Posted on 02/11/2017 6:03:33 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
North Carolina has very limited requirements, and they’ve grown more agreeable since Republicans took over the legislature.
OH, ow. I find that bad for my spine, while simply hanging head-over gives me a sinus headache.
I remember a while back, at least 15 years ago, there was a black public school principal in Washington, D.C., who wanted to order the Calvert School curriculum for each of the students in his school. It would have cost much less than the materials they were buying. (In the $750/student range.)
However, the school board would not allow it because a curriculum with a solid academic basis is racist.
It’s so anti-woman to say she never worked. The PC and more accurate thing to say is she never worked outside the home but in Betsy’s case I’m sure she had a staff of workers who helped her with her charities and advocacy. I guess what they mean is that she never drew a paycheck.
So, I guess the lapdog media will be all FOR homeschooling, now that liberals want to do it. They’ll consider it a real put-down of Betsy DeVos. Somehow, I don’t think she’ll be losing any sleep over it, but it could help conservative homeschoolers, because I don’t think the libs will put up with the crap we conservative homeschoolers have had to endure for years!
There has been an explosion of online teaching modules and videos in the past 6 years, or so. Our kids are long out of high school, but our 27 yr. old son loves the Khan Academy videos, and finds them extremely well done. But then he also likes "Drunk History", which if you don't mind the slurring and bleeping when folks curse, has some very interesting historical info, done in an engaging manner!
Even libs recognize the the benefits of homeschooling..... parents have more control, flexibility to pursue special interests, provide unique opportunities, efficient use of time, ability to provide higher quality, tailored programs of study.
Judging from the rest of the sentence, I think the writer was trying to say that Ms. DeVos never worked in a public school.
I’m adding your tagline to the Mrs. Don-o Deluxe Tag-Line Collectors’ Series.
Well and succinctly said. Oft thought but ne’er so well expressed.
Because the local “conservative” homeschoolers groups were all tied to membership in specific churches/evangelical fellowships, we belonged to a “liberal” homeschoolers’ support group for almost 10 years: pagans, seculars, left-libertarians and the occasional Democrat.
It was a worthwhile group. They didn’t hassle us for being Catholic and even bringing religious themes into the projects we shared. For the most part. (I had to convince one pagan mom that if it was OK for her kid to picture Gaia, it was OK for mine to do Noah.)
Liberal homeschoolers are OK. Like us, they’ve probably more independent-minded than most other members of the herd.
As Jesse Jackson was heard to chant:
Appreciate you saying this Mrs. Don-o!
Have you read the ESSA reauthorization of No Child Left Behind? There is some language dealing with PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE in that bill money follows child, etc...so I am interested to see how far DeVos will go to relinquish curriculum control.
I’m quoting Jonah Goldberg, but his name wouldn’t fit in the tagline field. I believe he also said you were an (adjective) moron or even an (expletive) moron.
We met quite a lot of liberal homeschoolers doing science competition, especially the Envirothon. As long as their child memorizes the soil levels correctly or can calculate the movement of glaciers, I don’t care if they worship Gaia or nobody.
No, I have not seen it. Earlier iterations of NCLB had some options for children to move from failing schools to more successful ones, but I believe that was largely shortcircuited by the states’ claiming that every school was successful.
I believe the contention was that you simply could not expect minority students to learn what white students do. The situation has remained in my memory because it was so shocking, although expressing this “reasoning” has become more commonplace, on both the right and the left, over the last decade or so.
The ESSA reauthorization was the equivalent of the Gang of 8 in immigration. You can image how hard that issue was to get attention of the dangers coming. You may want to read activist ANITA HOGE’s articles.
>> I’d like to see her file a zero budget for the agency.
Bingo!
I’ve been saying since the start that I wish to see her oversee the dismantling of the DoEd. Let her be the one to turn out the lights and turn the keys for the building over to the DoEd, and work herself out of a job.
The history of the DoEd has coincided with a steady decline in K-12 educational outcomes, and perhaps college ones as well. It should exist why, exactly?
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