California: Home invasion - The public-school empire strikes back!

The Orange County Register ^ | Monday, September 2, 2002 | Ronald J. Pestritto adjunct fellow of the Claremont Institute

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ronald J. Pestritto Mr. Pestritto, a home-schooling parent, is an adjunct fellow of the Claremont Institute and an associate professor of politics at the University of Dallas.

The state of California is attacking the enemy of civilization: home schooling. This assault on home schooling - and the general hostility to private education - provides a lesson about the greed and ideology that drives the public school establishment and the unions that control it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[I_Love_My_Husband]

Simon must win! PS...click on my name! I've html'd Simon's stuff to it!!!

[goodieD]

excellent article!

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Beyond the workplace(school)unions are illegal.No right whatsoever to sue or change anything.

[f.Christian]

Education(evo's) nazis are just as bad/militant as abortion nazis!

[Kozak]

Report your public school immediately for indoctrination!

[Kozak]

Er that should read:

Report TO your public school....
oops

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[But just as much as money, it is ideology that drives the public school establishment and its masters in the teachers' unions. The liberal ideology that pervades public school education is relativistic and secular. By contrast, the values of the typical home-schooler are those of the traditional family, and home-schoolers consequently produce young men and women who stand as a well-educated resistance to the dominant liberal ideology of those controlling the public school establishment. Home-schoolers represent one of the last bastions of independent thinking from this state-driven ideology, and so they can expect the assaults on them to continue and intensify.]

How true!

[stevem]

I used to think living in Minnesota was a thankless task. We are a bastion of freedom compared to California. I guess this is what you have to expect if you want to live there. Go east young man.

[Lobster 6]

Welcome to the People's Republic of California - Want more? Vote for Davis.

[Gritty]

This was intelligently written article, so it is no surprise it wasn't taken from the San Francisco Chronicle or the LA Slimes.

[secretagent]

End compulsory education and tazpayer funding of same. Complete separation of school and state.

[Political Junkie Too]

Based on the bio of the author, he is clearly not qualified to teach his own children here in California.

-PJ

[angry beaver norbert]

I used to think home schooled kids would miss too much , in way of interacting in groups, etc. Well, it turns out the public schools don't teach that any better, and have become, yes, indoctrination centers. I saw an article in a paper couple wekks ago, moaning about how little the kids new about G. Washington, other founding fathers. Well, DUH, the libs have been intentionally NOT educating about these guys for a long,long time. If I had it to do over, I would darn well home school mine.It's the best hope for our future!

[ladylib]

Poor history education, no study of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution -- this is done on purpose. There will be a day in the near future when people will have no knowledge about American history or those two documents because it will no longer be necessary to have that knowledge.