Homeschooling and its foes

The Washington Times ^ | 6/23/2002 | House Editorial

[LarryLied]

Foreign students are a good source of income.

Any chance, instead of bringing the students here, we can ship the professors there?

[yoe]

Bill Clinton never intended to honor that bill as it was in direct opposition to the agenda of the NEA, AFT and AAUP all who are opposed to home schooling and give/gave millions to the Clintons.

As to home schooled children being denied entrance to some college or university, all parents should be aware that the Children’s Bill of Rights is the same as the United Nation’s and that is global social engineering, something no parent in their right mind would want. Among the bills before the senate are H.R.1614, HR 340 Check your state here: http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/default.asp to see if your state is one considering this rotten Hillary Rodham Clinton effort to stifle the parental rights to educate their child or children.

Special care must be taken in reading the rules for home schooled children for example `(c) SPECIAL RULE RELATED TO HOME SCHOOLING - In the case of education furnished to a child in a home , the credit under subsection (a) is allowable for a taxable year only if the child takes any applicable student achievement exam that all children enrolled in the nearest public school would ordinarily be required to take during the academic year beginning during the taxable year. HR1742 has some interesting rules but parents attempting home schooling should read it carefully. Getting away from Social Engineering is hard to do and the teacher’s unions don’t want the parent to ever again have to upper hand.

Under President Bush, there is some good news for the home schooled child but beware government handouts, they all have strings attached. Try Thomas http://thomas.loc.gov/ and the words home schooling to read about the various H.S. pluses and minuses.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

... under no obligation...

Would sound better if you said "under no legal obligation under the current government interpretation of the government's responsibilities"

An easy argument is that they have a moral obligation to at least return my school taxes to me. The law does require them to provide for my childrens' education - no where does it say that they must intentionally fund a bad (government) education.

[prophetic]

Wonderful so our children know about sex, but lack the basic skills got get a job. Can you say welfare!

Which would mean a guaranteed DemoRat vote then right? SInce the Dems have convinced almost everyone that 'they are for the poor', while ommiting the ending of it which sez 'we WANT to make AND keep you poor'

[SuziQ]

JC Penney sold that tee shirt in '85? I thought that just happened a couple of years back.

It WAS only a couple of years ago. One of the kids in our homeschooled teen group has one of them. He obviously wears it as an 'in your face' about homeschooling!

[SuziQ]

The government is under no obligation to provide taxpayer funded services to home schoolers but by the same standard the government shouldn't place obstacles in front of parents wishing to educate their children at home.

If it is a federally funded taxpayer service, it should be available for ALL federal taxpayers, or at the least it should not discriminate against some of them.

My understanding of this is that any college may accept a homeschooler, but is not allowed to demand any additional standardized testing beyond which it requires of any graduate of any public or private school. A school may require a portfolio, which all homeschooled teens looking to get into college should have anyway. The college may not require a diploma from an accredited high school, but the Fed. Financial Aid office does. If the applicant doesn't have the diploma, he or she has to take the GED. Frankly I think this is discriminatory. If the portfolio of the student, and acceptable SAT or ACT scores are enough to pass muster with the college, the Financial Aid office should be required to accept it also. Besides the fact that taking the GED is a waste of time for the homeschool graduate, the person holding it is looked upon as a lesser scholar than the graduate with a diploma.

I hope some bright light in the Dept. of Education will write some new regs that deal with the reality of homeschoolers today. The kids coming out of homeschools are for the most part better educated than their public school counterparts, and are scoring much better on SAT tests. Some large colleges are actively recruiting homeschoolers because they, as a rule, tend to be better able to work independently and are good thinkers. This should come under departmental regulations and shouldn't require dealing with Congress and the Dem. toadies for the NEA!

[upchuck]

Regarding the JC Penny t-shirt: Kassie said: "JC Penney sold that tee shirt in '85? I thought that just happened a couple of years back."

Then mlmr said: "I would bet the ranch it was about 95."

Sorry, I think you loose the ranch.

Here's a Time Mag article from Aug, 2001 about this.
And here's a bulletin board message written 8/9/2001 referencing an article on Drudge about this.
And lastly, here's another bulletin board message from Feb, 2002 about this. Interestingly, this bulletin board is from www.ifeminists.com

Looks like August, 2001 to me.