Joni Rathbun wrote in message ...
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Martin Rowley wrote:

Iowa is a Right-to-Work state.


Furthermore, the homeschoolers are among those who have some concerns
about the program.

"some concerns"!?

Whew. It's a raging bonfire that's been going on since about 98 when
the first declared statement to "recover the homeschoolers" came out
of the schools.

This is just one, and a tiny one at that, of the efforts public
schooling is making to destroy homeschooling and "recover the children
for their own good".

Currently there is petition floating about with a statement making an
attempt to take back the name "homeschooling" that public officials
have coopted.

People that have their children enrolled in part time programs and are
thus subject to the directions and whims of the schools system want to
continue to call themselves "homeschoolers." Real homeschoolers, that
is independents, seem a bit miffed at the presumption that that public
school-homeschool amalgam is homeschooling.

Kane



Martin

Greg Hanson wrote:

It's the teachers unions vs. homeschooling, classic turf (money) war.
(Ironic the school district gets to count the bodies for funding.)