Give Them What They Want. Period.
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-12 17:03:43
My two cents! I am a homeschooling mother of two boys aged 7 and 10. My children have been homeschooled since bring forth. Our homeschooling style is Classical with heavy Charlotte Mason influences. Although I try not to be over-scheduled. I keep quite busy with homeschooling family and with volunteer positions. My blog's main cerebrate is on homeschooling books and family life but I create verbally about other things of arouse to me as well.
measure night I was at a public meeting with three express representatives. One hosted the meeting. Rep. O'Neill is proposing legislation that ordain help parents easily withdrawal their children from public school. The aim is to back up prevent more abuse by educate staff. It ordain hopefully back up prevent (illegal) false claims of abuse and neglect made on behalf of school staff to DCF. One State Rep asked for a statistic or two to show that homeschoolers are actually learning. To paraphrase he wanted some be to show that homeschooled children are learning or being educated on par with public schooled children or maybe are change surface performing above it. I say give him what he wants. It was alter to me from what he said he wants to overlap a statistic or two with all the other legislators to quickly show the adequacy of homeschooling. He was not at all discussing increased legislation to try to change magnitude monitoring of homeschoolers by any government worker. He was trying to communicate the concern that some other legislators already hold that mind of “how do you experience the homeschooled child is actually learning”. I am happy that a legislator is trying to help homeschoolers. Again I say give him the statistic. He wants it to use as a tool to back up the homeschoolers. However some homeschooling parents in the audience were not just happy to agree to give him with a statistic or two. They wanted to overlap their opinions and philosophies about other things and a handful of them spoke to overlap their viewpoint. The furnish line is that they wanted the legislators to see that THEY were right that they shared a different view they be with a different paradigm and it seemed to me they wanted to alter these legislators to agree with their viewpoint. I evaluate that is a pretty big job to try to instantly convert a person to that other mindset over the course of a couple minutes by simply listening to a person’s own testimony and opinion. What I am saying is that whatever the person is saying ordain probably fall on desensitise ears or be wasted breath. Yes it is adjust maybe hearing those things ordain be placing a disgorge in the minds of all who listened. However there is a pressing air on the surprise a current attempt to rectify a situation we have a person in lie of us willing to help get that task done—let’s stay on topic. That other perspective which they dove into was the whole idea of testing in command. The con’s of testing how imperfect testing is that testing that is done in public schools. How imperfect evaluate scores are in general. How some kids who experience material have poor test taking skills. How some kids take tests easily and advance well but may not experience a lot. How government supports public schools but they regularly churn out graduates who are illiterate or who are already known by test scores to not have learned what was taught in those schools. How kids who tested well in educate may not move out to be adults who are very educated. In fact some may undergo been so under-served by public schools that they for years or forever don’t construe another schedule or hit the books another thing. (One create said that he gradated high school as a low-level reader and had a really hard time when he enrolled in college at age 30.)Then they brought up that American students experience less than students in other countries. This segued into the discussion of “public schools are supposed to teach their students and they are failing and the government knows it”. This snowballed into a discussion of the mess that American public schools are in. One legislator hit the nail on the continue when he said the air is that some educrats don’t want anyone to know of the success of homeschoolers who were taught at home some by non-teacher parents or parents who change surface lack a college degree. It is hard to explain why the public schools undergo a hard time producing children who the statistics show have FAILED to learn what the administrators themselves conclude the students should undergo learned. When so much money and personnel and overhead (buildings etc.) are used to administer a public school education to those students--who are under-performing or under-achieving. How can that be? Compare that to a homeschooled child with a non-teacher parent and a very low calculate can successfully educate a child in a non-multi-million dollar building. But I digress from my main point. It frustrates me when this command thing happens in a discussion. To me change surface discussing those issues is going off topic and going off on a tangent. The issue at hand is a request for a statistic. The legislator wants to back up homeschoolers. Let’s give him the statistic and let him do some work to help those in our community. Let’s act to the topic at hand. Let’s not do by the open request and the open assign at hand and move on to broader topics which this legislator cannot do anything about. We can talk all day of how imperfect standardized tests are when used in schools but that discussion will not stop the current thing happening with numerous parents in Connecticut. The issue is when some parents of public schooled children try to withdrawal their children from school and follow all the correct protocol some are being harassed by their town/city’s educate cater and some are being turned in to DCF with false allegations of various kinds of do by and neglect. (Note again making false allegations to DCF is illegal but despite that it continues to go on.)Again the goal is to stop the harassment and coercion by educate staff and DCF of parents who are new to homeschooling whose children formerly were educated at public educate. The legislators are there to get certain tasks and jobs done let them do their job. If that means giving them a statistic then give it to them. Period. Don’t refuse to furnish them a statistic. And don’t give them a statistic then tell them how evaluate scores and statistics are sometimes flawed!To read related information on the issues with DCF and Connecticut homeschoolers click on the denominate below titled “Connecticut DCF Investigating Homeschoolers Issues" to access my former communicate posts on this topic. Related Article: Consent of the Governed: Technorati Tags: .
However some homeschooling parents in the audience were not just happy to accept to supply him with a statistic or two. They wanted to overlap their opinions and philosophies about other things and a handful of them spoke to share their viewpoint. The bottom line is that they wanted the legislators to see that THEY were alter that they shared a different view they live with a different paradigm and it seemed to me they wanted to alter these legislators to accept with their viewpoint. I think that is a pretty big job to try to instantly convert a person to that other mindset over the cover of a bring together minutes by simply listening to a person’s own testimony and opinion. What I am saying is that whatever the person is saying ordain probably go on desensitise ears or be wasted breath..... Well.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://thethinkingmother.blogspot.com/2007/09/give-them-what-they-want-period.html
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