Thanks for including me. I am down to the last 3 years of HS with my only child. I considered sending him to school for the last 3 years, but I just read Stormer's "None Dare Call It Education" and have changed my mind. I am freshly energized to stay the course.
I feel good about his education. I want to focus more on composition skills than I have thus far. The ABeka curriculum is great and has taken him further than I ever went in the public schools. But, I'd like to get him to a college level writing ability before it's all said and done. (that will take some skill development for me as well--I break the "parallel structure" rule at times)
Also, my husband is going to teach him Spanish. We started with French and found some great resources but my husband tutored Spanish in college so I think it would be wiser to go with that language.
Math is easy with Saxon! I feel sure I can get him through Calculus and Physics knowing little to nothing about it myself. I love Saxon!
came across this on the net earlier today
First Amendment 'Spy Kids' more than just a movie Government turning kids into spies
By David M. Bresnahan
Schools trying to control the thoughts and words of students can now turn to the federal government for funds to teach kids to spy on each other.
Using funds provided through the Department of Education, Safe and Drug Free Schools program, middle school students can now be taught how to spy on classmates and turn them in to the local police.
The program is designed to "prevent hate crimes" by reporting "homophobic" and racial slurs uttered by students.
The program will begin in West Virginia schools this fall by order of the state attorney general, Darrel V. McGraw. He calls it the "Civil Rights Team Project," but many are already voicing concern that it smacks of McCarthyism.
Under the program, students will be trained to observe, monitor, and report other students based on their words and actions.
The so-called civil rights teams will be specially selected and trained. Comprised of three students and two faculty advisors, the teams will report incidents of "racial, ethnic, sexual, religious, and homophobic slurs."
Instead of protecting civil liberties, the new "spy kids" program is a direct threat to First Amendment freedoms of religion and speech.
Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute, a religious-liberties legal group, said someone is going to have to be wrongly accused before the project legally can be challenged. When that happens his group is offering to provide free legal defense for any student harmed by the project, according to Focus on the Family.
Other states are in the process of putting the program into effect for the coming school year. Similar efforts around the country have included training entire school populations to make anonymous calls to a toll-free number to report students who act or speak in a certain way.
The West Virginia program is modeled after a similar program already in use in Maine.
** I considered sending him to school for the last 3 years, but I just read Stormer's "None Dare Call It Education" and have changed my mind. I am freshly energized to stay the course.**
I haven't read this book...I best look it up, huh? :o)
Did he include private schooling in his adverse opinion of traditional school? or public exclusively?
My daughter is entering 7th grade and we're now praying about home educating through the high school years.