SewTexas wrote:rp_photo wrote:RottenApple wrote:rp_photo wrote:Is there any organized "Stop zero tolerance" activity? If not, there needs to be.
Yes. It's called homeschooling.
Not everyone has what it takes to do it, and many others don't have school age children.
What groups can they join to fight this evil?
honestly and truly (and I'm ready for the flames, I've been homeschooling for 15 years now, I've heard it all) I believe everyone can do it, or can work with others to help them do it. for single parents there are good private schools, although you really have to work it with them and that's going to take time, homeschooling with friends truly takes less time.
as for orgs to join, Homeschool Legal Defense, doesn't always/only work with homeschoolers, and there's Seculow's group...ah, American Center for Law and Justice, very centered on the constitution and helps alot of people pro bono.
The excuses people use (it's too expensive; I don't have time; I don't know how; etc) are just that. Excuses. I know because I was one of "those people" and used those very ones. At least until I had my nose rubbed in the crud that the public school system puts out.
My daughter has Aspergers plus several forms of dyslexia. Yet every time my wife & I tried to get help from the school system, we just got the run around. Finally (after 2 years) we got them to test her. All they came back with was, "she has learning disabilities and needs special Ed". So did their "special Ed" give her the tools to work on grade appropriate classwork? Nope. They just dumbed down the requirements and then gave her 6 hours (at her pace, and with our help) of homework each night. After 6 months we yanked her out and started homeschooling.
Now, 2 years later, she's caught up to her grade level, only goes to "school" 4 days a week (actually its 6, but she doesn't realize that 2 of those days are "life lessons"), takes mini-vacations to do schoolwork (this summer we are doing a 2 week road trip back east to see American history sites firsthand), gets to take all religious holidays off without argument from the school admin, and her behavior is much more socially acceptable as well.
A year after we started homeschooling my daughter, we pulled my son (no medical or learning problems) out and started on him. He should be in the 8th grade, but he's already jumped to 10th grade coursework in all but one subject, and he's doing 9th grade in that.
I am living proof that anyone and, I dare say, EVERYONE who actually wants to, can homeschool. Where there is a will, there's a way.
