ARRRGGGHHHH!!! Here’s one of
ARRRGGGHHHH!!! Here’s one of those stories that makes we want to pull out what little hair I have left. A MN school board has issued a preliminary decision to bar HSers from taking any classes in the public schools.
Board member Ken Ziebarth, one of five policy committee members who voted in favor of the change, said he believes students should have the choice of public education or home-schooling, though he is personally against home-schooling. But he says families that choose home-schooling “should not be picking and choosing” which courses they want to take in the local public school system.
“If our math is good enough, then all our programs should be good enough,” he said.
Ziebarth also said he felt students are deprived of “social factors” when they are home-schooled, although, again, he said this is the choice of parents. “There are other things but course work that are important for kids,” Ziebarth said…
Ziebarth says students “miss a lot if they’re not in school.” He added that the district would not discriminate or punish kids, adding that he believes parents are punishing kids “by not allowing them in school.” He said parents who don’t feel comfortable home-schooling certain subjects should not be able to use public schools for only those subjects while rejecting others. “The Constitution says all kids are afforded the right to a free education and that’s how we set up the public school,” he said. “If you choose something else, that’s your choice. But I have a problem with picking and choosing.” [emphasis added]
I hope this idiot is referring to the MN Constitution because it’s certainly not in the U.S. Constitution.