Liberals are evil.
Posted on 01/02/2003 11:03:09 AM PST by hsmomx3
H ome schoolers have long held the belief that if they received exemptions from the education laws being put in place at the state and federal level, they could safely teach their children at home without government interference. A good example of this is the exemption home schoolers achieved to HR 6 in 1994 and ESSHB 1209 bringing education reform to Washington State in 1993.
What home schoolers did not know, however, is that education reform was instituted to bring education into coalescence with systems governance, and under systems governance, all really does mean all ? no one can be exempted from inclusion in the system. That includes home schoolers.
Home schoolers believed the exemptions would protect them. A good example is the home schoolers in California. For years they have existed under the private schooling laws. Now, California is cracking down on home schoolers in order to bring them into the system. In other states that have home school laws, the matter of bringing home schoolers under the umbrella of systems education and government control will be as easy as requiring a certificate of mastery in order for the child to get a job, a drivers license, or go on to higher education. We are already seeing signs of that happening in Washington State. No doubt it is, or will, happen in other states with home school laws as well.
Home schoolers have not been exempted from the system, they have only been exempted from the laws putting the system in place.
Liberals are evil.
Hopefully there would be a 5 Justice majority to defend the rights of home schoolers--if it came to that--today, but that is far from certain.
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No. What I'm telling you is that any parent can exceed the results obtained by your educated and certified teacher.
So true. As Christopher Klicka said when testifying here in PA on our proposed change to the homeschooling law, "It isn't an issue of accountability, it's an issue of freedom."
Shalom.
One of the first books that opened my eyes to the nakedness of statism was Ken Hern's The Owner-Builder and the Code. A government that takes it upon itself to interfere with our right to shelter ourselves is too big.
Cool! We have something in common after all! I guess that means you're not a public school teacher? (that was my theory)
. . . unless you live in the school . . .
Since when does "certification" equate to competence? The more "regulated" a commodity or service is, the more costly it is, and the less competetition exists to keep standards high.
Besides -- teachers come from the bottom half of the barrel, as measured by standardized tests. "Educators" come from the bottom half of that already reduced contingent.
Idiot. The one thing the government DOESN'T want is for home-educated kids to exceed their wretched standards. It makes them look bad and builds an educated opposition. According to their own tests, both my kids could pass their high school equivalency exams. One is ten; the other is eight.
All they want us for is to rais their average test scores so that they can qualify for Federal Funds and they don't care what happens to my kids in the process. Leave us alone.
What makes you think that state licensure assures quality? Is the state accountable for verifying performance to standards? Or does state regulation absove practitioners of liability?
Don't believe that? Let me give you an example: Because airplanes met federal specifications there was no need for hardened cockpit doors and armed pilots on civilian passenger aircraft. Thus insurers were off the hook for the liability of a failure of that system. If it had been up to insurers to pay for the consequences, there is no way hardened doors would not have been there because the price of the insurance would have made cheesy doors not worth an extra first class seat. Had civil risk management systems been in place, 911 would have never happened.
No, regulation does more to absolve accountability and minimize quality than anything else. That's why Underwriters Laboratories works better than the DOT.
I assume you have a reliable documented source for your revisionist history? The public education backers have been consistently anti-CHRISTIAN-school which, of course, includes Catholics.
Absolutely! And they should get their own academic house in order before they start to mess with the finest academic system in America!
Raising and teaching my kids is not the function of our goverment. Do you think the goverment has ownership of the children? That is one of the basic principles on communism.
We by far out perform goverment standards we have every year that we have been tested. This is not about superior teaching we already do that. This is about who actually owns the children and what they are taught, nothing more nothing less.
BTW my children under goverment schools would have been in remedial classes. Under my teaching my senior in high school will graduate this year from highschool and will also graduate from a local community college with an associates degree in Biology, he will enter university as a junior. My junior in highschool could have been accepted at Juliard from the time he was 15 years old. These boys would have been lost in goverment schools and would never have had a chance to excell. But, we both know that is not what this is all about it is about who is in control not what is best for the student.
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