AG Eric Holder's new campaign: to ban homeschooling

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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.

Yeah, because standardized testing is the best thing ever. Just look at what No Child Left Behind (more accurately described as "No Child Allowed To Succeed") has done for us - all schools do now is teach the tests. No, thank you. "As long as the child passes a standardized test"... how about "As long as gun owners get an annual safety inspection"? And the indoctrination part? What do you think they're doing in public schools?

I'll agree with the rest, though. The hardest thing about homeschooling is the social aspect, but that can be dealt with.

My kids get homeschooled because they can't get what they need in public school. They're both gifted AND special needs; when we lived in Colorado, Cherry Creek schools couldn't provide what my son needed and wouldn't do what they were required to by law. The only way for us to get him what we needed was to A) find about $40k to pay for a special private school and then find the money to sue the district, who would then pay for the school or B) home school them. Guess what we did, after we moved out of Colorado. Oh, and the other reason we're homeschooling them? So they can actually learn. My daughter was doing the new "University of Chicago Math Program" that Cherry Creek uses, and after 6th grade still didn't know her multiplication tables, and couldn't do basic multiplication or division. Yet, she passed each grade! She couldn't write a summary, because they didn't teach her what one was, or how to write it! And this is the best, or one of the best, school districts in Colorado? My wife has been able to teach her these things. So, why do I want my kids in public school?

The schools down where I am now? Their overall, main emphasis is sports, and testing. To the exclusion of all else. Sports, the Opiate of the masses. And the now-required, all encompassing standardized testing. So, not much of a decision.