News, Politics, and Homeschooling Blogs
As if I don’t already have enough homeschooling blogs in my feed reader people have been passing around this online list of the top 50 homeschooling blogs. There are certainly some great blogs listed on there, and yes I’ve added a few to my feed reader. (Thanks Kim for pointing it out!)
Speaking of great homeschooling blogs on my feed this morning I read and reread this post on state testing for homeschoolers. As usual Dana hit the nail right on the head and explains it perfectly. It is important to think about right now as Nebraska, where she lives, is working on legislation to limit homeschoolers there. As Dana explains it is not that homeschoolers have something to hide nor is it we are failing. The reasons for being against state testing go much deeper than that.
Of course Nebraska is not the only state right now with homeschooling issues. Mississippi is trying to fix something that isn’t broken while ignoring what is. Setting up state testing for the homeschooling students while the public schools are still in need of repair seems distracking. As is “Look over there so you won’t see what I’m doing over here.” There is a great post on this over at Life On The Planet. Luckily her updates says that this bill is not likely to go through. But that I has been brought up shows how some people are looking at homeschoolers.
And of course many of us are familiar with the homeschooling issues brought up in Washington DC after the Banita Jacks news.
It is still January and there are already rumblings. What do you think February will bring?
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January 30th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Thanks for the link. And the year sure has started off with a bang, hasn’t it? I think February will bring…well…it brings the first hearing for our bill. But hopefully it will be a little slower, as February should be. It’s my birth month, so it better be a good month!
February 12th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
An update on the Mississippi homeschool testing bill: I have been in touch with every person on the Mississippi Senate Education Committee, and I am assured by many of them that this bill is dead in committee. I gather that the outcry from MS homeschoolers was loud and clear! What I want to determine is the backstory on the bill? Who wrote the language? What lobby pushed for this bill to be proposed? Anyone out there have a clue? It helps to make a more informed argument if you know the “real” motivation behind the bill.
Good job, MS homeschoolers!