NEA on the march.
Posted on 06/19/2002 9:51:22 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
B-69. Home Schooling
The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience. When home schooling occurs, students enrolled must meet all state requirements. Home schooling should be limited to the children of the immediate family, with all expenses being borne by the parents/guardians. Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used.
The Association also believes that home-schooled students should not participate in any extracurricular activities in the public schools.
The Association further believes that local public school systems should have the authority to determine grade placement and/or credits earned toward graduation for students entering or re-entering the public school setting from a home school setting. (1988, 2000)
Of course, I said nothing like what you pretend.
I think (believe, and pray!) that this genie is out of the bottle. The first generation of the "movement" home school kids are hitting adulthood, now. Home school parents are fanatically dedicated to their children, and have friends and family who see for themselves what's going on.
I can't believe I misspelled steenking.
Specialization increases productivity which is why you see very few people building their own cars, designing their own homes, doctoring themselves. Yet, some people who barely graduated high school think they are competent to teach such subjects. I will grant you that there are ways to mitigate this difficulty but they inevitably involve turning to one expert in these subjects.
In sum, the best students in the better schools have so much more to choose from that it is a fluke when a H.S. kid can match them (Mom or Dad an engineer, scientist, professor, kid totally brilliant, etc.)
The system is set up to reward those who get with the program. There are carrots as well as sticks.
The system is sheer hell, however, for those who can not or will not fit in, comply, knuckle under.
Of course, I said nothing like what you pretend
And I quote:
I loved school and had a great time there. Most of the fun I had would be unavailable in a home schooling situation and my parents would have been totally unable to school us at home. While there may be a small role for homeschooling for the most part it is not necessary
As a homeschooler, responsible for the education of children ( mine), I feel we should NOT pay school taxes. The money would still be used to educate children.
That's the reason we pay anyway, right? Education of children? That's what we're doing with it.
If a mom stays home to school two children her family has lost that income.
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Your scenario is possible but not likely. Why would the husband already not have maximized his income?
Those studies comparing student populations are gravely flawed by the great differences in the populations studied. If you were to compare homeschooled kids to their social peers (intact families, few extremely poor, not surrounded by social misfits and criminals, the results would not look so favorable as when they are compared to a population weighed down by the children of life's losers. Children surrounded by criminal activity, dropouts, negligent parents etc.)
I am all for truly valid studies being made but those which are biased in favor of one group because of improper modeling techniques are not of much value.
Again, you are wrong. This exact scenario has been studied and the homeschooled students have exhibited equal skills.
It would have replaced by possibly greater fun. The world becomes the classroom. The homeschoolers aren't trapped between four walls all day.
NEA on the march.
The majority of home schooling parents view wisdom as an obligation, as a duty, rather than as a commodity to be dispensed. Education is an ethical issue first and foremost. The learner has the duty to take responsibility for his own education, in order to achieve his goals in life. My daughter taught herself Swedish over the 'net, for example, for reasons of her own. I recently learned Italian just for the fun of it. We have an ongoing sense of the obligation to grow in our knowledge of God every day, since this knowledge is the core of meaningful life. The Saxon Math curricula fits in well with the home-schooling approach to education. Do the work, learn the material, go out and play, work, or read. It takes 2 hours AT MOST to keep pace with your incarcerated brethren academically, and you then have 8 hours more per day to do as your desires and delights determine.
This quote, combined with your screen name, illustrates that you are nothing more than an elitist who would force their beliefs on others at the point of a gun. You are nothing more than a statist/fascist....thanks for confirming our assessment of your character in writing for all of us here...
On other threads on this topic posters have listed results from studies which indicate a degree of superiority of H.S. students but I would not draw conclusions from them until the class differences are eliminated.
A good question would be "What percentage of students scoring over 30 on the ACT or over 1400 on the SAT were H.S.ed compared to the percentage taking the test?" But I haven't seen anything but means and medians compared and which is biased against the public schools which are trying to educate those barely speaking the language, barely surviving day by day, homeless kids etc.
Nor with an agenda-driven curriculum. Freedom to learn is a wonderful thing. That's what government schools USED to have. So many people over 30 think that because they had good government schools, they must still be in existence today.
Nothing indicates the brighter students are targeted by the curriculum of public schools, in fact - more often, the brighter students are "dumbed-down" to fit what they misname an A. & G. class. Case in point - my friend had to take his A. & G. son out of the socialist system because they said he was a trouble maker. He enrolled into a SoM&S, graduated at 14, and is now a junior in college. Q1: How often does this happen in the public corral? Q2: What are the chances of this type of advancement in the socialist system? A2Q1&Q2: SLIM2NONE.
The point is that the assessment of a student's needs is better made by someone familiar with the student rather than a faceless entity such as the NEA...
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