{"id":6110,"date":"2006-02-22T18:32:24","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T23:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6110"},"modified":"2006-02-22T18:32:24","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T23:32:24","slug":"good-hed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6110","title":{"rendered":"GOOD HED"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bad article.<\/p>\n

What was Joel Turtel smoking when he wrote this pro-homeschooling piece<\/a>? A few choice bits:<\/p>\n

If public school employees had to work for private schools and compete for their jobs in the real world, they would lose their security-blanket tenure. That’s why school authorities view homeschooling parents who challenge their monopoly as a serious threat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That second sentence is a complete non-sequitur. What do private schools and tenure have to do with home education?<\/p>\n

By 2004, however, pressure from parents, Christian homeschooling organizations, and recent court rulings pushed all fifty states to enact statutes that allow homeschooling, as long as certain requirements are met.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

2004? I’m pretty sure the Homeschool Wars were settled long before that.<\/p>\n

[M]any states and school authorities still harass homeschooling parents. That is because the Supreme Court slapped parents in the face when they gave local governments the right to regulate homeschooling. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cite, please? AFAIK, education is still (theoretically) one of the rights covered in the 9th and 10th Amendments. That means it’s local. Whether it’s a fundamental right reserved to the parents (my position) or it’s “reserved to the States,” it certainly shouldn’t be under federal<\/em> regulation. What is Turtel trying to say here?<\/p>\n

If you are a homeschooling parent, you must know how to protect your legal rights. To do this, you should seriously consider joining the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A paid ad for HSLDA? It certainly gives new meaning to the title of this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bad article. What was Joel Turtel smoking when he wrote this pro-homeschooling piece? A few choice bits: If public school employees had to work for private schools and compete for their jobs in the real world, they would lose their security-blanket tenure. That’s why school authorities view homeschooling parents who challenge their monopoly as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110"}],"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=6110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}