[MamaS]

Originally Posted by rindava

most state require very little paper work to homeschool.
check out the home school defense group... they will help you homeschool if you live in a more difficult state... and most people find it very low cost as well

I sorry my grammar is bad... I went to public schools and never got to be homeschooled. I was even an honor student at them I was also typing fast and in a hurry and kind of ticked off at the replys people were giving...

No, most people think No Child Left Behind is dumbing down education so much, that we are just creating soldiers from it.

That would be "Most states...", I am sorry" and "replies".
The soldiers I know are NOT "dumb". They are brave men defending democracy and Christianity with very little appreciation from the people they are protecting. I think that last statement was inappropriate and unnecessary on this forum.

[athikers]

"No, most people think No Child Left Behind is dumbing down education so much, that we are just creating soldiers from it."

Wow! Somehow I missed this last night when I posted. Wow.

I know four soldiers personally, they are either family or close friends. Of those four, one has a Ph. D, one has an MD, one has a Bachelor's and the last went to two year community college. They are all wonderful, smart people.

Wow.

[Howdy]

I think she meant it turns out people who only take orders and don't think for themselves. That is a common complaint about the rigid authoritarian school system, it teaches children about democracy by talking about it, but the actual system they experience is the opposite of democracy. Children who like following orders and obeying rules do well in school, children who are creative and independent are made to feel bad about about their inability to sit and listen and obey.

I haven't seen the No Child Left Behind causing dumbing down, what I see it doing is adding too much pressure, the children HAVE to get good scores, or the principal and school will suffer. My daughter was doing well in school up until CSAPs then she was too rushed and expected to know more than she could. She'd come home and lay on the floor crying about not being able to understand the homework. I read up on child development and found that she was only just that month likely to have the brain development necessary to understand the math work they were doing. No wonder she couldn't understand. When I talked to the principal she told me my daughter had to do well in fourth grade in order to get into a good college.

I think the education system has gone totally insane. And not just them, but parents are shockingly focussed on the children's school work instead of the child. One of my coworkers is on a wilderness make-and-use-snow-shelters adventure this weekend, and at the last minute one of her teenagers wasn't allowed to go because he has to study for some important tests.