Homeschooling Regulation: The Revenge of the Failures

WorldNetDaily ^ | January 4, 2007 | Dr. Bruce N. Shortt

[achilles2000]

Homeschool regulation: The revenge of the failures Posted: January 4, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Bruce N. Shortt, Ph.D.

In their never-ending effort to "help" homeschoolers, public school bureaucrats periodically try to increase homeschooling regulations. This makes K-12 education perhaps a unique endeavor: it's a field in which the failures regularly, and astonishingly, insist that they should be able to regulate the successful.

[achilles2000]

I agree. With La Pelosi and the other assorted characters from the Star Wars bar scene in control in Congress, the junior masters of the universe in the states are going to start feeling frisky about homeschool regulation unless there is some serious push back.

[achilles2000]

If it can't be avoided....

[bimmer]

Fellow Homeschoolers: NFL Defensive Player of the Year is Jason Taylor who is a former homeschooler. He will be on ESPN, tomorrow, talking about his education background.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/index

Also Tim Tebow, backup QB for the Florida Gators, had a great write-up by an Ohio sports writer:

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/osusports/osusports.php?story=dispatch/2007/01/05/20070105-F1-04.html

Enjoy!

[traviskicks]

dang, that is a hard hitting article. :)

[Sherri-D]

Get them out. Save the Beautifuls.

[achilles2000]

You need a 2X4 to get the attention of a donkey

[kinsman redeemer]

I wonder if someone knows how to fix the formatting?):

I went to the website, copied the table (not the column headers yet) and pasted (special-HTML) into Excel. Then got the header row (the same way) and inserted it.

[achilles2000]

Thanks!

[achilles2000]

The most direct foreign influence for the creation of the common schools/public schools was the Prussian school system that was created after the humiliating defeat of Prussia at the Battle of Jena. From the second decade of the 19th Century onward many American intellectuals and students visited and studied in the German states. The Prussian/German schools and other Teutonic intellectual trends impressed the Americans and, unfortuantely, deformed public policy and intellectual trends here. The situation wasn't helped with the failure of the revolutions of 1848, which led to the emmigration to America of a great many leftist ethnically German intellectuals (Germany wasn't created are a unified country until 1870).