Monday, March 24, 2008

A debate about homeschool regulation was on the Diane Rhem show today. It is coming, regulation is coming. My public educator husband predicted that it would be only a matter of time. I feel sick at heart. Why should I? What is the fear?
Regulators don't know when to stop. The dysfunctional public school system is the result of regulation and more regulation to try and fix the dysfunction of regulation. I was disappointed with the defenders of homeschools when the question of testing came up. They replied with an appeasing, 'oh my kids have been tested and surpassed the average'.
The problem with testing is STANDARDIZATION of the individual and who should decide upon that standard, but other individuals. and who will they be? A few publically educated, collectively minded, suit wearing, statistic slinging, status seeking, industrial economy worshiping, conformists. They are just human beings. They don't know the future ant more than you do. Well I will grant that they have an educated guess. But how many times are those overturned and a new one is put into place as the current educated guess? And now we have a few jokers who are out to standardize the rebels who want to make their own educated guess for their own children.
And do you know what your children are in their eyes? Well Ill help you out. They are a mass of human flesh, the workings of our economic and political system that has served so well as to put them on top of the heap in the position of determining what everyone else should be managed by statistics and posturing oh and did I mention the penal system. The US has more person per capita in prison than any other country.