Comments on: Rhymes with bard

By: Moralia - Pope Joy

Moralia - Pope Joy — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:48:33 +0000

[...] She can write a series of encyclicals titled with cutesy names for excrement, work to ban the horror that is homeschooling, and canonize Barack Obama as the first patron saint of the Church. There wouldn’t be any [...]

By: Lisa DeGraw

Lisa DeGraw — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:27:17 +0000

“Bev” said Brigette is one of the few people she’s met that she knows could properly home school their children. That statement was probably meant as a compliment to Brigette. Just for information’s sake, North Carolina has 38,367 home school families registered with the state. There are far more than just a ‘few’ moms out there who can and do properly home school their children. This isn’t the ’80’s anymore when home schooling was new and different.

By: Moralia - What she said

Moralia - What she said — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:52:40 +0000

[...] must be either a CEO in line for a fat bonus, or mentally challenged. I’d say retarded, but last time I used that word I got called an unfit mother. Screw it. Anyone who thinks we need to shovel more [...]

By: Markus

Markus — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:56:49 +0000

While you may be right that she originally wrote the truth, Dianna, to say that ARoseS is “reading through the left lense of [her/his] glasses. Only someone from the left would choose to use the phrasing [she/he] did in [her/his] post” only makes you look ignorant. One cannot judge an entire side of the spectrum as one entity, nor can one say that one on the right may have made similar statements. Think before you post.

By: Bev

Bev — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:43:14 +0000

I’ve known Brigette through an email list for 8 years also, and she is one of the few people I’ve ever met that I know could properly homeschool their children. She did the right thing by explaining the correct meaning and then also emphasizing that some people use the word “retard” in a derogatory manner against people. In the same way that people use “ignorant” and “immoral” out of context. For what it’s worth, I watch and enjoy The View. But I don’t like Joy Behar because she *is* ignorant in every meaning of that word.

As for teachers, just because they work in a school does not mean they are capable of teaching our children.

By: N

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:59:26 +0000

I’ll chime in here. I’ve known Brigette about 8 years from chatting online and she is anything but ignorant. Her children are extremely lucky to have her teach them!

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:22:58 +0000

I know Brigette personally and she is very moral and well educated. I can only pray that when my children reach school age, their teacher will be as educated as she is.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:41:27 +0000

I don’t know Brigette Russell personally, only know her from reading her blog, but no one who reads it regularly could possibly think she’s too ignorant and immoral to educate her children.

By: Dianna

Dianna — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:09:26 +0000

To call Ms Russell immoral and ignorant shows that you are reading through the left lense of your glasses. Only someone from the left would choose to use the phrasing you did in your post. It only goes to show that what Ms
Russell, originally, wrote was the truth and nothing but the truth. I guarantee you her children are much better off being home schooled than being in a public school administered by the left!

By: Brigette Russell

Brigette Russell — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:55:37 +0000

“Perhaps you’d do better to get your face into a dictonary…teachers who know the actual meaning of words and are able to convey that information to children…”

Perhaps instead of writing insulting comments, you ought to read what I actually wrote:

“So I explain what retarded (stress on second syllable) is…”

This means that I explained what the word meant. I just didn’t think that typing out all the dictionary definitions on the blog the way you did would make for interesting reading. The kids and I actually had quite a long discussion of what the word means, in both its verbal and adjectival forms. I’m not exactly clear on why you would think I need to “get [my] face into a dictionary” (an, um, interesting way of phrasing it) after I wrote that I explained the meaning to them.

As to whether I’m retarding their advancement, well, since you’ve never met my children or me, and since you don’t read my blog very carefully, I don’t think you’re in much of a position to judge.

By: ARoseS

ARoseS — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:50:01 +0000

So, you proved Joy correct. How ignorant you are. Worse – a bad parent – some would consider immoral.

“So I explain what retarded (stress on second syllable) is, and how retard (stress on first) is a horribly mean name that schoolkids used to use as an insult meaning “dummy” when I was in school, but which isn’t at all nice, and which they must never call anyone.”

Perhaps you’d do better to get your face into a dictonary and away from opining on a blog. Better yet, get your kids into a real school, with real teachers – teachers who know the actual meaning of words and are able to convey that information to children – rather than have them grow up ill-informed ignorant demented fools.

Here are definitions:

Retard – To impede or delay; cause to proceed slowly. To become delayed. Hinder

Retardate – A mentally retarded person.

Retarded – Relatively slow or backward in mental or emotional development or in academic achievement.

Will your children be considered retarded by other well informed people due to your mis-information? Even though they are not retardate are you retarding their advancement?

I think so.