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Posted on 05/18/2009 2:26:40 PM PDT by SecAmndmt
LAKE JACKSON — Inquisitiveness, liberty and freedom from government are key to the human condition, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul told members of the Brazosport area home-school graduates Saturday.
Paul addressed 14 graduates of various home-school backgrounds in a standing-room-only First Baptist Church sanctuary in Lake Jackson. Students entered the sanctuary to “Pomp and Circumstance” and walked out to Casting Crown’s “Lifesong.”
“It’s very important we encourage home-schooling and make sure it’s always legal, and our governments never decide they know best,” Paul said. “Too often, our government would like to be the parent. Home-schoolers know exactly who’s responsible for education, and that’s the parent.”
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My son is graduating this year as well - I’m so thankful I had the right and the opportunity to take this journey with him.
Worth repeating.
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For any Conservative who dreamed of one day teaching, paid the $$ price to pursue an education entitling them to do so only to find the circumstance(s) in public (& increasingly parochial) education, untenable?
This is an excellent trend begging to be capitalized on. Especially with the Internet rendering traditional barriers such as distance, cost, availability of resources such as text books etc rendered moot.
There're enough people who dearly love their kids. Can see with their own two eyes what's gone down. Such people if provided the right kind of assistance might jump at the chance to take matters into their own hands.
By that I mean they'd PAY for a service which c/would essentially make them "partners" toward an unadulterated, superb education for their children.
I know there're websites providing all manner of information pertaining to home schooling.
But they're intimidated, have self doubt(s) and therein lies *opportunity*.
The service I suggest c/would take the education process to the next step: teach the parent, oversee the both parent and child.
Be not unlike a private school minus the sky high tuition, the parent would be partnered with an expert who'd be assisting many parents, simultaneously.
This really is a 2010 version of undiscovered oil fields during 1900 in PA, OK and TX, here.
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