Posted on 12/17/2014 6:05:58 PM PST by Kaslin
Thank you for clarifying this. I’m against CC and see home schooling as a good option. Not for everyone of course but those who are able and willing to put the time in for their kids; it’s great!
home schooling - and now combined with online schools - even here in Maine! - are a win-win combination.
I moved home from Calif. over 30 years ago - to make sure my little girl didn’t go to those schools out there - only to find the same ‘curriculum here - the Federal Dept of Ed. needs to be abolished. (Reagan knew this, promised it, but failed to carry through. My biggest disappointment in him. So much of what we are suffering today is a direct result of that failure.)
Also, homeschooling was illegal - could result in having your kids taken by the state - and/or you jailed.
Fortunately, at the same time, a private Christian school opened just a block from my house and I had her there until 10th grade, when the school closed.
But I was MAD - and went on the war path. I wrote a ‘letter to the ed’ that got picked up far and wide, started my own organization (Families For Freedom) - got contacted and then
‘umbrella-ed’ with groups in state and national - had conferences, forums, bill in state house - conf. in DC when Reagan was President (and he was our guest of honor/speaker) etc etc -—
the long and short of it all - Homeschooling in Maine became legal and is now one of the strongest and safest states for it.
When you home school - you get ‘teachers manuals’ along with the books, giving you total instructions for day to day classes... You have homeschool groups in your state to connect with for advice, get-togethers and group activities/trips for kids.
You also have access to legal advice/protection that will assure your right to homeschool. (and the watch word is, in the first place - do not ASK permission to homeschool. it’s your RIGHT. You may likely have to comply to testing periodically - but that usually shows the home educated kid are FAR and above the “publick” school kids.
There are also a plethora of history documents online that you can assign or watch together with your kid(s) - and then give them a list of questions to answer - or assign them to do further research on: For ex: Nat’l Geographic’s “Lewis & Clark”.
The payback for homeschooling (that only takes about 2 hours a day)? Cementing bonds with your kids/family that will be unbreakable.
ALSO, home schooled kids are far more likely to get college scholarships. Colleges LOVE them!
Go for it. Own you family’s life.
Wait a couple years - it hasn’t been fully ‘installed’ yet
The problem is that it’s anti american and anti white (european american)and anti anything upper level academics. It punishes those students who are average and especially those students who excel.
exactly
Unfortunately, yes that is exactly what it is.
Sorry to lower the boom on you but all standardized testing is reflecting common core and no one, even home schooled kids are exempted. This is exactly how it’s going to affect all kids.
I’m thinking it was set up that way, too.
My students, accelerated classes, have taken tests (standardized tests) and struggled. They are so dumbed down that average and advanced kids have trouble passing them.
Most top tier public and private schools have adopted Common Core Curriculum.
Why? Private and Christian schools have adopted this curriculum and all tests/standardized tests reflect it. All colleges will require it, too.
And that’s the point of those who designed and instituted the curriculum.
Home schooled kids won’t be able to pass the tests! Public and Private school kids who are smart have trouble passing the tests. This is the point! Homeschoolers can delude themselves until the freakin cows come home but this affects them too.
It’s so troubling what’s happening in math and science classes. English and history classes have been affected for decades but now it’s math and science classes. It’s appalling.
I teach two accelerated math classes and teach common core(because I have to) but also real math so my students don’t get screwed. I see it with my own kids (one who graduated high school last year when it was just being implemented here and now with my high school junior). And we’re in an affluent area.
But Common Core Curriculum and all the standardized tests, including the SATs will affect homeschooling students too.
On April 26, 1983, President Ronald Reagan stood before the press and television cameras in the State Dining Room at the White House and held up a report titled A Nation at Risk. Eighteen months in the making and written by the blue-ribbon members of the National Commission on Excellence in Education at the behest of Secretary of Education Terrel Bell, the report examined the quality of education in the United States—and the findings were anything but stellar.
“Our nation is at risk,” the report boldly declared in its first sentence.
“If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,” the report said. “As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves.”
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