[2banana]

Per pupil spending in NYC is $13,000 a student. With half of that money I could home school my children and run circles around the average NYC HS graduate...

[JLS]

Schools With Good Teachers Are Best-Suited to Shape Young Minds

One neeed not read past the first sentence or maybe this is the sub heading to this article to see what is what. This person writing in the NEA thinks their job is to SHAPE your child's mind. You probably thought their job was to teach your child to read and write and that you would shape their mind and values at home.

Their desire to shape your childs mind, against religion, toward homosexuality as normal, against America etc is probably a big reason you want to home school your child.

Then there is that false choice presented in that one line. For many the choice is bad schools with bad teacher compared to home schooling.

[Pyro7480]

With half of that money I could home school my children and run circles around the average NYC HS graduate

My maternal grandmother had the equivalent to a 5th or 6th grade education (she grew up in the 1920s), and I bet if she were still alive, she could also run circles around the average NYC HS graduate.

[hsmomx3]

I don't think I could spend $13,000 TOTAL for all 12 years!! Considering I have three kids, and the books are used again and again, there is no way we would spend that much.

This guy is full of himself and the NEA.

[tcostell]

Per Pupil spending in Putnam Valley NY (a northern Westchester suburb of NYC) is $20,000 per student, and rising at roughly 10% per year.

[tcostell]

This is a piece written by a janitor, about allowing only trained union members to teach.

The NEA should really try to make it a little tougher to make fun of them.

[kinsman redeemer]

I went to the NEA link and searched for "homeschool." I got this.

In it is this quote:
Stop Vouchers/Block Federal Charter School Legislation. Help close achievement gaps by blocking ineffective measures that divert public resources to private, religious, or homeschool K-12 uses. Ensure that the federal government doesn't undermine states' rights to determine charter school policies (whether to permit charter schools and under what circumstances). Block any efforts to use federal funds for private charter schools.

LOL - "...close achievement gaps..."

[Recovering_Democrat]

Oh, man...this is TOO MUCH. Look who the author is, from the bottom of the article:

(Dave Arnold, a member of the Illinois Education Association, is head custodian at Brownstown Elementary School in Southern Illinois.)

Emphasis added by me of course.

[Moby Grape]

Friends of ours home schooled their children...the oldest son just graduated college with honors....Went to college on a FULL scholarship earned with very high SAT score..

Yeah...amateurs.