Posted on 07/07/2009 9:02:03 AM PDT by Niuhuru
So get ready to welcome the nanny state right into your kids' bedrooms.
Only when it comes to the basic courses. Other than that the kids are free to pursue a lot of other things that the government won’t have control over.
If you have any brainier ideas, please share them. I’m only thinking of kids who are getting bullied day in and day out and some of them don’t have a chance because both parents work all the time.
So, you were thinking of something else while you were typing this post ?
I’d have sold my baby brother into slavery to participate in a program like that over the time I spent in public schools. I loathed them after attending Catholic schools and got out as quickly as I could.
Already exists - Texas Tech University offers an accredited High School curriculum complete with diploma.
I think this could be revolutionary. This could open the door to online charter schools.
Talk about school choice! Great idea.
Too bad our govt is being run by statists who want control of every aspect of our lives from cradle to grave.
Change will come soon enough. The GOP will pull Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty folks into the big tent, and HOPEFULLY the GOP will reform their own ways as well. Then it’s “good bye statism!”
~SC
*sigh* I was thinking that you would respond and we would become good friends and have a great love affair! :)
The substance (or lack thereof) of the course material is also a problem.
The “concern” about parents “not knowing how to teach” is an educrat canard.
Might work, if it weren’t for the Dept. of Education and the new Cyber Czar.
That in itself will teach her to be a lazy slug.
That is hardly a problem. The smart kids breeze through, then spend the rest of their time learning the substantial stuff.
The idiots spend 24/7 trying to learn the government curriculum. It would also weed out the kids who don’t want to learn.
Or earlier, I was just trying to use an example. She could get up at six or seven.
Something quite similar to what you are describing is already in use by elite gymnasts who do not attend regular high school.
Cool, all the more reason to do it.
Ignore the naysayers. Innovation scares them. Frankly, I think this is an idea whose time has come.
You are missing my point. The actual CONTENT of many current curricula is antithetical to thinking, free people. It teaches WHAT to think, not HOW.
To require kids to plow through this crap, and then hope to deprogram them using elective coursework is utopian, IMO. It doesn’t work.
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