Home Schooling is facing new legislative initiatives to control when and how parents can home school their children. Some states have passed legislation requiring that students be home schooled by a certified teacher. Other states are making more hurdles that must be jumped before a parent can choose home schooling. Is this to help protect the student?
"I will agree with you LouisXIV, it seems like the vocal minority is running the ship."
Should we be teaching students to use the internet appropriately or should we be protecting them with blockers? Many blockades are placed in the way of educators trying to use online learning. Some of the hardest to overcome are from the federal and state governments. Instead of teaching children to make good choices and use the internet safely and appropriately, we are required by the government to provide blockades to “protect” children from the worst of the internet. Without a sufficient number of blockades the government will refuse to provide funding for access to the internet for our students. This requirement causes 2 major problems: 1) the students do not learn how to use the internet appropriately and 2) bright children feel challenged to break the blockades instead of using their energies constructively.
"I was still in high school when the Laurie Dann situation happened. I was living in a Chicago suburb and it frightened my parents because they knew how much I wanted to become a teacher. Even to this day (especially what had just happened at Northern Illinois) my mother constantly tells me to protect myself and my students."
