Posted on 04/08/2018 6:44:19 AM PDT by sodpoodle
“With slightly increased oversight in a state-by-state, case-by-case basis, children might not slip through the cracks,” said Hannah Ettinger, who studies incidents of violence against or perpetrated by home school students for the Coalition for Responsible Home Education.
The group advocates for increased oversight of home-schooled students, such as requiring that each be registered and meet yearly with a certified teacher for annual testing and with a doctor for a physical checkup — both of whom would be required to report to authorities if they suspected a child’s physical or mental health or welfare were in jeopardy. Texas’ regulations are “incredibly minimal,” said Ettinger, noting that the state does not have those requirements.
Texas is one of the easiest states for home-schooling children, with few rules and regulations for parents to follow. Hundreds of thousands of students learn at home here, but no one knows for sure how many because Texas doesn’t keep track. They have the freedom to work at their own pace, explore outside the classroom and avoid the pitfalls of traditional school life.
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God, we have a problem - please save our children from evil.
Not sure what they’re complaining about. This kid was a better student than was Clock Boy.
The Ettinger woman sounds awful and it looks like she’s being paid by teachers’ unions to get “oversight” of home-school kids for her “certified teachers”... some of whom like to have sex with teenagers. I’m taking this with a LARGE dash of consider the source.
Like bullying, incompetent teachers, indoctrinating curriculum, getting shot ...
We can not allow these home school kids to evade our control.
They must be trained to conform.
I was home schooled by the best. From what I read about what is happening in today's public schools I wouldn't want to have attended.
>> avoid the pitfalls of traditional school life.
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> Like bullying, incompetent teachers, indoctrinating
> curriculum, getting shot
... and stabbed, and robbed, etc.
Let’s compare the number of shooters from Public Schools to those home schooled and make the case that Public School students are TWENTY TIMES MORE LIKELY TO MURDER.
This is a GREAT idea as long as I get to certify the teacher and the doctor after conducting my own interview and investigation and each such person has to submit a resume I can vet. I also get to create the test.
It seems like more kids are abused at school than among the home schooled. Likely, many more kids at school have their lives stolen from them because of a completely worthless education attached to harmful indoctrination.
When they can stop the public school students from shooting up schools, then we can talk about looking at home schools.
The anonymized data could be slipped to FakeBook for a marketing profile on home schoolers. /s
I have two close girlfriends who home school their kids. I’ve known those kids since BIRTH and they are super-smart, POLITE, well-mannered, and they LISTEN and BEHAVE...aside from the usual meltdowns little kids have and the surliness ALL teens develop for a while.
Those kids are a JOY to be around. The oldest of the two families is going to a Catholic Junior High School this year and she is YEARS ahead of her peers.
So proud and happy for my friends. It can be done!
Parkland shootings cast unwelcome spotlight on public schools.
Because public schools are completely safe.
I learned discipline early on. My home schooling teachers were my dad, uncle, two brothers and my mom. All were military except my mom who was a military brat (not that I said that in front of her LOL) - a Marine, and three Army. I had my first rifle, a .22 single shot when I was seven.
Believe it or not, the “Coalition for Responsible Home Education” is based in Massachusetts, not Texas.
Looking through the biographies of the board members, it appears every one of them is a former home schooler stuck in a cycle of rebellion against their religious parents and desperate for acceptance by academia.
Most of their articles include a nod to positive outcomes, but they do so as a way to introduce or leverage a negative interpretation of data. The consistency of the narratives in each “study” strongly suggest that they cherry pick data to support their foregone conclusions before they begin.
If anything, they could make the strongest case against homeschooling by just writing about themselves.
Because, as we all know, public schooled kids never cause any trouble or hurt anyone.
“This is a GREAT idea as long as I get to certify the teacher and the doctor after conducting my own interview and investigation and each such person has to submit a resume I can vet. I also get to create the test.”
Well put. I see it the same. The ENTIRE PURPOSE of home schooling is to keep our kids away from these beasts (even if most conservative parents still have NO CLUE as to what, exactly, they are subjecting their kids to when they see them climb into that big yellow bus).
I’d settle for all government school teachers submitting to a literacy test once a year and any that fail are banned from teaching for life.
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