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epicsurvivorThe Democrat administration of our neighbors to the north has succeeded in disenfranchising thousands of graduates of Tennessee church related schools and home-schoolers.
In fact, “Cindy Benefield, the Tennesseee Department of Education Executive Director of Field Services, who oversees the state’s homeschooling office, recently declared that a diploma from a church-related school is “not worth the paper it is written on.” That is not just the idle opinion of one uninformed bureaucrat, but has become Department policy. Bredesen’s education commissioner, Tim Webb, told four legislators in April that until the legislature passes a law stating that the diplomas given by church-related schools are acceptable, they aren’t acceptable for certain kinds of employment.” source
I think maybe “disenfranchising” is the wrong choice of words, as it is commonly used to describe the right to vote. This goes much deeper than the right to vote, as it affects the right to work. Especially since Tennessee is a Right to Work state, TN D.O.E.’s actions are an attempt to isolate home or church schooled students to create a “closed shop” atmosphere. I cannot imagine that TN voters will allow this state-sponsored discrimination to stand.
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Not to knock Tennessee or anything, but it’s public schools aren’t exactly the best in the country. So what’s the problem? Parents pull their kids out of the public schools, teach them at home, and the State is afraid that they may actually get an education?
Now, schools seem to be all about teaching kids how to use condoms properly… so maybe a diploma from a church won’t be good if the graduate ever wants to work on the Bunny Ranch, but otherwise, it should suffice.
This isn’t the first salvo in the war on home schoolers, and I doubt it will be the last, as some have been expecting this type of action to become more common.
There are all sorts of excuses the indoctrinators of liberal group think can come up with, but the real reason is that their brand of organized indoctrination is being avoided. If the kids actually study history, the constitution, the classics, and learn to think clearly and critically, then they can’t be led by around as easily.
The indoctrinators want to put their hog ring in our kids noses.
I’ve never heard such a thing as the police officer who has a 2-year degree from a junior college not being allowed to work because he doesn’t have a high school diploma from a government sanctioned school.
Who cares about a high school diploma when he has graduated from college and the police academy?
That said, there ARE some church schools that are “educating” (allegedly) children that really SHOULD be closed.
I’ve seen some of their work. And they charge the parents tuition for it, too.
There are also a lot of parents that are “home schooling” because they’re too damn lazy/sorry to get their lazy ass(es) out of bed in the morning, feed the kid, dress the kid in cleanish clothes, and get them to school before noon. Seen a lot of that too. Sorry for being cynical, but there are a lot of those kind.
There are actually parents that can do a better job for their kids than the school system because they don’t have to put up with all the bullshit that the teachers have to and so can get some actual teaching done. I’m tickled pink and purple whenever that happens, and I applaud those parents heartily.
I will let my niece know you applaud her hard work, and diligent efforts to educate her daughter.
She is tireless, and includes museum trips to reinforce what she is teaching, and attends a homeschooling association meeting each Saturday.
Her daughter, my brother’s granddaughter, is sharp as a finishing nail, is a slugging third baseman, and a piano progeny.
She has been sending me emails for years, and she will be ten in a few weeks.
The longer her “socializing,” with all the types of kids that go to public school, can be delayed, the better.
There are some ladies that I know that are doing an excellent job with their homeschooled children; their kids also go on field trips, take music lessons, are members of the 4-H with various projects, and play sports with the local kid leagues.
An amateur with just a few precious charges is able to pass on knowledge soooo much better than a harassed professional with limited time, a classroom full of kids of varying ability, and trying to keep the kids with “emotional handicaps” from disrupting* the class too much so that some actual learning might take place.
*Assaulting, stabbing, shooting, etc.
It’s a pity so many excellent teachers are shackled by the unions and their PC/multi-culti devoted leaders.
It ain’t the union. It’s the government.
The teachers unions get a big bang for their bucks.
I am considering home-schooling my children, and I am not too lazy to get out of bed & take my kids to school, but I am greatly concerned that my children are being taught that Coulumbus discovered America & was joyfully given the land by the American Indians. As well as many other things. I have religious beliefs that the school is very insensitive about they seem more unconcerned about isolating my child, how hard would it be to find a creatiave activity for he/ she to do during man made “religious” rituals. Yet if I keep them out of school for this reason I am forced to get a dr’s excuse for the absence or pray to God that my children dont get sick & miss their limt of absences. My 6 year old daughter started Kindergarten last year on a 1st grade level & now being in 1st grade we are being told she should skip 2nd grade & go on to 3rd so I must be doing something right . Why not continue.
Three years ago, my niece’s family moved to Alaska, and decided to home-school.
The difference it has made in the kids is amazing.
I don’t know if I could do it, but if it were possible, I would give it the greatest prayerful consideration.
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