{"id":6856,"date":"2006-08-16T06:25:13","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T10:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6856"},"modified":"2006-08-16T06:32:08","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T10:32:08","slug":"up-and-coming-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6856","title":{"rendered":"UP AND COMING"},"content":{"rendered":"

My news scrape found an article with a very <\/em>local flavor. It’s one of those “balanced” he said\/she said pieces<\/a> that Scott loves so much. Fortunately, either the reporter or the editor did a crappy job, as the “she said” section is quite lame:<\/p>\n

CRITICS<\/p>\n

Home schooling is not without its critics. Some believe it is irresponsible to teach a child in an unstructured environment; that without structure, parents can teach their children anything. For example, some religiously-motivated parents may choose to ignore Darwin’s Theory of Evolution all together.<\/p>\n

This concern is strengthened when one considers that 33% of all home schooling families in the U.S. offer religion as their main motivation for home schooling their children, according to a 2003 report.<\/p>\n

Home schooling can also be used as a tool of abuse, as without a child being regularly introduced to adults outside of their family, their ability to report what is happening to them in their home life becomes limited.<\/p>\n

Another argument is that without working alongside other students their own age, home school students may not know how to handle themselves in the competitive world outside the home.<\/p>\n

“They need to be sure that the child is being taught,” said Principal of Alpha Academy School, Eugene Slocum. “One of the things that can become a problem, is that – just because a child is being taught, it does not mean they are being competitive.”<\/p>\n

Slocum worries that with no competition for students, the standard may be lowered as a result.<\/p>\n

“We, as a public school, have to meet the same criteria as other schools, we are accountable for what we do,” said Slocum. “We can’t just hide test results, we have standards to meet in order to help kids learn.”<\/p>\n

Both Slocum and Wiggs agreed that the decision to home school one’s children depends largely on the family itself. “Home schooling is not for everyone,” said Wiggs. “It is one of many educational choices available to parents. There is public, private … many different opportunities.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That first graf is a killer. I was unaware that unschooling and creationism go hand-in-hand.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: I figured out the first graf. It’s not unstructured as in unschooling. The reporter is using the word “uncontructured” in contrast to having the government looking over our shoulders telling us what to teach. In that respect, we’re all<\/i> unstructured. “Unsupervised” would have been a better word choice. Still lame, but better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My news scrape found an article with a very local flavor. It’s one of those “balanced” he said\/she said pieces that Scott loves so much. Fortunately, either the reporter or the editor did a crappy job, as the “she said” section is quite lame: CRITICS Home schooling is not without its critics. Some believe it […]<\/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\/6856"}],"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=6856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}