trees and a midgit<\/a> [sic]. Yes, we’re Pastafarians<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We follow an orthodox Pastafarian curriculum for our homeschool. Thus, Fridays are holidays and we “homeschool” Sunday through Thursday. And we have spaghetti and meatballs (His Holy Communion) for lunch at least once a week. Now, of course, the government schools serve the holy meal, but never in full pirate regalia<\/a>. <\/p>\n

All of our curriculum is FSM-based. Science, of course, is taught from the perspective that everything we see, all the so-called scientific evidence for evolution\/Darwinism is a fabrication by the FSM, put there for His amusement. Thus, scientific naturalism is utterly rejected (something we have in common with the IDists\/Creationists). We don’t do “experiments” in science class, as our prophet has explained that the FSM will reach out his noodly appendage to change the results. So, experiments in science class seemed kind of silly. For art, we study the old masters<\/a>. Spelling is not stressed in our homeschool; the Prophet has acknowledged<\/a> that he is a terrible speller. We figure if it’s good enough for him, it’s good enough for our kids.<\/p>\n

We have found that homeschooling is the best way to ensure that our kids are raised in our faith and with our values. Ramen!<\/p>\n

[Note to all 1st time visitors: The above is a joke. Relax. And have a plate of spaghetti on me.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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