Posted on 02/07/2011 5:43:08 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
Maloney, rhymes with....
Has Illinois been known for being hostile to homeschoolers?
Here in WA they want to include HS kids because it raises the test score averages. Without them the averages are basically in the toilet.
Illinois Fascists. Is there anything they won’t do?
sounds like they should leave it like it is
Why does the state need to know how many and who is being home schooled?
registration come before banning
“I don’t know that there is any problem whatsoever. But let’s destroy the liberty of all just in case, okay?”
Where did you hear that?
Hey, Mr. Baloney, when you have epidemic truancy, drop outs and gang violence among home school kids, let us know. Right now, you're just a solution in search of a problem.
Why don't you fix the public schools instead of harassing the people using one of the few escapes from your dreary, failed institutions.
In AZ we have to register them as being home schooled .. one quick notarized form and their birth certs (YES their REAL long form ones) ... that’s it. No testing, no contact, no blather-by-bureaucrat. They send back the BCs even. In some states the requirements are very complicated, I hear. I say good for the Home School organizations in Il for keeping a close watch on this. Anyone who home schools in that state should read any proposed bill and scream if there is any sign of intrusion. I don’t know what would prevent some parents in AZ from claiming to home school their kids while actually sitting them in front of Oprah type programming for 7 hours a day; except perhaps self shame. All I can tell you is what my kids are learning, and that it is far superior to what they’d have learned so far in public schools.
A while back. Read it on www.SoundPolitics.com. They (Olympia) were trying to integrate home schooled kids into the mix because the home schooled kids always scored higher on tests but were separated out. Don’t know where it went though.
Here in MN we have to submit forms to the local district,which then sends them to the state, each year. Also, if neither parent has at least a bachelor’s degree grades must be submitted quarterly.
SCREW THEM!!!
I home schooled in the state of Washington, a notorius blue state, where every year I had to register my home student. No biggy for either of us.
It appears Washington just keeps track of homeschoolers. I was supposed to keep records and did for the first 18 months. As they never contacted me, and he was tested annually for progress by a public school teacher who operated an independent testing business (his own daughter was home schooled), I slacked off on the record keeping. My student was excelling across the board on all subjects.
He was capable of taking the GED during the summer of his 16th year, but slacked off until his 17th birthday, and took the test a couple days afterwards. He passed with better than average scores.
That the state of Illinois has decided to keep better track of who is being home schooled shouldn’t panic anyone.
See!...By going to government school, the children even learn how to be compliant government informants.
Uh oh! Someone is sure to say that I am a troll for stating the truth about the government kiddie prisons ( oops!**public** “schools”)
I see a huge migration to Texas at the rate things are going in the blue & purple states.
Homeschoolers should be held to the **exact** same standards as government imprisoned kids (oops! public schools). If complete illiteracy and innumeracy is passing for government held kids, then that should be the standard for homeschoolers.
In other words if government has no standards for the kids imprisoned in its collectivist "schools", then homeschoolers don't need standards either
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