# Homeschooling biology FAILURE **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 5, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352 "2013-02-05T02:28:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/21 "2013-02-05T05:09:00Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > What pisses me off isn’t just that there are idiots out there who think this crap up, but there are even more idiots who listen to and believe them. And then they get elected and then make idiotic laws. What it gives one hope is that the last election showed that when a light is shined on idiocy like that one (like “legitimate rape”) those guys get the boot. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/22 "2013-02-05T06:14:52Z")
Few things do it to me, but I actually read the OP with my jaw hanging. Then I thought, hmmm I was on the pill for about 15 years. If I had all of those dead babies scraped out, how much weight would I lose? Score!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/23 "2013-02-05T06:40:26Z")
> [@pythonzzz](#): > > Dumbfuck homeschool shill Kevin Swanson fails at basic reproductive biology: > > [http://www.opposingviews.com/i/health/they-are-coming-your-birth-control-radio-host-claims-your-womb-full-tiny-dead-baby-corpses](http://www.opposingviews.com/i/health/they-are-coming-your-birth-control-radio-host-claims-your-womb-full-tiny-dead-baby-corpses) > > My, my. The wingnuts just keep sinking lower… Well, isn’t it the whole **point** of [homeschooling](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Homeschool), to protect vulnerable young minds from exposure to that sort of factual/scientifical thing? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/24 "2013-02-05T06:48:26Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > They’re just sitting there, stuck to the uterine wall, waving their tiny little arms and crying out for help. Kind of like the original _The Fly_. 😃 “Help me! Help me!” ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/25 "2013-02-05T06:49:34Z")
Stuff like this is so mind-numbingly stupid it literally makes me sick to my stomach. Crazy making. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/26 "2013-02-05T07:23:52Z")
So wombs are like Native American burial grounds? Maybe as long as you don’t build a mental institution or a creepy mansion over it everyone will be OK. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/27 "2013-02-05T08:15:23Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > What pisses me off isn’t just that there are idiots out there who think this crap up, but there are even more idiots who listen to and believe them. Yes, they’re called “Fox News viewers.” ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/28 "2013-02-05T10:30:36Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > that makes sense, unless that jackass actually believes that an egg needs to implant and grow into a full baby to get out of the body, though I wonder what he thinks the menses are in that case. :dubious: Just one of God’s many ingenious punishments for being born a woman. Or possibly the blood of murdered foetuses. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/29 "2013-02-05T11:17:42Z")
It’s easy to imagine reading over lines of text and having words emerge. For instance : Zygote Womb … Zombie. Plus, there just really aren’t that many interesting words that start with z apart from zygote and zombie. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/30 "2013-02-05T12:22:03Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Maybe “pro-life” needs another name like, “let us control your gonads”, which is more descriptive. I like the term “forced birther” myself. Seems to about sum it up. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/31 "2013-02-05T12:41:19Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I wonder what he thinks the menses are in that case. :dubious: Liquid sin. These _are_ women we’re talking about, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/32 "2013-02-05T12:47:57Z")
People, he’s one guy. He does not speak for the right. Although I think I need to start listening to him; I need a daily dose of humor and he sounds like he brings the funny on a regular basis. ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/33 "2013-02-05T12:53:15Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > People, he’s one guy. He does not speak for the right. Um, did anyone say he _does_ speak for the right? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/34 "2013-02-05T12:56:24Z")
So, wait, we’re saying that these aren’t legitimate dead tiny babbys in there? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/35 "2013-02-05T13:19:03Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Well, isn’t it the whole **point** of [homeschooling](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Homeschool), to protect vulnerable young minds from exposure to that sort of factual/scientifical thing? Precisely. Homeschoolers generally want to protect the kids from learning how to think critically. The students are almost always taught not to question what the teachers say. In Texas, the homeschool teacher gets to set the standards for everything, including graduation age. Teachers don’t have to meet any requirements at all! This means, of course, that someone could decide that the homeschooled child can graduate from high school at the age of 12, without ever encountering a real science fact. Texas does not require any science courses for a homeschooled kid to get a HS diploma. I find this very, very scary. I think that anyone who wants to be a homeschool teacher should have to take a general knowledge test on all subjects s/he intends to teach. And I think that all homeschooled children should have to take a general knowledge test before they can be awarded a diploma. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/36 "2013-02-05T13:25:52Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > So, wait, we’re saying that these aren’t legitimate dead tiny babbys in there? Tiny babbies, In my womb, makes me happy, it’s a tomb. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/37 "2013-02-05T15:15:39Z")
This is actually only the fourth dumbest thing Kevin Swanson [said](http://vimeo.com/58621706) [this](http://www.policymic.com/articles/24705/kevin-swanson-and-dave-buehner-feminists-are-family-destroying-whores) [month](http://wonkette.com/499648/move-over-feminist-whores-now-kevin-swanson-has-thoughts-on-gays-namblaing-all-the-homeschooled-children). ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/38 "2013-02-05T15:36:00Z")
My wife and I teach a sex ed course for middle school kids through a church and we have a box for anonymous questions. When we get a question that we think is obvious, we see it as a failure on the part of the parents and schools to educate kids, not that the kids are stupid. At a certain age that excuse doesn’t fly anymore. I’m not sure what age that is, but this guy is past it. Maybe I should send him an invite. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/39 "2013-02-05T16:05:00Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > In Texas, the homeschool teacher gets to set the standards for everything, including graduation age. Teachers don’t have to meet any requirements at all! > > This means, of course, that someone could decide that the homeschooled child can graduate from high school at the age of 12, without ever encountering a real science fact. Texas does not require any science courses for a homeschooled kid to get a HS diploma. The land of Louie Gohmert is special. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352/40 "2013-02-05T16:10:58Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > My wife and I teach a sex ed course for middle school kids through a church and we have a box for anonymous questions. When we get a question that we think is obvious, we see it as a failure on the part of the parents and schools to educate kids, not that the kids are stupid. > > At a certain age that excuse doesn’t fly anymore. I’m not sure what age that is, but this guy is past it. Maybe I should send him an invite. Well, if your church is one of those sinful corrupt homo-loving feminista librul sinks of iniquity that even lets women talk in public, it would be foolish of you to get your hopes up that he might accept. (Seriously, though, good for you both for fighting ignorance on human sexuality, and especially for catching the ignorance before the kids are old enough to suffer from its most serious side effects!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeschooling-biology-failure/649352.md?page=3)