Kendall's latest post - Loadies?

[contrary]

Kendal is SO grateful to Faux News for always coming to the rescue when she needs to make a valid and well-researched point!

today? the hidden agenda behind government-run schools, as well as colleges and universities.

thefatherknowsbest.com/2012/04/what-are-they-learning.html

[Lady Elaine]

I can't seem to figure this one out. At first I didn't know what the term "loadies" meant, but when I looked it up I just couldn't understand how this word could ever describe a christan homeschooler :shock: ...

It's time for homeschoolers to tell the truth about "socialization." It is a problem! The phone never stops ringing, the teenager's email has crashed the computer, and the front yard is patches of dandelions and dirt because there are always kids out there socializing! It's not uncommon for a home school parent to put thousands of miles on her van hauling kids to sporting events, study groups, parties and overnights. In home school, a child's circle of friends will divide, multiply, expand and grow such that the overflow of socialization can be a worry.

The experience of a homeschooled child doing lessons is not at all like the solitude of an otherwise- schooled child completing homework alone at night. In homeschool, there are co-ops for everything from science, math and environmental studies to physical education and art. There are baseball get togethers, chess clubs, field trips, study groups and reading clubs. Homeschoolers participate in dance, music, gymnastics, scouts and 4-H with school kids, as well as plays, horseback riding, reading groups, library programs, college classes, debates and more with otherwise-schooled kids and always-schooled others. Since most of these activities involve other people, parents are hard pressed to control the socializing that naturally occurs.

In a home school there is "talking with your neighbor." There is time to engage in independent exploration, investigation and invention. There are kitchen explosions, creatures to feed and lab materials to clean. Multi-age peer groups share knowledge that results in unplanned learning. Information gleaned from social interactions can force a home school teacher to scramble for challenging new books. This leads to the library where there are - more people!

Babies freely demonstrate biological facts of life and stimulate off-the-subject discussions; elderly neighbors disrupt class with true stories about the Depression; and 6 year olds need help harvesting sunflowers from the backyard garden in homeschool. There are distractions like fixing a backed up toilet and building a barn for next year's science project: activities that usually require interaction with plumbers, carpenters and volunteer friends and neighbors.

Homeschool "jocks" play sports year round; "prissy" girls giggle into the night; "loadies" conduct regular census of the refrigerator's contents; and "intellectuals" disappear into books even when the schoolwork is done. Peer pressure in home school assures that kids read, complete reports and field work, memorize lines for the homeschool play and perfect that violin crescendo. Together, students will read ahead in history and finish that math book early, finishing this year's school term with next year's curriculum. Imagine!

The truth is that the abundance of socialization does present a challenge to homeschool families. However, since most parents think it's good for their children to have friends of all ages, shapes, interests and customs, socialization is a problem homeschoolers learn to cope with cheerfully. Lucinda H. Kennaley and the National Home Education Network.

Is this woman just sheltered and doesn't know what she's saying or am I missing something?

[emmiedahl]

I think "loadies" is what we called "stoners" at my high school.

[Lady Elaine]

That's the only meaning I found too. Well - also alchoholic.

[NjoyingNsanity]

I think she means when your kids have friends who come over and help themselves to the contents of your fridge. Kind of a shortened version of freeloaders.

[Lady Elaine]

Ha! Okay. Well this writer obviously didn't know the meaning of the word.

[Witsec7]

I think she means when your kids have friends who come over and help themselves to the contents of your fridge. Kind of a shortened version of freeloaders.

But she does aim to paint them in the worst light possible, rather than just the ravenous eating machines they really are.

[darareaksmey]

In the US Air Force, the term "loadie" is short for "loadmaster," which is basically the guy who makes sure the C-17 isn't carrying more than it is de3signed for and that the cargo is appropriately secured. At least, that is my very limited understanding.

[emmiedahl]

But she does aim to paint them in the worst light possible, rather than just the ravenous eating machines they really are.

Everyone knows that when teenaged boys come over, you need to make a special trip to the store. It's not their fault their metabolisms burn 3000 calories in an hour of rest.

Just wait until her boys are all young men. She will be buying food and throwing a case of condoms in the cart just in case anyone can use them. btdt.

[mnb357]

Ha! Okay. Well this writer obviously didn't know the meaning of the word.

Is your avatar a Mr. Rogers puppet? And I thought loadies were drunk fraternity boys.

[Kitty]

I've never heard the term "loadies" before but without looking it up and looking at previous replies, I thought it meant something along the lines of "freeloader." I'm assuming that's what she meant.

[AmyP]

Ha! Okay. Well this writer obviously didn't know the meaning of the word.

you think Christian homeschooled kids never smoke pot? think again.

[erunerune]

Maybe she meant "loadies" as kids who get stoned AND THEN get the munchies and raid the fridge? And it bothers her more that they raid the fridge than that they smoke dope? See, we can pretty much make up anything since she makes no sense to begin with....

[deelaem]

To show where my mind is at, I thought it was baby-talk for what a kid does in his diaper. :oops:

[slickcat79]

What is the point in kendal going on and on about these beautiful generalities of homeschooling? We know the sotdrt is not like that. I mean, I know her kids are young, but has she ever done any of that with them, or plan to? Her daughters are going to be homemakers and nothing else (in her own words) so why would they be involved in team sports or a science fair? Give it a few more years and a couple more babies and she won't be able to pretend she has the time to take the kids to even one activity a week.

Have they made any progress with their supposed adoption? I'm afraid to look...

[divadivine]

Clearly, Kendall has never watched Clueless. Because according to Cher (as she was showing Tai around the school) "The loadies generally hang on the grassy knoll over there." The loadies were the druggies.

[twin2]

Maybe she meant "loadies" as kids who get stoned AND THEN get the munchies and raid the fridge? And it bothers her more that they raid the fridge than that they smoke dope? See, we can pretty much make up anything since she makes no sense to begin with....

To be fair, this is not one of Kendal's few original thought processes. It is just another one of her many copy and paste jobs. Of all the fundie home-schooling mamas she scares me the most. I honestly don't think she gives two shits about her children's education. Some of her more resent posts have been about how little time and money or worry she spends on it.

[NoQuiverNoCry]

In the US Air Force, the term "loadie" is short for "loadmaster," which is basically the guy who makes sure the C-17 isn't carrying more than it is de3signed for and that the cargo is appropriately secured. At least, that is my very limited understanding.

Quite right, throughout the DoD: the loadies are well-respected transportability specialists.

[AmyP]

Clearly, Kendall has never watched Clueless. Because according to Cher (as she was showing Tai around the school) "The loadies generally hang on the grassy knoll over there." The loadies were the druggies.

I still submit that the statement means exactly what it says. Kendall may or may not know what it means, but I'm sure the original author does. It's not a term you would commonly use to mean something else.