AG Eric Holder's new campaign: to ban homeschooling

[HBARleatherneck]

Many states require a teaching certificate in order to homeschool, which usually necessitates a BA in Elementary Ed, which is the easiest of all majors and can be granted online. I don't support making a teaching certificate mandatory, but it does help to weed out the cretins who want to keep their children locked in the house 24/7 while not providing them an adequate education. As long as the child passes an annual standardized test and isn't being isolated due to neglect, abuse, or indoctrination, I think anyone should be permitted to homeschool their kids.

Where do you think more kids are indoctrinated and abused at? Home or at school? If you think that a family that would take the time to home school their children is the problem, you are oblivious to reality. The problem is two income families who have a child, stick the child in daycare, drop off the child at school and pick the kid up at daycare. These parents have no room to complain when their kids fail in their academics. They have no room to complain when their children are turned into raving liberals. Parents who dont want to spend any time or effort raising their children are the problem. Not the parents who care enough to teach their children.

[HBARleatherneck]

Many states require a teaching certificate in order to homeschool, .

this is also incorrect. Most states do not require a degree. Actually, I am having a hard time finding any that require a degree higher than high school.

http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000002/00000214.asp

here is some info.

This all goes back to modern marxism and communism. You should not be allowed to raise your own children. And we can thank unions too. Teachers unions, law enforcement unions and public employee unions should be outlawed.

[hatidua]

The crusade to ban things seems to know no bounds.

[HBARleatherneck]

nobody should be able to have a gun unless they are POST certified...right?

[10mm-man]

I lack an "Eduction egree" and teach my son jist fine! Me no needs a degra to teach mi sun......

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Edit: Guess I should prob add that I home school my son for real and I was just joking on the spelling, grammar and in ability to form a coherent sentence.

[Wiggity]

I was homeschooled until high school and got a scholarship at Colorado School of Mines.

[Dave_L]

Maybe the people in "The Village" had it right.

[TheGrey]

WTF? I'm getting awfully sick of this administration thinking it has a right and obligation to direct the plebes in all things.

Whatever happened to the right to be left the hell alone?!?

[PugnacAutMortem]

The problem is two income families who have a child, stick the child in daycare, drop off the child at school and pick the kid up at daycare.

I gotta take exception to this comment, because not all two income families have terrible kids, nor are all two income families by design. My wife and I both work because we have to, not because we want to.

It's the families that dump their kids off on everyone else so they can both work 80 hour weeks that are the problem. If that's what you meant then apologies. But if you meant every two income family ruins their kids then you paint the picture with the most ignorant brush.

[Ghosty]

Yet another case of the gubbin'ment thinking they know better than us, trying to save the world from bad parenting because of the bad apples. Guess what, no amount of gubbin'ment will save the world from the idiots, they're unstoppable. Now quit forcing your bullshit on the rest of the responsible parents.

Couple of my co-workers homeschool their kids and they're just fine. But they also have decent IQ's, unlike the majority of the general public.