Jorea M. Marple,West Virginny Superintendent of Schools, doesn't like it when students evade her zero-tolerance dictatorship.
And not enough control by the ruling class, right?
ping for the list. This is in WV but we need all the calls and emails we can get! This is the woman’s FIRST speech as the State Superintendent and THIS is what she chose to address. Seems like we may be in an uphill battle with this woman.
Must be time for another Home Schooler to kick ass in the National Spelling Bee.
IOW, The home schooled students are making us look bad..............
J. Marple? Does she live in St Mary Meade?
She’s probably been the butt of jokes by readers and other intelligent people all her life, and it’s made her hate them.
The keyword for the FREE REPUBLIC HOMESCHOOLERS’ FORUM is frhf.
Can’t be raising any free thinkers, now can we?
Yep, we’ve got too much freedom in America and there’s liberals like Zero who want to change that.
“homeschoolers have too much flexibility”
Like accomplishing the learning content offered in a public school’s 7 hour day in three hours?
“..more oversight, better standards, better evidence of progress..”
IMO, that is what the public schools are lacking.
so clean up your own house lady and start by laying off half of all non-teaching personnel. Being good democrats, they are by their DNA all top heavy.
Add to that the study halls, ashtray making class, gym (as a separate class and not part of everyday life) and a slew of et cetera's ... the actual study/learning time is only about 4 or 5 hours.
A quick learner (one who says, "Heyyyy, I can do THIS .. ) soon get's his or her day down to a manageable time from 7 or 8 AM to around noon ... school's out.
Considering WV is Rural with a capital R, everyone rides a (more often than not), bumpy ride from 6AM (the earliest I'VE ever known) to about 830AM and returns home the same way. That's about 5 hrs creating and aggravating scoliosis.
Add that 2-6 hr bus ride to approx 2 hrs total classs change/lunch (not including study hall etc.) ... you have a day of indoctrination pretty much equaling the amount of time it takes to go to and fro.
As the gummint school graduates would say in one word, *uck you
Government needs to get the hell out of our lives ...
I’m past fuming and full ablaze
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Jorea M. Marple,West Virginny Superintendent of Schools, doesn't like it when students evade her zero-tolerance dictatorship.
How do home schoolers perform on SAT/ACT compared to their traditionally educated counterparts?
That is the only relevent question.
Aside from that fact that homeschooled kids beat the hell out of government-schooled kids in all sorts of tests and competitions, science fairs and the like...
State Superintendents, school administrators, principals, and teachers need more oversight.
My note:
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A lovely mountain Spring day to you, Ms. Marple!
I thought I was really being innovative in 1992, when my MS thesis, Social Maturity of Home School Children, laid that issue to rest by demonstrating that the home school kids in the sample had superior social skills to add to their already superior academic skills.
I congratulated myself too soon. Turns out that my research merely duplicated that of Linda Pasquerelle, who used the same measurement tool (Vineland adaptive Behavior Scales) a year before I did, on a larger population, in Kanawa County, West Virginia. My findings echoed hers.
Turns out that responsible parents outperform government employees when they educate their children.
People across the USA who love their kids and love liberty where AGHAST when you used your maiden speech to denounce and assail their liberties! Be assured, thanks to the internet, it’s no longer as easy to move surreptitiously against the liberties and families of American citizens. Now that you have announced your desire to infringe on both,
you have come to our attention, and your actions will be carefully scrutinized in the future.
Government bureaucrats need additional supervision. They often get too ambitious, and overreach themselves.
Have a nice day,
My sister is home schooling my 5 nieces and nephews.
The oldest graduated from H.S. at 16. Entered college level courses at the local community college at 16. Honor student. Accepted to the University of Washington at 18. Accepted to their business school at 19. Now at 20, she’s finishing up her 4 year degree and working at Amazon.com this summer as a paid intern.
The 2nd oldest. Same scenario. Graduated H.S. at 16. Entered community college at 16. Loved cooking shows so studied culinary arts. At 17, the wedding cake she created won a gold medal at a Cordon Bleu sponsored competition. Graduated. At 18, she’s running the deserts kitchen at restaurant and the owners want her to run the cake store they are working on opening.
The three younger ones are still being well educated every day by my sister.
The last thing these kids need is politicians and teachers union thugs demanding “oversight” on them.