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To: SALChamps03

Dear SalChamps03,

"But it has been my experience that homeschool proponents will not accept that not everyone is capable of homeschooling."

It isn't that we don't accept that not everyone is capable of homeschooling. It is that we don't accept that the government is capable of adequately overseeing homeschoolers. The government has proven itself incompetent time after time in trying to educate the children already under its control in many, many public schools.

Thus, as long as the government fails in its own assignment, I scarcely see the sense in it overseeing the assignment of homeschoolers. In fact, if anything, it is the successful homeschoolers who should oversee the unsuccessful, incompetent, evil overlords who run most public school systems. And, since turnabout is fair play, and at times homeschoolers have been unjustly harmed legally by the scum that run the government schools, homeschoolers, in their oversight of the public schools, should have the power to imprison incompetent public school teachers and administrators.

Of course, that will never happen. Our society couldn't afford to build that many new prison cells.

"Homeschooling is right for many, but absolutely wrong for some."

Perhaps. But government oversight (which really boils down to demonic NEA oversight) of homeschoolers is wrong for all.

And not only, or even principally because the government is incompetent at providing education, but because the folks who run the public schools are a special interest group - they are public school "professionals." Their bias is for public schools, and they are threatened by homeschooling (why shouldn't they be when the average high school-diplomaed mom can achieve ten times what most public school teachers can achieve, in terms of actually educating children). It is permitting the fox to guard the henhouse. That the foxes are congenitally incompetent doesn't exactly enhance their position.


sitetest


103 posted on 07/22/2005 8:44:01 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest
Their bias is for public schools, and they are threatened by homeschooling (why shouldn't they be when the average high school-diplomaed mom can achieve ten times what most public school teachers can achieve, in terms of actually educating children).

Once again, this is opinion. It isn't scientific fact.

115 posted on 07/22/2005 9:09:31 PM PDT by SALChamps03
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