Re: rick: home education

["Art Burke" <aburke@vansd.org>]

I guess I don't see how advocates of home schooling might help your
cause.  Art

>>> kceh@airmail.net 01/10/03 11:11AM >>>
A reporter is looking for stories from Texas so I sent out a request. 
This is what somebody sent me. It's a very similar story to mine. If we

don't speak up and take action against MCLB we will comply ourselves
out 
of public school jobs.
Carol

 > Ms. Host,
 >
 > I would be more than happy to tell my story.  My wife and I are so
fed 
up with the high stakes testing that my child will not attend Texas 
Public schools next year.  We will be home schooling.  If this
gentleman 
would like to hear why my 7 year old daughter missed a month of school

and ended up in the hospital because of stress and anxiety I would be 
more than happy to disclose all the details.
 >
 >
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 08:49 AM, Eric Crump wrote:

> Hey Rick. I *am* fighting the machine. I'm just not going to use my
kids
> as unwilling soldiers in the fight. They are going to get a humane
> education in a supportive environment. Just happens that the best
way
> to do that is from home base rather than in school.
>
> That way, they'll be strong enough (having missed out on the
relentless
> indoctrination that masquerades as curriculum in the public schools)
to
> continue the fight--if they choose to--when their old man ain't
around 
> to
> do it.
>
> I'm a romantic, too. I believe in public education, but I believe
more 
> in
> the responsibility of free people to make the best choices they can,
and
> loyalty to family comes before loyalty to institutions in my book.
>
> --Eric Crump
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Unsubscribe ARN-L:
> http://interversity.org/lists/arn-l/subscribe.html 
>

------------------------------------------------
Direct list questions to listmom@interversity.net