Posted on 01/11/2006 4:56:37 AM PST by Puzzleman
Last week, Florida's supreme court ruled that public money can't be spent on private schools because the state constitution commands the funding of only "uniform . . . high-quality" schools. How absurd. As if government schools are uniformly high quality. Or even mostly decent.
Apparently competition, which made even the Postal Service improve, is unconstitutional when it comes to public education in Florida.
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That would be a problem!
We have been homeschooling since 1989, and I am a high school drop out. We are reaping the harvest while still planting the seeds. I just started a latin course so I can teach my last two still at home...just returned this weekend from dropping off #2 son in DC so he can work at CATO! Homeschooling has been very, very, good to us.
I do!
I homeschooled the two younger ones starting when they were in 6th and 8th grades. Our son went back to school for high school, to the school our older boys attended. It is an all boys school, and a good one, though he'd like to go to a science/technology magnet school next year, which would be a good fit for him. Our daughter has remained at home, and is a 'Senior' this year. She's taking classes at the local Community college as well as doing some courses at home.
Thats Weasle-Speak for the NEA and Teachers Unions..
Stossel just didnt have the cohones to say it..
Even worse is Ultra Leftist absolute control of our Colleges..
And TREASON being to most unheard word in Wash D.C. except for socialist..
As far as socialization goes, we get them together with other homeschooled kids on a regular basis, and we kept them in Scouts, and Church groups. Our daughter attends an extra-curricular Anime Club at the local high school, and she's always saying she's SO glad she didn't go to school there, or anywhere for that matter. She can't stand the typical teenage angst; she has no patience for it. For the more involved Science courses requiring labs, and for the Writing courses that I just didn't feel able to teach, she attends a Community college. This way, she gets high school as well as college credit for her work!
How's that little cutie doing, by the way?
In my case, our family moved to an area with excellent schools, so mine are public school educated--but that doesn't mean my husband and I allow the schools control. We review text books, request teachers, supervise homework and assignments. I am not the most popular mom around, but my kids are awesome and it was worth the effort.
Good luck to all those out there--parenting is a joy, but also a never ending effort of vigilance to fight the influences our culture places on young minds every day.
I don't homeschool,but we do send her(soon to be them) to private school.I'll never forget the public school principal telling my wife what a mistake it would be to transfer her to private school.The only mistake was not doing it earlier.
Unfortunately we cannot afford to homeschool our children. I'm not 100% sold on it as the best way anyways.
No daycare for our kids but our 4 year old son goes to preschool 3 days a week from 9am to noon. The preschool also has a daycare. This school actually is housed in a church. My son's preschool class has no more than 10 kids in it at any time during the week. They've are even teaching the Pledge and they teach them a prayer or two.
We are discussing sending them to Catholic school for grades 1 thru 8. Depends on finances.
She's doing great, thank you! If you click on my profile, you can see some updated pictures. She's 5 now, and started her kindergarten/`1st grade curriculum back in the fall. She's picked up very well on reading and math, and is doing both at a 2nd grade level already.
She loves being a big sister now, too.
Are you still in Mass? We're still Rhodies, but moved from Cranston to West Warwick last year.
Grace is such a darlin!! I'm sure big sister must be so pleased, and I'm very happy for you and the Missus!
We homeschool our two. (Daughter started highschool this week.... I'm so old! lol!)
I wish I had been homeschooled. Instead I was shipped off to public high school where I met my abusive boyfriend (broke it off a few years ago) and was bullied in tenth grade which wrecked my GPA and caused me to gain a ton of weight. The next few years were filled with lonliness as I quietly tried to survive while being drugged since I was 'weird' and what not.
My parents wanted me to 'make friends' and 'socialize'. Their main worry is that I wouldn't socialize. When I told them I wanted to be homeschooled they refused. As a result I am working in a low paying job and at age 22 am taking another course, (taken five classes so far) and the parentals expect me to be a perfectly well adjusted adult. I am smarter than most of my peers, but naturally I'm not at a good job since those jobs require ridiculous qualifications. As a result of the bullying I was bombing my math and placed in special education with all the other juvenile delinquints and class disrupting brats. My parents are not helping me at all with college (since my dad had it miserable I have to have it miserable too). All they care about it that I am like everyone else and I'm not.
I hate them. I hate them so much sometimes.
PS. Did I also mention that my real mother is an insane woman who damaged me at an early age emotinoally? Oh yes, there were times I would beg to not have to visit her, but oh no, had to think of crazy mommy first.
Home Educators Ping!
We homeschool! I have also talked to people I knew back when I was in high school. Many of them are or are planning on homeschooling.
Hopefully, an airtight lawsuit will be filed and this absurd decision can eventually get overturned. The arrogance is sickening. The left will not be happy until every school kid replaces saying the pledge of allegiance to singing, "If I only had a brain".
I had (and hear of) that bias, also. One thing that snapped my brain back into place was something my mother said. "You're telling me that a 23 year old woman with no children is 'qualified' to teach 25 to 30 kids at one time, but you're too stupid to teach your two?"
>>I think homeschoolers and private schoolers should get tax breaks for providing our children's education.<<
I don't!
I don't want to pay it in the first place. It's my money.
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