[MortMan]

Teachers in the public school system are required to have certification and college degrees, yet any yahoo can force their kids to stay home as long as they pass an annual test.

And yet many publik-skool stoodents can't pass those same tests that the home-schooled kids ace. Can the author of this tripe spell "socialist societal suicide"?

[Tax-chick]

Can the author of this tripe spell "socialist societal suicide"?

And can you say it three-times-quickly? How about after a couple of drinks :-).

But seriously, homeschooled students in NC don't have to *pass* any tests ... they just have to take a nationally-administered test and keep the results. This is only fair, since school students don't have to pass tests, either ... just take them.

[Mr. Silverback]

And yet many publik-skool stoodents can't pass those same tests that the home-schooled kids ace. Can the author of this tripe spell "socialist societal suicide"?

Yeah, and I really resent the implication that as a high school graduate, I don't have the ability to pass concepts on to a child that I've been using in my daily life for decades. Ed school degrees have their place, but to believe you need certification to teach a kid their multiplication tables is just dumb.