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By: Regulating Homeschoolers « Texas Ed: Comments on Education from Texas

Regulating Homeschoolers « Texas Ed: Comments on Education from Texas — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:45:03 +0000

[...] I love this argument. You will trust parents to make a rational decision to pull the child out of a failing school and enroll them in another school because it is in the best interest of the child. But if the parent chooses not to, the child remains in a poor performing school until society gets around to improving the school. Currently, they get four years. I have a feeling that Reich wouldn’t allow parents four years to show improvement for their children. If they do allow four years, I’m sure even the latest reader or most unschooled unschooler would meet minimal standards. [...]

By: stephen pruski

stephen pruski — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:57:57 +0000

I could not disagree more with your conclusion. With a voting rate in most school board elections at an abismal rate, giving more control locally will just create larger political machines wasting taxpayer dollars. These are our children and this states most valuable resource. Until we create a system that allows children to be different, i.e, some go to college, some be tradesmen, some receive special treatment due to disabilities, and then create true punishment for problems, this system can not improve; even if you throw an unlimited amount of money at it.

By: The 104th Carnival of Education at The Median Sib

The 104th Carnival of Education at The Median Sib — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:51:24 +0000

[...] Michelle at Texas Ed writes about the drop-out problem in “No really?” [...]

By: texased

texased — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:38:15 +0000

Unless, of course, they are going to a private school That’s one of my problems with vouchers as currently proposed. You can leave a “failing” public school because it is obviously not spending the public’s money effectively. You can take that money to a private school but no one looks at it’s effectiveness. Hmmm, is this about accountability or parental choice?

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:10:22 +0000

Unless there is a requirement to individually track the progress of students from the closed schools AFTER they are moved to a new school due to closure of the first, there will be no way to know that they have benefitted. Simply closing a school does not necessarily mean that any individual students will be better served.