i know this has been discussed over the years on this forum, but i just had to post this again!.
it seems that the popular fad amongst the "spiritual" ones in the local circuits is to home school their children instead of sending them to school.. now to clarify, we are in a very nice area of semi rural australia .
one with very community minded, and strong family values.
My father was never a JW, but a criminal on the run, with two kids to help him seem like a nice single dad. I didn't know that about him until i was almost 40. Anyway, he took us out of school. He bought lots of all kinds of books and we had to read on our own. He said it was because "taxes are immoral and the public schools supported by taxation are immoral."
Just read your earlier post in the thread and I'm imagining you as the child of Bonnie and Clyde. :D
i know this has been discussed over the years on this forum, but i just had to post this again!.
it seems that the popular fad amongst the "spiritual" ones in the local circuits is to home school their children instead of sending them to school.. now to clarify, we are in a very nice area of semi rural australia .
one with very community minded, and strong family values.
@Landy-------you missed out about learning how to masturbate.
I think there were enough wankers at the Kingdom Hall to teach me how to do that.
not too long ago, i posted a topic where i pointed out that there are about 1 million xjws alive right now.
that number only represented the disfellowshipped ones... didn't account for those who had become publishers and left or anyone else who got hurt by that group by proxy.
so, why are there so few of them online?
i know this has been discussed over the years on this forum, but i just had to post this again!.
it seems that the popular fad amongst the "spiritual" ones in the local circuits is to home school their children instead of sending them to school.. now to clarify, we are in a very nice area of semi rural australia .
one with very community minded, and strong family values.
That sounds really good and I'm sure the parents put a lot of effort into it but there's already such places where kids can go to do all those things.
They're called schools.
The social side effects of going to school are as important as the academic goals. Tell me which home schooled teenager learned to undo a bra strap with one hand? Got into a playground fight? Dropped water bombs on a teacher's head from the third floor? Turned a teacher's reliant robin over in the car park (only the uk ones will get that)? Got absolutely mortal on smuggled vodka during a chemistry lesson and had to be collected by very irate parents? Looking longingly at a girl you've fancied for 3 weeks and now know a love like no one ever has before you?
These are all rites of passage and to deny a child those experiences is a shame.
not too long ago, i posted a topic where i pointed out that there are about 1 million xjws alive right now.
that number only represented the disfellowshipped ones... didn't account for those who had become publishers and left or anyone else who got hurt by that group by proxy.
so, why are there so few of them online?
I bet the 750k daily hits also includes bots.
i know this has been discussed over the years on this forum, but i just had to post this again!.
it seems that the popular fad amongst the "spiritual" ones in the local circuits is to home school their children instead of sending them to school.. now to clarify, we are in a very nice area of semi rural australia .
one with very community minded, and strong family values.
When one the GB heads of the JWS says that pursing higher education is like playing Russian Roulette with a gun to your head, people listen and you know he's got to be right .
Some parents may even think about their once JW relative who sought out a higher level of education in secular college and they dropped out of the JW cult.
I know - having an education can be a dangerous thing. Especially as by the time you've worked once round the Ministry School scorecard (Repetition for emphasis anyone?) that's easily the equivalent to a university degree!
one voice can be stronger than a thousand voices.
your mind is independent now.
with its own unique identity.
i know this has been discussed over the years on this forum, but i just had to post this again!.
it seems that the popular fad amongst the "spiritual" ones in the local circuits is to home school their children instead of sending them to school.. now to clarify, we are in a very nice area of semi rural australia .
one with very community minded, and strong family values.
So on my soapbox, I want to be clear. Homeschooling IMO, done by parents who value education, IS superior to a traditional classroom 5 days a week.
From a purely academic point of view perhaps, but school teaches so much more than that. There's all the intangibles; how to behave in a group, how to socialise, how to play team games, how to react to authority, how to smoke behind the bike sheds. The list goes on.
I would have hated to be stuck at home day in day out learning off the same people, espeically if they happened to be my parents. That would be more than a bit weird. . And as much as you wish it, it's impractical for parents to know every subject to a high school standard. That's why schools have different teachers for different subject.
i have a certain customer, whom we will call sally.
i know sally only by face and only through work.
i am a truck driver on a local dedicated route, and i often deliver to her work.
Just make sure you get her a christmas card :D
I always sneak a little bit of tinsel into my Mother's house at xmas and hang it somewhere she'll find it later. Gives me a perverse pleasure and she does see the funny side.
not too long ago, i posted a topic where i pointed out that there are about 1 million xjws alive right now.
that number only represented the disfellowshipped ones... didn't account for those who had become publishers and left or anyone else who got hurt by that group by proxy.
so, why are there so few of them online?
JW organization loses significantly more Witnesses to apathy than to apostasy.
That, in a nutshell.
