You may be interested to know what public school, 7th grade history class is teaching about St. Thomas Aquinas.
Or not.
Yes, it will matter to homeschooling parents and students since they will have to pass the new assessment tests, and pass the new SAT tests.
The SATs have changed and they will continue to change.
This will affect homeschooled students too. How can you not see that?
I don’t have to “think back to my catechism” as I live it daily.
Maybe we are on opposite sides in this. That whole leave it up to God thing contradicts God helps those who help themselves and I’m the latter.
Maybe you don’t have to care about the SATS but I still have one kid that needs to do well for scholarship money since we are middle class, and white, and we get nothing other than money from academics. So yeah, some of us do care about SAT scores. Not for eternity, but for college scholarship money.
So yeah some of us still care about SAT scores while also caring about eternity.
Plenty of colleges will accept a portfolio of work, rather than SAT scores, because they know that the tests are being dumbed down.
Regardless, if the govt makes them mandatory, skip college. Seriously. Learning and schooling are not synonymous, and are often antithetical.
I’ve been active in school-related issues for a long time. I even ran for school committee. The system is irreformable. The best way out is homeschooling. Rand Paul has the audacious goal of 25% of school age children. It sounds absurd, but the numbers are growing exponentially, with 5% now homeschooling, and doubling every decade.
Schools are a wildly inefficient and outmoded form of delivering formalized education. It’s easier to see when you live outside the system. It’s hard to take it seriously. Remember, the teachers and administrators have a vested interest in perpetuating it.