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| Date: From: Subject: | 7/20/2011 12:15:44 PM Home School Legal Defense Association New Jersey: HSLDA Responds to Star-Ledger Article |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== New Jersey--HSLDA Responds to Star-Ledger Article Dear HSLDA Members: A New Jersey journalist recently authored an article entitled "Reading, Writing, and Radical" (in the hard copy) or "New Jersey: The Wild West of Education" (the online version). The thrust of her article was that the government should control the content of what homeschool families teach, because otherwise parents might give their children lessons that "defy science and common sense." In homeschools, parents have the right to control lesson content in all 50 states--including New Jersey. Let's look at some of the fruit of letting parents control lesson content--even if it "defies science and common sense." Twice as many homeschool kids go to college as others. Twice as many contribute money to a political candidate, party or cause. Twice as many participate in protests or boycotts. More than twice as many work for a political candidate, party or cause. Twice as many vote. That's a civic involvement record that would turn most teachers green with envy. (Homeschooling Grows Up, http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11847 Dr. Brian D. Ray) In public schools, on the other hand, parents "have no constitutional right ... to prevent a public school from providing its students with whatever information it wishes to provide, sexual or otherwise." (Fields v. Palmdale School District, 2005) So let's look at the fruit when individual parents have no control, and government agencies can mandate content consistent with their view of "science and common sense." Among young adults who were not homeschooled, four times as many say they are not too happy. Four times as many say they are dissatisfied with their jobs. Four times as many think life is dull. Nineteen times as many think that luck and help from others is more important than hard work in getting ahead. (same source) For all the efforts of schools to make kids feel good about themselves, it looks like it's the homeschool parents that end up with children with high self-confidence, motivation, and happiness. Is there possibly some advantage in defying science and common sense that we don't quite understand yet? For a better understanding of why some folks want to give the government power to control homeschool lesson content, read this article http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11848 You might imagine it was published as a response to the Star-Ledger article, but it was actually published six months before! Scott Woodruff HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> "I saved my entire membership fee with one discount" "We've been a Liberty Mutual customer for over 12 years. 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