March 7, 2008
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China plans first spacewalk in 2008
BEIJING (UPI) — A Chinese space official said China is preparing for the manned space program’s first spacewalk this year.
Xinhua, China’s state-run news service, said Chinese astronauts would be aboard the Shenzhou VII spacecraft when it is launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern province of Gansu. Along with the spacewalk, the mission will include the release of a small satellite.
China’s manned space program, started in 1999, successfully sent its first astronaut into orbit in 2003.& China’s neighbor: The People’s Republic of California has done it again: I’m outraged.
A state appeals court has decided California parents without teaching credentials do not have a right to home-school their children.The 2nd District Court of Appeals ruling could affect up to 200,000 home-schooled students in the state.
“The court is guilty of an imperious assault on the rights of parents,”said Dr. James Dobson. “How dare these judges have the audacity to label tens of thousands of parents criminals — the equivalent to drug dealers or pickpockets — because they want to raise and educate their children according to their deeply held values?
South Dakota tried to do something like this several years ago and it was shot down. I homeschooled my older children and I believe it’s a right of every American to do so if they choose. What are your thoughts?
Comments (15)
We homeschooled OUR kids TOO and it’s OUTRAGEOUS that California would try to make this ILLEGAL.
What does the “Republican” Governor say about this?
RYC- In a sense, it’s a COMPLIMENT to homeschoolers that California is trying to make them illegal. If homeschoolers were not EFFECTIVE, they’d be no THREAT to the system, they would be IGNORED!!!!
I hope however that California does not criminalize homeschooling, that would be OUTRAGEOUS.
Okay, ANOTHER question for you…..where does the PRESIDENT stand on this, has he spoken out about it at all?
Just stop by to say Hi! It’s snowing here.
Hope that this is the last of it.
It’s a right of every American to do so if they choose to home school.
Some kids cannot adapt to the schools.
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Hope all is well with you and yours.
Have A GREAT Weekend! God Bless.
I have three neices who were homeschooled, and I am very proud of them. One of them went to the national spelling bee two years in a row. These girls work hard and have wonderful personalities. Nothing wrong with sending kids to school, but nothing wrong with homeschooling either.
I agree, this is an outrage!!
good for China but i doubt it.
any household or individual can do so but to make EVERYONE to do it just plain silly!
EEP, I thought about homeschooling, for about 2 seconds, and said NO WAY! ….I was able to do ONE thing that alot of parents CANT…Realise that im NOT a teacher. While other parents are really great at this, Some parents arent, I DONT think it should be ILLEGAL, but, I think that homeschooling parents should be closely “monitored” and made to atleast take a few courses or something. There ARE certain things that a kid DOES have to know, to function in the big “real world”. We had a neighbor for instance…That didnt even have a 6th grade education level, and SHE was homeschooling her children. To me, thats just…not thought out. and NOT whats best for a child…Ionno
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To make it illegal is ridiculous. I think if the parent is willing, and able, and the results show that the child (or children) are learning, then what is the problem. I think a parent teaching their own kid would work doubly as hard because it is a reflection upon them.
What about public schools that perform poorly? Hmmm….
Quite an interesting question.
Some kids find it hard to adapt to school. Some kids might end of having home schooling if their have been bullied at school, their parents might decided school is not the best thing for them.
It’s scary. Focus on the family did a good radio program about it today.
The Republican governor did make a statement and it was rather forceful. I’m glad because this truly is an outrage.
My daughters were both homeschooled through high school, and their scores were excellent! Another case here of the government taking over our rights as parents! Oh, yes I agree that some monitoring is necessary. There is a wealth of great curriculum out there in all subjects, and great homeschool support groups nearly everywhere! It takes commitment and I would do it all again!
Once on Dec.7th I asked a child with his mom coming through the line at the antique mall if he heard what happened on this day? He was about 10yrs old and a little shy with all the eyes on him and I said,”Pearl Harbor was bombed.” and without a pause he said,”again?”
The ruling is outrageous, but not unexpected. I’m sure that with all the parents pulling their kids out of the public schools there the last few years after those insane laws passed, there was bound to be some negative reaction from the State. It really wouldn’t surprise me if this begins to snowball across the U.S. As a homeschooling parent myself, it concerns me, I pray for homeschoolers in CA and I try to stay in touch with legislators. However, it’s going to be a difficult struggle to see that our freedoms are kept as long as our country as a whole insists on turning away from God.
It’s going to be mighty hard to enforce a ruling like that.
Homeschooling is for some and not for others.
Is it possible that the aim is the number of dropouts who list “homeschooling” as their reason for withdrawing? I have had several who dropped out but listed homeschooling as the reason. None of them was ever educated after leaving public school. None of them has ever gotten a GED either. NCLB made homeschooling an acceptable reason so that schools didn’t have to list those kids as dropouts. Sadly, it puts a bad light on those who truly homeschool and do it well.