AG Eric Holder's new campaign: to ban homeschooling

[Irving]

Oh man, it will be so awesome when they start raiding home schools with guns pointed at the scum who dare educate their own scummy children. Even better when a Farmer's Market is raided with guns drawn.

You're under arrest for the unauthorized teaching of children, come out with your hands up!




Fortunately for this youth, he was rescued in time to full-fill his true destiny to attend a Young Communist Union congress as the government intended.

[cstone]

Every school district in every state sets it's own standards based on state law for what students must be taught regardless of whether that education is provided by public schools, parochial schools, or homeschools. What someone knows in another state is not applicable to what is legal in another state.

http://www.hslda.org/ is a good organization and they provided us with years of good advice and guidance as we homeschooled our two sons, who both have AA degrees from accredited community colleges.

As with so many other things, punishing the majority for the faults of a few is so very typical of the nanny state mentality which promises to protect us in exchange for our liberty.

The best government is less government.

Be safe.

[Geology Rocks]

I think this is a smoke screen. Talk about school and kids and then slide the gun bans in while people ar concerned over schools and their kids. Also teach at home. I dont care. Just teach your kids no matter what shool they go too or dont go too.

[palepainter]

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.

You are right sir. There are a bunch of great programs that have some structure. The impression I get from some people, when I tell them we homeschool our daughter is, that we teach art class with an etch a sketch and try to instruct quantum physics with a slinky and stairs.

[wreave]

My biggest beef with homeschoolers is their self-righteous attitude. A lot of them I know seem to go out of their way to make such a big deal about how they homeschool and how much better it is.

Great if it works for you. Great if public school works for you. Great if private school works for you. I don't really care, but like anything else, don't shove your beliefs down my throat.

Also, Eric Holder can fuck right off. Not that exercising rights not explicitly granted the Federal government by the Constitution ever bothered him at all.

[spqrzilla]

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.

Clint45 - first of all your bizarre example is a fantasy in your mind. Secondly, every child is already homeschooled ... which you'd know if you had to interact with the current "graduates" of public K12 education.

[alxone]

isnt holder the same genius who brought us the fast and furious program ?

[Troublco]

You are right sir. There are a bunch of great programs that have some structure. The impression I get from some people, when I tell them we homeschool our daughter is, that we teach art class with an etch a sketch and try to instruct quantum physics with a slinky and stairs.

Yeah, a lot of people don't get the homeschool thing. Of course, a lot of people can't think for themselves either. When I see the curriculums that are in use today, I cringe. It really makes it easy to believe that we as a society are being dumbed down deliberately. The dumb people are the easiest to control; however if you look at the immediate aftereffects of when a totalitarian regime takes control (like Cambodia with the Khmer Rouge) the first segment of the population they kill off are the educated people.

[Clint45]

(v) Education Law sections 801, 804, 806, and 808 also require the following subjects to be covered during grades kindergarten through twelve:

(a) Patriotism and citizenship;

[Zundfolge]

I think this is a smoke screen. Talk about school and kids and then slide the gun bans in while people ar concerned over schools and their kids. Also teach at home. I dont care. Just teach your kids no matter what shool they go too or dont go too.

Actually I'd argue that the gun stuff is a smoke screen to hide what they're doing to the economy. I think the home school stuff is an evil scheme they didn't plan on coming to light just yet.