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That's right last, so maybe Mr. Bounds should spend more time worrying about how to improve the public schools and less time thinking up ways to harass (uh I meant regulate) homeschoolers.
One can only wonder WHY Bounds wasn't anxious to speak with reporters about the low ranking of Mississippi's public schools. He certainly made the time to speak with the Clarion Ledger about homeschooling (which shouldn't be his concern, he is in charge of those low preforming public schools, not high achieving homeschoolers).
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Let's be clear public school at home isn't the same as homeschooling. If people choose to do public school at home that's fine and dandy, but they are not homeschoolers. I can only wonder if Bounds desire to scrutinize homeschoolers is due...
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Study: State ranks lowest in education
Mississippi ranked last in K-12 achievement and below average in fourth-grade math and reading, eighth-grade math and reading and the public school graduation rate.
That's right last, so maybe Mr. Bounds should spend more time worrying about how to improve the public schools and less time thinking up ways to harass (uh I meant regulate) homeschoolers.
Attempts to reach Bounds for comment were unsuccessful, but, in a Jan. 3 column, Bounds said the report "concludes that student achievement is influenced by a number of factors beyond the classroom, including pre-school opportunities, parental educational attainment and employment, family income and the median income of the community."
One can only wonder WHY Bounds wasn't anxious to speak with reporters about the low ranking of Mississippi's public schools. He certainly made the time to speak with the Clarion Ledger about homeschooling (which shouldn't be his concern, he is in charge of those low preforming public schools, not high achieving homeschoolers).
While Ocean Springs Superintendent Robert Hirsch said money should not be used as an excuse to not educate students, he said the results are the "simplest thing in the world to understand." "If the demographics of the state don't change, we may never see the change we're hoping for," Hirsch said. The problem, he said, is that the state is competing against other states that have higher average annual incomes and spend more money per student. Students in other states that allocate more money per student may have more opportunities.It's not the money STUPID, homeschoolers spend less money per pupil then public schools do, but homeschoolers ofter rank higher in achievement.
- Stupid Comments Of Public School Jingoist
Lately I have read with amusement the comments on some blogs by non-homeschoolers bashing homeschooling. You would think if they were going to comment on another parents educational choice they would at least take the time to find out something about...
- From The Blogosphere
Let's be clear public school at home isn't the same as homeschooling. If people choose to do public school at home that's fine and dandy, but they are not homeschoolers. I can only wonder if Bounds desire to scrutinize homeschoolers is due...
- Educational News
Homeschool Freedom points out the dangers of Home Based Instruction (virtual schools) to "independent homeschoolers". Having laid the PR background in step 4, anti-homeschooling activists are poised to get legislation passed that requires all homeschoolers...
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HE & OS gives a Heads Up Mississippi about Bounds desire to scrutinize homeschooling. Could it be a ploy to force homeschoolers to join Mississippi's NEW Virtual Public Schools? Natalie left this comment on HE & OS. VPS passed and was signed into...
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