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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
Posted on 09/02/2002 1:24:31 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Edited on 04/14/2004 10:05:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: calgov2002; california; homeschooling; stateschools
To: *calgov2002; Grampa Dave; Carry_Okie; SierraWasp; Gophack; eureka!; ElkGroveDan; ...
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Simon must win! PS...click on my name! I've html'd Simon's stuff to it!!!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
excellent article!
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posted on
09/02/2002 1:36:08 PM PDT
by
goodieD
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Beyond the workplace(school)unions are illegal.No right whatsoever to sue or change anything.
To: INSENSITIVE GUY
Education(evo's) nazis are just as bad/militant as abortion nazis!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Report your public school immediately for indoctrination!
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posted on
09/02/2002 2:15:27 PM PDT
by
Kozak
To: Kozak
Er that should read:
Report TO your public school....
oops
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posted on
09/02/2002 2:16:50 PM PDT
by
Kozak
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
[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!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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.
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posted on
09/02/2002 2:49:47 PM PDT
by
stevem
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Welcome to the People's Republic of California - Want more? Vote for Davis.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This was intelligently written article, so it is no surprise it wasn't taken from the San Francisco Chronicle or the LA Slimes.
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posted on
09/02/2002 4:08:05 PM PDT
by
Gritty
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
End compulsory education and tazpayer funding of same. Complete separation of school and state.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Based on the bio of the author, he is clearly not qualified to teach his own children here in California.
-PJ
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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!
To: angry beaver norbert
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.
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posted on
09/03/2002 7:00:47 AM PDT
by
ladylib
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