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)
Ok, so on the one hand, they say that homeschool is not good because the kids don't get 'socialized'. Yet, on the other hand, they don't want homeschool kids 'socializing' with their indoctrinated drones.
Of course, now a days, homeschooled kids can join the Scouts without going close to a school.
Sure is but the resolutions are only part of the story. Myron Lieberman and Charlene K. Haar were NEA members. They went undercover to the 2000 NEA convention and report on the sordid backroom details HERE
I-18. Housing and Health Care for All The National Education Association believes that all members of our society have the right to adequate housing and health care.
The Association supports programs to provide adequate housing and health care for the homeless and others in need of assistance. (1989, 1997)
I suggest a slight revision:
I-18 Housing and health care for all
The National Education Association believes that all members of our society have the right to adequate housing and health care. The association therefore resolves that every member of the NEA be required to have a homeless person live in their home for the entire summer. The NEA member shall be required to pay all health costs for the homeless person.
(That should make 'em a little less leftist when they go back to teaching in the fall.)
Over my dead body!
What they really mean: The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs will not provide the student with a comprehensive atheist and pro-gay liberal-humanist indoctrination experience.
Funny how that is, that the National Education Association is more interested in politics than it is in any aspect of education, really. There is fertile ground here for massive corruption investigations, if we can ever find a leader with something resembling cahones.
The National Education Association believes that voucher plans, tuition tax credits, or other funding arrangements that use tax monies to subsidize pre-K through 12 private school education can undermine public education, reduce the support needed to fund public education adequately, weaken the wall of separation between church and state, and cause racial, economic, and social segregation of students.
The Association opposes voucher plans, tuition tax credits, or other such funding arrangements that pay for students to attend sectarian schools. The Association also opposes any such arrangements that pay for students to attend nonsectarian pre-K through 12 private schools in order to obtain educational services that are available to them in public schools to which they have reasonable access. (1970, 2000)
In other words, the puplic school system is the only system, and should be considered the savior of all mankind.Barf!
BUMP
Except this year at the Scripps-Howard.
1st and 2nd place went to public school students.
I don't know about that suit either, but I do know that HSDLA (Home School Defense Legal Assoc.) suggested some inclusions the the US Regs. which were adopted which makes it illegal for a college to require testing of homeschoolers which is different from any other school. In other words, they can't require homeschoolers to take a GED or SAT II tests if these are not required of any other applicant.
One problem that homeschoolers are having, which I'm not sure if HSDLA has addressed is the one of the Federal College loan program. As of now, I believe that in order to be able to apply for Fed. student loans the student must have a diploma from an ACCREDITED high school. What is interesting is that a lot of the Christian and other private high schools are NOT accredited, so I don't know if they are just not enforcing it for those who attended ANY kind of school, and just pushing it for homeschoolers, or what. Maybe that's where the GED comes in, the Feds. might require that in lieu of a diploma in order to qualify for their loans.
Go figure. You'd think academics would have been a topic, aye?
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