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chasfm11 wrote: As a tax payer, I demand transparency. Do whatever you wish but when you are using funds that you take from me in taxes, I expect to be allowed to see what is going on. That is why I'm so upset about CSCOPE. Even the State Board of Education does not have access to the details in that program. That is unacceptable.

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Dragonfighter wrote:

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The problem is that your child is go to university, to a job, or into the military (unless you're going to put em to work on the family farm) in a world where there are drug dealers, child predators, rapists, armed robbers, murderers, kidnappers, random bullies and where there are folks in authority of all kinds that may be in disagreement with what you think is a constitutional principle. Are you going to put your child in a bubble and withdraw them from any chance of making their own way in this world?

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A bubble? I call nonsense. You can almost always tell a home educated child by their manners, respect and the ability to communicate well with adults and kids of all ages. They have more opportunities to socialize across a larger spectrum of ages and personalities than any child in an institutionalized school could hope for. Segregating children according to age does nothing to promote social interaction, at least not in a real world way, but it does promote peer dependency. Home schooled children are taught how to learn and how to reason, not just indoctrinated.

Colleges in most states accept applicants based on entrance exams, not where their diploma is from. Some Universities exist primarily for the home school community. The Marines were on the forefront of accepting home school diplomas, but there is some subjectivity still applied there. Some colleges promote scholarships for home schooled students. Stanford University enrolled home schooled students at a ratio of two to one in 2002-2003 (IIRC). A good many of them are entrepreneurs by the time they reach college age and are very successful without any further "education".

Don't let your profession blind you to the reality and cause you to repeat the propaganda of the school system's statism.

And, in return, don't assume that your beliefs about the whole world are the only ones that are valid. FWIW, I heartily encourage parents who wish to, and who can do, to home school. But, not all home schoolers are angels, and not all public schools are devils. There are all kinds of kids out there, and not all home school programs are equal, either.

BTW, according to the recruiters who come and visit with us, none of the services are presently accepting home school diplomas as equivalent to a public high school diploma. They do accept charter school diplomas as Tier 1, but home school is considered Tier 2, and not acceptable. That's for an enlistment. Home schoolers can get an appointment to one of the service academies, but cuurently, can not enlist.