"What do you mean 'you'll be taking the boy'?"
Posted on 06/22/2005 11:14:18 AM PDT by hsmomx3
District finds regulations for home-schoolers lacking
Federal and state accountability laws overlook homeschooled students. Once parents withdraw a child from a school district, they are also withdrawing a student from standardized testing and monitoring requirements. The absence of regulations has landed the issue on the agenda for this year’s annual meeting of the Arizona School Boards Association on Saturday in Mesa. Board members will debate and vote on recommendations that will form the group’s 2006 legislative agenda.
Included in the recommendations: A proposal for the Arizona Department of Education to monitor homeschooled students. The plan is being pitched by the governing board from the Oracle Elementary School District, located about 100 miles southeast of the East Valley in Pinal County.
Oracle board members maintain some students are not being educated at home, but are becoming victims of abuse or neglect.
"There is no way of knowing what is happening to those kids," said Betty Harmon, Oracle governing board member. "I think it is more a matter of protection for the kids. I have nothing against home-schooling . . . but every other child in the state, whether they are in a private school or a charter school or a (traditional) public school, they have people to monitor them. . . . There is nothing like that for home-school children."
Denise Standage, a Higley Unified School District governing board member — and home-school mother — will speak against the proposal. She said she expects to be the minority opinion stating that government shouldn’t regulate students who don’t receive public funding.
"Anybody can pick up the phone and call (Child Protective Services)," Standage said. "You really don’t need the school to do that. . . . If they are going to equate home-schooling with neglect and abuse, that’s discrimination." Contact Jackie Leatherman by email, or phone (480) 898-6334
They're coming for THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!.................
The horrors.
"...but every other child in the state, whether they are in a private school or a charter school or a (traditional) public school, they have people to monitor them. . . . There is nothing like that for home-school children."
Is this woman on crack?! Their PARENTS are monitoring them!!! SH*T!
"What do you mean 'you'll be taking the boy'?"
But since they aren't applying for "Federal" (federally confiscated) funds that are tied to the compulsory testing, that withdrawl is entirely appropriate.
Sure, homeshooling is a THREAT to the very existance of the failed public school system. Expect more and more attempts to harrass those who opt out of socialist systems when they can.
True . . . in most cases. I grew up in an area of the county though where some parents found out about homeschooling and the fact that it had few regulations. They "enrolled" their kids in "homeschools" and did nothing with them but use them as cheap labor. Mainly, it was to make sure their kids didn't rat on their drug habits and dealings at school.
You seem to be under the old-fashioned mistaken belief that the government is our hired help to do a few specific tasks we delegate to it. They are the rulers - you are the ruled. And be sure to avert your eyes when your masters are around. They don't like their servants getting uppity and standing up and looking them in the eyes. < /I wish it was sarcasm >
(Do it today. Not available in any stores.)
So, guilty until proven innocent then?
I don't see anything wrong with reasonable standards. I would think the legit homeschoolers would want to make sure that bad elements were eliminated.
""There is no way of knowing what is happening to those kids," said Betty Harmon, Oracle governing board member. "I think it is more a matter of protection for the kids. I have nothing against home-schooling . ."
What a PINKO! I'd be willing to bet the Pinal County school systems are scoring signifcantly below home schoolers on standardized tests and graduation rate. This commie busybody needs to pay attention to their own crumbling heap of a school system and butt out of anybody's elses business!
Guilty it is then. Might want to send the vice squad in check if I've got a brothel running here at the office, too, ya just never know...
Contact Tom Horne to speak out against this Bolshevic dreck.
Arizona Department of Education
1535 West Jefferson Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85007
602-542-5393
1-800-352-4558
So are you against all regulations? What's wrong with setting up standards, so people know what to expect when they are setting up their homeschool curriculum?
I posted a flippant reply in anger, let me try again:
Reasonable standards. This is the sticking point between the HS world and the PS world, though it is rather that the stards set by the PS world are too low by far.
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO REGULATE BAD BEHAVIOR VIA LEGISLATION. This includes education. Monitoring legislation will NOT help, and besides it is not the government's job.
Already belong.
I wonder if they have seen this article?
Unfortunately, he feels homeschoolers need to have more regulations. I wish I had saved the info. but he made a statement a few years ago about it. He said that they don't know if homeschoolers are really being taught.
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