Homeschooling and its foes

The Washington Times ^ | 6/23/2002 | House Editorial

[xsysmgr]

In 1985, JC Penney sold a T-shirt that displayed a rundown trailer on the front; over the picture in sloppily scrawled writing were the words "home-skooled." That same year, five families from Florida were prosecuted for truancy, and one temporarily lost custody of its children. All of that was because these families decided to educate their children at home.

[RichardsSweetRose]

In the name of "fairness," public education has produced a system which does a good job of providing politically correct indoctrination about subjects such as condom use, homosexual rights, global warming, etc. But it does a poor job of teaching children basic reading, writing and mathematics skills.

Wonderful so our children know about sex, but lack the basic skills got get a job. Can you say welfare!

[kassie]

JC Penney sold that tee shirt in '85? I thought that just happened a couple of years back.

[sport]

The teacher's union, the communists [liberals], and the democrats enjoy your children being raped, robbed, and assualted while atending public schools.

For the most part, their chldren attend private schools.

The reason that the democrat politicans oppose vouchers for all children to attend private schools is that they do not want thir children rubbing shoulders with poor blacks, hispanics, and poor white children.

It is perfectly ok to use these same children to further their political agenda.

There may be other reasons, but they are secondary to paragaph 2.

[TxBec]

ping

[Woodkirk]

And yet students from foreign nations without diplomas from
a state institution can readily get into any college with
financial aid -- what a goofy bureaumaniac country
we live in -- the People's Republic on the Potomac.

[goldstategop]

The government is under no obligation to provide taxpayer funded services to home schoolers but by the same standard the government shouldn't place obstacles in front of parents wishing to educate their children at home. Either the government accords home schools a place in our nation's education system or it compensates them for whatever governmental roadblocks are erected to retard and frustrate their growth and development. If its the latter, fighting home schooling can get expensive for the government pretty quickly. The bottom line is that whether the government likes it or not, home schools are here to stay.

[G.Mason]

"In Texas, Baylor University formally accepted six students, only to deny them admission after realizing that they were home-schooled."

Undoubtably because the six home schooled students had not been "indoctrinated" by state run schools and posed a risk to those that were.

[AppyPappy]

Homeschooling is the biggest threat to government education because it empowers the individual and is not limited to a single interest group.

[Greeklawyer]

Foreign students (on student visas) are
ineligible for U.S. gov. assistance.

This is why universities love foreign students.
The must pay cash.
If a stat Univ. they recieve no resident discount and
pay an increased rate.
Foreign students are a good source of income.

[Greeklawyer]

so much for creating a diverse first year class....

[mlmr]

I would bet the ranch it was about 95.

[Free the USA]

Bump list and fyi

[twntaipan]

"In Texas, Baylor University formally accepted six students, only to deny them admission after realizing that they were home-schooled."

Undoubtably because the six home schooled students had not been "indoctrinated" by state run schools and posed a risk to those that were.

Or because they believed more strongly in God and in His Word than did the Baylor administration.

[gaspar]

I would think that the home-schooled students would have a cut and dried law suit against Baylor. If they go after Baylor and get the right jury they might end up owning the University.

[Zon]

When the top government official tells bald-face lies to the American public, ala Bill Clinton saying, "I didn't inhale" and "I didn't have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinski" and defaults to banality before the court saying "it depends on what the meaning of is, is," that is not an institution you want teaching your children. It's a glaring example of why government was never given constitutional power to conduct public education schooling. And especially not setting the curriculum.

That government usurped the citizens power to teach children further proves that government can be detrimental to your child and his or her education.

People are not stupid; given equal time to hear both sides of virtually any issue they have good judgjement. There's a saying in the lawyer field. "If the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. If you've got the law on your side pound on the law. If you've got neither, pound on the table."

The effectiveness of pounding on the table has been in rapid decline as a means of winning arguments. Even pounding on the law is losing it's luster. Contrastive, in-context facts are soaring in credibility with people.

Imagine what would happen if John Stossel got not five minutes air time each week but got five hours.

[ladylib]

What would John Stossel do with this story? It's really about fraud in the public schools.

http://www.thereporteronline.c om/site/news.cfm?newsid=451457 4&BRD=2275&PAG=461& ;dept_id=466404&rfi=6

Talk about fraud. When children from one of Baltimore County's crummy public schools (who were in the "gifted and talented" program in their school) transfer to the local Catholic school, they find themselves in the lower ability classes. How's that for fraud?

[Zon]

The grand delusion of virtually any person pushing an agenda that doesn't have full honesty of in context facts on their side is that they've deluded themselves to believe that their pounding on something other than the complete facts is a winning proposition, when in fact it's just the opposite.

[anncoulteriscool]

Ef I hud been hume skulled i wuld be a butter speuller..hahahahaha.

[cruiserman]

The government is under no obligation to provide taxpayer funded services to home schoolers

Only if homeschoolers got a rebate on taxes they paid to the gov't schools, which they do not.