tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778016576328495273.post1865486643868652541..comments2023-09-27T03:42:03.226-05:00Comments on Mental Aikido: Texas Truancy Bill and School ChoiceMental Aikidohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10417357423441100365noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778016576328495273.post-55841211805447821092013-04-25T21:37:59.497-05:002013-04-25T21:37:59.497-05:00As a parent who has one son graduated from public ...As a parent who has one son graduated from public school and another still in it, I have seen in the last 10 years through "No Child Left Behind" and the TEKS/TAKS systems that students are less expected to learn and more expected to perform. Students become professional test-takers. By the end of 10th grade, those who will stay in school stay, because of well-structured and healthy family dynamics. Those lacking the familial nurturing, will drop out. Now, with CSCOPE being flooded into the classrooms, students will become excellent performers to a severely skewed, narrow, and liberally dumbed-down curriculum. <br />Regardless of curriculum, the threats of fines or worse, will only deter those who would be deterred, coming from healthy family dynamics. Students who lack family structure inevitably get tripped up in the system somewhere. They become hopeless toward a system that has first its goal to have a body in a seat for the return of promised Federal funding.<br />Were I to have children still young, they would most definitely be home-schooled.<br />I am actually facing the possibility of having my youngest son complete his senior year with home schooling. He is intellectually past the current curriculum, and is all too aware of the already liberal and left leaning subject presentation. <br />My son's experience brings me to an additional perception. The cascading "global learning" CSCOPE, I predict, will bring on a new problem with drop-outs. In the information age, a dumbed-down, centrally structured schooling will have extra-intelligent students,like mine, wanting to drop out, too. This begs the question, what purpose will the passing of this legislation truly serve?<br />I will be encouraging Governor Perry to veto this bill if it gets to his desk. Additionally, not yet passing legislation regarding school choice is not a bad thing. Parents can home school their children in this state. The less legislation, the freer parents are in their choice.<br />Lastly, true education reform, in my opinion, will never occur until the Federal Department of Education is abolished.The Conservative Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09335280558557928760noreply@blogger.com