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gollygee

(22,336 posts)
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 08:48 AM Sep 2012

Akin campaign relies on homeschoolers

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/us/politics/todd-akin-counts-on-support-of-home-schoolers.html?_r=2

The number of home-school-affiliated volunteers helping the campaign varies by event, but they can sometimes be as much as 60 percent of the work force, said Mr. Akin’s son and campaign manager, Perry Akin. He and the candidate’s communications director, Ryan Hite — two of Mr. Akin’s top advisers — were home-schooled.

Students, not confined to classrooms during the day, can devote hours to campaign work as part of their social studies lessons. As practice for her typing course, Ania Bishop typed up Akin campaign literature. The day after the rally, her family — which has been named volunteer coordinators for Jackson County — spent about an hour and a half at a library near their suburban Kansas City home researching the voting records of Mr. Akin and Ms. McCaskill. They plan to design a comparison trifold board.

From the beginning of Mr. Akin’s political career as a state representative in 1988, home-schoolers have looked his way for support.

When legislators proposed a bill in 1999 that, among other things, would have required home-schooled students to take the same standardized tests as children in public schools, Mr. Akin took to the microphone at a committee hearing in the Missouri Capitol to reinforce the main point of the opposition: the bill would intrude on the freedom of parents to teach their children as they wanted.
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Akin campaign relies on homeschoolers (Original Post) gollygee Sep 2012 OP
Akin campaign relies on batshit crazy fundamentalist woman-torturers is more accurate. n/t porphyrian Sep 2012 #1
+1, very well-stated! get the red out Sep 2012 #2
so you support akins! whistler162 Sep 2012 #3
Yep, that's exactly what I just said. n/t porphyrian Sep 2012 #6
Yes, I think the homeschooling aspect is just coincidental to that. Arkansas Granny Sep 2012 #4
There are certainly very responsible homeschoolers gollygee Sep 2012 #5
It's not their fault, it's the problem with the companies providing the materials. porphyrian Sep 2012 #7

Arkansas Granny

(31,483 posts)
4. Yes, I think the homeschooling aspect is just coincidental to that.
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 09:17 AM
Sep 2012

FWIW, this is not to criticize home schoolers.

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
5. There are certainly very responsible homeschoolers
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 09:20 AM
Sep 2012

and I don't mean to criticize homeschooling in general. But I do think it's easier to keep supporters behind someone like Akin who defies science when the kids are not really taught science, and these homeschoolers were able to not teach real biology.

 

porphyrian

(18,530 posts)
7. It's not their fault, it's the problem with the companies providing the materials.
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 09:25 AM
Sep 2012

Apparently, there are only a few companies that provide materials for homeschooling, and the majority of them have religious biases. A few of them are simply batshit crazy fundamentalist.

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