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spiralngphoenix) wrote2011-03-19 12:44 pm
spiralngphoenix) wrote2011-03-19 12:44 pm
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I am officially having a crisis of identity. I've spent my entire life being proud to be from NH. Lately, that's been slipping. A lot.
Now? Yeah. Not so much. This week, the NH House passed a bill that removes compulsory attendance for school children.
I think I know how the educated people of China, Poland, the Middle East, and many other countries have felt throughout history when the inmates got control of the asylum and systematically destroyed centuries of progress and knocked them back to the Stone Age.
Now? Yeah. Not so much. This week, the NH House passed a bill that removes compulsory attendance for school children.
I think I know how the educated people of China, Poland, the Middle East, and many other countries have felt throughout history when the inmates got control of the asylum and systematically destroyed centuries of progress and knocked them back to the Stone Age.
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I dunno, I rather think that parents shouldn't be able to remove kids from public school classes. Now, if they want to teach their kids differently at home on their own time, that's okay, but I think that removing them from classes isn't acceptable - unless they're going to be taught an equivalent course with an approved... um... word. Thing. Topic list for class. *looks at the empty cider bottle* Words are being hard. But basically, the full approved homeschooling rigamarole that juuust doesn't seem like will happen in this case.
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Home-schoolers are generally still required to follow standard curriculum. The way this is worded seems to make that a little questionable, though, and that's the part that I'm edgy about. It's one thing to say "I do not approve of the way your school handles bullies" or "Your textbooks, frankly, suck and I'm not having my kid be taught from geography books that still have the USSR listed on the maps", but the "conscientiously opposed" part leaves too much leeway for the nutbars to decide "science is against my beliefs, so my kid's not being taught it". We will ALL need to deal with these kids eventually. Allowing them to be exempted from the education requirements based on personal objections to basic facts hurts everyone. That's WHY public education was instituted in the first place!