About time. If private citizens wish to assume the functions of government, let them meet government standards. If I want to build my own house, I still need to comply with the applicable building codes.
You've got it backwards, Joe. It's the government that's taken on the role of parents.
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Listen to yourself! How did you come to define the education of our children as a function of government? Perhaps it's in the Constitution? Oh wait a minute, can't seem to find it there.
Well, the government's been doing it for a while, so it must be a government function. Yeah, that's it. If the government starts doing it, it becomes a government function and anyone who would dare to do it on their own, well they must be in need of some serious regulation.
Compulsory eduction laws were originally concieved by anti-Catholic bigots to try to undermine Catholic parents beliefs. The same tradition is carried on today as state schools try to indoctrinate children into radical environmentalism and other strange beliefs.
Can you point to me anywhere in the US Constitution that education is deemed a "function" of "government," or that home-schoolers have to be dumbed down to measurements exacted by "govenment standards?" Can you point to any State's Constitution which mandates that the only educational "standards" are those defined solely by the whim of state's teachers' unions?
Point is this: homeschoolers consistently EXCEED government standards. What makes you think government bureaucrats/educrats have qualifications to stand in judgment of them, let alone attempt to try to "control" them?
But homeschoolers exceed 'government standards'.
About time. If private citizens wish to assume the functions of government, let them meet government standards
Government standards my hairy a**!
My 3 youngest children are home schooled and consistently outperform their peers in assessment testing. My oldest (who was home schooled for 7 years) is a senior with a 4.2 gpa and already has 13 hours of college credit with a 3.7 gpa.
Government standards are a smoke screen for government control.
While our building codes are for the public's and your safety; governmental "education's" purpose is now to employ "educators" and produce mindless sheeple dipped in the "oil of PC" and to allow only coloring inside the lines as approved BY the government. Godless schools (unless you're a moose-limb) and tolerance of the homosexual agenda and their perversions are two such examples od "educators" "preparing" our kids for life. The ecological green weenies, anti-gun nuts, and feminist nazis are also adding their own special charms to the public schools as well. No wonder people need to teach their own kids.
My advice: don't let the government know you have children!
Hey Joe! If homeschoolers produce the academic cream of the crop, meeting government standards would dumb them down. Homeschoolers already exceed government standards. By forcing HSers to comply with govt sub-standards, they are opening the door to home visits. Now either the homosexual and pro-aborts' penumbran constitutional right to privacy exists or it doesn't. If it exists, HSers have the same right. If it doesn't, time to overturn Roe v. Wade and push the Hsexers back into the closet.
"Put down that book. Here is your condom and banana."
If that is all you ask of education then you will wind up being (or raising) a moron.
Shalom.
Idiot. The one thing the government DOESN'T want is for home-educated kids to exceed their wretched standards. It makes them look bad and builds an educated opposition. According to their own tests, both my kids could pass their high school equivalency exams. One is ten; the other is eight.
All they want us for is to rais their average test scores so that they can qualify for Federal Funds and they don't care what happens to my kids in the process. Leave us alone.
Raising and teaching my kids is not the function of our goverment. Do you think the goverment has ownership of the children? That is one of the basic principles on communism.
We by far out perform goverment standards we have every year that we have been tested. This is not about superior teaching we already do that. This is about who actually owns the children and what they are taught, nothing more nothing less.
BTW my children under goverment schools would have been in remedial classes. Under my teaching my senior in high school will graduate this year from highschool and will also graduate from a local community college with an associates degree in Biology, he will enter university as a junior. My junior in highschool could have been accepted at Juliard from the time he was 15 years old. These boys would have been lost in goverment schools and would never have had a chance to excell. But, we both know that is not what this is all about it is about who is in control not what is best for the student.
Actually, I know you're being teasingly provocative; but you know all the arguments used against the exercise of fundamental individual rights, and therefore provide for a wall against which counter-argument may be slung: makes for an interesting thread.
If, however, you are serious in your assertions--which I seriously doubt--a scurvy pox upon you, sir! I recognise your sentiment, have defeated it once already; and I stand ready to defend liberty against the predations which you--wielding the cudgel of majoritan tyranny--would inflict upon your neighbors! Your notions are fundamentally corrupt, evil, scorn-worthy: an insult to what my father, uncles and granfathers endured in service to this country and its constitution.
I will step around you; lift my feet over you; step upon your face, or contest my life for yours, if ever you, or any like you, seek to rob me of that to which God hisself has appointed to my stewardship and discretion.
But I know you're kidding, so take no umbrage at my rant.
That is scary. You show me in the Constitution where government is given the sole right to educate children.
And you post on Free Republic, Why exactly?
Was your screen name at DU.com taken? Democrats.com not accepting any new applicants?