Posted on 06/30/2015 11:35:38 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
The National Education Association has launched an attack on the practice of homeschooling, and one leading education expert is not taking it lying down. “The National Education Association’s radical attacks on constitutionally protected liberties and homeschooling families in particular are outrageous and should be vehemently denounced by every real educator and every real American,” internationalist journalist and educator Alex Newman declared.
The NEA’s 2014-2015 resolution on homeschooling begins like this: “The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience.” Freelance writer Patrice Lewis, who homeschools her children, seethed at that line.
“Who has the authority to define ‘comprehensive?’” Lewis asked. “The NEA? Why should they be the ones to define comprehensive and not the parents? Each family may define a ‘comprehensive’ education differently, and each parent should have the right to choose how they want their children educated.
“‘Comprehensive’ as defined by a far-left progressive agenda-driven union and special interest-supported legislators and bureaucrats is almost guaranteed to fly in the face of the morals, values and traditions of parents who don’t have similarly leftwing progressive agenda-driven views.”
Newman, who co-authored the book “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children,” pointed out that if homeschooled children weren’t getting a good enough education, they wouldn’t be beating public school students like they are now...
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Well they are correct, since “comprehensive education experience” is code for anti-Christian, anti-family, pro-homosexual, feminist, liberal indoctrination.
(Thank goodness!)
The boneheads at the N.E.A. forget that Abraham Lincoln was home-schooled.
The N.E.A. must believe that children of families, once of teachable age, become the property of the State, which is unconstitutional and is institutionalized slavery to the State.
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It’s only a matter of time before they argue it’s unfair to homeschool because the kids who are homeschooled do so much better than the govt factory idoctrinized kids do.
The left makes ridiculous arguments. They will make this one.
They do this every year.
Yep NEA, ya bunch of commie university shills.
My granddaughter after flunking 8th grade twice, going into high school at age 16 a year behind really positively influenced by publik skool.
I yanked her out, home schooled her 6 months, put her in the community college GED studies course and she had her GED, was enrolled in the college by her 17th birthday, and by the time her 18th birthday rolls around in 2 months has her CNA certification, her first 25 requisite college credits towards her plans for nursing school next year.
That’s right NEA, if they learn actual ‘things’ Readin, Writin and Rithmatic and not the peer group pablum, GiBLeT PC garbage and diversity / racial studies, they can actually progress at a pace the NEA could never dream exists.
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Which is exactly why Sodo-fascists will not stop until our children are in their grasp...
There are no (or very damn few) "real" educators in American today - other than homeschool parents.
I have a relative that called my children social misfits because they were homeschooled.
One of his daughters hid in her room during her entire high school graduation party.
Let’s see. Two of my daughters moved out on their own by the age of 20. One is a full time nanny and just got hired in the children’s dept at a bookstore because of her tremendous knowledge of children’s literature. She’s heading off on a mission trip to Africa soon.
Another is working full time as an admin. assistant. This fall, she’ll be studying in England for 6 months.
One son is a bit of a social misfit, that’s because he’s majoring in astronautical engineering. His entire class is the same as him. He’s also working full time this summer for a home remodeler who just told me how impressed he is with my sons work ethic.
Number four is 1000 miles away right now as a camp counselor in training.
Yep, I’d say their education was pretty comprehensive.
America started out home schooling until the gov’t thought they could do better.
I guarantee that the students and instructors will be gobsmacked over her intelligence and knowledge.
I guest lectured in about a dozen UK universities and in my lectures there was always some US student studying abroad for a semester of two. Always, that student was unprepared and unable to defend the greatness of America and were beat into submission, assuming all the fasionably anti-American elitist snobbery of the UK “intelligentsia.”
I, on the other hand, while not brilliant was an unapologetic American, proud of the country and was lucky to have been educated to defend America and what is stands for and has done to advance civilization and freedom.
I think she will be a welcome presence in her classes/lectures and she will be doing the educating. . .good for her.
You forgot to mention the exposure to drug abuse that also forms an essential part of today’s “public education.”
“.. cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience.”
Depends on how you define “comprehensive education experience” ... comprehensive 3rd world education, comprehensive gang membership, comprehensive queer sex indoctrination, comprehensive political correctness, etc.
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go there. support the legal defense of homeschooling.
and if you are interested in homeschooling, they will help show you the way.
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I guarantee that the students and instructors will be gobsmacked over her intelligence and knowledge.“This fall, she’ll be studying in England for 6 months.”
I guest lectured in about a dozen UK universities and in my lectures there was always some US student studying abroad for a semester of two. Always, that student was unprepared and unable to defend the greatness of America and were beat into submission, assuming all the fasionably anti-American elitist snobbery of the UK “intelligentsia.”
I, on the other hand, while not brilliant was an unapologetic American, proud of the country and was lucky to have been educated to defend America and what is stands for and has done to advance civilization and freedom.
I think she will be a welcome presence in her classes/lectures and she will be doing the educating. . .good for her.
Your comment puts me in mind of this old thread which starts out,Greetings all. I am a politics student at Cambridge University (UK) and I am currently investigating American conservatism. As this seems to be a very well used and articulate forum, I was hoping that you would be willing to discuss your political beliefs. As you may be aware, much of Europe operates with a very different set of assumptions about the world to those in evidence here. Without wishing to offend anybody here, would you mind answering a few questions?This elicited a response from me which included
It is sometimes noted that Americans have a need to affirm the superiority of America, whereas the same might not be true of the typical country whose name you might arbitrarily select from an Atlas. I suspect that that is true, for the simple reason that America was purpose-built to be an exemplar, and consequently America must either excel or fail.The questioning Brit seemed taken by that point about “America as exemplar.” But in what way is America an exemplar? I put it to you that the American Constitution is an exemplar of two related things:The mission statement of the Federal Government is the preamble to the Constitution. But a true mission statement is a bumper sticker, and in that spirit the mission statement is
- belief in freedom, and
- belief in progress.
“to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” But a belief in liberty is a belief in progress, in the sense that liberty empowers change - and change which doesn’t produce progress is pretty certain to produce regress. Indeed, the word “progress” occurs in the Constitution. Precisely once, in Section 8 of Article 1:
The Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries . . .You can, no doubt, believe in progress, in a pie-in-the-sky sort of way, without believing in liberty. But you cannot believe in liberty without believing in progress. The question which the Framers of the Constitution submitted to history was whether liberty would lead to progress. And this question is still being debated. There is plenty of evidence on which to base your answer to this question. On the positive side, in addition to the “voting with your feet” argument is the fact that an American secretary today would have to think long and hard about changing circumstances with Queen Victoria (1820-1900, approximately) because of all the "progress of science and useful arts” just since 1900. Plastics. Electric power and electric appliances, lights, and tools. Central heat. Refrigeration and air conditioning. Gasoline and automobiles, aircraft and affordable transport to/from anywhere in the inhabited world, x-rays and MRIs and CAT scans, and medicines unknown back then. TV, radio, computers, telephones.I will leave the negative side to others, noting that IMHO they will boil down to cynicism.
The primary problem in attempting to defend American Conservatism lies in the fact that it is hard to do in Newspeak - and that is what we are trying to do. From the moment you think of yourself as “conservative” you are thinking uphill. There aren’t any conservatives in America - not in the sense in which people hear the word. As I outlined above, the Constitution is based on the premise that liberty would produce progress. People condemn conservatism. If you want to market a product, the first thing you do is to promote the idea that it is new. Your opponent, at least in America, will claim to be “progressive” - while opposing the freedom to try things which may produce progress of by and for the American people. Your opponent will claim to be “liberal” - while opposing liberty.
The N.E.A. knows full well that public schools put out indoctrination not education: My kids went to private schools until high school.
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