Reasons….

I was pointed to this article written by a retiring public school teacher today. The article basically asserts that testing in primary school, as required by the No Child Left Behind act, sucks the souls out of young kids.

Gosh. Ya think?

I’ll count this as another good reason to home school. Though I’m absolutely certain that if you proposed home schooling as a solution to the author of the article, she’d complain that there’s no state control of home schooling, so it couldn’t possibly be good.

Speaking of reasons to home school, I was browsing the Ontario Ministry of Education website because someone told me they had a fairly helpful curriculum posted.

I found an interesting page called, “Who’s responsible for your child’s education?” on the Ministry’s site which contained a long list of people and organizations involved in education. Browsing down the list, I discovered what my benevelent government thinks my role in education is…..

It turns out that a parent’s responsibility is limited to “ensuring their children attend school.”

Call me crazy, but I think my responsibilities extend a little further than that. Ok. A lot further than that.

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