{"id":502504,"date":"2010-04-01T19:09:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T23:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/not-april-fool-s-joke-school-homing-education-ideas-41720\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T19:09:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T23:09:03","slug":"not-an-april-fool%c2%92s-joke-%c2%93school-homing%c2%94-education-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/502504","title":{"rendered":"Not an April Fool\u0092s Joke: \u0093School-Homing\u0094 Education Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 04.01.10 12:25 PM posted by Jennifer Marshall<\/p>\n

\n<ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/theonion.jpg">\"\"<\/p>\u0093According to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Education, an increasing number of American parents are choosing to have their children raised at school rather than at home,\u0094 <ahref="http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/increasing-number-of-parents-opting-to-have-childr,17159\/">The Onion <\/i>\u0093reports\u0094 today.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u0093School-homing,\u0094 as the satirical source dubs the fictional trend, would be a witty April Fool\u0092s fib if it didn\u0092t sound so much like the liberal education ideas we\u0092ve heard in the last few decades.<\/p>\n

The Clinton administration, for example, popularized the idea of \u0093one-stop shopping\u0094 for social services at public schools. They also heavily promoted school-based clinics, which offer services including reproductive health counseling and contraceptives to minors.<\/p>\n

The Obama administration is following suit. The new health care law <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/25\/parental-rights-and-civil-wrongs-school-based-clinics-and-abortion\/">massively increases funding for school-based clinics–$250 million over the next five years.* Meanwhile, Secretary Duncan described his <ahref="http:\/\/budget.house.gov\/hearings\/2010\/02.25.2010_Duncan_Testimony.pdf">\u0093Department\u0092s cradle-to-career education strategy\u0094 in testimony before the House Budget Committee last month.<\/p>\n

He went on to explain that the Obama administration\u0092s Department of Education budget request includes:<spanid="more-30414"><\/span><\/p>\n

$210 million to fund school reform and comprehensive social services for children in distressed communities from birth through college and career. A restructured Successful, Safe, and Healthy Students program would provide $410 million to \u0096 for the first time \u0096 systematically measure school climates, which we know can affect student learning.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u0093School-homing\u0094 doesn\u0092t sound far from the mark.<\/p>\n

At the classroom level, such policies put demands on teachers that they can\u0092t fulfill. Most teachers and administrators will readily admit they can\u0092t make up for the fundamental role of the family and don\u0092t want to.<\/p>\n

At the same time, it\u0092s frustrating for teachers if some parents don\u0092t engage adequately in their children\u0092s education because of challenges in their own personal lives. But the answer isn\u0092t to push more government interventions into family life via public schools. It\u0092s to start restraining government to its constitutional role, limiting public schools to their basic educational purpose, looking to civil society to restore family and community life, and empowering parents with real authority over and resources to direct their children\u0092s education and upbringing.<\/p>\n

As Virginia Walden Ford, who\u0092s organized thousands of parents in the District of Columbia on behalf of school choice, will attest, the difference that decision-making authority can make is powerful. She\u0092s seen adults\u0092 and families\u0092 lives transformed as a result.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, if policies encourage \u0093school-homing,\u0094<\/b> they\u0092ll reap what they sow, sadly. As <ahref="http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/increasing-number-of-parents-opting-to-have-childr,17159\/">The Onion<\/i> sardonically concludes, \u0093increasingly overburdened public schools have recently led to a steady upswing in the number of students being prison-homed.\u0094<\/p>\n

If we believe the slogan that parents are a child\u0092s first and most important teachers, then we need education policies that testify to its truth.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/04\/01\/…ucation-ideas\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 04.01.10 12:25 PM posted by Jennifer Marshall <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/theonion.jpg"><\/p>\u0093According to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Education, an increasing number of American parents are choosing to have their children raised at school rather than at home,\u0094 <ahref="http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/increasing-number-of-parents-opting-to-have-childr,17159\/">The Onion \u0093reports\u0094 today. \u0093School-homing,\u0094 as the satirical source dubs the fictional trend, would be a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}