Home schooling
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another end-run/filter is home schooling, wherein fringe ideas such as creationism can be given prominence.
See also rick perelstein hist of right: segregated schools were important anti-Commie schools in OC?
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Indystar reports Indiana’s Gov. Mike Braun has signed a new bill forcing state colleges and universities to include a “classics-based” examination embraced by religious colleges in Republican states.
For decades, the ACT and the SAT have been the gatekeepers and the standard-bearer of college admissions to measure a student's aptitude in core subjects like math, science and reading. But proponents said the test “would better assess students who received a classical education, typically offered to homeschooled students or at private or charter classical schools,” according to the IndyStar.
The newly required Classical Learning Test aims to promote the "Western intellectual tradition" that right-wing supporters claim has been abandoned by existing standardized tests.
The change stems from a legislative bill that also “requires schools to teach a 2000s-era anti-poverty theory involving waiting until marriage to have kids as part of schools' good citizenship instruction,” reports IndyStar. “It passed mostly along party lines amid criticism that the CLT could disadvantage students who are less accustomed to Western ideas.”
"It has baked-in prejudices that would make students who come from less diverse backgrounds appear to have done better than students from more diverse backgrounds," said Joel Hand, a lobbyist for the American Federation of Teachers for Indiana, during Senate committee testimony in January.
Classic Learning Test creator Jeremy Tate applauded the bill's passage in Indiana in an X post Feb. 24.
“While Tate has said the test is not partisan, his company's expansive Board of Academic Advisors include administrators from religious colleges and right-wing figures like Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation and PragerU CEO Marissa Streit,” reports IndyStar. “It's also been promoted by Sen. Jim Banks, who called it the "standard for academic excellence."
PragerU is not a university, but a conservative nonprofit known for producing wildly inaccurate educational videos. One PragerU videofrom its history series depicts abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass arguing that the founders’ decision not to abolish U.S. slavery was worth it because it helped convince the Southern colonies to join the Union.
“Our system is wonderful, and the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. We just need to convince enough Americans to be true to it,” the video depicts Douglass saying.
Teachers' unions and academics also doubt the value of the Classic Learning Test considering its concepts and biased arguments.
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DeSantis’ homeschooling push leaves FL teachers with 'empty seats and budget crunches'](https://www.alternet.org/desantis-school-choice-politico/)
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LISON MALONI (HOST): Some parents leaning into this issue say they feel equity means offering more opportunities, not taking away others for advanced education and study. I have kids in school honors classes, I know are really important for them, not only because it helps them get ready for college, but it helps them get into college as well. What do you make of this?
SAM SORBO (GUEST): Well, it's funny that they lead with, we don't want to take anything away from other kids, and they're taking away the honors classes. Like, that's just ridiculous. But, you know, my viewpoint is very clear that schools are the system ofslaverythat the government has instituted, and people arguing with the schools are, basically, arguing with the master.And the schools are not interested in training -- in teaching children, they're only interested in training them to be good workers, which is, you know, that we are under this society now. I advocate for parents just to pull your kids out of school and you'll find that learning happens organically rather than being coerced, as they do in schools.
MALONI: Daneen, some schools are struggling to reach thesepre-pandemic level test scores. Baltimore seeing only 22% of students grades three through eight reach proficiency and math. Shouldn't this be of higher concern to these schools?
DENEEN BORELLI (NEWSMAX CONTRIBUTOR):As a former board member with a charter school in Harlem, New York, I got to say this really ticks me off. I find this to be awar against our children. And, unfortunately, these schools and these teachers and administrators have gone woke. They're more concerned about sexualizing children and sex change procedures than the educational needs of children.The power should be in the hands of the parents. Not all teachers are bad. I have teachers in my family. They love their job. They love what they do and they want to see these children succeed. But, unfortunately, there are too many kids being set up for failure in our country.
MALONI: Yeah, I think you're so right. And then if you speak up as a parent, you're called a domestic terrorist. Sam, how has the focus in schools grown to things -- you know, just far from education. Our children -- it used to be reading, writing, and arithmetic. And now, as Deneen mentioned, it is all changed. And, you know, the fact that they want to take honors classes out because what they think is a good reason. It doesn't make sense as a parent.
SORBO: You know, it's ridiculous because we still labor under the idea that schools are beneficial. They're not. They're detrimental to children. They are against children. And we can see it right now. We can see with all of thenewfangled non-educational things that they are putting into the schoolsthat their interest is not in the favor of your child. They want to have sex with your children. They want to destroy your children. And the idea that you are now in enslaved to this mentality of, well, I have to put my child in school proves the point that it is a slave system.Take your children out of school. And if you're very concerned about their education, that's what I train on. I have my playbook for home learning which I teach parents what they ought to be looking for for the education of their children. They will not find it in our schools, unfortunately.
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https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/the-homeschooling-movement-sees-the-pandemic-as-big-opportunity-but-theyre-wrong/
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Lennie Jarratt is the project manager for the Center for Transforming Education at The Heartland Institute.
Jarratt is the former managing editor (2013 - 2014) of Champion News, an Illinois based news website focused on reporting on Education and Illinois Politics. Jarratt was the managing editor (2004 - 2011) of Education Matters which researched education in local school districts across Illinois.
Jarratt has presented analysis on Common Core and education choice on Fox News, Breitbart, ABC Chicago and multiple radio outlets and newspapers across the United States. He has been a presenter on panels discussingeducation choice, common core, homeschooling, and Illinois Freedom of Information Laws with groups such as American Majority,Americans for Prosperity (AFP), Illinois Tea Party groups, homeschool conventions, and state legislative hearings.
Jarratt received his bachelor’s degree from Virginia State University where he studied mathematics and computer science.
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http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silicon-valley-home-schooling/%20
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So now, instead of massive top-down attempts to cram innovation into the public school system, some tech-minded parents and entrepreneurs are building their own alternatives. Home schooling has become a trend in the tech community; it’s “off the charts” at Google, Khan says. When it came time to educate his own children, Elon Musk hired a local teacher and built a 20-person school without grades or age-based cohorts. Zuckerberg and the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz participated in a $100 million funding round for AltSchool, a software-driven private school franchise founded by a Google alum. Facebook has partnered with a network of charter schools to build pedagogical software, one of a wave of new California schools using technology to make classroom education more flexible and individualized. “The Bay Area is the destination for educators who want to see early signs of what these new school models could look like,” says Brian Greenberg, CEO of the Silicon Schools Fund, a nonprofit that has backed the Lab School and other new schools.
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http://www.alternet.org/education/oklahomas-crypto-christian-homeschool-science-fair
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Until recently, if you homeschooled your children, you were either part of a pioneering movement in alternative education or doing so for religious reasons. Now, more than 2.2 million children ages 5-17 are homeschooled in the United States, a figure on par with the number of children enrolled in Catholic schools and public charter schools, according to Brian Ray, founder of the National Homeschool Education Research Institute and the journal, Homeschool Researcher. Ray points out that the number of secular homeschoolers is increasing exponentially, though just how fast is hard to measure.
As the number and types of families educating their kids outside of traditional school settings has grown, the term “homeschooling” has become something of a misnomer. Fading fast is the image of a stoic mother sitting across the kitchen table from her children in a one-room homeschool environment. Today, many homeschooling parents belong to active co-ops and homeschool support networks, where they typically participate in educational outings and learning opportunities, relying upon a collective approach to educating their children.
“One of my mantras is: Nobody homeschools alone,” says Lesley Debrier, president of the Sonoma County Homeschool Nonprofit (SCHN), a support network for homeschoolers of all stripes. While this might seem to fly in the face of the notion of homeschooling as an independent enterprise, Debrier says that’s just one of many inaccurate stereotypes. “Socialization is very important to us,” she says.
Ray notes that the idea of cooperatives and families working to homeschool together with other families and tutors, is nothing new. "It’s been going on for 30 years, it’s just that there are so many more homeschool families now.”
There are obvious advantages to homeschooling parents teaming up to co-teach each another’s children: filling in gaps in knowledge, reducing pressure on an individual parent, and socialization with other kids, to name a few. Debrier’s nonprofit charges an annual $20 membership fee, which adds up to allow for yearly events that parents likely could not manage on their own, such as renting a movie theater or roller rink, and a recent educational day where the local Academy of Sciences contracted to provide science teachers to work with member kids.
The Freedom to Customize Education....
http://www.alternet.org/education/inside-growing-homeschooling-movement
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