People of Florida

[Leo Lyons]

So much about people in/from Florida in the news these days; makes it understandable now where Stinger is coming from.
Poor ol' boy just has a case of the can't-help-its; his attitudes come naturally to him.

We all have seen the People of Walmart videos and pictures; here's a classic example of People of Florida.
(this woman kin to you, Stinger.....? she has a business degree!)

Another Floridian

[Cowboy]

Leo, are you a professional jerk, or is it just a hobby?

[Ombudsman]

Leo, are you a professional jerk, or is it just a hobby?

If I'm not mistaken I believe he gets a pension for it.

[Leo Lyons]

Leo, are you a professional jerk, or is it just a hobby?

(Bannination's) Forum rules
NO PERSONAL INFORMATION REGARDING POSTERS IS TO BE POSTED.

It's just a hobby. I get damn good training here in this forum; get it from the best. Life's good, ain't it.

[Cowboy]

It's just a hobby. I get damn good training here in this forum; get it from the best. Life's good, ain't it.

I could have sworn you were home schooled.

[O Really]

Anybody who's ever lived in Florida knows there's some odd cases. That's one of the things us Floridians (and former Floridians) understand. The state promo used to be "the rules are different here." People go to Florida because they don't like the life they lead, including, for example, a refuge of Amish around Sarasota. Saying Florida accommodates a lot of weird people is a compliment. Saying that one asshole is representative of the entire state is totally unnecessarily snitty.

[Leo Lyons]

It's just a hobby. I get damn good training here in this forum; get it from the best. Life's good, ain't it.

I could have sworn you were home schooled.

So what's your excuse?

Saying that one asshole is representative of the entire state is totally unnecessarily snitty.

You're right; I guess I should aplogize for using Slinger as the official state representative. I'm sorry, Slinger.
I hope you know I didn't really mean it.

[Leo Lyons]

I could have sworn you were home schooled.

So what's got your ass in a wrinkle over home schooling? Who, in your family, was too dumb for home schooling?


Famous People Who Were Home Schooled

Artists
Claude Monet
Grandma Moses
Leonardo da Vinci
Rembrandt Peale

Athletes
Michelle Kwan
Jason Taylor
Tim Tebow
Serena Williams
Venus Williams

Authors
Agatha Christie
Alex Haley
Beatrix Potter
C.S. Lewis
Charles Dickens
George Bernard Shaw
Hans Christian Anderson
Louisa May Alcott
Margaret Atwood
Mark Twain
Phillis Wheatley
Pearl S. Buck
Robert Frost
Virginia Woolf

Businessmen
Andrew Carnegie
Colonel Harland Sanders
Dave Thomas
Joseph Pulitzer
Ray Kroc

Composers
Felix Mendelssohn
Irving Berlin
John Philip Sousa
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Entertainers
Alan Alda
Charlie Chaplin
Christina Aguilera
Dakota Fanning
Hanson
Hillary Duff
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Justin Timberlake
LeAnne Rimes
Louis Armstrong
Whoopi Goldberg

Explorers
Davy Crockett
George Rogers Clark

Inventors
Alexander Graham Bell
Benjamin Franklin
Cyrus McCormick
Eli Whitney
Thomas Edison
Orville Wright
Wilbur Wright

Military Leaders
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
John Paul Jones
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Matthew Perry

Photographers
Ansel Adams

Presidents
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
Grover Cleveland
James Garfield
James Madison
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
John Tyler
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
William Henry Harrison
Woodrow Wilson

Religious Leaders
Brigham Young
Dwight L. Moody
Joan of Arc
John & Charles Wesley
William Carey

Scientists
Albert Einstein
Blaise Pascal
Booker T. Washington
George Washington Carver
Pierre Curie

Statesman
Alexander Hamilton
Daniel Webster
Patrick Henry
William Jennings Bryan
William Penn
Winston Churchill

United States Supreme Court Judges
John Jay
John Marshall
John Rutledge
Sandra Day O'Connor

Famous Women
Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams
Clara Barton, started the red cross
Florence Nightingale, nurse
Martha Washington, wife of George Washington
Susan B. Anthony, women's rights leader

[Ombudsman]

LOL - The Homeschool propaganda faction has to go back to a time prior to a public school system to a find a few people to highlight. Pretty amusing.

[Leo Lyons]

LOL - The Homeschool propaganda faction has to go back to a time prior to a public school system to a find a few people to highlight. Pretty amusing.

You tell him.

I've known a number of people who were home-schooled who climbed the ladder of success and excelled in their field.
Just because their names aren't in a list of notables somewhere means nothing to them; they achieved their goals; and the money that came with them.

[Ombudsman]

Calm down. It's okay.

[Wneglia]

LOL - The Homeschool propaganda faction has to go back to a time prior to a public school system to a find a few people to highlight. Pretty amusing.

A fad that's catching on

[Cowboy]

I could have sworn you were home schooled.

So what's got your ass in a wrinkle over home schooling? Who, in your family, was too dumb for home schooling?

My daddy.
He was so dumb he could only get one of them Ph.D thingies from a land grant state university.

Momma wuz even dumber.
She only got a Masters.

Think how far they culd have gotton in life if they had been home skooled.

Jesus was walking to Golgotha.
Golgotha was 2.5 miles away.
It took Jesus 3 hours and 20 minutes to get there.
How fast was Jesus walking.

[Ombudsman]

A) Lickity Split
B) Slower than Molasses
C) Jesus only walked on water
D) Who are you to question Jesus?
E) All of the Above

[Ombudsman]

LOL - The Homeschool propaganda faction has to go back to a time prior to a public school system to a find a few people to highlight. Pretty amusing.

A fad that's catching on

Too bad there is no measure for social skills on those standardized tests huh?

[neoplacebo]

Was Jesus from Florida? I didn't know it. If it takes him 3.3 hours to walk 2.5 miles, he was walking at a speed of .7575757575 miles per hour. Because of surface tension, he would probably only average about .57575757mph on water. ok

[Leo Lyons]

I could have sworn you were home schooled.

So what's got your ass in a wrinkle over home schooling? Who, in your family, was too dumb for home schooling?

My daddy.
He was so dumb he could only get one of them Ph.D thingies from a land grant state university.

Momma wuz even dumber.
She only got a Masters.

Think how far they culd have gotton in life if they had been home skooled.

Gee...all that education and they still parented a moron. Life's a bitch, ain't it.

[Wneglia]

LOL - The Homeschool propaganda faction has to go back to a time prior to a public school system to a find a few people to highlight. Pretty amusing.

A fad that's catching on

Too bad there is no measure for social skills on those standardized tests huh?

Homeschooled children exceed conventionally schooled children in social skills

[Ombudsman]

They got one part right. They often have a higher self-concept. Many of them seem to think they are way smarter than they are.

[O Really]

Leo's list has several problems in addition to those listed for whom a public or private education was not an option, including, for example, " For most of her early schooling, O'Connor lived in El Paso with her maternal grandmother, and attended public schools and the Radford School for Girls, a private school. She graduated sixth in her class at Austin High School in El Paso in 1946"

There is also a difference in those who, because of sports or entertainment childhood careers, were educated in a home or non-traditional environment - such as the Williams sisters - and those whose barely educated parents keep them at home to learn the short 6,000 year history of the world.

I've got no problem with home schooling per se, but whoever is doing the teaching, whether a parent or someone else, ought to have to have some demonstrable qualifications to teach, and follow a curriculum comparable, if not similar to, those in public or private institutions. It's not so much where the education is attained that matters, it's whether an education is attained.