National School Standards and Homeschooling
One path to kill homeschooling:
More on the UK angle. Excellent snark here:I wish all my posts were as fun to write as the Case Against Homeschooling, but today, 46 states and the District of Columbia will announce a plan to create a common education standard for the nation. And the ramifications for homeschoolers (or any free-thinking, freedom loving American) are anything but funny.
The push for common reading and math standards marks a turning point in a movement to judge U.S. children using one yardstick that reflects expectations set for students in countries around the world at a time of global competition...."This is the beginning of a new day for education in our country," U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said. "A lot of hard work is ahead of us. But this is a huge step in a direction that would have been unimaginable just a year or two ago."The direction is SOCIALISM (some think Marxism) and thanks to Obama it isn't hard to imagine anymore. I hope all of my Obama supporting homeschooling friends are calling the White House and their Congressman and opposing this. Not that it will make much difference.
Because I am a socially-phobic selfish mom who has chosen to use my vast wealth to homeschool my children and isolate them from their poverty-stricken peers (and I have nothing better to do,) I feel I have the necessary credentials to rebut the case against homeschooling written by a public school advocate and teacher, Jesse Scaccia. I'll address Scaccia point by point. For context, an excerpt of each of Scaccia's points is in italics followed by my response.