RE: Educational "Nuclear Wall Chart" for schools :Off-topic comment

["Neil, David M" <neildm@id.doe.gov>]

My apologies, and let's take any further discussion off-line.

Steven, at no time did I disagree with your sentiments, nor intend to imply
that I did.  But the discrimination against home schooling is very real; I
understand some states actually have laws on the books that, in practice,
forbid home schooling (without actually saying so).

Even in a state where it is legal, and the populace is known for its
independent and conservative turn of mind, the 'educational establishment'
can still act like you're some kind of nut for wanting to do so.

I have a young daughter, and the more I see of the way the public schools
are headed, the less I want her anywhere near them.
Dave Neil		neildm@id.doe.gov

Bedfellows make strange politics.

On Wednesday, December 01, 1999 12:12 PM, Steven Dapra [SMTP:sjd@iolnm.net]
wrote:
> Dec. 1
> 
> 	On Dec. 1, David N. Neil wrote:
> 
> 	"I expect that the original policy was "certified science teachers
only",
> and the home school groups pitched a fit until they were included."
> 
> 	This seems a little heavy-handed doesn't it?  Why shouldn't parents
who
> are conscentious or dedicated enough to educate their children at home
have
> access to the same schooling aids that are available to children who are
> educated in tax-funded schools?
> 
> 	I don't want to start a thread on this, or send us off-topic, but it
is a
> well-established fact that overall home-schooled children score better on
> the SAT and do better in college than do children from tax-funded schools.
> This has even been reported in the secular press, which tends to take an
> anti-home and -private school slant.
> 
> 	I have a lot of respect for parents who make the sacrifices to
educate
> their children at home, or send them to private schools.  I even know some
> personally, and I've never seen any of them 'pitch a fit' about anything.
> 
> Steven Dapra
> sjd@iolnm.net
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