As I understand it, that's just a rumor that spread and continued to grow...
https://www.ark.org/washingtoncounty/index.php?ac:show:step3b_itemdetail=1&billno=815-29111-030
https://www.ark.org/washingtoncounty/index.php?ac:show:step3b_itemdetail=1&billno=2901455
https://www.ark.org/washingtoncounty/index.php?ac:show:step3b_itemdetail=1&billno=830-38318-000
http://www.duggarfamily.com/contactus.html
The address matches up with the address on their website.
If you go to the Arkansas tax website and enter their name it shows $0 for 2006. But if you click on each property (they seem to have the property divided up into multiple sections) it comes up as paid.
I admit that I don't understand all of this tax argument very much, but I never saw any PROOF that they didn't pay taxes. Did what you just posted show that they DO pay taxes?
On the taxpayers dime due to the way they file taxes while there are truly needy kids who will be denied as a result.
But it's also highly doubtful. The girls in particular are not being exposed to those job options in the religious based curriculum they are being home schooled from. Additionally they aren't getting enough math and science background to pursue most of those options. Engineering school without high school calculus?
Nursing school or even a pre-med program without HS biology, chemistry, and physics (with labs)? Not going to happen.
I'm not saying that all home-schooled children will be denied those opportunities, but that the HS curriculum they are using will not be acceptable for them to get into a lot of programs. And even if they do wiggle in, between the culture shock of leaving the compound and the shift from counting scoops of laundry detergent and steps from the garage to the end of the driveway with the garbage can as their educational curriculum to the real world of college, I think they'll fail miserably.
Anne
On the taxpayers dime how? How about scholarships and loans like everyone else or GASP the parents pay for it! They have been shrewd money managers. I think it is most likely they will go to a Conservative Christian College and will get Financial Aid.
And how can you make ANY judgements about what they are and are not learning in their homeschool curriculum when you obviously know NOTHING about homschooling and the wealth of resources available. Just a look at the curriculums on the Duggar website shows that they are using some of the best out there. They curriculums teach Math, Science, English, Literature, Writing, Foreign Languages, History and other electives at levels higher than most public schools--including Calculus, biology, chemistry and physics WITH labs. All the resources for the labs can be purchased and done at home. And many homeschooling communities create co-ops and teach these subjects at a local university using their lab facility. Again, just because they didn't show it on TV, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Maybe Michelle isn't qualified to teach Quantum Physics, but the curriculum they choose are, and they provide Satellite or DVD resources that teach them, as well as online QandA with teachers. Even in the TV show Michelle was shown teaching the children, boys and girls, about law and torts. Certainly that was exposing them careers beyond nursing and construction.
These curriculums provide accredited High School Degrees that are equivalent to a PS degree and rigorous testing. In the state of Arkansas standardized testing is required to Homeschool. There is oversite by the state to ensure that the children, all of them, are learning more than "how to fold laundry and cook"
I don't think anyone feels that kids shouldn't have chores, or even help care for younger siblings. But the amount of responsibility thrust on these kids is repressive and inappropriate.
Those children are not getting a full education, I don't care what anyone says. They aren't learning science with labs, they aren't learning advanced mathemetics. I highly doubt Michelle is capable of teaching creative writing, and I'm sure they aren't reading the majority of the English or American literary classics due to "objectionable" content. They are getting the equivelent of a GED at best. They will never be able to get a decent score on the SAT's becaues they simply don't have the educational background to do so. That will greatly affect their career choice potential, as they will not be elegible for 95% of the colleges in this country without taking additional remedial college classes first. In a nutshell, their parents are setting them up to fail outside of their narrow little world. There's more to living then worshipping God and popping out babies. Jim Duggar knows that, and he's doing a tremendous disservice to his kids by not allowing them to fully see it as well.
Anne
Again, you have NO IDEA what homeschooling is about. Not only do most colleges now accept homeschoolers, many actively seek them out. Why? Because they realize that accademically they test higher, and do better in college than traditionally schooled kids. They are much better at working independently, they tend to be more inquisitive and are more research minded. They know how to write a decent paper and spell correctly and use proper grammar. They have HIGHER test scores on average on standardized tests--like the SATs--than their PS counterparts and they need very little remedial classes.
Quite often homeschool students go to Community College classes in what would be their "high school" years and enter a 4 year college with their basic classes already taken.
You know NOTHING about homeschooling so pick a subject you are at least an expert on to pick on them about. Maybe stick to the fact that their kids will never have purple hair and live on a golf course and listen to rock music so that will mess them up forever. Cause believe me, the fact that the homeschool and how it provides an incomplete education isn't it.
The older children are being forced to be parents!! Doing chores and babysitting sometimes is one thing. But this goes way beyond that! I'm glad that these children are well behaved and all that, but that is like saying that this is the only way to have "good" children!!
