But children deserve a safe and robust education
I doubt 8% of HSed kids are getting beat up at home.
But children deserve a safe and robust education
I doubt 8% of HSed kids are getting beat up at home.
Gee they are advocating for actual education standards, or for the lack by teachers unions.
Home school kids win spelling bees. They get the highest SATS.
Maybe Trump should gut Education and Federal education all together.
I was homeschooled, and received a proper classical education in spite of the onerous regulations of Pennsylvania.
What they really mean is: We want total control of young minds!
But we can’t indoctrinate them of they are schooled at home!
The hypocrisy of that statement is breathtaking.
The only Uniform Standards were that jammies were fine as long as BIC (Butt in Chair) time was properly observed. Properly observed meant the animals were fed, eggs collected and they had eaten breakfast.
We home schooled for 13 years. Both our kids are very successful in their chosen careers. They are both millionaires AND they are nice people too.
That statement is a classic anti-homeschooling and anti-Christian talking point. But regardless of what one believes about how we arrived at the point we are on Earth, the premise of the statement is that publicly schooled students don't believe incorrect ideas, like "Young Earth Creationism".
But in reality publicly schooled students often don't even know who Charles Darwin was, and lack the reading skills to even read his writings. And they often believe all kinds of incorrect or false ideas, and lack basic knowledge of math, science, religious history, and many other things.
Many high school students and most adults can't correctly answer the question "how old is the Earth?"
Also, for just about any career except perhaps a petroleum geologist, how the Earth got formed and came to be in its current condition is unimportant. Most of us will find that our knowledge of topics like the long term history of the Earth has no effect on our daily life.
If knowledge of the history of the Earth is really that important the authors would note that publicly schooled students actually don't know either, instead of attacking some small subset of Christian parents who believe in a recently formed Earth.
No, but the local school district sure does. My family was harassed and threatened by CPS when I reached mandatory attendance age. They wanted every detail of extended family history, including medical history, vaccination records, home inspection, anything they could hang a hat on. They demanded a physical exam and a look at my bedroom. Or else. (Or else they'll call the police and you're looking at possible arrest and foster care within an hour or so.) They finally accepted that they'd picked the wrong fight. Most families subjected to such treatment would probably not be so fortunate.
That was some 20 years ago, but I don't think it's any different now.
Their brand was dead in the 90s, much like National Geographic’s.
Time to start challengingnthe constitutionality of federally controlled public schools …as well as voting other than at polling stations….FBI etc, etc.
Lost me right there.
Whoever wrote this drivel suffers from psychological projection. Government-run schools have been hell holes and daycare centers for decades. They are desinged to produce crops of timid, ill-educated conformists.
“When a traditional classroom setting cannot meet the...needs of a child, homeschooling can allow parents to take over.”
Parents do not need to “take over” their rightful obligation, nor justify the exercise thereof. Outsourcing to disinterested clock-watchers is a peculiar form of parental love.
They gasp at Young Creationism while insisting some immaterial ‘truth’ exists outside one’s physical sex which can dictate reality. Very scientific, dontchaknow?
The “standards” they reference are, in many cases, nothing but teach-to-the-test methods. Like every other homeschool parent I’ve met,I do not care if my children can pass a test. I care whether they can understand and apply the knowledge they receive. This is often not a goal among the “standard-driven” public educators.
Yeah, we need high academic standards, like the public schools have...
As someone who homeschooled our kids, I always can tell a homeschooled kid when I meet them. They are intelligent, conversive and respectful.
Pfft. I homeschooling my 4 in Oregon. At first we had to report standardized test results annually even though public Scholls only had to every 3 years. Then they dropped the requirements to match PS requirements. Then we only had to provide proof that we were testing but not the actual test scores.
The reason the decided to no longer keep actual test score records was so that no one could FOIA the records and co.pare HS scores to PS scores anymore.
Uniform?! Uniform?! Whatever happened to Diversity?
When little Bobbie or John graduate from government schools unable to read write ,count past10 without using their toes home schoolers ain’t the problem
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Most abusive parents start out with babies and toddlers. Notice the authors aren't calling for background checks before school age.
In pretty much every "homeschooling-child abuse" case I've ever read, the children were failed by everyone - CPS, law enforcement, the court system, and their school.
For example, the authors mention this horrific case:
-"In 2020 an 11-year-old boy in Michigan was found dead after his stepmother used homeschooling to conceal years of torture."-
What the authors don't mention is that the boy's biological mother tried fighting in court to see her son, but the father kept moving; that the father of the stepmother's biological children fought for custody for years; and that, in 2016, the stepmother's own sister called CPS multiple times about the boy, but no action was ever taken, even though he was still in school at that time.
-"A small study of children who had been seriously abused found that eight of 17 school-age victims were ostensibly being homeschooled."-
The authors link to a study. WARNING - don't look at it! It's horrible. But, that study says the 8 "homeschooled" children started out IN SCHOOL and were removed "typically after closure of a CPS case." Again, CPS failed them.
The other 9 of the 17 were school students. In one case, the adoptive mother told the school the children had a life-threatening condition that required restriction from food and water, and CPS even bought her a lock to keep the children from food and water. WTH?
And 17...? ONE teacher in ONE local school was arrested for molesting the same number of children. A single pervert in one school has access to everyone's children.
I once called CPS on a family because the parents were drug dealers, the kids ran the street late at night, and the stepmother was seen punching one kid. You know what CPS told me? Nothing they could do, unless the kids were literally starving, beaten severely, or not going to school. But, those kids were in school. Mine weren't.
If a government schooled kid is failing should his parents be forced to homeschool? ( Just wondering.) /s