Posted on 07/10/2024 6:06:58 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Sorry, but homeschooled kids learn to read and write before they graduate. So they will reject your uniform standards.
The public/private school kids are still a year or more behind thanks to the China flu shut downs.
“Uniform”, meaning some dumb liberals that screwed up public education want a piece of screwing up homeschooling too!
Exactly.
That’s right.
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But others do not receive a meaningful education—and too many have suffered horrific abuse. The federal government must develop basic standards for safety and quality of education in homeschooling across the country.
After seeing how the federal government handles public schools and the fruit of their efforts to set standards and keep kids *safe*< thanks but no thanks.
What with the literacy rates public schools are producing, they are in no position to point fingers.
A wise man once said, “Take the log out of your own eye first ...”
Gee they are advocating for actual education standards, or for the lack by teachers unions.
Home school kids win spelling bees. They get the highest SATS.
Maybe Trump should gut Education and Federal education all together.
I was homeschooled, and received a proper classical education in spite of the onerous regulations of Pennsylvania.
What they really mean is: We want total control of young minds!
But we can’t indoctrinate them of they are schooled at home!
The hypocrisy of that statement is breathtaking.
Government schools need to be abolished ... they’re a failed experiment.
The only Uniform Standards were that jammies were fine as long as BIC (Butt in Chair) time was properly observed. Properly observed meant the animals were fed, eggs collected and they had eaten breakfast.
We home schooled for 13 years. Both our kids are very successful in their chosen careers. They are both millionaires AND they are nice people too.
That statement is a classic anti-homeschooling and anti-Christian talking point. But regardless of what one believes about how we arrived at the point we are on Earth, the premise of the statement is that publicly schooled students don't believe incorrect ideas, like "Young Earth Creationism".
But in reality publicly schooled students often don't even know who Charles Darwin was, and lack the reading skills to even read his writings. And they often believe all kinds of incorrect or false ideas, and lack basic knowledge of math, science, religious history, and many other things.
Many high school students and most adults can't correctly answer the question "how old is the Earth?"
Also, for just about any career except perhaps a petroleum geologist, how the Earth got formed and came to be in its current condition is unimportant. Most of us will find that our knowledge of topics like the long term history of the Earth has no effect on our daily life.
If knowledge of the history of the Earth is really that important the authors would note that publicly schooled students actually don't know either, instead of attacking some small subset of Christian parents who believe in a recently formed Earth.
I homeschooled my children for two years.
When I put them back in school, they were ahead of their peers.
We continued to supplement their education at home and deprogram them from the daily brainwashing.
What would they like to foist on parents now? The common core math disaster? The ridiculous “whole language” disaster?
Sod off!
No, but the local school district sure does. My family was harassed and threatened by CPS when I reached mandatory attendance age. They wanted every detail of extended family history, including medical history, vaccination records, home inspection, anything they could hang a hat on. They demanded a physical exam and a look at my bedroom. Or else. (Or else they'll call the police and you're looking at possible arrest and foster care within an hour or so.) They finally accepted that they'd picked the wrong fight. Most families subjected to such treatment would probably not be so fortunate.
That was some 20 years ago, but I don't think it's any different now.
Their brand was dead in the 90s, much like National Geographic’s.
So says the article. They’re not getting a safe and robust education in government schools, far from it. Public schools are graduating children that can’t read, write or perform arithmetic after 12 years of public schooling. That’s not robust, it’s rubbish education!
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