Send Your Kid to Private School? You Suck

Newser ^ | 08/29/2013 | By Kevin Spak

[metmom]

There ARE such responsibilities, but homeschoolers are not accountable to government for them.

And they shouldn't be.

At least in this state home schoolers are supervised by a government certified and credentialed teacher and if they are not at grade level they are forced to go to the public schools.

Who's the government accountable to? That's right. NO ONE!!!

And just where do kids in public schools go when the public schools fail them and they are not operating at grade level?

Answer: They're homeschooled and actually learn and succeed.

[metmom]

Then congratulations: "You are a bad person," Allison Benedikt argues in Slate. "Not bad like murder bad—but bad like ruining-one-of-our-nation’s-most-essential-institutions-in-order-to-get-what’s-best-for-your-kid bad. So pretty bad."

Inherent in her argument is the fact that the best for our children is NOT the public education system.

Idiot.....

[metmom]

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[arthurus]

Breathtaking arguments.

[publana]

I got around another state’s supervision of my homeschooling by driving my kids to TX, enrolling them in school, withdrawing them the next day as being “homeschooled,” then driving back to the offending state. Similar to Democrats sitting in “Free Parking,” we placed their monopoly pieces in “Just Visiting.” My kids “visited” for seven years upon which they graduated. If the state forced the issue, we were prepared to move back to TX (Or have my parents do so if both my husband and I were sitting in jail.) We refused to allow the state to be in contol of the education of our children.

[metmom]

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

[Clintonfatigued]

I get what this lady is saying- if the parents who put their children in private schools put them in public, they would get involved and improve them. But there is little evidence to back this theory up. Even if every one of these parents got involved in their schools, there is no proof their involvement or input would change anything. She seems to be saying that to improve schools in the future, we must sacrafice the current generation of children. But the future generation of business leaaders would be less intelligent as a result, so how could that be achieved?