I do think that in some instances states are forcing testing on homeschool parents.
What I find particularly disgusting is that teachers aren't UP IN ARMS opposed to Common Core and mandated testing. Originally, tests were sold as nothing more than basic skills tests, not the monster they've become.
“What I find particularly disgusting is that teachers aren’t UP IN ARMS opposed to Common Core and mandated testing.”
Although many I know are sick to death of it all, I’m not sure what they can do to fight it - what power do they have?
My niece’s solution for her family was to give up her teaching position at a local elementary, and she is now home schooling, starting this year.
Proud of her!
My original comment “School at home” was a reply to the over-weaning parents whose children can do no wrong and that, therefore, the public school or the teacher is at fault for this that or the other perceived slight to their child.
Many helicopter parents are just as destructive to public education in their own legal ways as are the parents who never intervene in their student’s educational situations.
This all had to do with a THIRD Grade student’s problem due to his/her parent’s decision to not sign a form the year before.
“What I find particularly disgusting is that teachers aren’t UP IN ARMS opposed to Common Core and mandated testing”
The good ones are.