Comments on: Michael Jackson: Celebrities as Homeschooling Examples http://www.justenoughblog.com/?p=1562 Where Education and Parenting Collide Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:01:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Antonia Reed http://www.justenoughblog.com/?p=1562&cpage=1#comment-4844 Antonia Reed Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:23:37 +0000 http://www.justenoughblog.com/?p=1562#comment-4844 This article made me smile. I remember last year when I was reading about Will and Jada Smith, how they had been homeschooling and then were trying to start a private school to bring what they had learned about education to other kids. Then it was made known that some of the principals of their schooling was based on L.Ron Hubbard's teachings. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry over that. If homeschoolers are a divergent group... we have the religious, the crunch granola, the disabled, the allergic, then why oh why can't we have the Scientologists? It just means that we have the same things as society in general. And in some ways, that is a good thing. Since most people do not base their day-to-day lives on celebrities' lives, why would be we compare our homeschooling to those of the celebrities? This article made me smile. I remember last year when I was reading about Will and Jada Smith, how they had been homeschooling and then were trying to start a private school to bring what they had learned about education to other kids. Then it was made known that some of the principals of their schooling was based on L.Ron Hubbard’s teachings. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry over that.

If homeschoolers are a divergent group… we have the religious, the crunch granola, the disabled, the allergic, then why oh why can’t we have the Scientologists? It just means that we have the same things as society in general. And in some ways, that is a good thing.

Since most people do not base their day-to-day lives on celebrities’ lives, why would be we compare our homeschooling to those of the celebrities?

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