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originally posted by: AProudLefty
a reply to: strongfp
She brought her homework to work and I got a chance to look through her 'history' text book. It was some BS Christian history 'variation' yes, it said variation on it
Things like this is probably why some are upset with the bill, other than the possibility of the environments being unsuitable for the students.
originally posted by: mamabeth
They don't want children home schooled because the public schools
get so much money per child registered.They also want total control
over what children are being taught.
originally posted by: MountainLaurel
Yeah, homeschooling parents need to really fight back on this potential law, just on principle, this is Big Brother overreach to the extreme ! There are already laws on the books to investigate child abuse and neglect if suspected, homeschooling your children is not probable cause to effectively send people into your home checking for " violations " of some sort. In most cases parents that are making it work to home-school are great parents, it's not easy from what I've heard, but very rewarding when they watch their kids thrive.
I think in most cases the home school kids do take tests at their local public school and can participate in some school activities, sports, etc. , which is probably the best of both worlds and the kids get to socialize with other kids. There's no need for further monitoring of the kids if they show up and do well on the required tests.
originally posted by: Graysen
If you look at the bigger picture of education in America, you can see that the government / factory system is crumbling, and they are doing everything they can to shore it up.
I predict that this measure in Iowa will fail, or be quickly over-turned if it does pass. Because the fact that it's even a bill tells us that homeschool is becoming HUGE in Iowa, and the teachers' union is threatened by it. I know of school districts in the midwest where fully 15% of children do not attend public school. That cuts into a district's profits. I mean apportionment of state funds based on demographics.
If this was anything OTHER than oppression, we'd see home invasions, I mean inspections, at the same rate for public school families as for homeschool families.
“In our dream we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand. The present educational conventions fade from our minds; and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not to raise up among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply."
originally posted by: mamabeth
They don't want children home schooled because the public schools
get so much money per child registered.They also want total control
over what children are being taught.
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: Metallicus
Or be indoctrinated into an ultra-conservative mindset towards life