My Kids Eat Snails: Thoughts on Homeschooling by Radical Homemaker Shannon Hayes

often find ourselves frustrated with the accompanying bureaucracy—of filling out the required reports, examining the core curriculum content we are expected to cover, and trying to find ways of presenting subject matter (sometimes, we feel, prematurely) to our kids so that they will learn the required lessons.

she homeschools and she’s bitching about having to do it.
man, I fucking hate white people.
they can whine like nobody’s business. She’s questioning whether or not her children need to learn math, what eating snails is going to get them through life lady? What if they, gasp, want to go another direction and get a fucking job? there aren’t too many out there in eating snails.

If they sense an item of food is not part of their natural system, they often don’t develop a taste for it

…Yeah right lady. Nothing to do with the values you espouse to them, it’s all their tastebuds. Get a grip loser liberal!

But if their entire generation had an opportunity to cultivate such a palate, I honestly feel we’d see a massive global shift for the better within a few short years.

Groan… Man, I hate white people, liberal white people especially. they are so fucking full of themselves and self- congratulory over simple things. Get a fucking life saltine! Yeah, the way you are raising your kids would save the world if everyone did it. Suuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrre. You sound like a really unbiased source for this revelation to spring from.

Where, exactly, does eating snails fit in with the pre-determined curriculum standards? Should we have counted them first? Cut them up to practice fractions? Divided them into ten pieces and practiced quantifying snails in decimals? Written a report about heliciculture?

So cheating, lying and amanipulating your way through is what your children are learning in home school? You must be so fucking proud.