Comments on: Tennessee Department of Education has declared homeschooler’s diplomas to be “worthless” http://redhatrob.com/2008/05/tennessee-department-of-education-has-declared-homeschoolers-diplomas-to-worthless/ The Director's Blog - Rob Shearer, Francis Schaeffer Study Center, Mt. Juliet, TN Wed, 09 May 2012 04:32:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: State of TN declares war on homeschoolers « nuke gingrich http://redhatrob.com/2008/05/tennessee-department-of-education-has-declared-homeschoolers-diplomas-to-worthless/#comment-73 State of TN declares war on homeschoolers « nuke gingrich Mon, 26 May 2008 01:43:43 +0000 http://redhatrob.wordpress.com/?p=197#comment-73 [...] State of TN declares war on homeschoolers Posted on May 25, 2008 by nuke The Democrat administration of our neighbors to the north has succeeded in disenfranchising thousands of graduates of Tennessee church related schools and home-schoolers. In fact, “Cindy Benefield, the Tennesseee Department of Education Executive Director of Field Services, who oversees the state’s homeschooling office, recently declared that a diploma from a church-related school is “not worth the paper it is written on.” That is not just the idle opinion of one uninformed bureaucrat, but has become Department policy. Bredesen’s education commissioner, Tim Webb, told four legislators in April that until the legislature passes a law stating that the diplomas given by church-related schools are acceptable, they aren’t acceptable for certain kinds of employment.” source [...] [...] State of TN declares war on homeschoolers Posted on May 25, 2008 by nuke The Democrat administration of our neighbors to the north has succeeded in disenfranchising thousands of graduates of Tennessee church related schools and home-schoolers. In fact, “Cindy Benefield, the Tennesseee Department of Education Executive Director of Field Services, who oversees the state’s homeschooling office, recently declared that a diploma from a church-related school is “not worth the paper it is written on.” That is not just the idle opinion of one uninformed bureaucrat, but has become Department policy. Bredesen’s education commissioner, Tim Webb, told four legislators in April that until the legislature passes a law stating that the diplomas given by church-related schools are acceptable, they aren’t acceptable for certain kinds of employment.” source [...]

]]> By: Gary Lima http://redhatrob.com/2008/05/tennessee-department-of-education-has-declared-homeschoolers-diplomas-to-worthless/#comment-71 Gary Lima Thu, 22 May 2008 18:43:26 +0000 http://redhatrob.wordpress.com/?p=197#comment-71 Our two sons are home schooled. They take a national exam each year. My wife has a degree in education. My sons are doing well in home schooling because we have high standards and the curriculum we use is very high in performance standards. I will not send my sons to a dumbed down and broken school system that spends all of its time passing failed students and prohibits an evironment of learning. If the state wants to hire dumbed down students, fine. I never planned on by boys working for the state anyway. The NEA and state school boards need to me demoted into none existance. Their only function is social engineering our children into their own image. Our two sons are home schooled. They take a national exam each year. My wife has a degree in education. My sons are doing well in home schooling because we have high standards and the curriculum we use is very high in performance standards.

I will not send my sons to a dumbed down and broken school system that spends all of its time passing failed students and prohibits an evironment of learning. If the state wants to hire dumbed down students, fine. I never planned on by boys working for the state anyway.

The NEA and state school boards need to me demoted into none existance. Their only function is social engineering our children into their own image.

]]> By: The Tennessee ConserVOLiance http://redhatrob.com/2008/05/tennessee-department-of-education-has-declared-homeschoolers-diplomas-to-worthless/#comment-72 The Tennessee ConserVOLiance Thu, 22 May 2008 16:57:40 +0000 http://redhatrob.wordpress.com/?p=197#comment-72 [...] So, we can now end the speculation and report with confidence that in 2007, in Tennessee, ALL students averaged a 20.7 composite ACT score, PUBLIC SCHOOL students averaged a 20.30 composite ACT score, and PRIVATE SCHOOL students averaged 21.85 composite ACT score. In other words, in 2007 private schools and home schools averaged 1.15 points higher on the ACT than the public schools. But of course, it’s the private school diplomas that the Department of Education thinks are suspec... [...] [...] So, we can now end the speculation and report with confidence that in 2007, in Tennessee, ALL students averaged a 20.7 composite ACT score, PUBLIC SCHOOL students averaged a 20.30 composite ACT score, and PRIVATE SCHOOL students averaged 21.85 composite ACT score. In other words, in 2007 private schools and home schools averaged 1.15 points higher on the ACT than the public schools. But of course, it’s the private school diplomas that the Department of Education thinks are suspec… [...]

]]> By: Public school vs. private school ACT scores « Contending with the Culture http://redhatrob.com/2008/05/tennessee-department-of-education-has-declared-homeschoolers-diplomas-to-worthless/#comment-70 Public school vs. private school ACT scores « Contending with the Culture Thu, 22 May 2008 03:38:52 +0000 http://redhatrob.wordpress.com/?p=197#comment-70 [...] So, we can now end the speculation and report with confidence that in 2007, in Tennessee, ALL students averaged a 20.7 composite ACT score, PUBLIC SCHOOL students averaged a 20.30 composite ACT score, and PRIVATE SCHOOL students averaged 21.85 composite ACT score. In other words, in 2007 private schools and home schools averaged 1.15 points higher on the ACT than the public schools. But of course, it’s the private school diplomas that the Department of Education thinks are su... [...] [...] So, we can now end the speculation and report with confidence that in 2007, in Tennessee, ALL students averaged a 20.7 composite ACT score, PUBLIC SCHOOL students averaged a 20.30 composite ACT score, and PRIVATE SCHOOL students averaged 21.85 composite ACT score. In other words, in 2007 private schools and home schools averaged 1.15 points higher on the ACT than the public schools. But of course, it’s the private school diplomas that the Department of Education thinks are su… [...]

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