Re: The Rights home school conspiracy
Nope, you can make up your own cirriculum, buy a prepackaged one, ty to go with the school's, or do what is called "unschooling" (basically let your kid run around and do whatever and hope you can intervene with "life lessons" to teach them everything.....because like, who needs algebra in the real world? (I do--seriously, check out my instagram from a few days ago)). I have some issues with unschooling as I've seen it carried out... But anyhow, there are something like 50 sets of laws governing homeschooling (and homeschoolers are a huge political lobby)...I'm only familiar with 2, one of which has almost no regs and here, which has very few.
You have to remeber, this is a country which has no national education standards in practice (while I have problems witht the implementation of the common core, i have no problem with the idea, or even the standards themselves). Heck, we have enough folks that want to scrap public schools all together and throw them overboard that we could give them their own state to run their little social experiments in...
Originally posted by DanieMarie
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You have to remeber, this is a country which has no national education standards in practice (while I have problems witht the implementation of the common core, i have no problem with the idea, or even the standards themselves). Heck, we have enough folks that want to scrap public schools all together and throw them overboard that we could give them their own state to run their little social experiments in...
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