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« Return of the iPod Tax | Main | The Future of News is Bloggy » May 6, 2008Bredesen's Educrats Attack Home-Schoolers, Church Schools
I must say, I've listened to some of our public-school-educated Democrat lawmakers talk. And I've listened to my two home-schooled nephews - one with a master's degree in physics, the other with dual college degrees in theology and computer science - talk, and there is no question who among them received the superior education. Posted in Tennessee Government News
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The educrats probably feel safe doing this since they got rid of the gateway exam and the threat of a law suit in Sept 2008. Posted by: Danny Newton at May 7, 2008 12:54 PMIf it were not for the Home Schooled among us...we would have gone the way of all the other Socialist States on History's slag heap by now. Thanks to all of the Mom's & Dad's who REALLY put their children first. Posted by: Jon Crisp at May 7, 2008 1:16 PMNot so fast... The Department of Education has so far succeeded in declaring all homeschoolers' high school diplomas to be invalid. Rep. Bell's bill escaped the House Ed Committee without being hijacked, but it is now sitting in the Calendar & Rules Committee where it may be quietly allowed to die. If that happens, the Department will have succeeded in disenfranchising thousands of high school graduates by bureaucratic fiat. It is an outrage. We have a shortage of good police officers. We have a shortage of good daycare workers - but the department can't stand it that someone out there might be getting an education outside their control. - RedHatRob Posted by: RedHatRob at May 9, 2008 12:30 AMRe: the gateway exam....The Memphis contingent seems fixated on forcing non-public school students to take these tests - even though the state is explicitly forbidden to do so by federal law (because they are part of NCLB) - even though the state is discontinuing them for the public schools. Apparently it is "not fair" for those kids we shell out $10,000+ per year on who can't make the 45% passing grade on the tests and end up with an attendance certificate instead of a diploma. Posted by: Eric Holcombe at May 9, 2008 12:16 PMPost a comment
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A coalition of Tennessee home-schoolers and church-related schools have 