Posted on 09/24/2016 7:23:59 AM PDT by kevcol
"I worry that in a lot of cases students who are homeschooled are not getting the kind of the breadth of instruction experience they would get in school, they're also not getting the opportunity to build relationships with peers unless their parents are very intentional about it," said Education Secretary John B. King Jr.
"And they're often not getting those relationships with teachers and mentors other than their parents. I do worry whether home school students are getting the range of opportunities we hope for for all kids," he said slamming the system.
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We are too - well, our grandchildren are being homeschooled. Our son stayed a Common Sense Conservative here in California, all the way through college, because he learned to think for himself in homeschool. (The libs hate that).
IOW, they become superior American adults.
The genius John B. King explaining to everyone how the world works.
Surprised you can use strikethrough. Do you know of a fast online html editor?
If Hillary gets in her administration will find some way to eliminate Home Schooling. They won’t be able to out-law it outright, but the Left has gotten far too good at using regulations and bureaucracies to further their aims.
Home schooled students aren’t immersed in Progressive pro-Islam propaganda for 12 years, they threaten the gravy train for the Democrat Party client teachers unions and they too often become productive non-Democrat voting citizens.
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Dang it — you beat me to it almost word for word!
President Trump needs to swiftly abolish the Department of Education.
Home schooled students consistently score higher on national tests. How’s that for breadth, low-info person?
That must be why they make such a poor showing at geography and spelling bees.
Another quacking Obama apparatchik stooge ...
The Department of Education is on Trump’s short list of things to do in the new year.
I’ve only known two families who home schooled their children in my fairly long life. The one family, in Oregon, both kids were exceptionally bright and well mannered, and were in the Who’s Who of American Students. The other, most recent family, in California, have 3 kids, also exceptionally bright and well mannered. Their father is a school teacher so it speaks volumes about what he thinks of the educational system in California (common core?) California is near the bottom educationally, 48th I think, in the U.S.
Education Secretary John B. King Jr. is a piece of leftwing excrement who doesn’t deserve to be in the United States in the Trump Administration.
They don’t get exposure to the social environments other kids do....experiencing things like:
- How to be disrespectful to teachers
- Being exposed to all the swearing
- Being bullied where the school does nothing
- Getting high
- Getting drunk
- Teenage sex and getting STD’s
- Teenage pregnancy
- Teenage abortion
- Being indoctrinated by liberal teachers
- Lower educational standards
If schooled at home they might:
- Learn respect
- Perform well academically
- Be the next spelling bee champion
- Learn to be responsible
- Learn to work hard
- Think for themselves
- Believe in individual liberty
- Actually understand what free speech really means
- Be influenced by Christianity
- Have morals
Yep...how frightening!!! ...at least for bureaucrats that think they know better than everyone and think they’ve the right to control individual liberty.
yes... but how do they score on the liberal indoctrination tests?
Started homeschooling our youngest this year ( fourth grade.) It is going amazingly well. Breadth of education? She is learning Greek and Roman History and Latin. She does reading, spelling and grammar every day in addition to math fact practice and a math lesson. She plays violin, piano, takes ballet class and sings in our church’s children’s liturgical choir. The bloviating by this liberal is an effort to make sure there aren’t mass defections of the sheep. He is worried about the potential end of his gravy train.
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That’s correct sir.
And my youngest daughter, who was a late bloomer, would have been labeled as *learning disabled* and stuck in remedial classes, etc, and labeled to her detriment. It would have killed her self-esteem and I surely believe it would have held her back.
And this girl, now 24, just passed her qualifying exams and is on a fast track to her PhD in a Physics related field.
Homeschooling ROCKS!!!!!!
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