RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Home Schooling Alert

Behethland B. Clark responds to Steve Brenneis:

You may have a point. There are certainly some administrative issues that have tied educators hands. And a lot of this "no child left behind" stuff has done nothing but force teachers to teach a test to their class instead of being creative. There are some real problems and there is no doubt that these problems along with the low pay have scared away some really talented folks. I wanted to be a teacher, and my mom begged me not to do it!

But I do believe there has to be a state standard and there has to be some way to measure a child's progress. Is it fair to other students who have followed the state curriculum to allow home schooled students admission to state universities without the same course-load? Without some state intervention, how can we be sure that the home-schooled child has followed a similar curriculum? Am I missing something?

And thanks for your comments about my mom.