[TontoKowalski]

We homeschool. It's been great, and I can't imagine we'd change our choice for educating our son. However, I dislike the tone of some of the pro-homeschool articles that seem to imply that all public schools are run by evil people looking to deliberately dumb-down kids.

That being said, does anyone have any information pertaining to the following little snippet? I'd like to learn more.

In the fall of 1999, Ridgewood, N.J., students, aged 11 to 18, were required to answer questions about their own drug use, sexual life, and any illegal activity in which they had been involved. The 156-question survey asked students to name how many times they had tried to kill themselves, used contraception, or made themselves throw up after eating. Parents took the school system to court and, after a two-year battle, won a victory for the First, Fifth, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.

[homeschool mama]

The only information I have on that is what I learn from friends whose children attend public high school. What you read (the snippet) is true....and then some.

[Stand Watch Listen]

FYI...

U.S. Judge Dismisses Suit Over N.J. Survey

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY

here's a search result with more findings

[toenail]

"I dislike the tone of some of the pro-homeschool articles that seem to imply that all public schools are run by evil people looking to deliberately dumb-down kids."

That's exactly what the system was designed to do.

[Stand Watch Listen]

However, I dislike the tone of some of the pro-homeschool articles that seem to imply that all public schools are run by evil people looking to deliberately dumb-down kids.

FYI...Here are links to various education threads (also containing numerous helpful links)

FReegards

Public Sector Subverting Productive Industry
Source: Toogood Reports; Published:| May 16, 2002;
Author: Henry Pelifian

History of America's Education Part 2: Noah Webster and Early America
Source: Sierra Times; Published: March 27, 2002;
Author: April Shenandoah

How Communist is Public Education?
Source: sierratimes.com; Published:March 22, 2002;
Author: Chuck Morse

History of America's Education Part 1: Johnny is in trouble
Source: Sierra Times; Published: March 20, 2002 ;
Author: April Shenandoah

Audit rips Georgia schools' curriculum
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Published: March 11, 2002;
Author:JAMES SALZER

Why schools fail: Samuel Blumenfeld warns Bush's education legislation is ineffective
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: March 2, 2002;
Author: Samuel Blumenfeld

Public School Isn't Like I Remember It
Too Good Reports; Published: February 28, 2002;
Author: Phyllis Schlafly

What Is Lacking In Our Educational System
Source: Too Good Reports; Published: February 28, 2002;
Author:| Ben Cerruti

The charade of education reform
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: February 2, 2002;
Author: Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld

American public schools: Working just as designed
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: January 21, 2002;
Author: Vox Day

High Schools Fail Thanks To Grade Inflation And Social Promotion
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: December 5, 2001
Author: Vin Suprynowicz

WHY AMERICANS CAN’T READ
Source: Accuracy in Media; Published: December 4, 2001
Author: Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid

The Failing Teacher and the Teachers' Code of Silence
Source: CNSNews.com; Published: December 3, 2001
Author: Glenn Sacks

Time for outrage! Linda Bowles reports latest results in America's public schools
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: November 27, 2001
Author: Linda Bowles

Illiterate in Boston: Samuel Blumenfeld explains U.S.'s ongoing reading problem
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: July 20, 2001
Author:Samuel Blumenfeld

NEA - Let our children go!
Source: WorldNet Daily; Published: June 23. 2001
Author: Linda Harvey

COOKING THE BOOKS AT EDUCATION
Source: Accuracy In Media; Published: June 5, 2001;
Author: Cliff Kincaid

Why Do Schools Play Games With Students' Minds ?
Source: The Detroit News; Published: April 1, 2001
Author: Thomas Sowell

The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?
Source: http://home.talkcity.com/LibraryDr/patt/homeschl.htm
Author: John Taylor Gatto

Dumbing down teachers
Source: USNews.com; Published: February 21, 2001
Author: John Leo

Free Republic links to education related articles (thread#8)
Source: Free Republic; Published: 3-20-2001
Author: Various

Are children deliberately 'dumbed down' in school? {YES!!!}
Source: World Net Daily; Published: May 13, 2001
Author: Geoff Metcalf {Interview}

Could they really have done it on purpose?
Source: THE LIBERTARIAN; Published: 07/28/2000
Author: Vin Suprynowicz

New Book Explores America's Education Catastrophe
Source: Christian Citizen USA; Published: April 2000
Author: William H. Wild

Deliberately dumbing us down (Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: December 2,1999
Author: Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Deconstructing the Western Mind: Gramscian-Marxist Subversion of Faith and Education
Source: www.petersnet; Published: Winter 1997
Author: Frank Morriss

Littleton Crisis to Government Control

The UN Plan for Your Mental Health

[Carry_Okie]

However, I dislike the tone of some of the pro-homeschool articles that seem to imply that all public schools are run by evil people looking to deliberately dumb-down kids.

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, by Charlotte Taylor Iserbyt.

[RAT Patrol]

I try to stay pretty quiet about public schools. I am grateful that I can home school and I don't want to rock any ego boats. Also, I have many friends and family members who went the PS route. They love their kids too and I'm not into insulting them. It has been my experience, let me add, that most of the criticizing is the other way around. I don't care but it hurts my son's feelings sometimes.

[KentuckyWoman]

Try this link for the beginning of further info on the Ridgewood case:

Ridgewood, NJ Intrusive Testing