Always, term

HA, they are the quintessential slithery snakes. They fail and then blame it on not enough money

I don't think it is possible to get them to state clearly their goals; it might be more possible to hold a slithery snake.

I love your "to shrug from". Susanne, there was a lawyer from the state attorney general's office sitting in the meeting. He just let it slide...

Didn't Heinlein say that a committee is the only form of life with many legs and no brain?

Ah, it taught me a lot. I have learned from that stupid little board what government is all about. Little people trying to be important!

And an elephant is a mouse built to government specs

I appreciate everybody's input.

Those are the right kinds of boards...

...to shrug from.

They gave you an excellent out - "I'm sorry, but if this assembly chooses to not just disregard, but break, the law, I not only will be forced to resign but to turn over this information to the Attorney General's office, as I will have no part in your illegal actions."

Would I do that? Damned right I would. I am not going to jail for a bunch of idiot moochers...

Save yourself time and effort and home school if that is your only choice, otherwise you do your child a disservice.

Everything old is new again.

aaargh!!
It's like a deliberately spread infection.

I feel like a very powerful presentation could make a difference, but it's really at the national level now. I encourage you to take a shot at it. Let me know how it works! Common Core is destroying my brother's math education and my own.

I don't know. Is Common Core in your school
system? (It has been many years since I had to
go to either elementary or high school, and I have
no children). Kudos to you for looking into home-
schooling. But what groups? I thought home
schoolers were supposed to just teach their
children at home. Can't you and the children's
mother do that? (Though my homeschooling
friends do go to some kind of group meetings).

I have tried to get some kind of employment in
that way, by offering my services as a phonics
tutor, but I guess they don't need me, if they are
doing it themselves. But if you want to go that
route, don't take too long just "looking into" it,
while the kids suffer in that school system.
I think you should still go to the school board,
to prevent too much damage being done
to the community's children (and, eventually, the
citizens). After all, whether your children are in
that school system or not, you are still paying
for it, and you should not allow too much crap
to be done in your name.

I hope so.

Yes, they are. My kids go to a Montessori Charter. It's a very good school. Charters must comply with Common Core.

I agree with that.

Haha! OK, I'm going to use that one...

In the 1970s Elliot Aronson, a Texas psychologist created a cooperative learning process for high schools aimed at reducing the racial struggles then rampant in schools throughout the country. His system was very effective both in educating students and eliminating racial issues (which were common elsewhere in the country. With the success of the Jigsaw Classroom, Elliot set up a foundation and offered to train teachers at cost of materials and travel anywhere in the country. As he puts it, "nobody called." later he researched the stunning silence, interviewing administrators. Their universal answer to why they had passively rejected the Jigsaw Classroom was "my phone isn't ringing" Parents and community leaders were not demanding this (or any) proven, safe system for actually educating their children. thus, allowing the disaster that is modern education to flourish (no to mention racial tensions, fights, even riots in some places). So yes, speak up, call, remind them (the school board and administrators) that they work for you and the students. But also note, a news story today reports the psychologist who helped "victim #1" accuse Jerry Sandusky was fired from his county level job. No good turn goes unpunished.

I think the way to attack statism is to relentlessly show how it fails at its endeavors. We need to keep their feet to the fire- forcing them to state clearly the goals, and then show how they fail at them. And in the meantime prevent them from stifling competition from free market suppliers. They do this by hiding their real costs through invisible taxation, and outright bans on competiton

Can't argue at all.

Agree totally. Trouble is getting there.

Nope. Probably not. My condolences. Home schooling for you. Until Trump is prez and then he'll abolish CC. hahahahaha. ;)

Public schools are just government indoctrination centers. I look back on what I learned in public school, and it really was a waste of time. I learned more history from netflix and the history channel, more electronics from youtube and the local nerds, etc. etc Plus, I get to learn what I want and need, when I want and need it. Not in some class i am forced to take.

Remember the old joke: A camel is a horse built by a committee.