Homeschooling in Spokane: February 2014

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Public Schools NEVER have "Enough Money"

Did you know that teachers in the public schools spend a lot of out -of -pocket money to make their classrooms complete. A 2012 survey found that on average teachers spend over 350 dollars each year of their own money on instructional materials and supplies for their individual classrooms. They purchase items like play equipment, snacks, first-aid and hygienic paper products, winter necessities like gloves and hats for kids who come to school without or who need a spare, art supplies, even classroom computers and I-pads. They care about their kids they spend hours with everyday and some report that the red tape it takes to get everything that is needed to keep things running smoothly and make a classroom comfortable or dun abd interesting is difficult; besides, schools, especially in less affluent areas, have very limited budgets.

Schools are always telling the public that they are in need. They campaign for levies; kids selll gift wrap door to door. Schools also look for handouts each year, donations of pencils and paper and glue sticks and other things given to parents in list form to purchase for the school each year. Our poor schools, they just never seem to have enough money, but they are always taking on new buildings, buying new textbooks, starting new programs.

Spokesman Review, Sept 16, 2013 ran an article that talked about the school district starting a "charter school." They will need about 2 million dollars to make this special school for a few kids who get to go to the school if they win a lottery. Do you think they will ask for pencil donations to the school?

Another article from October 15th was about how Spokane Schools are failing in the areas of language arts so they are changing their curriculum- overhauling reading and writing by replacing it with Common Core. The school "needs" this overhaul because only 57 percent of the districts fourth graders are passing the statewide writing test.

Maybe they cannot write because paper is not being supplied to them by the school for writing?
Another article, dated Dec. 4th , told how Spokane schools grades K-8 were planning to ditch what they were doing for math and try a free math program offered on-line, but only until someone could create a text that meets the standards for Common Core that schools are moving towards implementing, even though they have not seen the textbooks yet. When the textbooks come out, (from the companies hired by common Core to create the texts, then they will HAVE to purchase them, but until then.... this math program,  EngageNY,  is supposed to be great... and it's "free." However, our every changing schools are going to stop doing that when the Core Curriculum is ready to be purchased, and that will be quite an expense.

No one really knows how much it will cost to implement this Common Core, but it will be expensive. Not only that but the people in positions of authority who have agreed to do it, have agreed sight unseen. No one has seen the materials that will be used as of yet. There will be the cost of training and testing... computers.... books.... but there is an even greater cost than what can be measured in money. The greatest cost to every state and district, to every man, woman and child, will be the loss of local control over our schools. With the immplementation of the Common Core program, school will cease to be run by local, elected officials and instead will be managed by appointed federal employees. The cost is astronomically expensive,so expensive that some states, like Kansas and Alaska, who signed up, are thinking to bail out.

In a Fox News Report dated Feb 2, 2014, Perry Charliamonte reported that in Maryland, educational experts estimated that it will require $100 million to upgrade their computers statewide to support the testing done in conjunction with Common Core.. Where does a school district get that kind of money? In Washington State, no one will talk real number, mainly because they haven't a clue. This page will give you some estimates.

Randy Dorn, Washington's superintendent of public instruction declined to give any numbers when he was interviewed by Jodi Lawrence-Turner in a January 29th, 2014 Spokesman Review article. He commented  that the cost of Common Core is "beside the point." He added, “We aren't preparing students to be career and college ready, so I can’t put a price on it.” He justified implementation of Common Core whatever the cost, saying, "If we fully fund basic education, that will free up local dollars.”

Are you wondering.... How is it that we are not "fully funding basic education" already? Isn't that what taxes and levies pay for, what teachers in the schools are already working hard to do? What "local dollars" will be freed up when we as a state, spend millions of dollarson Common Core that the school never seems to have?

Oh yeah, it must be that money that parents and teachers, (not the school funding,) use to provide all those pencils and paper in our children's classrooms. Just think.... of all the money that will be freed up locally when everything children do in school is done on a computer and parents and teachers no longer will have to purchase pencil and paper for the schools!

Sign the Petition to stop Common Core:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-common-core-in-washington-state1.html

Monday, February 17, 2014

11th Annual Home Educators’ Day at the Capitol

Celebration Under the Dome Event

Monday February 24, 2014

9:00am - 3:00 pm

Space is still available. Deadline to pre-register is February 20th. Come join us for a fun-filled, information packed, and uplifting celebration of our homeschool freedoms. A great day of civics for the whole family!
* Informative and educational workshops
* Tours of the Capitol
* Visit with your legislators
* Hear from lawmakers
* Great fellowship with other homeschool families

The Annual Apple Pie Tradition continues. Thanks to our amazing volunteers,each year we have been able to bake and deliver 160 homemade apple pies to lawmakers!

Every year legislators and staff look forward to this event. This is a wonderful opportunity to be a blessing to those in authority over us. Volunteers from all over the state bake pies and bring them to the Capitol, where homeschool families deliver them with a thank you card. A great opportunity for you and your children to meet with legislators & staff, show case home education, and let our light shine.

There are many volunteer opportunities available for you and your family.
* If you would like to volunteer to help, email CHN at [3]chnow@msn.com
* If you want to help with the Apple Pie Tradition, email
[4]CHNapplepie@gmail.com

This event is hosted by CHN and Christian Heritage Home Educators of
Washington

CHN is legislative liaison to Christian Heritage Home Educators
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References

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2. http://chnow.org/day-at-the-capitol.html
3. mailto:chnow@msn.com
4. mailto:CHNapplepie@gmail.com
5. http://www.christianheritageonline.org/
6. mailto:chnow@msn.com
7. http://www.chnow.org/support.html

Stop Common Core!

"Like locally grown apples, the core should be local and exceptional, not common."
Quoted from
http://stopcommoncorewa.wordpress.com/

What is Common Core?

http://commoncorefacts.blogspot.com/

An Arkansas Woman Testifies of Problems With "Common Core"
Math via "Common Core" is quite unusual :

http://stopcommoncorewa.wordpress.com/

Research Common Core!
This Teacher Did Her Homework, will you?

English in the Common Core Curriculum

Begin your research by exploring what it is like in a Common Core Classroon"

Common Core Middle School Language Arts Class:
(about 6 minutes)

Common Core Reading with Tim Bedley

A "read aloud" with his 4th and 5th Grade Common Core Elementary Classroom

The book is Junkyard Wonders by Patricia Polacco

(about 23 min)

One Problem Math Class with Tim Bedley
Grade 4/5
(Short 23 min. version)

Here's the "problem" the children are to solve in this video:

Write several different types of equations for 2.4.

Draw some different types of pictures to represent 2.4.

Is 2.4 the same thing as the quotient 2 remainder 4? Why or why not?

High School Common Core
(1 minute Common Core Promotional Video)

Detailed and related video also from The Teaching Channel : (about 7 minutes)
"Reading Like a Historian: Philosophical Chairs"
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/reading-like-a-historian-taking-positions

Homeschool Legal Defense Association and Common Core Issues
Lots of Videos @ https://www.hslda.org/commoncore/Video.aspx
HSLDA is in the fight against Common Core because they believe it will harm homeschoolers.

Is Common Core developmentally appropriate for children?
(25 minutes, Sept. 18, 2013)
Dr. Megan Koschnick, child clinical psychologist says, (Emphatically) "No." She also expresses her concern over the lack of research regarding Common Core.

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Your Children Are Not Your Children?

Promoting collective parenting on MSNBC, this is Melissa Harris Perry.

This is part of the "Lean Forward " campaign.

Watch this video. Listen as she asserts your kids as yours... but only to completely dismiss that notion. The inflection of her voice is VERY misleading. Why this inflection? Is to to mislead her hearers?What is with that?

"We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had kind of a private notion of children: your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is that we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”

Your kids belong to who? The community at larger? Not you, not even themselves?

Does she mean that they belong to the state? (The collective?)

Is she kidding?
Related Articles:

CNSnews.com we-have-break-through-idea-kids-belong-their-parents
The Blaze -harris-perry-i-stand-by-kids-belong-to-whole-communities-msnbc-promo/
Fox News a-community-not-parents

On a side note, this collectivism is the schools. Note how your erasers and crayons that YOU purchase each year, are not to be labeled with YOUR name. They belong not to you, but to the "collective." Also note how the schools taxed monies for education, (even with all those label on soup cans,) do not provide many hygienic classroom materials, like tissue and sanitizer, or any of these these basic educational supplies like pencils, rulers, scissors, notebook paper, markers, erasers, glue, coloring pencils, for "our" children and their teachers.

This is simply indoctrination to get you thinking like a collective... and to get kids thinking that their stuff is not their own stuff. (By the way, sharing items like this is also a great way to share and spread more germs.)
Seriously... these items could also be bought in bulk much cheaper than than you or I can as a single buyer?

See:
Lidgerwoond School Supply List
http://www.spokaneschools.org/cms/lib/WA01000970/Centricity/Domain/2442/Supply%20List%202013-2014.pdf

Green Acres.... "these are community items"
(Don't we already financially support our community school financially?)
http://www.cvsd.org/greenacreselem/documents/Greenacres%20School%20Supply%20List%202012-2013.pdf

Deer Park Schools "Please do not label any of the above items with the student's name."
http://www.dpisd.org/cms/lib4/TX01001079/Centricity/Domain/7/DPE_school_supplies_2013-14.pdf

Stevens
http://www.spokaneschools.org/Page/14796

Wilson Elementary
http://www.spokaneschools.org/cms/lib/WA01000970/Centricity/Domain/3042/supply%20lists%202013.pdf

Why is it that some schools do not provide these essentials?

Food for thought :
Does your schools budget pay for pencil and paper? It does in Michigan... yet supply lists still come home.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2926876/posts

"There was a time when we didn't require kids to bring anything. Just show up on the first day of school," http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2012784300_schoolsupply02m.html

Could it be profitable to buisnesses if the schools send out lists?
Why yes, of course!
http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/marketing/back-to-school/shop-by-grade/grade-school/school-supplies/index.html

https://classrooms.walmart.com/

http://www.boston.com/businessupdates/2013/08/06/gearing-for-back-school-staples-introduces-custom-supply-lists-for-teachers/v5naUpxVDn9amY4kfFsZOL/story.html

The NEA Wants You and Your Kids

Homeschool is one option, as is private or public school. There are options. Parents chose different forms of education for their kids, and for different reasons. What is the reason you choose to homeschool?

Many people send their children to the public school because they think they have no other option. They have never thought of homeschooling and if they did, they then thought that for them it was not possible. Some send kids to school for the nostalgia of it all.... cheer-leading, football games.... It is what a parent themselves did when they were a kid. Others choose public school because it is the "free" option. You have to pay for private school. However there are those who do not think of it as a free education, but believe that they pay for it via their property taxes and thereby believe they are simply getting their money's worth. No matter what form of education you choose, remember that when it comes to your choice of education for your own children, your kids are YOUR kids. You as parent, are the gatekeeper for your children, protector and provider. You are to have jurisdiction over what is best for them, especially in regards to what they learn.

An September 2013 Answers In Genesis article by Al Mohler, (currently the President of the Southern Baptist Convention,) addresses the political and ideological secularization of the public school system and It is a good read for anyone who knows nothing about the NEA and it's agenda for our public schools. In case you are unaware, NEA stands for the National Education Association and it is the main labor union for teachers and educators. Parents need to understand who this entity is as well as the history of our public school system and take responsibility and action in the area of educating our nations kids. Mohler writes to educate readers on the motives and agenda of the NEA

If you know the wonder of of your children, if you believe that your children can trust and rely upon you as their parent (before some total stranger who is simply emplyed by the school, then you need to be aware of what the NEA has in mind. (Article by Albert Mohler, here) Parents of school-age children need to know what the NEA has planned nationally for our kids.

Mohler, citing his examples from the NEA's 2012-2013 convention, informed readers that:

The NEA pushes educational programs that increase acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle, regardless of the parents’ views.

The NEA believes government schools should supply family planning instruction and resources directly to children.

The NEA opposes parental efforts to restrict obscene and offensive books in school libraries and classrooms.

As mothers and fathers, we need to realize that we can make a choice and the choices we make, the voice we have as parents is important in the life of our kids. Some people privately educate, to have more of a say than in a public school setting, to be more purposed in suject areas or content. One problem with public education is that many people just hand their kids over and think education will happen at school without parental involvement. They are wrong. No matter your choice, parents must be involved.

One problem with public education is that the collective whole that is involved in the NEA unions, often mistakenly think they always know better than parents, what is good for kids. This is a force driven primarily by the NEA.. In public school it is sometimes very difficult for the parent to be recognized as anything but an appendage to the child, and seldom are they in anyway, shape or form, the director of the education of their own kids. However, there are teachers, as well as parents in the system who both respect and/or assert parental concerns and this can benefit everyone because here, in America, "we the people" fund and run our school system.... right? Let's make no mistake, the NEA, though not well kknown by parents, is often a powerful voice in educational arenas..

On the other hand, If you are homeschooling,or if you are thinking about homeschooling, you need to know what homeschooling is, and isn't and understand that you legally, (without the NEA's approval or oversight,) can and do, without a doubt,, direct the education of your own kids. The NEA hates not having this control.

This is not part of Mohler's article, but just because you homeschool,do not think for a moment that the NEA is ignoring you.. They really object (as a group entity) to parents having any say over their kids, and do nnot be deceived, the NEA disapproves of home based education. Every year the NEA makes resolutions and every years the NEA stands firm that home schooling parents should not be allowed to do so. They also say that if they do so that they should only be allowed to if they are licensed by the state, and hold that any such students should be assessed according to state curriculum standards. Keep in mind, the NEA is against both private education and parent choice in public schools, (school vouchers. ) They hold that automony is not a good thing.... and of course, if you send your kids to private school you are selfish, only looking out for your own interests and the interests of your kids.

The 2011 NEA resolution regarding "homeschooling:"is as follows:

"B-82. Home Schooling. The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience. When home schooling occurs, students enrolled must meet all state curricular requirements, including the taking and passing of assessments to ensure adequate academic progress. Home schooling should be limited to the children of the immediate family, with all expenses being borne by the parents/guardians. Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education censure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used."

Every year, there are new NEA resolutions. You can hear a report from Phylis Schaffly on the 2013-2014 NEAresolutions here, or read them at the NEA website for yourself. Just know, the NEA still despises your right as a parent to oversee your child's education in public school and they oppose any aspect of what we call here in WA, "homeschooling," or "home based education."

Sooooo.... on that note, if you are currently involved in a "parent partnership program," and your child (children) are educating to meet all state curricular requirements for public school graduation..... (including the WASL,) and if this form of education you are undertaking is all done under the immediate instruction of someone licensed by the state who is helping you teach your kids only with "approved state curriculum," and if the program you are in calls this "homeschooling"...... you can bet that the NEA is very, very fond of you. You are just the kind of parent the NEA approves of because instead of your school system working for you, you, as the parent, now answer to them for the education of your kids.

If you are in a Parent Partnership Program, you are not governed by our WA state homeschool law. (They tell you this when you join their program. )

As for the NEA.... listen as General Counsel Bob Chanin says farewell.... and talks about the "power" and money and to protect the rights of adult employees, (the NEA is not an advocate for kids or in the buisness of creating great schools.)

Saturday, February 8, 2014

First Lesson: Stop, Look and Listen

STOP....
LOOK and
LISTEN

One of the very first school lessons that is formally taught to school children is, "Stop, Look, and Listen." Learning to attune the eyes and ears to gathering information in order to think about things and make sound judgement is important. It is a practical lesson,one that will last a lifetime.

Little children who learn this lesson will put it into practice was they walk a buy street on the way to school, and then when they are older, the same lesson will help them safely drive a motor vehicle over an active railroad track. The lesson of using the senses is one that you will never outgrow. So, stop a minute and watch and listen to this promotional video for a Parent Partnership Program in a Washington State Public School.

Published in January 2010, the video can also be viewed on YouTube, here (if it does not appear below.) Listen carefully as you observe the Port Gardner Parent Partnership in Everette, Washington. inform prospective parents that their school exists to "provide resource to support, encourage and guide parents as the teach their children in home-based classes."

You might be surprised to see and hear how this program and others like it across our state, are not what you might be led to believe at first glance..

After watching the video, ask yourself:

What do these programs offer?
Homeschooling is what they would have you think they are offering. Several parents specifically mention it. They suggest they like the program because they could not do homeschooling on their own.

By calling or even suggesting that these programs are "homeschooling",
many people, even legislators, (some who know little about home based education,)
mistakenly think that THIS and programs like it, are what  homeschooling (or home based education,) is.

Keep in mind that the NEA has always considered  homeschooled children
under the supervision and tutelage of their own parents to be "at risk" of failing to be educated..

These Alternative Learning Programs (ALE's or PPP's)
  exist for children that the school district deems
to be "at risk." (In danger  of failure.) They are happy
to put active parents, and their children into programs governed by ALE's and ALPs.
Alternative Learning Experience, that is a term that is not used in this video.
Why not?

BEWARE.  On paper trails ,you attempted home based education.
You gave it up and joined the program....
The school gets more money now and you officially qualify to take part in the ALE.
So, you join the program, enjoy the benefit you see in being
in a state-funded "homeschool-like" program
and then tell all of your homeschooling friends.

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Pretty soon, all those people who used to be interested in homeschooling will be doing it and call it "homeschool." and thus allow the NEA to redefine what ."homeschooling ".is.

What draws participants into the program?
One mom says she heard about the "Washington State Homeschooling System."

Is there any such thing as the Washington State Homeschooling System?

No. There is alternative learning programs in the school system,
and there is home based education... a.k.a. homeschool.

Schools are not given tax dollars to provide any funding for private or home based school.

Another mom states that she likes the option of her child being both able to learn at home and having interaction with other educators.

Did she mean interaction with home "educators" or public school educators?
Both are indeed "educators" as also are teachers in private schools.

She could mean program heads or simply mean, other participating dads and moms.

One mom says was interested in the program because she never ever thought that she would be able to "homeschool."

This is odd, because there is no pressure from schools for parents to" homeschool" their children.

The place to go to get information and encouragement to send your
child to a private school is at a private school and
to homeschool you would consult a homeschool support
group or organization, not a public school.

One mom says she was"too afraid" to homeschool and she didn't think that she could do that on her own.

Afraid to "homeschool?" Why?

THINK ABOUT IT! Why is she afraid? Why is she suggesting that she cannot homeschool on her own?

Maaybe she is afraid of what people would think. Maybe she is afraid it would be "against the law?"
Let's face it... there are documented cases all over the nation of school authorities and/or state officials, forcibly attempting to remove children from homes, (wrongfully;) simply because the parents choose to home base their children's education instead of sending them to the local public school
and someone didn't like them doing it or having the freedom to make that decision.
.
Read this 2010 HSLDA article about the Crissy Family in New York.

One mom says that the teachers care as much about her kids as she does.
Your child's teacher may be a kind and caring, loving soul, and an excellent teacher too, but she or she does not have the same paternal instincts you do for the well being of your own kids.

NOTE: No parent mentions "money" as an incentive to join a Parent Partnership Program in this video. However, there is money involved to your personal benefit if you join. Some parents are paid to teach classes. Parents are given options on selection of curriculum, while the state pays for learning materials, hiring of teachers and purchase their books.

It cannot be stressed enough that these programs are NOT homeschooling.
Are any people in these programs doing home-based education?
ter research on my own is that few are. Participants may be part time, even taking an "ancillary" class, but most all are counted as full time enrolled. This is because this is the point of the alt ed program.

Also, each full-time public school student generates funding for the school district out of which the student is allocated expenditures for too. Not only is funding and advantage for all interest parties, but these full time students that the schools insist on calling "homeschoolers," which now have to report and answer to the teachers and the state, suit the National Education Association's (NEA) "resolutions" in regards to parents and the kinds of "homeschooling." (See the link and more NEA references at the end of this article,)

What academic classes and/or subject areas do they advertise offering for your kids to learn?

We see paint tubes.... and kids painting with paintbrushes.

We see hands getting messy in a bin of what could be play dough.

We see kids listening to someone reading while sitting in a group,

kids attentively listening so some kinds of verbal instruction from adults

We see kids touching and handling an iguana, school work display and kids leaving a gymnasium.

We hear about foreign language opportunities and even see some computers and hear about on lin learning.

We see kids wearing karate uniforms doing karate moves....

but hear nothing about academia like Chemistry or Algebra or English being taught to these kids while they are at their classes. Everything appears to be elective type of classes.

Are there any sublime messages...indications that people who are of the Christian will be comfortable here?

Yes, Several. Did you notice a cross necklace? Two?

Did you read the kid's t-shirt?

Do they give credit for using any religious based materials, frequently used by Christian homeschoolers, like APOLOGIA SCIENCE, ROD AND STAFF readers, , or ABEKA MATH, in public school? How about in Parent PArtnership Programs just like this?

A lot of people choose to private school or home educate so they can freely used curriculum like these.

Are there any terms or words used that might have double meanings or be ambiguously misunderstood?

Yes. Several.

"committed to every student's success."

Does this hoping and helping everyone so their best or does it have a political connotation?

Does it refer to the United Way's , "Success by 6"?

Does this mean "success" as per the Success For All foundation?

(This foundation promotes the Common Core Curriculum.}

"home directed instruction"

Does this mean it is actually parent directed from the home,

(like home based education,) or do they mean directed

by the school district to be done under the

supervision of the parent while at home?

"Ensure the learning of each student"

Does this mean that children will simply learn and enjoy learning with

support from teachers and parents who care, or does this refer to

specific state mandated objectives, that will be met, as in the Core Curriculum,

as in the "Outcome Based Education" (OBE) or "Mastery Learning" ideologies?

One thing that is offered to, "active parents,"is a role in their child's education.

Odd, isn't it, that the role of being active in the life of the child is
offered to the parent from the school?

As guardian to the child parents can rest assured that they do
not need the school's permission to be active in their
child's education. It is the parent, actually, that delegates
a role to the school in the life of their kids and who have
say over what is in the best interest, (or not,) of their child.

THINK ABOUT IT! It's citizens (thereby parents,) who vote for laws and school bonds,
elects school board members and superintendents too.

They say the offer "support" too. One teacher remarks, "One of the ways we best support parents is helping them know what the state requires."

This teacher's job is not supporting you in your decision to homeschool,

rather, she is being paid to overseeing how well you administer public school in your home.

If you need support or clarity understanding the home based education
law, get your answers from one of the many homeschooling organizations
that have formed to help legalize, (not restrain) homeschooling in our state.
Home educators, are subject only to those minimum state laws
and regulations which are necessary to insure that a sufficient basic
educational opportunity is provided to the children receiving
such instruction. They are given flexibility to accommodate for
learning in the variations of family lifestyles and need for flexibility, and are also
not expected to give an account for expenditure of tax dollars as a government institution is.

What do the public school teachers like about the program?
We are told that the teachers like smaller classes and getting to know the students. They like having time to go deeper into subjects, and the idea expressed is that they like the many hands-on learning experiences... things like letting "the snails crawl across the desk."

This is great. Every valuable teacher/educator would certainly appreciate the qualities of a low
student to teacher ratio and ample classroom time to learn lessons or
to make up-close and personal observations
about nature... (even if on a desk.).

How and why did this program come into being?

We are not told much. We are told that someone was specifically hired by the district to implement the program.....and that this is because there were a lot of "active parents" in the district who wanted to have a place locally where they could bring their children and play a role in their child's education.

Are there any special requirements for participation?

Yes there is, however this is not told to us in the video. The question can be answered from the website though. Information says that you must be homeschooling... that is right, "homeschooling," for at least one semester...( 90 days) in order to be eligible for the program.

THINK ABOUT IT! Why is this? Why is it a prerequisite that you must be a homeschooler to join?
Evidently, the programs are not open to everyone, just those who meet the criteria.

It's true. You must provide proof that have "tried" homeschooling but really it goes deeper than that.

What does this program offer to parents and their children?

The website for this publicly funded school informs us that this program offers (or provide)s "resource to support, encourage and guide parents as the teach their children in home-based classes."

Really? This is interesting. What kinds of resources does the public school offer?

How are these "resources"distributed and paid for?

Does your local public school fund home based schooling?

Let's THINK ABOUT THIS for just a minute.

While they claim to support homeschooling, lets remember that the school district you live in does not work like the Washington Homeschool Organizations which have volunteers who answer calls and works with legislators both protect homeschooling families with out state law and who

work diligently keep homeschooling freely a reality for those who choose it for there families, and there are several homeschooling organizations in Washington, at least one in every state.
Your public school does not work legislatively to ensure your parental rights for home based education
and teachers unions like the NEA does not want YOU to "homeschool" your child.

There are three, and only three, ways to fulfill the compulsory education laws we have in

Washington State for children who are over the age of eight. (And yes, by law, you may, but are not legally obligated to, send your children to public school in Washington until they are eight.)

Once they are eight, the law requires that some form of formal education begin.

To fulfill this legal obligation parents can use their local public school, (paid for by tax dollars,)

or they arrange to pay for private school, or make they may make the

declaration to privately home educate, for which they themselves must also pay

Neither private options, home based schooling or private school, are to be paid for by public funding.

There are legal provisions whereby these same private or homeschooled students may have access

to classes and sports on an ancillary basis at the local public school, but for this program to

suggest that a publicly funded program exists to support "home-based education"is misleading.
  It would also be misleading if the offer for resources or "support" for home'based education came from public funding or if it would require that the home based student
enroll full-time  into the local public school.

Homeschool minded parents of young children should  not be so quick to sign up for these programs.

Stop. Look at your educational options. Listen to Homeschooling Organizations as well as what these programs offer before you sign up to receive any "allotment" from your local public school.

If you have not already, please read the 2011 NEA Resolutions, particularly as they pertain to family life, freedom of religion and homeschooling... here.

2012-2013 NEA Resolutions here
2013-2014 NEA Resolutions here

Are you aware of the Common Core Curriculum? <---click a="" here="" href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/25/opinion/ravitch-common-core-standards/" nbsp="" nd="" target="_blank"> here

In this video, listen to a high school student talk about what education is and isn't and the Common Core.

Road to Ruin

"Nationwide, about two-thirds of fourth-grade students read below levels that are considered proficient, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress."

"Only 57 percent of the district’s fourth-graders are passing the statewide writing test... "

Spokesman Review October 2013

Our American educational system is under assault. Nothing new... right?

Listen to the people in this video clip and you will better understand why and what has been done to our educational system and remember, as an independent homeschooler you can actually teach your child to read and write! They can learn and play which will in turn will prepare them for college and their future work. It also will not cost the taxpayer a cent! In public school or in private, remember, YOU are the parent and thereby you are the primary educator of your own children and you must always have a voice in and over their education!

Watch the 30 minute,trailer video Road to Ruin on You Tube

Here are some QUOTES from the video:

"You should know that the planned deliberate dumbing-down of America was started in 1898....by Socialist John Dewey....with his attack on the primary school's emphasis on teaching children to read. This emphasis sustained the "capitalist individualistic system" and it produced high literacy whereby the average American could read anything and think for himself."

Samuel Blumenfeld

"What Dewey deliberately ignored was the tremendous language learning faculty that every child is born with, and that teaching a child to read at that early age expands the child's mastery of language which is the key to academic success... Dewey and his Socialist colleagues were determined to change individualist America into a collectivist society."

Samuel Blumenfeld

Regarding School to Work:

"Education is for the intrinsic enhancement of the individual, because the individual can then continue the culture.... instead of having limited learning for lifelong labor, which is where we are going to, and that is what "School to Work" is. That is what "School Choice" is, that is what linking schools

and businesses... industry is."

Cynthia Weatherly

"Once you take a government dollar, you have to meet "government" standards."

Cynthia Weatherly

(Speaking to issue of "voucher' legislation.)

Quoting C.S. Lewis,

regarding the trend of training people

rather than educating them

to read and think....

"When training beats education, civilization dies..." Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt

Learn more about Charlotte Iserbyt here. (<--- a="" color="#cc0000" font="">must see!")

Free download of her book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

is available at her website: http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/

"Schools have been there educating the kids adequately until they were told what the "standards were going to be."

A. Patrick Huff

Commenting on her personal experiences with

"social promotion," new grouping methods,

the "whole word" teaching instruction, marking on a curve,

intrusive surveys, modern math, faulty textbooks:

"I never dreamed that it was part of a plan to remove God from our lives, to weaken families or to dumb down and stupefy American citizens and foreign students in our colleges and universities..."

Bettina Dobbs

"I was asked to sign a statement..... that promised I would teach the mission of world government."

Jane Aitken

"One day via the intercom, (the principal directed meeting saying, ) "come down to the music room just for 5 minutes after the kids leave, and he put a chair in the middle of the room and said, "We have to start thinking about not celebrating Christmas in school, it's okay if you celebrate the winter solstice, but not Christmas."

Jane Aitken

"Years after I graduated from the international school, I.B. appeared as an option and I wondered "why?"..... It was obvious that IB intends to create a particular KIND

of global citizen. The IB brand is troubling...."

Debra Niwa

on the International Baccalaureate Program

"I still thought it was isolated situation, but it soon became apparent that it was something much bigger... we peeled away and discovered PPBS (planning-programming-budgeting system,) a management form of governance had been superimposed over our Constitutional representative republic, without a shot being fired."

Mary Thompson

"...This insidious plan already has widespread

support in many quarters, left unchecked, the consequences will be an unimaginable amount

of power and control over society in the hands of a few."

Mary Thompson quoting Robert H. Burke

Homeschooling in Spokane

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Public Schools NEVER have "Enough Money"

Monday, February 17, 2014

11th Annual Home Educators’ Day at the Capitol

Stop Common Core!

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Your Children Are Not Your Children?

The NEA Wants You and Your Kids

The NEA pushes educational programs that increase acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle, regardless of the parents’ views.

The NEA believes government schools should supply family planning instruction and resources directly to children.

The NEA opposes parental efforts to restrict obscene and offensive books in school libraries and classrooms.

Saturday, February 8, 2014

First Lesson: Stop, Look and Listen

Road to Ruin

"The Fate of Empires Depends on The Education of Youth."

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