Home schooling labeled 'anarchy'

 

The response of California's teachers' union to pro-family attempts to protect home schooling in that state has outraged one attorney who is working on the case.

 

 

Numerous organizations on both sides of the issue have filed friend-of-the-court briefs in the appeal of a California court's ruling that parents have no right to home school their children. But one reaction in particular caught the attention of pro-family attorney Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute.
 
"The California Teachers Association ... decided to file an amicus brief arguing before the court that parents should have no right over the education of their children, should not have a right to home school, and that these children should be literally forced to be put back into the public schools -- even though parents object," the attorney explains.
 
Dacus did a double-take when he read one specific charge made by the teachers' union. "In their brief, the teachers' union said that to allow parents to be able to home school without being credentialed teachers could result in 'educational anarchy,'" he shares.
 
That argument, he says, discounts reality. "This is ignoring the facts that home schooling is widespread in California," he exclaims. "Over 200,000 children are being home schooled right now in California -- and they score higher academically than not only public school children, but also children in traditional private schools. If there's anarchy, the anarchy is in public schools."
 
Both the state superintendent of public instruction and the California Department of Education have filed briefs supporting the legality of home schooling.  A brief filed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown argues that home schooling is perfectly legal under California law and states that the practice "has a long and positive history in California and across the nation." The California Court of Appeal intends to hear oral arguments in the case sometime this month.

 

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Like I said, public school system now don't care if kids can't learn to read and write, as long as evolution is the only theory allowed in teach, and continue to push the atheism/humanism to the kids, also indoctrinate them with liberal agendas, is all those guys care.

Oh, I don't think it is just that, although CA seems to have the market cornered on kooks. The public schools all over the country are an outrage from what I've seen.

In TX border towns, there are more kids speaking Spanish than English and in the city of El Paso, people drive their kids right across the border and plunk them in US schools. When they start off with chaos in grade school with a teacher trying to teach in two languages, it makes for an ugly situation because the English speaking kids raise hell while the teacher's speaking in Spanish and the Spanish speaking kids raise hell while the teacher teaches in English. As a result, the kids aren't focused enough to learn.

Add to that the "learning disabilities" kids who are in the public schools, some of whom don't really belong in school at all, and you have a bigger mess. Many of the kids with learning disabilities have the attention span of a gnat (and I feel sorry for them but I don't think many belong in regular classrooms) so they disrupt the class while they hide under the table, kick and scream, etc. 

 And, last but no least, the teachers aren't allowed to turn the kids over their knee and give them a swat on the butt or even threaten to do that.

I don't have kids in school these days, thank God. And if I did, even though I'm very much against handing out vouchers so that all kids can go to private schools (some of those private schools teach Islam!) I am not sure what I'd do.  I'm definitely not qualified to home school any kids, nor do I have the patience, and I wouldn't want to deprive the kids of the experience of growing up in the "real" world where they are going to have to live one day.

In NC, the adult population seems to prove out the theory that NC schools have failed, as do the younger people in NY, MI and CA.  Those are the only states where I feel like I know enough young people well enough to make that kind of a statement.  People can't spell anymore. They can't read and comprehend what they read. They can't follow directions.  And even though they might know all about some scientific mumbo jumbo, if they can't write their own name, what good is it?

I am all for taking "schooling" back to the very basics-- reading, writing, arithmetic. And those who learn how to read can learn anything their individual personalities direct them toward. Hopefully, it won't be criminal activity.

The notion perpetrated by the teachers' unions and other liberal groups that parents are not qualified to teach THEIR OWN CHILDREN --- bug snot!

To whom does it fall to take care of the offspring when a baby is born and taken home from the hospital? Does an accredited "teacher" go home with  its parents? Or is the responsibility that of the parents to care for the child? Who has  to dictate to the parent(s) that the baby needs to be fed, clothed, diapers changed, kept warm/cool, bathed, cuddled, spoken to, and loved? Who is that who begins teaching the child, "no", "don't touch - that's hot", "play nice", numbers, letters, ENGLISH, (or "other" language, dependant upon where the child is born), and how to pronounce words, walk, talk, become as good a little person as possible?

The last time I checked, it has ALWAYS BEEN THE PARENTS OF THE CHILD, not some dingbat "accredited teacher".

ANY parent can teach their child(ren) - and there is no state, no federal, no local entity that can stop you that is anywhere LEGAL.

I home schooled my son for 3 years during his junior high years, and have regretted allowing his return to public education for high shcool ever since. While home schooling does tie up some time, it was beneficial to him - and when he returned to public ed, he ended up hating school, and decided to withdraw to attend an alternative school to graduate - ON TIME, AND WITH HIGH GRADES! Had he continued in "regular" school, he would not have been allowed to advance at HIS rate of knowledge, nor would he have been able to graduate with his class.

SO! For any parents who have been lied to or coerced NOT TO SCHOOL your own kids, tell them to "stick it in their ear!" Home schooled kids DO excell, ARE well-rounded, and although many parents are afraid they aren't well enough equiped to teach - you're wrong ... YOU are the first and most important teacher your kids have, and we've seen how disgusting the public ed has gotten across our nation, so if you want a GOOD education for your kids, and want to --- home school them for a truly GREAT education.

Anarchy is now ensconced within public education, not in the home. And isn't that sad for those who can't escape to good schools or be in a family setting with the means to home school? Many parents aren't financially able to stay home to do so, but they also should understand that it IS NOT THE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM that has the best interest of the kids at the center - it's more likely that the fewer parents KNOW they are fully capable to teach their own children, the less control the public ed system can control.

Someone needs to inform the liberal teachers unions of that factor in the way our public education has been nose-diving for many years and it's not the parents' who are inside teaching the kids in failed schools. That's just one more way for those who want control over parents and the children by making parents believe they can't or don't know how to teach their own kids. Rhonda

As an added note - I was "required" by Oregon to have my son "tested" by an impartial entity once each year to PROVE his education was at least not dropping (but what was odd is that it was over a 3 year time frame) and he EXCELLED AT EVERYTHING! He was always way above local, state, national test scores in every subject, so there were never any letters from the state that they'd force his return to public ed (fat chance that would've been adhered to anyway). Now there isn't even a "requirement" of this state for home schoolers to comply with. No one has to be tested to my knowledge - just home school if they want to. Guess the state discovered that they really had no basis in fact to enforce such a goofy 'requirement".

The impartial testing was an expense that we had to pay, but it was well worth it, and each of the 3 years proved how much he was learning without the garbage in public ed. Rhonda

Unfortunately, there are way too many parents who AREN'T qualifed to feed and clothe their kids, much less teach them.  And also unfortunately, the kids who are coddled at home all the time and kept out of the real world are eventually going to have to deal wiht those kids as well as their parents.

JuniusJnr said: Unfortunately, there are way too many parents who AREN'T qualifed to feed and clothe their kids, much less teach them.  And also unfortunately, the kids who are coddled at home all the time and kept out of the real world are eventually going to have to deal wiht those kids as well as their parents.

 

Many parents love their children and want what is best for them.  I don't think you will find any of the children that you are talking about being home schooled.  That kind of parent would rather hand them over to the schools... 

JuniusJnr, I used the term CUDDLED, NOT CODDLED...just thought you needed clarification. I didn't, nor do I coddle - my expectations are high, and it works well for home schooling where guidance is required. 

And those parents who AREN"T qualified to feed and clothe their own kids, well, all I can say is that there are always others who can and will step in to help, guide, or advise, but merely handing your kids over to the state in the form of failing education without strong parental input and observations is a disaster looking for a place to happen. Home schooling is in no way coddling --- it's more intense and fulfilling, as far as I'm concerned, without all the garbage taught in public ed with all the usual distractions and failure of the public ed system.  If parents take the time and initiative to be informed and enforce THEIR beliefs where their own kids are concerned,  no school district would DARE do their dirty work or fail the kids. Rhonda

Parental authority, or I should say, lack thereof, is part of the plan of the OWO to bring down the family unit.

Of course they don't want kids home-schooled.  They just might learn some American history.  They want nothing National - no individual identity or link to a sovereign nation.  And they certainly don't want any feelings of patriotism for their country which, again, will be inspired by their American History classes on the Revolutionary War.

There is an amazing story to back this up.  On two other threads (a while back) the story of Michael New was posted, an Army specialist, who dearly loved his country.  He was home schooled and really knew his stuff.  When his unit was told they had to put on the blue uniform of the U.N. and serve a foreign entity, he refused and was eventually given a dishonorable discharge. 

I just don't understand why people cannot link all of these issues, like this one, home schooling, with the larger agenda of the global elite. 

 

 

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Labrador, you're so correct! Every little chink in the American fabric is the intent to overcome and rule the USA and its citizens. Rhonda