Ron Paul Launches Homeschool Curriculum

[Lindagerr]

You are right in many of your points mrs.b. I did say I was lucky to live in a small district in NJ, part of the reason we didn't move for 28 years was that my son could not have gotten the time and attention he did if we moved to some of the bigger districts.

I am going to be politically incorrect here in noting that schools in the south do seem to be slower to embrace special education. My sister lives in SC now and I know my niece with special needs is not getting the attention or time from teachers that she should. I have never lived or taught there so I can not comment from personal experience.

I also have not taught in a main stream classroom here in NY I have only worked with severly handicapped children. They are not in regular schools but they do have excellent teachers and in most cases only one or two children to an exceptionally caring aide(Most of whom seem to have a SPed kid of their own).

I also must say we are beginning to have a backlash in the north where parents of "normal" kids are angry about the amount of money spent on Special education. Public school will never be able to meet the needs of all students. If I had children now I would seriously consider homeschooling. I knew lots of home schoolers even back in the early 90's and some of them were great and some of them were horrible. Now with the explosion of homeschooling I think it is easier for all parents to find the resources they need to do a better job.

All of the parents on this sight seem to be intelligent and well rounded enough to be open-minded homeschoolers. I just wish all homeschooling parents were like that. Just like I wish all Public school teachers would try to teach all subjects from an objective point of view and not let their personal beliefs influence how they teach.