8/23/10:

They spend WHAT? Want to know how much public education really costs?

And did you hear about the $527 MILLION school in Los Angeles? Our homeschool budget for 2 children last year was about $1800, and that included classes the boys were enrolled in, and curricular materials. When most of our educational tax dollars are going to fund huge and elaborate school buildings, how does this improve education?

8/16/10

California teachers want to boycott the LA Times after the Times conducted a thorough and investigative study revealing that some teachers are BETTER than others. The investigation used publicly available test scores to compare the effectiveness of individual teachers throughout various schools in the LA county school district.  Guess what? Teachers aren’t robots – some of them ARE in fact better than others.

8/10/10:

Philadelphia school superintendent clamps down on public access to school salaries in the wake of uproar over HER exorbitantly high salary.

7/30/2010:

The man who advocates teaching “fisting” to our elementary aged students wants to create a “quiet revolution” through education reform. Click here to read more.

7/28/2010:

US Secretary of Education wants schools open 12 hours a day, 11 months a year. More of the same failed programs – brilliant.

7/27/2010:

National Standards for Education? No way. This will NEVER be a good idea.

Pennsylvania TRYING to promote school choice….but homeschooling MUST be a viable option, get the government totally out of the education of our children!

7/26/2010:

Don’t be fooled: there are attempts to portray anything related to home and family as “outdated” or “out of touch.”

Now traditional summer vacation is on the chopping block, because students “forget what they learned” over the summer.

Guess they never really learned it if it’s so easy to forget, huh?

7/26/2010:

We may have hit rock bottom: Rocks are too dangerous for students in schools – they will study pictures of rocks instead.

From MoonBattery.com:

“According to the Nanny State, the rocks in liberal bureaucrats’ heads aren’t the only ones that pose a threat to children:

Michael Warring, president of American Educational Products in Fort Collins, Colo., had his shipment all ready: A school’s worth of small bags, each one filled with an igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock. Then the school canceled its order. Says Warring, “They apparently decided rocks could be harmful to children.”

After all, who knows exactly what is in a piece of Mother Nature? There could be a speck of lead!

The children will study a poster of rocks instead.

And so it goes in the unbrave new world, where nothing is safe enough. It’s a world brought to us by the once sane, now danger-hallucinating Consumer Product Safety Commission.”

7/24/2010:

CALIFORNIA school district will not change its inaccurate and sympathetic view of Islam in textbooks.

Colorado moves to accept national standards, undermining states’ rights. Watch out!

Maryland overstepping its legal bounds with new form to “score” homeschoolers.

Montana wants to start sex ed in kindergarten.

7/23/2010:

How do teachers’ unions influence public education?

When schools fail to prepare students for real life consequences…

New York State’s low standards for passing test will be “recalibrated.”

Student dies on field trip under “supervision” of her teachers

Oregon teachers unions spent huge amount of money to defeat efforts to elevate school standards

Guess what sector of the employed workers spends the most amount of money to influence elections? That’s right, it’s the National Education Association! Do we really want them to have that strong of an influence over elections?