Topic: As expected, they are trying to kill my online school

[Weisshaupt]

Here is the hit piece on the local news Union Jurnotards covering for Union Edutards.

The High Turnover and High Dropout rates are  because the Curriculum is rigorous, and for the students entering at the High School level, this is often the last resort, because they have been expelled or failed by the school systems  this Broad of education advocates forcing them into.  Yes, there is a "For Profit" being this - K12.  They provide a core knowledge based curriculum - the one that is too damn hard for the public school rejects. The one you would have to pay for if you home schooled. but this way you actually get the tax dollars that were forced from you at gun point to be used for your benefit. Can't have that. Those are for paying moronic Teacher's union stooges.

Furtherthe school places you at your real grade level. Supposed be a senior, but you read as a 7th grader? You get 7th GRADE READING.  Then you turn 18 and "drop out" - you didn't graduate - because you were in the 7th grade.  They also get a lot of developmentally disadvantaged kids - because the one size fits all school system doesn't fit them. They get lumped into a special ed classroom where kids with different needs can be ignored and under serviced equally.  So a lot of COVA parents took them out of that situation and gave their kid a chance to learn.

If you look at multi-year stats with younger kids, the damage is being undone- and that included the developmentally challenged.   They will have a kid at or above grade level after being there 3 years. You think that is stat they care about?   

Not one person is in this school who didn't choose to be there. But ultimately, that is the issue. The fascist educators want there to be no choices. You must place your child in their union paid indoctrination center, where they will be "educated" to think like the herd, and never think for themselves, much less learn  the skills that might let them acquire that ability later in life.   

My hatred for these people knows no bounds.

[Dan]

Competition? But that'd interfere w/ the unions monopoly!
I can't wait to get my kids out of their clutches.
I don't know if I posted this elsewhere, but my oldest told me last Thursday, when speaking of how the US is falling in internat'l rankings w/ his 4th grade teacher, she said it's because the kids have "given up". Our school system is actually ranked 11th in our state (out of 350 or so) in performance, and we rank near teh bottom for $ spent. It's absolutely b/c of parental involvement, not these dipsticks, many of whom send home "corrections" on our kids work which need correcting themselves!
Our school sends home a sheet which lists the assignment for the night, and the parent is supposed to sign it so teh kid can return it, proving to the teacher the parents checked their homework. I've never signed on, but this year the 4th grade teacher called and was perplexed as to why I wouldn't sign it. Nobody had done that before. "I don't answer to you, and you don't check up on me. It's your job to teach them and ensure they do their work, not mine" Even though we are all over them re: completing homework, I've told them it's on them. Report cards reflect your effort, not mine.

[trapeze]

Both of my kids did COVA. We found the program difficult to work with. The reporting requirements were a pain in the neck. Plus the curriculum was rather rigid. We eventually went to a build-your-own system with Abeka. COVA would probably be great for some kids...not ours. Our daughter is especially challenging with her (absolutely for real) ADHD.

Still...we participate in a home school group in order to protect our rights as a home school family. We have actively lobbied our state representative several times to keep the government off of our backs. We have also had to get very persistent and nasty with the local school district in order to allow our kids to participate in sports. The local school district is not friendly at all to the home school community.

There is no end to the government screwing around with home school families.

[Weisshaupt]

Both of my kids did COVA. We found the program difficult to work with. The reporting requirements were a pain in the neck. Plus the curriculum was rather rigid. We eventually went to a build-your-own system with Abeka. COVA would probably be great for some kids...not ours. Our daughter is especially challenging with her (absolutely for real) ADHD.

Still...we participate in a home school group in order to protect our rights as a home school family. We have actively lobbied our state representative several times to keep the government off of our backs. We have also had to get very persistent and nasty with the local school district in order to allow our kids to participate in sports. The local school district is not friendly at all to the home school community.

There is no end to the government screwing around with home school families.

Both of my kids are doing really well with COVA, but yes, the reporting is a pain, because the Govt MAKES IT A PAIN. Part of their continual efforts to shut it down. And yeah, the curriculum is pretty rigid, but complete.  I can actually talk about actual  history with both of my kids, and neither of them hate the subject. They both know math at the level I would expect for their ages.  They do hands on science experiments.  But its not homeschooling per-se. You have a teacher and preset things to do each day, and if you want to supplement or explore something else  that is extra. The fact it didn't work for your kids is just proof that education needs to be adapted to the child, and not the other way around. The exact philosophy that the Unions are fighting. In their opinion the child needs to be engineered to fit in their future utopia,  a perfect little cookie cutter result, a "Julia"" - and boys that act like Julias. The last thing they want is a vibrant, unique individual capable of thinking and doing for themselves.

[Libertas]

Gosh, an objective person might properly deduce that there is a state/union conspiracy afoot and that these people really hate your kind Weisshaupt.

[ToddF]

KUNC?

Dude!  

They service home schooling families?  It's hard to figure out just what they do from the article.