AG Eric Holder's new campaign: to ban homeschooling

[HBARleatherneck]

It isn't generally reported in the media. I have a few friends working as investigators for Child Protective Services in another state, and a few friends who are public schoolteachers who are familiar with cases involving abused kids being pulled out of school by abusive parents for "home schooling", and am familiar with a few isolated "religious communities" who don't want any contact with the rest of society and try to maintain total control over their community like a cult . . . and I'm not talking about the Amish or Hassidic communities either, but nutjobs who make the Scientologists and Branch Davidians almost look sane.

So, what you are saying is... some extremely small amount of people who claim to be homes schoolers are criminals. So, law enforcement and liberals are painting all home school families as bad to further your agendas. What bullshit. The exact thing the liberals are doing to law abiding gun owners. I bet the numbers are tiny. I bet they are NOT in anyway related to home schooling. Just criminals doing criminal things. But, if it makes law enforcement and liberals sleep better lets regulate everything. Im sure then all kids will be safe from violence and be well educated by "THE SYSTEM".
There is the America I love.

[Irving]

Who cares? Those people haven't supported the 2nd amendment, so why should I care if homeschooling is banned?

What's the most disappointing, is that they aren't also banning door knobs. You guys might not hear about it much, but I know a few guys who beat their wives under the guise of their women running into "door knobs." I don't see the issue in having our women pass a physical test once a year to make sure they aren't being beaten and/or rapped at home. As long as our wives faces and vaginas can pass a government inspection, then there should be no reason we can't utilize knobs to operate our doors at home.

[palepainter]

Most people have a poor understanding of what home schooling is about. There are state chartered programs that provide the curriculum. These programs have been approved by the state in order to gain that status. Most of these kids in these programs are wayyyyy ahead of the learning curve. My daughter is growing intellectually, leaps and bounds over her friends. I would recommend to anyone to check out Calvert Academy for themselves.

See ya at the state spelling bee finals this year.....



Eat shit Holder

[HBARleatherneck]

Who cares? Those people haven't supported the 2nd amendment, so why should I care if homeschooling is banned?

What's the most disappointing, is that they aren't also banning door knobs. You guys might not hear about it much, but I know a few guys who beat their wives under the guise of their women are running into "door knobs." I don't see the issue in having our women pass a physical test once a year to make sure they aren't being beaten and/or rapped at home. As long as our wives faces and vaginas can pass a government inspection, then there should be no reason we can't utilize knobs to operate our doors at home.

it baffles the mind doesnt it?

[skullybones]

Fuck this noise.

[zteknik]

Of course they want to ban homeschooling.This way they can fully indoctrinate the youth....

[UncleDave]

See my earlier post about the Hitler Youth. From preschool through university they were indoctrinated for a generation. That has been going on in a limited way here since the 70's. This is just an effort to make it more aggressive.

[zteknik]

See my earlier post about the Hitler Youth. From preschool through university they were indoctrinated for a generation. That has been going on in a limited way here since the 70's. This is just an effort to make it more aggressive.

Yes,pretty darn scary.It's like they took that as a model to go by.
Just waiting for them to mandate bamma uniforms....
Although some schools in certain states allready have dresscodes/uniforms implemented..
Again,scary..

[UncleDave]

The teacher's union is already in O's pocket. When he was running in 08 there were teachers having elementary school children sing songs about the exalted one. Look it up, very scary when viewed against the things that the Hitler Youth was doing.

[Troublco]

Most people have a poor understanding of what home schooling is about. There are state chartered programs that provide the curriculum. These programs have been approved by the state in order to gain that status. Most of these kids in these programs are wayyyyy ahead of the learning curve. My daughter is growing intellectually, leaps and bounds over her friends. I would recommend to anyone to check out Calvert Academy for themselves.

While this is certainly an option, it isn't, strictly speaking, home schooling. It's more like a traditional school but in your home setting; the kids even have an assigned teacher. We had my son in one; Colorado Connections Academy and it is still a lock-step program using their curriculum. Most are, as you mentioned, far better than your typical public school but there's still a lot of structure to it. That was one of the reasons it didn't work quite as well as we'd hoped for my son; but for most kids it would be fine.

We did investigate this where we are now, but the program for NM wasn't approved until the last minute before this school year. We went and bought a curriculum we chose, and are very happy using it. We have much more freedom the way we're doing it than we did with Connections. And, with my really screwy schedule, it gives us the freedom to take vacations when it works for us, not the school district.