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Competing for Hearts and Minds
On Monday North Carolina’s education statistic bureaucrats sounded the alarm that homeschooling in the state has more than doubled during the last 10 years.
On Monday North Carolina’s education statistic bureaucrats sounded the alarm that homeschooling in the state has more than doubled during the last 10 years. The reaction from one Raleigh-area public school advocate, Ann Denlinger, is telling: “We need to approach public schools as a competitive enterprise. We’re competing for the presence of your child.”
Here’s the local ABC affiliate’s report, which includes her remarks:
Of course, you’ll never see government advocate an approach that encourages home education as the first choice. Parents are its competition.
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Pete| 8.4.10 @ 11:10AM
Any time any branch of the government talks about "competition," you can be sure they are looking to squash it, not encourage it. Of course the ruling class hates home schooling; they can't control what is being taught and might not get an automatic vote.
Olivia| 8.4.10 @ 2:18PM
With public schools in Provincetown, Massachusetts planning to give condoms to first graders this fall, and Helena, Montana schools aiming to teach 5th graders about "vaginal, oral, and anal" intercourse, I'd say parents are waking up.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?f.....eId=180741
To see just how stiff the competition is, visit http://nheri.org/ where researcher Dr. Brian Ray concludes:
"Increased safety is a main reason for homeschooling (e.g., violence, drug & alcohol use, psychological abuse by schools, pressure for premarital sexual behaviors)."
martin j smith| 8.4.10 @ 3:25PM
When public schools show contempt for parents will rebel.
Woudln't it be great if there were statewide referendum on parent choice in education including home schooling.
Tim*| 8.4.10 @ 8:05PM
Tuition Tax Credits are needed to loosen the choke hold of The Public Indoctrination Camps .
Glen H| 8.4.10 @ 9:28PM
Paul, I don't understand your complaint about the Ann Denlinger quote. I thought the whole point of school alternatives was to force public schools to compete. Assuming she means compete as in make the public schools better, rather than compete as in ban the competition, I am all for what she said.
Olivia| 8.4.10 @ 11:06PM
Glen, actual competition with home school parents is the last thing the government schools want. They lose big money and the coveted mind control required to indoctrinate young people for a communitarian globalist utopia bent on destroying capitalism and American sovereignty.
For further clarification see:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?f.....eId=184721
http://www.edwatch.org/index.html
John Taylor Gatto's book "Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling."
Also by same author: "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling"