{"id":6135,"date":"2006-02-27T17:39:14","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T22:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6135"},"modified":"2006-02-27T17:41:30","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T22:41:30","slug":"whine-whine-bitch-moan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6135","title":{"rendered":"WHINE, WHINE, BITCH, & MOAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

The four horsemen of the apocalypse. Melissa Wiley<\/a> pointed me to this utterly insipid anti-homeschooling editorial<\/a> out of Virginia. A few choice quotes should adequately set the tone:<\/p>\n

Why would a state with one of the strictest standards of accountability for public education \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the Standards of Learning \u00e2\u20ac\u201d want to give home-schooled students a pass? Why would a state groaning under the onerous demands of President Bush’s inflexible and unattainable No Child Left Behind Act allow such a dichotomy to exist at the home-school level while the legislature is attempting to strike a bargain with the federal government to get free of NCLB?<\/span><\/p>\n

…Home-schooling should be held to as high a standard as public education. While there are parents with only a high school diploma who possess enough intelligence and education obtained by non-traditional means to give their children a quality education, we cannot apply that standard to every parent who wishes to home-school their children. It’s not fair \u00e2\u20ac\u201d either to the children who are being schooled at home or to the children who must deal with the Alice in Wonderland bureaucracy that our state and federal government have turned public education <\/span>into<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I especially liked the digs at NCLB (as if that were germane).<\/p>\n

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The four horsemen of the apocalypse. Melissa Wiley pointed me to this utterly insipid anti-homeschooling editorial out of Virginia. A few choice quotes should adequately set the tone: Why would a state with one of the strictest standards of accountability for public education \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the Standards of Learning \u00e2\u20ac\u201d want to give home-schooled students 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\/6135"}],"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=6135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}