Posted on 04/05/2025 9:44:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“Oh, brave new world, with such people in it.”
If kids are learning at home schooling in one instance, but other parents feel they can’t teach, then what is wrong with sending their kids to where kids are learning, if it is acceptable to the other parents? To do otherwise is just holding up progress, but gives these “Homeschool Police” something to do.
The quality of education each student is receiving should be whatever works best. Wasn’t much of a problem back when public schools were doing their job.
The teacher's unions, power and control. I think the teacher's union officials need a better security detail than Donald Trump.
How would they know??
Friends in GA homeschooled their kids. They collaborated with other parents. There was testing by the public schools. Smartest and most cordial kids I ever met.
The importance, to the American communist party, of the black-robed busing decree was to destroy the concept & control of neighborhood schools and the sense of belonging that they engendered so successfully for the previous 150 years...
It was the first, and most important step, in taking control of the Nation’s education system and redefining it as a government indoctrination system...
This was extremely successful and we are left with several generations of mind-controlled half-wits (in comparison to the common people of the pre-1970s)...
The educational success of home schooling is viewed as an existential threat to communist goals...
Allowing two or more families to begin the process of returning to the neighborhood concept will be met with extreme penalties...
So, you can’t have a neighbor who has knowledge of something you do not have, such as chemistry, or French in to educate your child. Who thought this up??
So, you can’t have a neighbor who has knowledge of something you do not have, such as chemistry, or French in to educate your child. Who thought this up??
But I think the article is a little bit misleading.
For example, the article says about Wisconsin: "The state flatly prohibits homeschool collaboration. Joining an after-school soccer team or Girl Scout troop is fine. However, parents cross the line if they teach reading, writing, or arithmetic to someone else’s child."
But the HSLDA website makes no mention of restrictions against groups or co-ops in Wisconsin. No state can prohibit homeschool families from meeting and learning together. It's their First Amendment right.
A closer look at Wisconsin homeschool law tells us that WI just doesn't count group meetings and co-ops toward the required "hours of instruction."
I think groups and co-ops should be counted. The state really has no business telling homeschool families what to count.
But, not counting a co-op as instruction is very different from prohibiting it. Just my 2 cents.
The same for the other states mentioned in the article. As far as I can tell, those states don't prohibit families from meeting and learning together, either, but they might not count all those meetings as "instruction."
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