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Homeschool regulation: The revenge of the failures

Visit WorldNetDaily to read Homeschool regulation: The revenge of the failures by Bruce N. Shortt, Ph.D.

By attacking homeschool parents, Bounds is playing a familiar game. The goal is to distract the public's attention from the abject failure of the public schools for which he is responsible. After all, no government school system so thoroughly fails to educate as Bounds' schools. Nevertheless, Bounds wants the public to believe that the same bureaucrats who daily busy themselves producing massive illiteracy in Mississippi's public schools should have more power over homeschool parents, even though homeschooling parents are already doing a magnificent job with their children.

The oldest trick in the book, if you are incapable of doing your job properly try to shift the attention to someone or something else. My kids mastered this when they were toddlers, when told to clean up their room they would try to shift the attention to their brother's room. You would think Bounds would be too mature for such shenanigans.

Perhaps we can all agree with Superintendent Bounds in one respect, however. Mississippi does need more regulation of education. Consequently, as a public service, here is my modest proposal for reforming Mississippi's public schools: Homeschooling parents should regulate Bounds until the students in the government schools for which he is responsible academically outperform homeschooled children. Unfortunately, this recommendation is not likely to be accepted, which means that state superintendents of education around the country will continue to be able to tell parents upset about the job their local schools are doing, "Well, at least we're not Mississippi."

It's too bad Mississippi isn't willing to be innovative and allow homeschoolers to regulate the public schools, we could probably whip Bounds and the public schools into shape in a New York minute (OK, it might take a little longer).

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where you can read Natalie's post Re-Bounding Rebuttal.

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