Homeschoolers forced to attend Public School

This was one of Comrad Obama's plans in his campaign. He stated he had wants to end Home Schooling.

Its BS when you cant choose how to educate your children. I homeschooled my son in Kidergarten because he is above average academically. he learned to spell and read by playing with phonics toys and watching seasame street. in K they were learning the alphabet and numbers and he was reading from 4th grade readers. He could recognize abd count to 100. He knew all his planets and the atmoshperic conditions of each (go magic school bus!!) he so bored.. after 2 months i pulled him out. In first grade he got accepted into a very hard to get into Montessori school which allowed him tolearn at his own pace and work hands on. Micah just figures things out by himself, hes like a sponge... He will ask questions, and when he has the answer he will work through it until he has mastered the concept.I never pushed this child he craves knowledge. He is in public school now because he was found to have some behavioral disorders and bordering on autism we are working through it and he requires severe behavioral classes, but he has made great strides. We hope to reintroduce him to montessori or digital academy/homeschooling. If he was forced to stay in our failing public school it would greatly keep him from progressing. He has taught himself multiplication and is teaching himself division. He is amazing. The schools do not provide the type of environment conductive to learning for EVERY child. And it sgould be up to the parent to make choices as to what is best for their child, providing they ARE indeed educating the child.

Laura, Best wishes with Micah!

I pulled my son from public school because he was on meds for ADD and we didn't like the side effects. Jon suffered mild brain-damage at birth that caused the processing portion of his brain to underfunction, leading to the attention deficiency. He has never been hyperactive.

Since starting homeschooling, Jon has become completely med-free and it performing FAR better than he did in public school. His health has improved EMMENSELY! It would be devastating to see him forced back to public school!

i don't see how it's fair to eliminate the option of homeschooling. i don't have children yet but it's one thing after another that government are forcing people to do. i know freedom has limits but i don't think this should be one of our limits. like it has been said: children learn at different paces and have different learning styles. it should be the parent's decision whether to put the child in public school.

I think a parent should have the right to choose whether or not his child should be schooled at home or in public school. The government should not intervene.

That's a bunch of crap!! I pulled my son out of school this year because he had fallen 3 years behind grade level. No it didn't happen over night. I had continuous meetings with the school and other resources in our area for years!! Never once could they say maybe we are not doing our jobs, it was always your son has this or that.

Since homeschooling, I started my son back to where he was last learning. HE is now learning at an accelerated rate. For someone to come and tell me I have to put him back in, not going to happen. I'd fight!

Melanie... it's a huge contradiction... schools complain about being forced to "parent" children due to lack of input from parents and then criticize parents when they are successful at parenting AND schooling... I just don't get it!

Gessy... I agree!

Desiree... Congrats to you for doing what is right for YOUR child! I'm glad to see he is doing well.

Have you signed the petition to stop them from taking away our parental rights? If not I will be posting the link soon...we as parents need to stand up for our rights to raise our children and not give our children the reigns....

And go you for homeschooling your children, I am working toward this goal...and praying my little butt off that God will put it in my hubby's head that this is what we are supposed to do...

Thank you for sharing with The Comment Sweet Spot!!

Dan,

If Obama wants to end home schooling I will certainly fight him on that. I didn't hear anything during the campaign to that effect. Can you give me some URLs to check?

Probably aren't any. Apparently Dan has become convince Obama wants to be  a dictator and is acting like one.  Responses such as the one he gave in this thread have become his stock replies.  Basically it boils down to  if you don't like something, blame Obama..

Tammy,
thanks. good luck with Jon too! Micah was on several stimulants and they caused these rages. We just recently found out the drugs were the cause of it. He is on strattera now, and doing better. I have cut him back and hopefully as he is learning better ways to mange his behavior he will be off completly. I hate medicating him. But the sachools forced me into it because they could not control him and I was working full time at that point. Now I have had to quit to stay home with him. Kind of trying to decide which way to go with all of this.

Larry... Good Luck getting to the bottom of the Obama Homeschool debate!! For every URL you find that suggests Obama is for/against homeschooling, you'll find an opposing view! It's completely muddled!

I fear the unknown more than the known. I wish President Obama would take a firm stance one way or another so we knew the "real deal". But judging from what I've seen lately... Obama has not been consistant as "candidate" vs. "President". It's almost as if... well... anything goes, hidden agenda, wait and see....

this sucks!! I homeschool and I've been challenged by child services a LOT...finally after I don't how many times they pulled me in to court the judge informed them that she better not see me in court over my homeschooling ever again!

Lary, Obama supports the UN's "Covention on the Rights of a Child" which explains that children will have to go to only "trained Professionals" for their education. This excludes homeshooling in any form.

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm

Marsha... on what grounds??

Points to ponder.... with US education system in the state it is....

What would happen to the class size, etc if the over 2,000,000 homeschoolers (conservative estimate based on 2006 numbers) were suddenly injected into the public school system?

They wouldn't be able to handle it and they would have to talk about more bailouts of schools. Comment #4 from my guessing contest.

This is insane. How to educate children should be left up to the parents. Public schools are a mess. I admire anyone who is able to homeschool thier kids!

This was not the case of a judge going against the parent's wishes.  It was a case of a judge arbitrating a dispute between parents about how the children should be educated.

Quite frankly I think you looked at this case through biased glasses, and whether this was due to a bias toward home schooling or  and assumption the most men are selfish and a think only of themselves, I do not know; but it was obvious the you were assuming the husband had motive other than the best interest of his children for objecting to how his children were being educated.

I saw at least a couple of things in the article that suggested the judge was concerned that the children be exposed to other that than  the mother's social ideas, values or what ever you want to call it.  There was also a mention of her religious beliefs that suggest they might be affecting what she did and did not teach the children and if the father had other religious beliefs that might have been another point of dispute between the parents.  Some religious groups being highly intolerant of those who do not share their beliefs it is also possible that the judge was concerned the mother was restricting the children's exposure to ideas that lacked the respect of others that is necessary to function in a free society.

There are a lot of questions and answers that might of entered into the judge's deciding to rule in the father's favor  that were unanswered by both your article and the article on World Net Daily.