Posted on 11/25/2001 7:25:26 PM PST by petuniasevan
I have a cousin that took the test 3x...failed each time. Amazing.
My husband ended up staying in his original field of work...he would have/would be a wonderful teacher. He's a great man.
There is no one more fiercely independent and politically aware than a homeschooling mother. Why's that? Because she's had to take a lot of hooey from the establishment. And has decided to do her own thing come hell or high water. Yeah, you will be politically satisfied.
Huge market? It is growing, that's for sure.
Some Christians react to these difficulties with various forms of resignation. They hope that more families will find a way to rearrange their lives for home schooling. In their home schools, they emphasize subjects such as spelling and grammar and generally neglect more difficult subjects such as mathematics and science. They hope that by the age of 18 the children will be strong enough to resist the evils that they encounter at the universities, or else they deny the children a higher education and direct them into occupations where that education is not required.
They are comforted by the fact that they have achieved slightly higher educational performance than the public schools while, at the same time, sparing their children the depravities of the secular world for at least part of their formative years. These Christians are dedicated people and are doing their best for their children. I believe, however, that they should be thinking beyond the current home school situation.
In order to take our country back from the secular humanists - back from those who have abandoned the Christian values and disciplines that made America great - back from the evil that is destroying our society, we must do more in our home school movement than we are doing now.
Our children must be not a little better educated when compared with those in the public schools - they must be so much better educated that they are entirely beyond such comparisons.
Our children must be able to think - and to think so much more effectively than their opponents that they are able, in one generation, to become such a superior force in science and engineering and in industry and government that they dominate American society.
Our children must be such shining examples for the home school movement, that the majority of American families demand the same quality for their children - a quality that can only be obtained by becoming Christian families who take responsibility for themselves.
Our children must be such superior performers in America's colleges and universities, that they not only resist the corruption in those institutions - that they destroy, by their example, the corruption itself.
Yep. Considering that many blacks also homeschool, they must also be racists? Seems that little nugget of stupidity may backfire.
According to HSLDA, you can HS your own kids K-8 without a GED or degree if you are associated with a church group. I have a friend in AL who's found a LOT of local churches who are willing to sign you up as a member just for that reason. (without manditory attendance, etc.) There usually is a loophole to crawl through, though.I agree that this is just another example of the state trying to tie the hands of HSers.
(Texas and WY RULE!! lol!)
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