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FrankRep
07-16-2013, 06:12 PM
Utah legislator Wants to End Compulsory Education (http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/07/16/4168396/ut-legislator-wants-to-end-compulsory.html)


Associated Press
Tuesday, July 16, 2013



The idea of forcing children to attend school is outdated and should be scrapped in favor of a system that encourages learning by choice, state Sen. Aaron Osmond said in calling for an end to compulsory education in Utah.

"Some parents act as if the responsibility to educate, and even care for their child, is primarily the responsibility of the public school system," the South Jordan Republican first wrote on a state Senate blog on Friday.

"As a result, our teachers and schools have been forced to become surrogate parents, expected to do everything from behavioral counseling, to providing adequate nutrition, to teaching sex education, as well as ensuring full college and career readiness."

Osmond said that in the current state of public education, teachers do not receive meaningful support from parents, while at the same time parents become frustrated that schools are not able to meet the individual needs of their children.

"Let's let them choose it, let's not force them to do it," he told the Desert News (http://tinyurl.com/lqxb2tn ) on Monday. "I think that's when you start seeing the shift."
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The only basis for sound education and individual liberty

PierzStyx
07-17-2013, 08:13 AM
Mormons have a large sub-culture of homeschooling. So this doesn't surprise me.

jkr
07-17-2013, 08:22 AM
http://introductorystats.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/donny-and-marie-osmond.jpg?w=300&h=300

Meatwasp
07-17-2013, 08:22 AM
If I wasn't all moved down here and younger i would love to move to Idaho, the fruit are always loaded there. my sons father in law is in a warm canyon. I do love it here though.

The Free Hornet
07-19-2013, 04:45 PM
As it should be ended, just don't tell the UN! Or rather tell them with a big "F OFF"!


UN's Declaration of the Rights of the Child

Plain Language Version
1 All children have the right to what follows, no matter what their race, colour sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, or where they were born or who they were born to.
2 You have the special right to grow up and to develop physically and spiritually in a healthy and normal way, free and with dignity.
3 You have a right to a name and to be a member of a country.
4 You have a right to special care and protection and to good food, housing and medical services.
5 You have the right to special care if handicapped in any way.
6 You have the right to love and understanding, preferably from parents and family, but from the government where these cannot help.
7 You have the right to go to school for free, to play, and to have an equal chance to develop yourself and to learn to be responsible and useful.

Your parents have special responsibilities for your education and guidance.
8 You have the right always to be among the first to get help.
9 You have the right to be protected against cruel acts or exploitation, e.g. you shall not be obliged to do work which hinders your development both physically and mentally.

You should not work before a minimum age and never when that would hinder your health, and your moral and physical development.
10 You should be taught peace, understanding, tolerance and friendship among all people.


This plain language version is only given as a guide. For an exact rendering of each principle, refer students to the original. This version is based in part on the translation of a text, prepared in 1978, for the World Association for the School as an Instrument of Peace, by a Research Group of the University of Geneva, under the responsibility of Prof. L. Massarenti. In preparing the translation, the Group used a basic vocabulary of 2,500 words in use in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Teachers may adopt this methodology by translating the text of the Universal Declaration in the language in use in their region.

https://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/resources/plainchild.asp

It is nice that they tell you this is 'plain language' 'cause the devil is always in the details - why point that out:


7 The child is entitled to receive education, which shall be free and compulsory, at least in the elementary stages.

https://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/resources/child.asp


I love the juxtaposition of "free and compulsory". That type of freedom leads to chains.

eduardo89
07-19-2013, 06:46 PM
Mormons have a large sub-culture of homeschooling. So this doesn't surprise me.

Although I find the Mormon religion very strange and unChristian, I have to say that Mormons are some of the most moral, honest, and good people I have ever met.