Re: rick: home education

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

I guess identifying yourself as a liar does not seem to me to be a
"gotcha" on me, but, if you think so, go for it.  Art 

>>> rparkany@borg.com 01/10/03 12:20PM >>>
I know, Art; I made that up out of thin air...just like you do w/much
of your to&fro...

...gottcha, it's Friday!	;-} rap.

Art Burke wrote:
> 
> 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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> Deines Herzens Trefflichkeit
> Hat dir selbst das Feld bereit',
> Auf dem du bluehen musst." JS Bach: Bauern Kantata
> Richard A. Parkany: SUNY@Albany
> Prometheus Educational Services
> http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/ 
> Upper Hudson & Mohawk Valleys; New York State, USA

-- 
"Dein Wachstum sei feste und lache vor Lust! 
Deines Herzens Trefflichkeit
Hat dir selbst das Feld bereit', 
Auf dem du bluehen musst." JS Bach: Bauern Kantata
Richard A. Parkany: SUNY@Albany 
Prometheus Educational Services
http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/ 
Upper Hudson & Mohawk Valleys; New York State, USA