Quote From: amberlyn1I have a husband who plays Devil's Advocate with me constantly, for fun, so I'm used to it. :D
I agree that there needs to be a line. But the line we have now is being tip-toed over. It is no secret the NEA and Teacher's Unions (not necessarily teachers themselves, who generally have no choice but to join the union) want to get rid of homeschools, private and charter schools - and they openly support candidates on state and national levels to further that agenda - to keep pushing the line, bit by bit.
You see foster parents on the news, why? Because children in their care were allegedly abused. Yet nobody airs on the news the daily influx of children who are abused by their biological parents - where is that outrage? The public school system fails/graduates students who can't read or function all of the time, churns them out like candy - yet which failures will you hear about, sensationalized on the news? The homeschoolers. The so-called fringe groups who are doing something the mainstream society as a general rule could not fathom doing - be it caring for abused children or homeschooling their own. A myriad other examples also apply...
Whom do you hold primarily responsible for the public school kids who fail? And I hear about it on the news ALL THE TIME!
I understand the frustration with schools passing or graduating kids who are failing, and I don't agree with it, but it is a extremely complex issue - really not a matter of churning them out like candy.
