Posted on 09/23/2002 3:18:47 AM PDT by TxBec
No. He's got a schtick being on FOX News.
He needs to put together one minute soundbites that sound like good legal advice.
It doesn't have to be.
Candidate for Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Horne seems to think that parents who homeschool their children want he and the state to "be sure there are no cases of parents who say they are home schooling, but are, in fact, not teaching, and the children not learning." Is he inferring that the state should play "baby-sitter" to those in the homeschoolling community?
Meanwhile, Candidate Jay Blanchard feels that, " As long as the children are safe and no tax dollars are required---home-schoolers should be free to teach their children as they see fit."
If Mr. Horne really thinks that homeschoolers want more regulation, think again. We need less government interference into our daily lives, not more.
End of letter.
Please pass this information to other homeschoolers you have contact with. I pulled the quotations from a link at the AZ Republic where they asked both candidates about homeschooling.
I need to wrap this up so we can get on with things. I have to skip the full story of the Hell’s Angel math teacher who parked his Harley Hog outside the door of his classroom, and when the principal objected, told him in front of startled witnesses that if the man didn’t shut his mouth, the number-crunching cyclist would come to his home that evening, pour gasoline under his front door, and set his house on fire. I have to skip the hair-raising stories of not one but three junior high teachers I knew quite well who married their students. Each, spotting a likely thirteen-year-old, wooed the respective girl in class and married her a few years later. They took the more honorable course, hardly the outcome of most teacher-student romances I was privy to. I have to skip the drug habits of staff in each of the buildings I worked in and other lurid stuff like that. In the midst of the unending dullness of institutional schooling, human nature cracks through the peeling paint as grass through cement. I have to skip all that. Suffice it to say, my life experience taught me that school isn’t a safe place to leave your children.
Or you could turn it around and say "Homeschoolers would like to be sure that there are no cases of teachers who say they are teaching, but are, in fact, not teaching, and the children not learning in the public schools, before we contribute a dime to them."
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