Stooopid State of Pennsylvania

[ellyssian]

In an effort to comply with federal mandates and ensure Every Child Is Dumb As A Post, the state of Pennsylvania has threatened to revoke the charter/licensing/whateverthehellitisthatallowsthemtonotteach for Justin's school if they continue the CHAMPS (college ed concurrent with high school ed) program.

Wouldn't want to educate our kids, now would we?

Justin will be able to continue out this semester because it's paid for, but that's it for further education.

Maybe if we weren't paying so much for the education he's not getting, we could afford to send him there on our own, but the annual school taxes are already more than a month's salary.

I don't think I'd mind the high price if there was actually an education attached to it.

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[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

D. of Ed. is misreading and misusing the no-child left behind act

Sadly, the person in a certain ovalish office created aforementioned act, and it is damaging without needing to be misread. It's bringing the public education system to its knees and it will be a miracle if anyone is actually educated while it exists.

Why do you think we pulled Justin out of public school so many years ago? The school district changed to teach-the-test and sent home a pamphlet that, more or less, stated the parents should be doing the same amount of work to teach their kids as they would have to do if they home schooled.

The only reason Rachel went to public school was she wanted to check it out for herself, now she wants out because she's bored to death and there's nothing they can do to her except apologize - well, they had to the other day, anyway. Usually, they don't.