Duggars to be keynote speakers at 2016 Alberta homeschool convention

[taco.vidal]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...ence-1.3294323

Reality TV and tabloid regulars Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar plan on visiting Alberta in the spring to give advice to other parents who homeschool their children.

The Duggar family has been clouded in controversy since May, when TLC cancelled their reality TV show, 19 Kids and Counting, after their eldest son admitted he had molested four of his sisters when he was a teenager.

Despite this, the couple are scheduled to be the keynote speakers at the 2016 Alberta Home Education Convention in the spring.

[Daradon]

Pretty much confirming all my assumptions about people who home school right there.

[PepsiFree]

Advice?

How to homeschool a bunch of kids while being paid loads by TLC?
Or how to attempt a cover up when someone you love is a sexual deviant guilty of child molestation and incestual interests?

[corporatejay]

Jon Oliver should do a thing on this.

"How is this, still a thing"?

[sharkov]

I can only see this as a boast for public schooling.

[taco.vidal]

AHEA website posted the following tonight

2016 Convention Speaker Review
Thursday, 29 October 2015 18:58 Patty Marler
AHEA is currently reviewing all speaker arrangements for our 2016 convention.

We thank you for your patience.

I wonder if there's any sensible members.

http://www.aheaonline.com

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Daradon

Pretty much confirming all my assumptions about people who home school right there.

Nice. Paint everybody with the same brush because of one commonality.

[JonDuke]

[taco.vidal]

Originally Posted by Buff

Nice. Paint everybody with the same brush because of one commonality.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-...b_8353062.html

Sex scandals keep bubbling up from the Christian home school world and there is an underlying connection you've not yet read about--and believe it or not, it ties into the tea party and the GOP house speaker race.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by taco.vidal

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-...b_8353062.html

How can you not be obligated to report a crime just because you are the parent?

Anyway, the rest of the article seems to be grasping at straws looking for the strong home schooling / molestation connection.

In the Fox News interview Megyn Kelly asked whether Michelle and Jim Bob considered that they might have legal obligations. Jim Bob answered, "You know, what? As parents you're not mandatory reporters."

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by Buff

Nice. Paint everybody with the same brush because of one commonality.

You definitely hear more bad stories about home schooling than good ones. And generally it's people who don't want their kids learning about sex ed, or you know, science. 'How dare they teach my kids about unproven theories like evolution!'

The original comment was supposed to be more of a :facepalm: tongue in cheek comment, but how did these organizers think this was a good idea?

[Amethyst]

Having them as speakers certainly doesn't make home schooling look like a reasonable choice.

[Daradon]

^^^ Exactly, that's the main point I was making.

[driveway]

Given the amount of training it takes to simply become a licensed teacher, not to mention the on-going training and professional development, the idea that parents are at all qualified to prepare, evaluate, or deliver lessons simply because they're parents makes about as much sense as the idea that I could operate and service a pipeline because I know how to siphon gas.

[Poe969]

Opening line:

"As the role of a teacher, you have to be ok with your students dating and having relationships with each other and can't always believe one side over the other when it comes to disputes"

I mean who the hell will take these nut jobs seriously anymore? I like their line about "As parents you're not mandatory reporters" so essentially they're saying if your kid commits a crime, you don't have to turn him in and if your kid is molested, you should probably keep it quiet. If they knew it happened once and didn't do anything about it, they're just as guilty for letting it happen again and again and again. These people are inbred white trash hicks. Seems the only reason they do anything is for attention and money.

[WhiteTiger]

Just to show that there are outliers...my mother home-schooled my brother and I for 2 years. She was, however, an accredited teacher, and we'd just moved (military family) to an area where she didn't like any of the school options just as my brother and I moved into the age range she usually taught.

I never had a tougher teacher in my life.

[speede5]

I'm slightly offended at the brush home schoolers are being painted with, I have one kid in school and one at home, and both are doing well. I know several outstanding people who home school and I know lots of kids who have been successfully home schooled.

When you get rid of all the wasted time spent in a day at a public school, and have focus on only a few students rather than 30, plus have the ability to spend as much time as required to work through problems, it can be done much more efficiently. Some kids get lost in the system in a classroom setting.

Don't get me wrong though, I'm not anti public school system.

[Poe969]

Every situation is different and there's nothing wrong with home schooling your children. I'm just utterly disgusted with the Duggars.

[CaptainCrunch]

I don't even know who these people are, which is probably a good thing, but there's no way they should be speaking at this event, or any other.

[Russic]

Hopefully they dedicate one of their powerpoint slides to explaining how the best rehabilitation for a sex offender is to help a friend renovate a basement.