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[spiralngphoenix]

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.

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[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

so the religious will take their children out of your children's science class and go about their lives in their little bubble. That is fine. They are allowed to believe what ever they want to believe, just as much as you are.

There is absolutely nothing in this bill about funding.

[spiralngphoenix.livejournal.com]

That was just Tuesday's bill. There are a few others, and those people/kids aren't staying in their little bubbles. If they would, fine. I have no problem with some wack-job little cult in the back of nowhere doing their own thing. I have issues with the state of Texas deciding they don't like how history happened and so they're going to re-write the history textbooks.

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

NH, tied with Vermont for the least religious state does not translate into Texas.

As for making sure they are learning stuff, the bill provides for that with this section: "(i) The child is being educated by a parent, whether or not the education occurs in the child’s home, and the child has attained a reasonable level of academic progress comparable to children of a similar age and ability."

[nomadmwe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the textbook issue bothers me more than words can say.

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.

[spiralngphoenix.livejournal.com]

I believe the word you were looking for is curriculum. ;)

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!