Jeanne Has Thoughts on the NCLB...

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Now, there's a few things I should you tell you. One, the school I was hired at originally switched to uniforms. Thus, the decrease in enrollment. And the reason why I had to move. Our school district is one of the largest in the country. They say they have a budget.

So, they moved me to another school 10 miles away. It is more diverse and very urban. The kids are different, that is about all I can deal with right now. Many of them are different and well, I need prayer about the whole thing. And since this is a Christian blog, I can ask for that.

Fair enough. Jeanne, I will pray for you.

"It is our county policy," they said. But the weird part was leaving a classroom I had started the year off with and well, seeing several kids EXTREMELY UPSET ABOUT THAT WHOLE THING.

So, here I am three weeks later and well, I am almost not happy. I am very overwhelmed. I need to take a step back and catch my breath.

Welcome to the life of a brand new teacher. You're low man on the totem poll and the easiest to move around.

I question everything. This is my free speech right.

These are the statements that always surprise me. I'm glad she questions things, but did someone insinuate that it wasn't her free speech right?

I don't hate anyone, but the Masons don't want a school system. They want disorder and confusion all around and in the classroom. They want a world with THEIR GOD. They want a world with their idea of God. They are connected with every sorority and fraternity in the country and around the world, including all secret societies.

Okay, what do the Masons have to do with her being moved? What do the Masons have to do with anything she's talked about? Where is her evidence that they don't want a school system? The Mason's aren't a religion, but a Fraternal Organization that calls God the "Architect of the Universe". I understand that the Catholic Church has issues with the Masons, but this is an accusation I've never heard leveled at them before. If this is true, I'd like her to share how she's learned it. Otherwise it sounds like a really nutty conspiracy theory.

This is why I question homeschooling. These people say they are good Christians or even Catholics.

But they aren't. They are not in the classroom everyday and well, they are not donating to these poor kids I teach. Many of their parents have poverty issues. Tampa is a very expensive place to live.

Wait, Jeanne. You question homeschooling because of the Masons? Many homeschoolers are good Christians or Catholics, and you have no basis to say that they are not. None.

And what does being in the classroom every day have to do with anything? I'm not in the classroom every day, but one of my children is. I homeschool one and public school another. I also have several people who are close to me who are public school teachers, two of which taught in the inner city, one in Los Angeles and one in Long Beach. I would think the situation in these areas are at least as bad as Tampa.

The donation thing is big for Jeanne. Almost every issue she talks about it also related to who pays for it. From her infertility issues, to adoption, to abortion, to how many children others have, to homeschooling, to environmentalism. She justifies what she doesn't want to pay for and demands payment for the things she wants.

But, just for the record, many homeschoolers and people of faith contribute to charities that should help underprivileged kids. The "you don't donate" crud is just a way for Jeanne to justify her hatred of others.

They don't live here. They don't care. They don't want to care.

Strange, I don't see them here.

Jeanne, you don't live in Iraq. Does that mean you don't care about the war? Of course not! I can't live everywhere, no one can. It doesn't mean they don't care. If there were easy answers to education problems, they'd be solved by now. I find it surprising that you are now seeing first hand some of the problems in the public school system and still don't understand why some would choose to homeschool.

Perhaps I should say this:
Jeanne, you don't live in my home. You don't know my children. You don't care about them. You don't want to care. I don't see you here trying to help me. I don't see you offering me any assistance to get my kids into good schools. You've never asked me about my faith. You don't care. You just hate. And you call yourself a Christian.

That's about as fair as the accusations Jeanne levels at others. Stick to what you know, Jeanne, and for goodness sake, if you want to make accusations, have something to back it up.

Pope Benedict & Condaleeza Rice: Jeanne's Take

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Pope Benedict to Condaleeza Rice, the representative of President Bush: Stuff it, I am on vacation and don't bother me with your "One World Order".

Don't believe it, click here.

Well, I couldn't see anything with the link, but I doubt it matters. It seems to me that if the Holy Father didn't see Condaleeza Rice the message was not delivered with a "Stuff it!". I think the Pope has a bit more class than that.

If you can't understand what is going on, you need to pray to the Holy Spirit and well, LISTEN.

I keep trying, but these posts are just as cryptic as ever. I need a Jeanne to English translator.

Regarding that comment about homeschooling, you hide your heads in the sand and are clueless about what is really going on in society. Don't bother to comment, I reject it. Many of you are influenced by Masons and are the reason why the schools are in bad shape in the first place.

Got that?

No, not completely. I can only assume that she's responding to someone's comments on homeschooling, but what on earth do the Mason's have to do with it? Color me confused. Someone commented on homeschooling (presumably a homeschooler because they're usually the people who tick her off) and she discounts whatever they said because they're likely being influenced by the Masons. Then she turns around and blames those Mason influenced homeschoolers for being the problem with the public schools? How can they be the problem if they're not using them? Maybe we should be glad that the evil, Mason influenced people are leaving. Of course, that's accepting her premise, which I don't. It's my belief that talk of Masons is either a joke, or some weird form of paranoia. I have no idea which.

Keep hiding your head in the sand. You certainly are not listening to the Holy Spirit but a overly scrupulous demonic spirit that is not of God.

How would she know? And regarding what? The Church values homeschoolers. So, that can't possibly be what she means. I love her stream of consciousness, yet at the same time I wish she'd give enough detail that the rest of us could follow along.

There are moments Jeanne is going to remember...

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What Jeanne doesn't know about homeschooling could fill a small library:

You don't get this with homeschooling. You don't get the diverse fellowship of different kids from all around town. But then again, I had a very diverse neighborhood for a suburb.

Jeanne, seriously, how would you know? Every time anyone on the homeschooling side attempts to dialog with Jeanne, she rejects it, becomes defensive, and is sometimes downright angry.

So, here's my chance to inform, though she may not read it or care.

Jeanne, schools don't guarantee a diverse group of kids unless one lives in a diverse neighborhood.

Homeschooling is not the same as seclusion. Homeschooling provides a number of opportunities to meet diverse groups of people. From local homeschooling support groups to nature classes at the nature center, to homeschooling events, to just being out and about, there are tons of ways for kids to meet people who are different than them. I remember one of my children sitting next to an exchange student from Korea on a plane once. They spent the whole flight talking about cultural differences and similarities. Before we disembarked I even took their picture together.

Jeanne makes so many assumptions about homeschooling that aren't backed up by anything at all. It's hard to take her seriously as an "educated professional" when she continues to speak with such authority on subjects over which she has absolutely no knowledge.

Jeanne Tells Us More About Tampa Florida...

TAMPA...Florida... This is what you are missing. This is what you haven't the guts to do...

If you do come, don't come to B%&*(() and MOAN. We don't care. And if you land from the north end of the airport, the thunderstorms are coming. I live here. You don't, you have to leave.

Okay, to be fair to Jeanne, I always check out her links. Maybe there's more to the story than I think there is from the text. Yet, like Lucy taking the ball from Charlie Brown, I'm always left disappointed.

First of all, I don't want to go to Florida unless I'm getting on a cruise. I know there are wonderful people in Florida, it's just not my state. I have someplace else I go when craving sunshine and beaches. But if I did come to Florida, it wouldn't be to bitch and moan. I wonder why Jeanne assumes it would be a motivating factor for anyone to come to Florida.

Thunderstorms are coming. Whoop-dee-doo. There have been thunderstorms all over the country and people are doing fine most places. Usually they don't make people go home because of a thunderstorm. I do love how Jeanne can talk about how awesome Florida is, then taunt people for not having the guts to come down there (why would people be afraid to go to Florida if it's wonderful), and then she tells us in this post that we can't stay. Her delivery of the last bit being very first grad "this is my spot and you can't be in it, nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah" of her.

Another eloquent example of her writing skill. I can't imagine why I can't find more of her published works...

Jeanne Tells Us What They Do To Homeschoolers In Florida

This is what we do to homeschoolers in Florida. We feed them full of food and put them on this.....

"ha Get sick we don't care."

Yes, another inventive post from Jeanne. Our fine Catholic friend found a You Tube video of a roller coaster and wishes that she could feed homeschoolers full of food and put them on it. Why? So that they'll get sick. After all, as she eloquently points out, she doesn't care. So why blog about it? Well, in my humble opinion it's because she's got some kind of sick hate on for people who make an educational choice for their children that she doesn't think is as good as public school. Kind of a severe hate for such a small difference of opinion, wouldn't you think? Not in JeanneLand!

I'm still surprised that someone who has a degree in journalism can't do little things...like capitalize the first letter of a sentence. I know I bring up her education almost as much as she brings up homeschooling and stay-at-home-mom's. It's just strange to me.

I'll get on the rollar coaster full of food, Jeanne, as long as you're there waiting when I get off...

Jeanne Says: It is official: I teach but not at home.

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"This is what I think of the homeschooling population."

This is Jeanne's entire blog entry. No, really, I'm not making that up. It's not a link to something that explains how she feels. It's not accompanied by a cute cartoon or a photograph. It's just one horribly sad little incomplete sentence.

Jeanne is about to get a graduate degree in education. She is about to start teaching in Florida. She even has an undergrad degree in journalism. Sadly, she is quite incapable of telling us what it is, exactly, that she thinks of homeschoolers. Perhaps her "duh head homeschoolers" comments of posts gone by is supposed to be enough. I can't decide if this makes her a poor student, or if she just had a sub-par education.

That sentence alone makes me glad she won't be teaching my children, and grateful that I do teach, at home.

Since You Were So Kind...

Jeanne, since you were so kind to share Florida's state standards with all of us, I thought that perhaps you'd be interested in knowing the state laws regarding homeschooling. Now, I know that you have a hard time believing that us "dumbschoolers" could actually comprehend legal terminology, but we can and we do.

Turns out that the state that you adore has absolutely no issue with homeschooling.

Florida State Homeschooling Laws

I'd love to turn this around and ask if you believe that your state is so vastly superior to anyone else's, why they allow such an abomination as homeschooling to occur within it's borders? Of course once I asked about swamps and hurricanes, and was informed that God made and loves swamps. I concur. It's just a shame you can't see that the same holds true for forrests, rivers, and, yes Jeanne, even snow.

No, I don't think my state is superior to anyone else's. I just think it's funny the amount of energy she puts into explaining (repeatedly) that she's from Florida.

Are You Aware?

I wonder if the FMIFA blogger is aware of how many of the Catholic links in her sidebar are pro-homeschooling. Oro-et-Laboro (now defunct) was actually the blog of a Catholic homeschooling mom. Fructus Ventris is the blog of a Catholic midwife who I know supports homeschooling because she's a commenter on a number of Catholic homeschooling blogs. Same goes for Two Sleepy Mommies. And that's just a few.

Either she's unaware of how many of the links she has are supportive of homeschooling, or perhaps she just thinks they are wrong about their stance.

Remember that job She interviewed for? She was hired to teach!

Jeanne's Original Post

My response:

Jeanne, homeschoolers know what curriculum means. If you knew even half about homeschoolers what they know about public school, you would know that already.

Most Catholic homeschoolers don't just use a Bible or Catechism to teach their students. While these are valuable tools, they don't begin to encompass the many resources available to homeschoolers these days. Even, Catholic homeschoolers.

I can't think of anyone who would have told you not to have a blog. This is still the United States and you have the right to free speech, however insane it may appear to others.

It does frighten this blogger, however, that anyone trusts you to be in a classroom. Actually, Jeanne, I hope you keep blogging. I think you could single handedly increase the rate of homeschoolers in Florida who choose to do so simply out of the fear that they might have you for a teacher.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: SHE NOW HAS CHILDREN --100 OF THEM.

Jeanne's Original Post

"Somethings to note: I will never homeschool my kids. I need the retirement money which when you retire: don't come to see me. I am not lending money to you.

TOUGH."

My first note: All caps make it look like you're shouting. I understand that your degree in journalism probably didn't cover proper nettiquette, so I thought I'd let you in on that little idea. If you mean for it to look like you're shouting in so many posts and blog titles, so be it. But it does add to the general hysterical feeling one gets when reading your blog. It makes it sound like you're on the edge of sanity and really just barely hanging on.

Now my second note: Not all homeschooling parents stay at home and don't make any money. I would venture to guess that a great majority do, but not all. For those that do work outside the home, they will be earning the money to support their family and themselves and won't need your help.

For those who do stay home, plans are made and money is carefully budgeted. They also won't need your help, or money.

I understand why that's difficult for you. I think your bitterness over your infertility and your jealousy of those who are able to so completely devote themselves to family is hard for you to swallow.

No one wants your money, Jeanne. No one is coming to you for retirement money. We have our own plans. You should probably stop worrying about us and focus on your own issues. Please. You appear unstable.

HEY SAHMS: JEANNE WONDERS WHERE IN THE HEAVEN WERE YOU TO HELP THIS LADY!

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Jeanne has a deep seated issue regarding Stay-at-home-moms (SAHM's). She thinks that they're wasting their time raising children, or keeping their homes. She thinks that they won't be financially secure, won't be able to afford living in retirement, and that they think they're superior.

The idea that she has that SAHM's think they're superior is the one that most makes me think she needs to take the plank out of her own eye.

In any case she has referenced the tragic story of two children left in a hot car to die while their mother went to work. And she thinks that this is somehow the fault of SAHM's. How? Well, she doesn't really explain that, exactly. Nor does she explain how a SAHM was supposed to have stopped it.

So, let me turn this question around, Jeanne. Where were you? Where were the working moms? Where was anyone who could have helped her? Where was her common sense?

This is a horribly tragic event, but SAHM's have nothing to do with it. In fact, if she'd stayed home they'd be alive.

Oh, and I couldn't care less who you see at Hooters. It just points out your bitter prejudice.

HAPPY 44TH B DAY TO JEEEEEEEEEEANNE....

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"I LIKE DOUBLE NUMBERS. THEY ARE LUCKY. OR THEY GO SOUR."

Jeanne starts her post, shouting as always. I'm not sure what this means, but maybe she's excited about being another year older?

I hope you had a great birthday, Jeanne. But please stop saying that you're younger looking than other 44 year olds. First of all, I've seen your picture before and it's not true. You do look your age. And you should be proud of that. 44 is not that old at all!

Happy Birthday!

Hey, this is all $150,000 will buy? But my good CEHHTHOLIC KIDS NEED A YARRD.

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My first issue with this post is the title. It is common place for Jeanne, when dealing with what she perceives to be a family issue, to elongate words in strange ways to make parents sound like idiots. I'm sure thinking of parents and SAHM's as stupid will go down beautifully with the parents whose students she'll be teaching. I guarantee if I found out my child's teacher had such disdain for me as a mother, I'd have him out of her class so fast your head would spin.

Now, Monahan (if I remember correctly) is trying to create a distinctly Catholic community. I don't know if it can or should be done in this day and age. I'm of the mind that our job as Christians is not to withdraw from society, but to transform it with the help of the Holy Spirit. But I digress. These appear to be starter homes, and in the price range of similar style homes in other areas. In fact, with home prices being what they are in Florida, this may in fact be quite reasonable. Perfect for a couple starting out.

How that makes Monahan greedy, I'm not sure. Perhaps he shouldn't make money? I've never quite understood that idea. I'd think he was greedy if he were grossly overcharging, or swindling people in some way, not just because he's making money. I mean, I'll bet Jeanne will make money in her teaching job, but I'm sure she doesn't think she's greedy for taking taxpayer money in exchange for her work. Why should she?

In addition the idea that "good Catholic kids need a yard" is utterly absurd. There are good Catholic children all over the world, including the United States who don't have yards. Yards are nice and all, but hardly a necessity of life. I tire of Mrs. Stark's simplistic view of parents as twittering idiots incapable of any deep or rational thought, especially if they are religious. After all, if she were to become a parent herself as she hopes, wouldn't she then too become a Catholic mother? But I'm sure she'd be much better than the rest of us. Proud that she puts her child in daycare and doesn't keep a clean house.

Don't get me wrong. I don't think SAHM's have the market cornered on good parenting, nor do I think that having a messy house makes you a bad mother. It's just the disdain for those who are different than her that gets to me. And it makes me wonder, if I tire of hearing it just in her blog, how tired must she be? After all, I can turn off the computer...navigate away from the page. But she has to live with her bitterness day in and day out.

For the sake of her health I hope that she vents these ideas on her blog and then is fine. It scares me to think that she's like this in real life.

Jeanne has a message sent to the Brownback for President campaign.

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I actually applaud Jeanne's interest in politics and her concern for a social gospel, like helping to ensure that people can get an education, or ensuring that children have access to healthcare. Once again, it is not what she's saying, but the way she is saying it.

"LIAR. JERK. "

"YOU ARE NOT GOD AND WE DO NOT WORSHIP YOU. "

Also, I wish Jeanne could understand that not all Republicans, even religious ones, consider themselves to be part of the "religious right".

Jeanne Says: Be a good Cahthoic Stay at home Maaahm, but I don't think you will be able to afford a Lovely home at AveMaria

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A post where the title says it all. Different families live at different levels of wealth and prosperity. Some families with a SAHM could afford to live in a $400k home. Others could not. That's life, and really has nothing to do with SAHM's. In fact, the same holds true for two income households.

I hope you're right, Jeanne, and that you don't struggle as you attempt to adopt. But I'm sure people will buy those homes. Because people who want to make money don't build homes that no one will buy, or can afford to buy in a certain area. It wouldn't make good business sense.

Jeanne Says: Ok, so Ave Maria is going to open. Just wait until they see the cost of the housing nearby.

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"Can you afford a $400,000 house in this new community? And don't believe anything about the traffic. It is not Ann Arbor or hillbilly Michigan. Bring the sunscreen. Live here and you are going to get burned. I have done it before and well, the people in the area are not as nice. I live three hours from this place. It is to the south of us."

Jeanne is very concerned about the cost of living in this new Catholic community. My guess is that she's really hostile to the idea of a Catholic community because she's convinced that it's full of jumper-wearing homeschoolers kneeling at perfect 90 degree angles while silently judging her. But that's just my opinion.

Once again I'm surprised that a woman with a degree in journalism has no more flair for writing than this. Some of it doesn't even make sense. What does the cost of living at Ave Maria have to do with wearing sunscreen? And since this is a new community, how could she know how nice the people will be who choose to live there?

Jeanne asks: If you think you are more Catholic than me, then whyinthehell is your northern parish being closed ...

If you think you are more Catholic than me, then whyinthehell is your northern parish being closed and why is there gay adoptions and marriage?

Jeanne's Original Post

The title of this post states a common theme of this blog. She believes that others think that they are more Catholic than she is. I'm not sure where she gets this idea, but I'm inclined to think it's a sign of insecurity on her part more than an actual problem with people she's met. As for the question posed by the title, it's stunning. There is a separation of church and state in this country. Religion does not dictate to the state what it can and can not do in terms of marriage or adoption. People can. And if those who object for religious reasons are outvoted, then they don't get their way. I wouldn't want it any other way.

Catholic adoption networks have actually been shut down due to their refusal to place adoptive children with gay parents. I have my own feelings about that, but they're not relevant to the blog post being discussed.

"And why are parishes being closed in Good CAAAAAAAAAAAEEEHTHOLICK STATES LIKE MASS ?"

Parishes are being closed for a number of reasons, none of which have to do with how Catholic someone is. I could be the best Catholic ever and I couldn't keep a church open all by myself. I'm not, by the way, just illustrating a point. I can't think of anyone who truly thinks of themselves that way either. That kind of lack of humility would preclude them from being such a great Catholic. She could really lose the weird elongated spelling. It's insulting to her readers (whom she's obviously identified as hostile from her posting style) and hardly makes her seem like a great Catholic either.

"I think the priest scandal says it all. I have yet to see to Legionaire. We look beyond appearance and ABHOR CATHOLIC SHOW OFFS."

Ah, my favorite. The "I'm better than you because I don't act better than you" argument. It's quite common on the blog. She assumes everyone thinks they're a better Catholic than she is while insinuating that she's better than everyone else. Anyone else remember the old plank in the eye scripture?

""SO THAT'S WHHHUHYYYY FAHHHHHHHHHHTHER IS NOT WEARING HIS CASSSSSUHK!"

HOw long have you been like this Mrs. Catholic show off? INSECURE WENCH.

You don't dare bahhhh ther Fahther with your concerns now. Floridian Fahther and that BISHUPPPP THAT YOU ABHOR WILL THROW YOUR ASS OUT."

The hostility in these lines speaks volumes. I don't think it even needs commentary. Again, calling your sister in Christ an "insecure wench" makes you very Catholic. I see.

I wonder as I go to school...........home in a week.

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This is one of those posts that makes me wonder if Jeanne is really like this in real life, or if this is just an internet persona for her. I wonder if perhaps she's a troll.

An internet troll is defined as:

"In the context of the Internet, a troll is a person who makes inflammatory or comments, which by effect or design cause disruptions in discourse, or a post made by such a person. Trolling can be described as a breaching experiment, which, because of the use of an alternate persona, allows for normal social boundaries and rules of etiquette to be tested or otherwise broken, without serious consequences." Source

I wonder if perhaps she isn't even a Catholic, but writes these posts to get Catholics worked up. If that is her goal I think she's fairly successful. Perhaps not always in getting them worked up, but in at least being offensive while trying.

Nuns and postulants go to church and she's laughing at them? And honestly thinks that God is laughing with her? What kind of God does she believe in that He has so little regard for people who have given their lives in service to Him? Her God sounds like a Jr. Highschooler mocking people for dressing differently.

As for her comment:

"THAT'S RIGHT SISTER J*o*y AND IT DOESN'T MEAN THE DEGERGENT THAT YOU CLEAN YOUR FREAKIN HOUSE WITH OR SCRUB THAT FLOOR UNTIL IT IS NICE AND CLEAN. "

I can't help but think that she's projecting a bit. I have never found a more painfully bitter blog in all of my life. I think perhaps it is the blogger herself who really needs some joy. And I hope she finds it, I really do. Joy in herself and in her world and her accomplishments. Not joy that comes from berating or disparaging others.

What kind of a Catholic makes fun of those who've taken Holy Orders? I just don't get that. And as they are Holy Orders, I doubt God gets it either. I don't know who she thinks she hears laughing, but I don't believe that it was God.

This is Murdoch the owner of the FOX NEWS CHANNEL, THE ALLEGED CATHOLIC SUPPORTING CHANNEL GOING TO COMMIE CHINA

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I don't actually have a problem with Jeanne's frustration with the Republican party taking money from pornographers. It has a slightly hypocritical feel when they're setting themselves up as the "family values" party. Even if I wholly disagreed with her I'd support her right to say it.

Personally, I think Jeanne is shortsighted is in her not seeing many of the same issues in the Democratic party, but that's just me.

But the errors in her post certainly do exist. For example, Fox is also not a Catholic supporting network. There is no such network with the exception of EWTN, which technically isn't a Catholic supporting network but a distinctly Catholic network teaching the faith and sharing news from the Church.

I also think it's dishonest for Jeanne to say:

"I rest my case. I no longer support the Republican party because of him and what he is doing."

She wasn't a Republican long before reading this little news story.

Oh the things these self righteous people would say....

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Somehow I have little doubt that she has absolutely no idea what the (in her mind) self-righteous people would say.

Well Well wellllllllllllll, this Floridian goeth home in one week:

Well Well wellllllllllllll, this Floridian goeth home in one week: some thoughts and a mention I am on a famous blog

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"I am on a famous blog. Dr. Marcellino Amb... I guess I don't have to kneel in a perrrrrrrrfect 90 degree angle to be a good insecure Catholic. "

I can't imagine a church service where someone goes around making sure that people are kneeling at perfect 90 degree angles. And I think some of the most inspiring blogs on the net are written by people who struggle with their faith. I've never seen anyone question the blogger's faith. Only how she words her post. Someone is concerned about her being on that blog, however. If you read here there is a comment at the bottom. Just one. And it's someone wondering if the blogger meant to put her blog in his sidebar.

"I am very under pressure and I MISS THE BEACH. REASON: mY OBSERVATIONS AROUND HERE ARE THE REASON WHY. I am shaking my head at thOSE minor abnormal behavior I have observed around here. I am not naming names, but some of this is VERY ABNORMAL. Lace scarves worn by women in church who want to show off. Someone who wears a thick coat/sweater in the 90 degree heat and a scarf on the head that looks awful. I feel sorry for this person because IT IS ABNORMAL TO DO THIS.

THIS PERSON NEEDS PSYCHOLOGICAL HELP. I am nice to this person. Sad but true. "

How does Jeanne know that they're dressing the way they do to show off? Modesty is a very real issue for many women who take it seriously and are trying to find the best way to be modest and honor God. I find it very narrow to think that only people who do it your way are doing it right. The last sentence is another one that is very judgmental. It makes me sad for Jeanne because that kind of bitterness eats away at a person.

"And something else I don't get: why some or most stay about a minute after Mass ends.

Are we not supposed to take Jesus into THE WORLD TO BE SOME EARTHLY GOOD TO THE REST OF THE PLANET?"

I'm glad that she at least phrases the first part of this as a question. I would assume that a few people stay after the Mass ends to pray. But she ruins it after that by insinuating that those who do aren't following God's command. And considering the rest of the post it seems that she may be saying that they too, are just showing off how Holy they are. I'm sad for her that she sees no more than this.

"Why is the rest of the world or the city not converted? Why is (MIDWESTERN WHITE PERSON'S ACCENT) ABB ARRRRRTION STILL LEEEEE GALLL?"

How insulting. Jeanne has a hate on for all persons Northern or Midwestern and frequently makes fun of them in this way. How very Christian of her! I'd like to know what she expects them to do to get abortion made illegal. She's made it clear that she doesn't think the Republican party (to which she assumes all self-righteous Catholics belong) is doing a thing for abortion. But she openly backs a party that supports it's legalization. This is an attempt to bring other Catholics down a peg and put them in her place. As if that's her job.

"Grab an oar, you duh head you are paddling for your life."

I think this sums her attitude up beautifully.

On the night before the Charismatic Conference...

On the night before the Charismatic Conference at the Franciscan University... I am now in critical thinking mode ready to ask Big Q's

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"2. And what did the Republican party REALLY DO FOR PRO LIFE = NOTHING. "

There are many answers to this question that can be easily argued by some conservative blogs and websites such as this one. But if you choose to join a political party that openly says they will do nothing, I don't know how you can criticize the other party for not accomplishing more. Especially when they have to fight your party to do so. There are many dedicated Christians in both political parties. My argument is only with her anger at the Republican party for, in her opinion, not doing anything about abortion.

""I am sorry I don't have time to discuss your political disorder, I have four critical graduate level papers to do and articles to read.""

So, she asks these questions, but refuses to discuss them? Because she has things more important to do than discuss an opposing political view (besides, as she pointed out, it's not a political disagreement, it's that those who think differently than she does have a "disorder"). She has big important graduate type things to do. This elitist snob attitude gets old quickly, and seems to be the only thing the blogger has going for her.

"And BTW, 8100 readers can't be wrong. I just might tell them I have a blog to see how duh they are.

And BTW, I turned off my comments. The duh head homeschoolers are the only ones who read it and answer.

I need to ask them "where is your true curriculum?" = control freaks."

So many hits to her blog, and yet, so many comments that disagree with her views that she shut them down. Meanwhile the invitation to comment still stands in her header. Still, it's not a classic FMIFA blog post without the obligatory attack on homeschoolers and the third grade insults. I'm pretty sure I haven't been called a "duh head" since I was at least eight years old.

Jeanne Warns: Watch What You Pray For

Watch what you pray for you may actually see it answered in your lifetime...

Jeanne's Original Post

"Regarding a comment I rejected about homeschooling. Hear this: if you homeschool we should have a levy to increase your millage and tax you on your land even more. This is because since you are willing to allow tax money to be wasted. This is because you are willing to pay double for your child's education and then claim that you cannot afford it for some silly reason.

Duh............. isn't that what we have schools for? I guess you all are willing to pay taxes for nothing.

DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Ah, another obligatory attack on homeschoolers (insert weary sigh here). I think Jeanne is confused. One of the things we hear over and over is how our schools are underfunded. Homeschoolers who are homeowners pay property taxes that help fund public schools and pay for their own child's education and she thinks that's wrong?

If a parent put their child in a private Catholic school (something the FMIFA blogger seems to not take issue with) they would still fund public schools through property taxes. Why are they not being attacked for wasting money?

And many parents who homeschool can't afford a private school, even if that's what they wanted to do. The private Catholic High School down the street from my house is $10,000 a year. And I have more than one child. My family could not affort that. But more people can afford several hundred dollars for a good Catholic curriculum.

Homeschooling isn't just done because parents don't want to put their kids in public schools, or because they have something against the school system, or because they can't afford a private tuition. Many parents homeschool because they enjoy being with their children, teaching them, and sharing that with them.

The logic in this post is severely flawed. She thinks people are paying double for their children's education. Several thousand dollars are spent per pupil in our local public schools. Considering we have more than one child, what we pay in property taxes wouldn't cover even one of them for the school year.

No one is paying double, Jeanne. And you should thank homeschooling parents who are providing more money to educate the students who are in the public schools and can benefit from it.

"Duh"? Well, I guess this is where we see the journalism degree really paying off.

Jeanne is: Home in Florida

Home in Florida with Tropical Storm Barry and the tale of the Homeschool Show off nerd that won the Spelling Bee.

Jeanne's Original Post

"If the two people who commented think they are so so great, then why are they not here? If they think they are so wonderful, then why are they not helping the places here that have flooded?"

Once again, Jeanne finds something obscure to make herself feel better. Well, Jeanne, once again I'd bet good money that your commenters never claimed to be better than you, but that it's something that you inferred. Not everyone who disagrees with you thinks they're a better person. They may be a better person, but not solely by virtue of having a different opinion.

I was going to try to explain in simple terms so that Jeanne could understand, but then I realized the problem. It's that darned projection thing again. I believe that she may actually think herself vastly superior to anyone who deigns to have an opinion different than hers and naturally assumes that anyone who cares enough to comment a dissenting opinion on her blog must also have an over-inflated sense of self-importance.

They don't, Jeanne. Really. Get over it.

"Nah, they are gutless hypocrite holier than thous who will not pay your bills and are more than likely on welfare while they are homeschooling. "

Jeanne loves to do this. She continues her relentless attacks on homeschoolers without ever substantiating a single accusation. And if you ask her, she just calls you stupid. Can you hear my eyes rolling? I especially find it interesting when just a few posts later she's saying that we should have to pay extra taxes since we're so willing that our money should be wasted.

Well, which is it, Jeanne? Are we all big spenders wasting our cash on paying for a double education, or are we all mooching off the system? You can't have it both ways.

And quit it with the comments about who pays whose bills. No, I'm not going to pay your bills. But likewise, you're not going to pay mine. So how I raise my children is...let me see...that's right...none of your business. Thanks for playing!

"I am going to Mass after I say this because many people really are not working up to their capacity. I don't care what they think. Got that?"

I thought you didn't care what I thought.

"I take issue with that kid's social skills. He juggled instead of carrying on a real conversation. I want my adopted kids to have real social skills and be able to interact with other kids. Many of those homeschooled kids do not know what is proper and what is not proper. They wear business suits to meetings where you do not usually wear them."

He won a Spelling Bee. What do you know about his social skills? No more than you know about any of their social skills. And since when is school the only place you can get those? Or when did it become guaranteed that one would actually get good social skills in school? I know plenty of people who didn't. Just another assumption on Jeanne's part with nothing to back it up. It's sad, really. It sounds like she's just looking for some reason to take the wind out of the homeschooling sails. I think if a public schooled kid had won she'd be touting it as proof of the value of a public over home education. Jeanne doesn't actually interact with homeschooled kids, if I remember correctly, and wouldn't have the slightest clue what they know.

"And to all y'all who comment: you are insecure and a Catholic show off control freak.

Get to the real issues in this church. Their are people who have trouble making and earning a decent wage so they can put their children where they want.

It costs serious money to live where we do.

Again, you don't pay the bills of the people who live here.

You never intend to and you never will.

Shut up."

Okay. I see...insult...irrelevant point...irrelevant point...non-point...irrelevant point...and Jeanne unable to handle a difference of opinion. Okay, got it. Apparently the proper way to have a blog is to ask for comments that you don't publish, insult your readers, and talk about how open minded you are as long as everyone agrees with you. No Catholic women that I've read are making homeschooling out to be a church issue. Why? Because the church supports it. It's in the Catechism that parents have the primary responsibility for educating their children.

"2221 The fecundity of conjugal love cannot be reduced solely to the procreation of children, but must extend to their moral education and their spiritual formation. "The role of parents in education is of such importance that it is almost impossible to provide an adequate substitute."²⁹ The right and the duty of parents to educate their children are primordial and inalienable.^{30" Catechism of the Catholic Church}

But I guess that doesn't matter to Jeanne. I'm sure quoting the catechism, not to force others to homeschool, but just to ask that my decision to do so be respected, is just my being a big fat show off.

Thanks, Jeanne. Once again, very enlightening.