Re: rick: home education

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

I did not say that homeschoolers are allies in your "cause," and I never
said anything about "something to found a movement on."  Art B.

>>> rparkany@borg.com 01/10/03 11:46AM >>>
Before I start sounding doctrinaire, Carol & Eric:   I support *the
right to choose*--not just for
women and the destinies of their bodies, but for all of us who are not
violent in our ways and means
to others, who do not violate others' rights in their living...

...I guess I am that ultimate political oxymoron: the libertarian
socialist, the
anarcho-syndicalist.

Here, my sense is the same as Art B.'s: the homeschooling movement is,
indeed, an ally in our cause,
but NOT for me an objective or as he put it, *something to found a
movement upon*.

As much as I support local teachers and districts obtaining *waivers*
to state curricula by
submitting and evaluating their own local designs; so, TOO, do I
support the ultimate right of every
parent to decide to home school their children, as an alternative w/i
the means of the family to
such *waivers*.

But: gone! are the *waivers* for certified teachers and accredited
districrs. God forbid! they deny
us the RIGHT to educate the children of our own Flesh! However...

...the rationale most important to me in my resistance to these tests
isn't because of or found in
the tests, or in the need for some sort of LOCAL accounability (well
done in many schools, poorly
done in others)...

..it's because of the systems that enable their abuse and enable
agendas outside the mission
umbrella of the public schools to enact themselves THROUGH devices
immediately destructive and
hostile, violent, to that mission--that transcend any direct
manifestation of mission corruption
across the deaces, that continue to reappear in so many forms and
manners before us, creating a
seemingly endless struggle that only intensifies each reincarnation,
and have a force that is almost
immortal, because its roots and effects span a time greater than any
one of our individual
lifetimes...as Dave Stratman, The George(s) (sans C'ham.), Peter F.,
Alan, & a whole host of others
tell about so well in their reports to us, here.

To me, the greatest compact we have in this nation is the legislation
enabling school districts as
LOCAL taxing authorities, this due to the nature of our economic
system.

We need to retain, magnify and FOCUS that taxing authority; but FIRST,
we need to REGAIN local
control over it.

I agree with Alan Young! who, I think one day, said: *Federal Funding
needs to support the local
districts needs, not control them!*...especially w/these Tilte I funds
(NCLB), THEIR historic
mission...	;-} rap.

Carol Holst wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
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