{"id":3275,"date":"2004-07-20T05:08:21","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T05:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2004-07-20T05:08:21","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T05:08:21","slug":"nea-renews-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=3275","title":{"rendered":"NEA RENEWS WAR?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This one is for Atlas.<\/p>\n

According to this report<\/a>, the NEA brought up it’s long-standing anti-homeschooling policy for debate at their recent convention.<\/p>\n

The most controversial vote at the NEA convention turned out to concern one word in the anti-homeschool resolution. B-69 as introduced read: “The Association also believes that unfunded home-schooled students should not participate in any extracurricular activities in the public schools.”<\/p>\n

The word “unfunded” precipitated a lively debate. Some schools provide funding for homeschoolers to participate in after-school activities such as sports. The amendment to remove the word “unfunded” was designed to put the NEA on record as opposed to letting homeschoolers darken the door of public school grounds regardless of whether or not there is money to finance their participation.<\/p>\n

In the end, the majority of delegates voted to delete “unfunded.” Whether or not homeschoolers’ participation in public school activities is funded, the NEA does not want them in any way to compete with students who are “with us all day.”<\/p>\n

The NEA thus made its animosity against homeschoolers loud and clear. The only thing this powerful and wealthy union fears is homeschooling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Something’s not right here. Here’s the entire resolution as reported by Joanne<\/a> last year<\/i>:<\/p>\n

B-69. Home Schooling.<\/b> The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience. When home schooling occurs, students enrolled must meet all state requirements. Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used. The Association also believes that home-schooled students should not participate in any extracurricular activities in the public schools. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The “unfunded” portion is not there. Is Schlafly writing about last year’s<\/i> meeting? Regardless, they just don’t want our kids playing with “their” kids. <\/p>\n

Now, I recognize the utter toothlessness of NEA resolutions, and that many teachers are actually supporters of homeschooling. Teachers, per se’, are not our enemies. But, with the approval of this resolution (whenever it happened), their union is. Let them remove this resolution. Then maybe I’ll go a little easier on the NEA and the g-schools. Until then, I’ll heap all the contempt I can on the whole rotten system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one is for Atlas. According to this report, the NEA brought up it’s long-standing anti-homeschooling policy for debate at their recent convention. The most controversial vote at the NEA convention turned out to concern one word in the anti-homeschool resolution. B-69 as introduced read: “The Association also believes that unfunded home-schooled students should not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}