"The Media" is at it again. You know "The Media", those are the giant, corporate owned, which means state owned here in Amerika of course, directors of public opinion like major newspapers, TV and radio outlets. They are all owned by a very small clutch of giant corporations so they all spew pretty much identical vomitus out at us each and every day of the week. There is no point in changing the channel on your TV when looking at the news the same items with identical spin will be on them all, same with major corporate newspapers.
My bias and disgust toward "The Media" having been made clear, here is a severely distorted LA Times story about a recent legal decision about home schooling in California, note in the first part where it mentions "waves of fear". That is simply not true. Waves of annoyance and anger yes, but not fear. I'm on a number of Home School email lists and fear is not the predominant theme right now. Home schoolers are generally not much afraid of the government and some senile LA judge who had to go back to the 1950's to find some support for his hatred of freedom in education. Another distortion is the emphasis on "religious" home schoolers. Many Bay Area home schoolers I've met are not religious at all, it's a very diverse group and to keep insisting or implying that we are all right wing fundamentalist flat earthers or something is just annoying as all get out, then again most things the corporate/government blatherers drool out annoys me:
Ruling seen as a threat to many home-schooling families Parents who lack teaching credentials cannot educate their children at home, according to a state appellate court ruling that is sending waves of fear through California's home schooling families.
Advocates for the families vowed to appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court. Enforcement until then appears unlikely, but if the ruling stands, home-schooling supporters say California will have the most regressive law in the nation.
"This decision is a direct hit against every home schooler in California," said Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, which represents the Sunland Christian School, which specializes in religious home schooling. "If the state Supreme Court does not reverse this . . . there will be nothing to prevent home-school witch hunts from being implemented in every corner of the state of California."
Click here to be pounded by more Govcorp lies by reading the entire LA Times piece.
We won't be quitting homeschooling no matter what Govcorp decides. That is not negotiable. Freedom is at stake. We've known of this ruling for almost a week and I didn't say anything here before because I know in the end it will come to nothing. But now that official govcorp media outlets are talking about it I felt like venting. :-)
My bias and disgust toward "The Media" having been made clear, here is a severely distorted LA Times story about a recent legal decision about home schooling in California, note in the first part where it mentions "waves of fear". That is simply not true. Waves of annoyance and anger yes, but not fear. I'm on a number of Home School email lists and fear is not the predominant theme right now. Home schoolers are generally not much afraid of the government and some senile LA judge who had to go back to the 1950's to find some support for his hatred of freedom in education. Another distortion is the emphasis on "religious" home schoolers. Many Bay Area home schoolers I've met are not religious at all, it's a very diverse group and to keep insisting or implying that we are all right wing fundamentalist flat earthers or something is just annoying as all get out, then again most things the corporate/government blatherers drool out annoys me:
Ruling seen as a threat to many home-schooling families
State appellate court says those who teach children in private must have a credential.
Advocates for the families vowed to appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court. Enforcement until then appears unlikely, but if the ruling stands, home-schooling supporters say California will have the most regressive law in the nation.
"This decision is a direct hit against every home schooler in California," said Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, which represents the Sunland Christian School, which specializes in religious home schooling. "If the state Supreme Court does not reverse this . . . there will be nothing to prevent home-school witch hunts from being implemented in every corner of the state of California."
Click here to be pounded by more Govcorp lies by reading the entire LA Times piece.
We won't be quitting homeschooling no matter what Govcorp decides. That is not negotiable. Freedom is at stake. We've known of this ruling for almost a week and I didn't say anything here before because I know in the end it will come to nothing. But now that official govcorp media outlets are talking about it I felt like venting. :-)
I heard talk about this tonight on the radio, and everyone (homeschoolers) are prepared and ready. Pro active, even.
ReplyDeleteMany people were like "You want testing? BRING IT ON! I would LOVE to prove how my child is not becoming an idiot."
Love it.
To tell the truth I am opposed to all standardized testing. Kids learn different things at different rates, testing is just more "school" stuff, trying to cram all kids into identical molds. The heck with that!
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