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Most Parents Are Not Idiots Or Negligent — So Why Do We Need Compulsory-Attendance Laws?
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Why do we need compulsory-attendance laws? Why compel parents to send their children to public schools? Wouldn’t parents naturally educate their children without compulsion? Human nature and history prove this to be the case. All over the world, parents push to educate their children, with or without public schools.
In Japan, school is compulsory only up to the equivalent of .....
Author: Joel Turtel
Category: Parenting
Date Posted: Aug 12, 2005
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Homeschooling — Is It Worth It?
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Suppose that you rearrange your life to homeschool your child and the experiment fails? You may feel that you’ve disrupted your life and wasted a year of your child’s time. Your child may even be kept back a grade by the local public school.
The answer to this concern is, can you risk not trying? Isn’t your child’s future worth the risk? If you see that your child is getting .....
Author: Joel Turtel
Category: Parenting
Date Posted: Aug 12, 2005
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Homeschooling — Can I Do It?
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Many parents would like to homeschool their children but are afraid they don’t have the training or ability to be their children’s teacher. This is certainly understandable, because many parents never had any formal training to be a teacher. However, most parents don’t have to worry about this issue.
There is literally a supermarket of education resources available for parent .....
Author: Joel Turtel
Category: Parenting
Date Posted: Aug 12, 2005
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Parents — The No Child Left Behind Law Won’t Do Much For Your Child
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Past experience with federal education programs predicts that the No Child Left Behind act (NCLB) will also fail parents whose children are doing poorly in school. The federal government has spent over $120 billion on Title 1 programs for low-income students since 1965. Yet the literacy rates for these children today are appalling and the achievement gap between low-income chil .....
Author: Joel Turtel
Category: Parenting
Date Posted: Aug 12, 2005
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