With Applications From Nontraditional Students Rising, More Universities Are Revamping Evaluation Methods

By Michael Alison Chandler

Washington Post Staff Writer
Posted Monday, June 11, 2007

Excerpt: In the pursuit of a homemade high school education, Jay Voris played drums in Guinea, Colin Roof restored a 134-year-old sailboat in Ireland, and Rebecca Goldstein wrote a 600-page fantasy novel and took calculus at the University of Maryland Baltimore County…. Colleges are finding ways to adapt to the growing [homeschool] market.

Big-Government Conservatives

By John Stossel

Townhall.com

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007

John Stossel disputes government intervention theory by David Brooks.
 

Excerpt:  Now David Brooks is a bright guy, so I wonder how he can blame the free market for failing in this way. He continues, "Despite all the incentives, 30 percent of kids drop out of high school and the college graduation rate has been flat for a generation."  Excuse me, but why is that the market's fault? Government dominates education in America. K-12 education is a coercive, often rigidly unionized government virtual monopoly that fights every attempt to experiment with free-market competition...

Liberate the public schools

By Steven Greenhut

Orange County Register

Published June 17, 2007

Excerpt: "...socialist education systems cannot provide decent education no matter how much money is thrown at the bureaucracies....The solution: the complete elimination of the public school system and its replacement with a true free market.... Well, I'm on board with the idea to shut down the public schools, and so is Jonah Goldberg. How can anyone object who believes in freedom rather than central planning?"

'God Complex' in Education

by Bryan Hyde

TheSpectrum.com

Originally posted June 4, 2007 - Link no longer available [11-27-07]

Excerpt: Government has assumed more and more control over private life not because the people demanded it, but because power-seekers and privilege-seekers sought outlets for their ambitions. They then propagandized the public until a sufficient number of people came to believe government control was good for them - "Public" education has been remarkably effective in this regard.

How much longer will we sacrifice our children to this sort of nonsense and abuse while holding out for schools to start doing things our way?

Tennessee teachers stage fake gunman attack
Staged assault on 6th-graders unfolds on school trip; parents not amused
CNN.com

Posted May 14, 2007
 

Excerpt: Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.

Lawsuit Over Brokeback Mountain in Class
MyWay.com
Posted May 13, 2007
 
Excerpt: A girl and her grandparents have sued the Chicago Board of Education, alleging that a substitute teacher showed the R-rated film "Brokeback Mountain" in class.

Missouri Virtual Instruction Program: Ticket to Mediocrity
Home School Legal Defense Association
Posted April 11, 2007

Excerpt:  Homeschooling is so successful that the State of Missouri wants to do it - but without the parents...  Parents are an unnecessary component in public school at home programs, and the results come as no surprise.  There is no substitute for parents.

As goes Europe, so goes the world?  Here are some examples that will make you double up on your vigilance at home.

Is your baby playing with its toes yet?  If not the government wants to know why. 
The Guardian Unlimited
Posted March 20, 2007
This is the sort of program that American child "advocates" drool over.

England Outlaws Catholic Teaching in Catholic Schools. 
By Joanna Bogle
National Catholic Register
April 8-14, 2007 Issue 
Government sees no limits to its justifiable reach. The U.S. can learn from this example how far the state is willing to go, whether it subsidizes a school or not.

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