Posted on 07/18/2020 8:52:05 AM PDT by rintintin
or Laila Barakat’s children, school will be home, like other students in their district. But they won’t participate in distance learning. Their teachers will be mom and dad.
Barakat has decided to homeschool her three school-aged children – one in first grade, one in transitional kindergarten, and one in pre-kindergarten – instead of connecting them to an online classroom.
“We just decided to take the leap,” said Barakat, a stay-at-home mom and freelance writer in Elk Grove. “At first it seemed like a radical thing, and now more and more people are doing it.”
Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article244232657.html#storylink=cpy
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If there is not one, someone should set up a central hub for homeschooling info & resources.
Parents have to rely on google to point them in the right direction.
When they stop demanding property taxes from homeschoolers and turn old school buildings into housing for the poor and the teachers into the service industry, then I will think homeschooling has a chance. Otherwise taxes will go up, teachers will get paid to do nothing but watch a computer screen and billions of dollars of school buildings will decay to ruins. Not much hope for public education in either scenario, just hold on to your wallets because the state will have their hand deep into it either way.
Waiting for some politician with balls to say: “The public schools are closed due to Covid and opposition from political forces and union, but education is absolutely important to human flourishing and society - and if the state can’t or won’t help you, then its up to parents to take care of it themselves. I am proposing legislation a tuition tax-credit for all homeschool families to the state legislature today.”
The RATs have made a huge strategic error. Their State indoctrination camps provided the brain washing they needed to acquire power. By cutting off the mind poison they specialize in as part of their Revolution they have created an opening of resistance to their plot. Homeschooling threatens their hate America divide and conquer campaign.
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There are many resources out there. Most states, if not every one, has a homeschool association. There’s also the national HSLDA. There’s numerous homeschool moms who blog and have helpful information. If you are going to homeschool you have to be self motivated enough to find the information and the system/curricula that works for your family. Much you will figure out through trial and error.
In New York state, there’s a Christian homeschool support group called L.E.A.H - Loving Education at Home. I think there’s also Catholic ones and secular ones.
A google search will get you to your local chapter.
I believe other states have homeschool support groups as well. Maybe someone from another state can chime in with their info. There’s a lot of homeschool experience to call on here on FR.
Here’s a link for Arizona:
https://www.afhe.org/
“Waiting for some politician with balls to say”
You want some poor politician schlub to get Arkancided?
That has been the subject of a lot of controversy in the homeschool community.
Most homeschoolers do not favor it because some argue that by getting a tax credit, it's the same as receiving money from the government. And when you receive money from the government, it ALWAYS comes with strings attached.
The concern is that some of those strings would be in home visits by a government rep to monitor the homeschooling, and the government getting to dictate curriculum choices.
Homeschoolers have been, by an large, a very independent and loose knit community of people who are yet very supportive of each other.
So they would rather go it alone, without government interference, and pay the blasted taxes, than to give the government ANY open door to cause problems.
If that concept could be done in such a way as to guarantee no government control or interference of the schooling or family, then they would probably get on board with the idea. But every time I was discussed at our homeschool meeting, the prevailing opinion was *Thanks, but no thanks. Leave us alone.*
Keep the public schools closed so that more students will get good educations from homeschooling and private schools.
Many have been praying that God would cloud the judgment and blind the eyes of the liberals and dems who hate this country and are trying to tear it apart.
Stuff like this indicates that He is answering that prayer.
The public school is a relic. It’s like a green screen tube TV. It’s like an 8 track tape player. It’s an icon of the days when they thought government could solve everything.
Thanks....
There needs to be a refundable tax credit per student per school year for every student who is homeschooled or who goes to a private school.
People who want the government to control homeschooling will not be slowed down by the absence of tax credits for homeschooling.
The presence of tax credits for homeschooling, however, will increase the number of families doing it.
Those numbers in turn will provide protection.
It is an ill wind that blows only goodness to the left.
I understand the thinking. On the other hand, we pay very distinct local “school taxes” for public schools, a service we do not want nor use. Its very different from receiving an unearned subsidy. Money is the be-all-and-end-all to the government bureaucrats. My thoughts are just as much about limiting these out-of-control leftist unions, making government be responsible for their purported uses of the money it extorts from citizens, as it is about giving parents much more incentive to take responsibility for the education of their own children.
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