Gus Wirth wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
[snip]
I find this very suspect. A dedicated high school diploma is simply
not going to be able to teach calculus and physics effectively no
matter what you claim.
Calculus and physics are no longer high school subjects except in the
AP classes.
Gus
And even if they were, how would a parent's inability to teach such
advanced subjects turn their child into a criminal or welfare
recipient? This argument is flawed (intentionally) to make it seemingly
required to have credentials.
A parent of just about any education level (even dropout) can teach
their child quite a lot. As Gus said, work and life experience can
teach a person a lot that they might not have gotten in school. A
parent determined to teach their child is not going to skimp. I have
known several "instructors" who didn't know the first thing about the
subject that they were teaching. The learned it on-the-fly on an
as-needed basis.
Advanced courses are *not* necessary to function well in society.
Advanced courses are not even necessary to get into college. An
understanding of the underpinnings of such advanced concepts are all
that are needed.
Nutcases must not be allowed to be an excuse to expand the reach of the
government into places it should not be. The argument that the children
will become a burden to society is the same excuse that allows the
killing of over 4,000 Americans *every day* of every year! It is the
reasoning of communism and socialism.
This "certification" is just a way of getting the governments fingers
invasively further into the sanctity of the home. It must not be permitted.
--
Ralph
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