{"id":6803,"date":"2006-08-07T05:25:33","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T09:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6803"},"modified":"2006-08-07T05:25:33","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T09:25:33","slug":"99-44100-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6803","title":{"rendered":"99 &#038; 44\/100% CORRECT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/metro\/20060806-110435-3438r.htm\">Mike Smith&#8217;s Op\/Ed<\/a> in the <em>WashTimes<\/em> is pretty good overall.  Until the last graf, where he goes off the rails (and then attempts to justifiy HSLDA&#8217;s continued existence).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    Home-schoolers have earned the right to be free, and as more non-home-schoolers recognize that home-schoolers are both academically excellent and socially well-adjusted, the case will be stronger. Nevertheless, home-schoolers are realistic and recognize that most policy-makers will never fully trust parents to educate their own children. The battle to maintain home-school freedom will not end soon and, unfortunately, may never end. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No!  We haven&#8217;t <i>earned<\/i> the right to be free.  We <i>are<\/i> free.  Legislators and educrats may have temporarily usurped our rights and our freedoms, so we need to assert ourselves and take them back.  Basing our claims to freedom on test scores is ridiculously short-sighted.  There is no guarantee that HEKs&#8217; scores will always exceed g-schoolers&#8217;.  What then?  Would we have <i>lost<\/i> the right to be free, merely because the g-schools get their act together?<\/p>\n<p>Every single time an HSLDA bigwig makes this argument I want to throw things.  Hey, Scott!  Does this kind of discussion ever get bandied about in the boardroom?  Or is the idea of liberty dead at HSLDA, too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Smith&#8217;s Op\/Ed in the WashTimes is pretty good overall. Until the last graf, where he goes off the rails (and then attempts to justifiy HSLDA&#8217;s continued existence). Home-schoolers have earned the right to be free, and as more non-home-schoolers recognize that home-schoolers are both academically excellent and socially well-adjusted, the case will be stronger. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}