Posted on 02/12/2010 8:52:39 PM PST by ciceroqpublic
well said. I am a member of HSLDA and have been for 21 years. There is an army of homeschoolers in the nation that have resolve. That is the nature of the people that homeschool. They fight back when messed with. :)
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I will be in jail before my kids spend a second in a government run school house.
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Here in Michigan, the state legislature people have commented that when the home schoolers take action, everyone in Lansing notices.
Obama would be a fool to mess with us.
Not going to happen. Too many court cases in favor of homeschooling. Too many victories, such as in CA and recently in NH where a legislator admitted that homeschoolers do better than their public school counterparts so why bother to regulate them? When a bill for more regulation was voted on in the legislature, the sponsors of the bill got creamed big time.
Dems are skating on thin ice as it already is. They would be crazy to try it.
Not going to happen. Too many court cases in favor of homeschooling. Too many victories, such as in CA and recently in NH where a legislator admitted that homeschoolers do better than their public school counterparts so why bother to regulate them? When a bill for more regulation was voted on in the legislature, the sponsors of the bill got creamed big time.
Dems are skating on thin ice as it already is. They would be crazy to try it.
Sorry for the double post. Don’t know what happened, didn’t get “Auto-preview in effect. Click Post again to submit your comment” the first time.
I have no doubt they will make the effort, but success will be out of reach. Obama won’t be re-elected for many reasons, and an attack on homeschooling would give us yet another.
He's a fool.
He and the rest of the RATS will mess with homeschooling. Yes, they are THAT stupid.
They will pay with a resounding slaughter in the following election.
“My friend for example has been teaching for twelve years. She is tenured so is impossible to fire. She is paid $86,000 per year. (the average American makes $44,000) She has a summer vacation from June 20th til September 5th each year. In addition to this she gets a three day weekend for Columbus Day, then a week off for Thanksgiving, then a week off between Christmas and New Years, then a three day weekend for Martin Luther King Day, then a four day weekend for President’s Day, then a week off for Easter and finally a three day weekend for Memorial Day. In addition to this she gets 5 personal days and 7 sick days and TWO WEEKS PAID VACATION. She receives full health care insurance and life insurance. Her loans are subsidized and guaranteed through the union. All tuitions of almost any conceivable kind are paid in full. ( she complains bitterly that she must pay the bill in full and wait three full weeks for reimbursement!) This career is the result of a four year college education majoring in mildly demanding topic of education.”
I know a lot of teachers in a lot of districts and none of them have cut a deal like this.
I am not going to call the author a liar, but I sure suspect that he might mistaken about this compensation package. My BS meter is pegged on “Very Deep”.
I would like to know what school district he is talking about.
I share your optimism and faith in the tenacity of homeschoolers. They are millions strong and would never allow it and they’ve made huge strides no matter how liberal the state - even CA - remember a few years ago when they tried to require teacher accreditation for all homeschooling parents? Come to think of it, and I may be wrong, but I haven’t heard of any legislative setback in recent years in any state. Just progress.
Good example - when I first started homeschooling we lived in NJ and the state surprisingly had zero control over homeschoolers. One state Dem decided to change that and insisted that because of a couple lax cases where CPS let kids fall through the cracks, all kids needed physicals mandated by the state and reported by their doctors so as to monitor the health and well-being of all NJ kids. She attempted to introduce legislation to that effect and thousands of homeschoolers from liberal NJ marched on Trenton; thousands more flooded their reps with calls. The legislation quickly died in committee.
If that can happen in New Jersey of all places, it will happen everywhere else. Besides that, each individual state would have to come on board and I can’t imagine how that would happen. Seems to me there are too many congressmen who support homeschoolers in their states.
The homeschooling voice is so strong on so many levels and it’s amazing how it’s grown in just a couple generations. I’m eternally thankful for those who went before us, so to speak. It’s even grown by leaps and bounds since I started 8 years ago. I think it would take sudden martial law where the catastrophe shadowed all else, or several more generations where change creeps very slowly in, before homeschooling is outlawed in the US. Even then it would be pretty ugly.
LOL, you are absolutely right. That paragraph is so fantastic that it is well worth repeating. Thanks for the huge grin this morning.
While I agree that the home school community is a formidable opponent, I suggest that we not get complacent. It took a long time to get where we are and to have the rights we have now as home schoolers. I don’t think any of us thought that we would see the government taking over banks and major corporations like we have seen over the last year or so. The NEA is powerful entity and is committed to ending home schooling. We need to stay alert, be politically involved and keep speaking out! (And keep raising great kids!)
Doesn’t anyone think that it is preposterous to think that Obama can “buy off” the Catholics by making St. Patrick’s Day a National holiday?
Good grief, there are already so many celebrations, both before and after St. Paddy’s Day, that we don’t need a special day off!
“They will pay with a resounding slaughter in the following election. “
From your lips to God’s ears.
It may well be preposterous that Obama can buy off Catholics with a holiday but history shows that this kind of political largesse works. Also look at how the democrats have bought off civil rights groups with the Martin Luther King Holiday even though the democrat party opposed civil rights.....................
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