[Packratt]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Leopard,)
it is simply immoral, PackRat, that you are forced to jump through those hoops - these are some of the ways that the public school crowd is able to still monopolize the education market - they raise the barriers to entry so that poorer folks HAVE to succumb to the public school or face 'penalties...

where do you live, sir (or ma'am)?

I currently reside in Nevada

michael<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

Well, the easy part first, I'm a male and I live in Ohio.

In some aspects I don't mind living up to the curriculum, but in some other aspects, I want to teach my children to think critically and question things instead of accept everything as fact blindly. By nature, this would lead to certain difficulties when taking tests on topics that are open to debate in regard to the 'facts' the tests expect to be accepted as facts.

An easy example: Who discovered America? in this school district, anything other than Columbus is not an acceptable answer.

The other issue is of course that we must pay for tests that range in cost from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. This is nothing but a tax to prevent those with few resources from condemning their children to retail job training, which is what public school seems to have become. If the school board wants to test a home schooled child, they should pay for it. If I want to test him, I'll make a test myself or pay for it.

Blah... Anyway... I'm off to look for more lessons to teach today.