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Yeah, I'm not surprised you like something Mahler said.
Why don't you comment on what he said and save the snarky remarks?
Breitbart liked Maher enough to go on his regularly. Intelligent conversation doesn't have to feel like Kryptonite.
I've known a good many homeschooled children. Oddly enough most of them came across as very intelligent and mature, and well-behaved, and grew up to be remakably successful adults.
So have I. And the ones who get into college are really more privately tutored, than "home schooled" by parents. Meaning, their parents weren't their real teachers. Home schooling works when it's a group of parents pooling resources, and acknowledging their own limitations.
Mahler was commenting on the notion that college is about exposure to new ideas, and how a lot of home schooling goes on for religious reasons--parents afraid their kids are going to be exposed to Darwin, critical thinking, and history. How about giving kids a choice? They are robbing their kids of the skills they need to live and succeed outside of their tiny little church community.
The Weavers were an odd bunch sure... like the Branch Davidians.... but I can't lay my finger of that article of the Constitution where being "odd" was a capital offense in America....
Agreed, lives were needless lost. But there's guilt on both sides. Everybody's hands were dirty. And the law of the land doesn't end with the constitution.