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Originally posted by Carrie@Feb 6 2004, 01:38 PM
PD my stance from this doesn't really come from being a right-winger. Some of it does - things like requiring students in Cali to dress/act/pray like muslims to force "tolerance" gets my blood boiling.
But if it wasn't the gov't who pushed the kids into the public schools, who was it? There are mandatory attendance laws. Your child *must* attend school or a truancy officer will show up at your door and you could face jailtime. That's the gov't, like it or not.
Thankfully there are still options like private schools and homeschooling. Here in VA the homeschoolers still have to 'report in' yearly with test results (from California standardized tests which don't match the VA SOLs, funnily enough); so it's not like declaring you're going to homeschool gets you out of the attendance requirement and risk of jail.
And I won't even get into what's on the SOLs here and the disgustingly low percentile you can "pass" with on the tests - it's shocking to look at. I don't know why they keep lowering the bar.
It's like the "no child left behind" has become "we'll lower the standards so that every child can pass"; which defeats the purpose.
I just think public schools have gone downhill so horribly decade after decade. I bet the tests that *you* were taking in 8th grade would be considered 11th-grade material now. I can't blame anyone but the gov't for that, because they're the ones that keep lowering the standards.
See what I'm saying?
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Really? Tell me something - does your blood boil as much when some born-again halfwit wants to remove the word evolution from the curricula as it does when "students in Cali [are forced to] dress/act/pray like muslims to force "tolerance""? Assuming for a moment - and it's a BIG assumption, considering how often incidents such as you purport to describe are blown way out of proportion - that what you allege in California is true, mine does.
Based on what I've seen of your posts on the board on this subject, I suspect yours doesn't. You will probably drop back into the role as the pagan apologist for the believers in Creation "Science" (sic).
Public schools evolved as communities sought a way to educate their children - those of their children as did not attend private schools. Mandatory attendance laws, at least in part, stemmed from the socialist/radical notion that children shouldn't be in the workforce. So your depiction of Big Brother imposing his will upon the poor defenseless people just doesn't cut it. It fits well in one paranoid school of thought - but flies in the face of history.
Forgive me if I find your claim that your "stance from this doesn't really come from being a right-winger" to be questionable at best.