An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
TN Homeschooling Battles
I guess you don’t have to be able to speak proper English if you are a legislator:
“Mr. Chairman, may I also say to you and to the members [of the committee], if we can get this piece of legislation out, like this, with this amendment here that Representative Bell just talked about, we will not accept no amendments, of no kind, that comes to the floor, to try to push this legislation any other way. If there’s anything else that goes on it, we will pull this legislation, so I’m giving the committee our word that we will do that. We won’t accept nothing else, except this.”
The discussion here is about home schooling accreditation, and whether or not a home school diploma is acceptable for public service agencies like the police department, or the fire department, etc.
It’s been my experience that home schooled kids are better educated in general, more well spoken, and usually, quite respectful of others (not all maybe, but the majority). And this English assassin is a representative “of the people”? Hornswaggle!
I’ll be honest. I don’t understand what all the fuss is about. If a kid comes to your agency wanting to apply for an academy of one sort or the other, don’t they have to take tests to prove they are competent? A diploma from a home school is just as valid as one from the public school system and probably more so! I know some of the tests I have taken for employment had absolutely nothing to do with the type of job I to which I was applying.
I say scrap the whole public education system, and return to the private type. Parents could keep those tax dollars they pay every year to the gubmint, and apply it towards an education for their kids at the school of their choice. The way it is now, even parents who send their kids to private schools, or who are homeschooling are paying money into the public school system. Pretty much being double dipped, so to speak.
Oh, and the teachers unions can 
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[...] The Ol’ Broad opines on Tennessee’s homeschool diploma battles: I’ll be honest. I don’t understand what all the fuss is about. If a kid comes to your agency wanting to apply for an academy of one sort or the other, don’t they have to take tests to prove they are competent? A diploma from a home school is just as valid as one from the public school system and probably more so! I know some of the tests I have taken for employment had absolutely nothing to do with the type of job I to which I was applying. [...]
That is some mighty fine English there. Maybe it wouldn’t sound so weird if I could hear the accent.
I can see why a company or organization might want something in addition to the homeschool diploma, but that didn’t seem to be the issue here. It didn’t matter if you had passed other tests, college or the police academy. If you didn’t have the right kind of diploma, it was all for naught.
[...] Just found this. That is some mighty fine English, Mr. Legislator. I think it might not sound as bad with a [...]
Y’know, those bureaucrats might want to keep in mind that Abraham Lincoln managed to practice law without a piece of paper saying he graduated from high school. Hmmm….come to think of it, wasn’t there something else he did without that paper?
Oh yeah…he had POTUS on his resume’, didn’t he?