[achilles2000]

It seems the government school folks never tire of trying to fix what isn't broke while ignoring their own failures...

[achilles2000]

FYI

[2Jedismom]

My state.

[Hoosier Catholic Momma]

1. Reading: 75 percent of Oklahoma’s 4th-graders cannot read at grade level, with an astonishing 40 percent not being able to read at even a basic level. By 8th grade, 75 percent of Oklahoma’s children still cannot read at grade level, with 28 percent being unable to read at even a basic level.

2. Mathematics: 71 percent of the state’s 4th-graders are below grade level in math, with 21 percent lacking even a basic grasp of mathematics. By 8th grade math illiteracy is burgeoning in Oklahoma: 79 percent of students are below grade level in math, with 37 percent lacking even a basic understanding of mathematics.

3. Science: 76 percent of the state’s 4th-graders are below grade level, with 30 percent lacking even a basic knowledge of science. By 8th grade, 75 percent of Oklahoma’s children are below grade level, with an amazing 33 percent lacking a basic grasp of the subject.

This is exactly why we homeschooled when we lived in Oklahoma (our nearest Catholic school was almost 45 minutes away). Now we have our daughter in a top-notch Catholic school here in S. Indiana, and they beat the pants off the local schools in standardized test scores and other areas.

[stockpirate]

"Never mind, further, that a study of 7,000 homeschooled adults found, among other things, much higher levels of civic involvement, participation in higher education, and life satisfaction among homeschooled adults than among adults who were not homeschooled."

Well now we know why they want to stop home schooling!

[kalee]

ping

[taxcontrol]

I believe that we need a Constitutional amendment enumerating the rights of parents. Specifically, the right to:

Determine the appropriate education be it private, public or home school for their children as long as they child can be shown to meet or exceed the education of an averages student of either the appropriate grade or age level.

Restrict the materials that will be show to, or used to educate the child or what activities the child can or can not participate in.

Discipline the child in a manner that does not endanger the health or injure the child

Restrict and determine the speech, associations and religion of their children