[Buddha-l] Re: fundamentalism

[SJZiobro at cs.com]

In a message dated 7/4/2005 5:38:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, jkirk at spro.net 
writes:


> >
> > IMNSHO, The home-schooling thing epitomizes a great flaw in the modern 
> > USA -- 
> > the myth and encouragement of 'extreme individualism'.
> >
> > Richard Basham -- aka rbb   Make noise, leave sign; or, not.  @1986
> ==================================
> I never heard of Buddhists home schooling their kids either.

So far, I haven't met any, as well, but perhaps we're looking in the wrong 
places.

> >From what I've observed, those who do are right-wing Xtians.
> (rbb):
I'll need to inform my left-wing oriented professional friend who lives in 
the Bible Belt that the gig is up and, all observations being equal, that he is 
really a right-wing Christian.  Well, he is a cultural Christian, so the fact 
that he'd be called one likely wouldn't offend him.  But it does at least seem 
to be the case that a majority of home-schoolers are, in accord with the 
contemporary parlance, Conservative.  Perhaps this phenomenon is not too 
surprising when one considers that the ideologies encouraged in the public schools 
originate from sources which are predominantly liberal.  When, however, one finds 
liberal parents preferring to home-school their children one might suspect (I 
choose my words carefully here) that the home-schooling movement is not fueled 
simply by conservative ideologies.  Other considerations (not exhaustive) are 
curricula, the adequacy and dispersions of federal and state funding (which 
help determine the teacher-to-student ratio in the classrooms), or even the 
simple desire to home-school rather than send a child to the public or parochial 
schools.  

   > n another sense, everyone who has kids should also home school them
> in the matter of reading with them, making sure they do their homework, and 
> teaching them about life; that should preclude allowing video games like
> Doom, et al.
> 

Joanna, this is well-taken by some, but I am afraid that it is not obvious to 
others.  In fact, I've found that some home-schoolers allow their children to 
play these games.  This part of the equation does not fit in the 
liberal-conservative polarity analysis.  

Stan Ziobro
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