NEA Resolution #B-69: Declare War on Homeschoolers

National Education Association (NEA) Resolutions for 2001-2002 ^ | 6-19-02 | Tired of Taxes

[Tired of Taxes]

B-69. Home Schooling

The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience. When home schooling occurs, students enrolled must meet all state requirements. Home schooling should be limited to the children of the immediate family, with all expenses being borne by the parents/guardians. Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used.

The Association also believes that home-schooled students should not participate in any extracurricular activities in the public schools.

The Association further believes that local public school systems should have the authority to determine grade placement and/or credits earned toward graduation for students entering or re-entering the public school setting from a home school setting. (1988, 2000)

[Future Snake Eater]

Does that include fisting training?

Uhh, yeahhhh...what would you teach children?

[uncommonsense]

My neices and nephew are homeschooled. They are the most well manner children I've had the pleasure to know. My brother's inlaws are former NEA school teachers and made a huge stink about their traitorous daughter homeschooling their kids (made reference to the state owning the kids). My brother (BS Electrical Engineering) said they'd never get to see their grandkids if they kept up with badgering them, so they relented.

My sister inlaw (BS) has done a great job as their primary teacher. But by limiting the teaching to only the immediate family members, the NEA is seeking to diminish the quality of homeschooling. People with subject matter expertise teach more advanced topics - e.g. my brother teaches advanced math. There may come a point where the kids need to be placed back into a traditional school setting, but the kids learn how to learn from homeschooling. They don't get that in a public education setting.

[FreeTally]

And that experience is exactly what?

Being around queers, leftists and all ethnicities while being barred from engaging in anything deemed a "Christian type" religion.

[RAT Patrol]

ROTFL...good one!

[asformeandformyhouse]

Dear NEA,

Thous doest protest too much.

Hit a nerve, did we?

[TxBec]

Oh that's how to do it (:: feeling silly ::) I tried to cut and paste, but it wouldn't work.

Anyway, most of it seems to me to just be a bunch of dribble.

like this

and this..

oh and this is real important (regarding education.)

[justshutupandtakeit]

I feel bad for all those people who had miserable school experiences. I loved school and had a great time there. Most of the fun I had would be unavailable in a home schooling situation and my parents would have been totally unable to school us at home. While there may be a small role for homeschooling for the most part it is not necessary and if done on a widescale would plunge the economy into massive recession. Not that anyone pushing this agenda understands why or cares.

Spelling bee successes do not mean an excellent education. This year's contest did not see great success by the homeschoolers in the finals. Not sure about the various state contests. Since most "homeschooling" of difficult subjects is farmed out perhaps we should call it "non-traditionally structured schooling" for accuracy.

[madfly]

ping

[goodnesswins]

How about calling it "ANYTHING BUT "public skoolen"?

[TxBec]

I had a great time in high school too. I always said my kids would go to my alma mater. No longer. It's not the same place. I went there before metal detectors at all entrances, campus police, gangs, etc. A friend of mine felt exactly about the school as I did and wanted to go back and teach there. She now works as a security guard and feels safer. She was assaulted several times and had to quit.

[asformeandformyhouse]

So because you had fun at school and your parents were incapable of instructing you, no one should homeschool? Looks like you got what you paid for with that education.

[lormand]

True, but if you consider the large ratio of Governent to Home Schoolers, the Homey's outperformed the Government Schoolers overall.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The educational experience, I always thought was one of learning.

Hasn't been that way since Dewey and Horace Mann early in the 20th Century!

[untenured]

Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used.

The NEA can take a long walk off a short pier. My children are not the raw material for education-establishment social engineering. It's as simple as that.

[ICE-FLYER]

The Nazi's at the NEA believe that we ought to pay our unconstitutionaly mandated school taxes to the bureaucrates that they have great power over AND pay for all home schooling but not allow our students to do activities with the school students in the public indoctrination centers?? Good, but they can stop having my money.

The police state of New York spends 10,000 dollars per student to prove that they are horrible at teaching and are angry with me for spending only 800 to produce 2 superior students when stacked next to their peers.

[Carolina]

While there may be a small role for homeschooling for the most part it is not necessary

Umm, sure. A small thing called EDUCATION, and not indoctrination brought to you by your friendly neighborhood school.

Not that anyone pushing this agenda understands why or cares.

Our agenda is to have the FREEDOM to teach our children. Got a problem with that?

Spelling bee successes do not mean an excellent education.

Would higher SAT scores define that for you?

[lavaroise]

Kids are of the jurisdiction of parents, not of the NEA, nor of the Feds or whatever. This tyranical pompous presumptuous self-wroship of the NEA through their revolutionary and self-asserting impertinent calls for action is a no-no.

It is one thing to be taxed for public schools, IT IS ANOTHER THING TO DEMAND WORSHIP LIKE TERRORISTS!!!! THEY ARE CROSSING THE LINE!!!

Moreover we have no jurisdiction over their decisions nor over their operations, nor the ability to check their own sins. This is a rogue organisation that needs to go or that needs to be completely redefined and rejurisdictionalized.

[lavaroise]

bump

[MeekOneGOP]

bump!

[B Knotts]

Uhh, yeahhhh...what would you teach children?

Certainly not what they're teaching in public schools.