Posted on 07/10/2024 6:06:58 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Plank #10 of the Communist Manifesto: Free education for all children in public schools...
We wanted them to be tested anyway to ensure we were "up to snuff". The curriculum I wrote up the first year was just a list of subjects and books we would use to cover them.
After that, the last official project for the kids was to write up their own curriculum for the next year and submit it. Most of the books were from the mid 1800s.
I became very good friends (and still am) with the assistant superintendent, who became a proponent of homeschooling.
One day he was telling me how frustrated he was with the teachers and administrators who were fighting him over some tests. He just wanted to "test the test" with a number of tests. They were afraid of how poorly the students might do.
I told him we paid to have our kids tested, so why not use them, and we would make it a school project for them to critique the tests for him.
Saved us some money, they were the most tested students around, and he got his info on the tests.
Best of luck w the USAF Academy, I somehow believe that they would be major successes and super assets to our fine Country when they're in Cadet uniform (and beyond).
I finally got the principal to do his job after the threat of a lawsuit, and the boy apologized, they even became friends.
Because of learning of the incompetent teaching, we homeschooled not long after that.
I get the sarcasm.
I’m not going to miss a chance to be pro American-
that is an American innovation and was a noble pursuit until the commies took over our education system.
Yep ... the very idea is an over-reach of government power. Many (most?) States, however, have government schools baked into their constitutions. Removing them will be a challenge.
Time to start challengingnthe constitutionality of federally controlled public schools …as well as voting other than at polling stations….FBI etc, etc.
Lost me right there.
Whoever wrote this drivel suffers from psychological projection. Government-run schools have been hell holes and daycare centers for decades. They are desinged to produce crops of timid, ill-educated conformists.
“When a traditional classroom setting cannot meet the...needs of a child, homeschooling can allow parents to take over.”
Parents do not need to “take over” their rightful obligation, nor justify the exercise thereof. Outsourcing to disinterested clock-watchers is a peculiar form of parental love.
They gasp at Young Creationism while insisting some immaterial ‘truth’ exists outside one’s physical sex which can dictate reality. Very scientific, dontchaknow?
The “standards” they reference are, in many cases, nothing but teach-to-the-test methods. Like every other homeschool parent I’ve met,I do not care if my children can pass a test. I care whether they can understand and apply the knowledge they receive. This is often not a goal among the “standard-driven” public educators.
Yeah, we need high academic standards, like the public schools have...
As someone who homeschooled our kids, I always can tell a homeschooled kid when I meet them. They are intelligent, conversive and respectful.
Let the family that is homeschooling set the standard.
I agree. However, benchmarks are nice so you know where you should.
It’s just nice to know where the child should be as an average, imo. However, I am not saying that the government should be involved.
Pfft. I homeschooling my 4 in Oregon. At first we had to report standardized test results annually even though public Scholls only had to every 3 years. Then they dropped the requirements to match PS requirements. Then we only had to provide proof that we were testing but not the actual test scores.
The reason the decided to no longer keep actual test score records was so that no one could FOIA the records and co.pare HS scores to PS scores anymore.
What about transparency? (Don't answer my question lol)
Uniform?! Uniform?! Whatever happened to Diversity?
Usurping parental authority is the primary goal of authoritarian government.
Not to mention having to explain why minorities cannot achieve equality in school.
When little Bobbie or John graduate from government schools unable to read write ,count past10 without using their toes home schoolers ain’t the problem
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