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Local Charter School – Can’t Find One?

admin — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:23:05 +0000

Parents: Are you looking for a

Charter school because:

· You love your children, want to protect them, and want to give your kids the quality, rewarding education they deserve?

· You are afraid for your children—your local public school is a total education disaster?

· Your child is not learning to read or do basic math, and their reading and writing skills are terrible for their age and grade level?

· Your son or daughter can barely read to you from simple books?

· Your kids are afraid of math, and have to use a calculator to do the simplest addition or multiplication?

· As your child advances to the next grade, they are getting more and more frustrated and unhappy with school?

· If things keep going this way, you think your child will drop out of school, never qualify for college, or be stuck in low-paying jobs when they quit school (and maybe for the rest of their lives)?

· Your local public school is arrogant—when you complain that your child is not learning to read or is failing in school, do they just ignore you and tell you they are the education “experts?”

· Your children keep telling you they now hate school, and are losing their love of learning?

· Your kids no longer read for fun and dread going to school?

· Your child is bullied in school, or God forbid, has actually been physically assaulted or even raped by another child in school? (Did you know that there is a physical assault in public schools across the country every three seconds?)

· Your local public school shows shocking sexual material to your innocent

But Charter schools can be better than a public school, only IF you can find one,and only IF there’s no long waiting list. So what if:

• There are no local charter schools where you live.

• There’s a charter school, but it’s too far away.

• The local charter school has a huge waiting list it could be years before your child’s name comes up on the list.

• You can’t wait years. Your child’s mind and spirit is withering away in public school.

• You don’t want to wait years for a charter school to come to your neighborhood, or for your name to come up on the school’s long waiting list. You have to do something now.

• Many local governments and education authorities fight tooth and nail to shut down charter schools, restrict the number of schools, or regulate them to death. That’s because charter schools compete with local public schools, take tax money away from these schools, and school officials hate that.

So chances are, it could take years, if ever, for a charter school to come to your neighborhood. So what can you do? If you can’t find a local charter school for any of these reasons, I think I can help.

My Book, “Public Schools, Public Menace” can:

• Help you to be closer to your children

• Show you a way to rescue your child from public schools, right now.

• Show you how to give your kids a wonderful, quality education without charter schools

• Tell you about K-12 private schools that cost less than $975 a year tuition (which is about $80 a month!).

• Tell you how you can enroll your child in these schools, no matter where you live

• Reveal how these low-cost private schools supervise your child’s education, so you can still work and give your child a great education at home.

• Tell you how these private schools take most of the homeschooling responsibility off busy parents’ shoulders.

• Show you 22 ways you can homeschool your child, even if you work.

• Tell you how average parents like yourself successfully homeschool their kids, even when both parents work. Many of these parents only have a high-school education.

Here’s only a few of the many education Resources you’ll find in “Public Schools, Public Menace”:

Lists of dozens of low-cost, online, K-12 private schools, many of which cost less than $975 a year tuition.
Lists of low-cost online tutors for any subject your child is having trouble with
Lists of dozens of resource-rich general-interest homeschooling and education websites. These websites give you a wealth of education resources to help you educate your child at home, find tutors, find online K-12 private schools, offer education magazines and newsletters, let you get in touch with other parents, and much more.
22 unique ways that parents can homeschool their kids, even if both parents work ways to make homeschooling a lot faster and easier than you thought possible.
Lists of many internet parent groups you can network with.
Dozens of websites that offer education books, computer software, complete curriculum material these websites give you a supermarket of education resources to help your child learn to read better, and learn math, science, and most other subjects.
Lists of great Internet libraries that your kids can use to explore the world and any subjects that fascinate them.
Many websites that give you detailed information on how to prepare your child for college entrance exams, advice on getting your child into a great college, college loan programs, and much more.
Many excellent websites that give you information on your state’s homeschooling regulations, and how to deal with local officials if you decide to homeschool or enroll your child in a low-cost online private school.
Describes all the excuses your local public school will give you to explain why your child is getting an inferior education, and why you should never fall for these excuses.
How public schools can damage your child for life, ways that you might not be aware of, and what you can do about it.

For your children’s sake, I urge you to consider the wonderful new education alternatives I talk about in my book, ”Public Schools, Public Menace.”

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Resource Links For Parents and Public-School Students

ALN Contributor — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:07:06 +0000

Here are some education-resource links that I hope you

find valuable and informative

* www.hslda.com — Home School Legal Defense Association — this great organization protects the interests of homeschooling parents

* www.edweek.org -– EdWeek.org — website keeps you up to date on education news related to public-school alternatives, school choice, charter schools, and much more.

* www.math-and-reading-help-for-kids.org — Math and Reading Help For Kids — good resource for teaching your children math and reading skills.

* http://www.nais.org —National Association of Independent Schools — great resource for finding a quality private school for your children

* http://www.homeschool.com — Homeschool.com — Everything you want to know about homeschooling — resources, curriculumm, parent networking, homeschooling tips, and much more.

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No Child Left Behind Law Won’t Do Much For Your Child

admin — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:28:21 +0000

Past experience with federal education programs predicts that the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) act will also fail parents whose children are doing poorly in school. The federal government has spent over $120 billion on Title 1 programs for low-income students since 1965. Yet the literacy rates for these children today are appalling, and the achievement gap between low-income children and their peers has not closed.

If the U.S. Department of Education wants to give real choice to parents, they should not be tinkering with a failed government-controlled school system that, by its very nature, strangles free choice and competition.

Americans have been blessed with a system that gives them almost unlimited choices in their daily lives for almost four hundred years-it’s called the free market. If parents could pay for their kids’ education in a totally unregulated, fiercely competitive education free market, free from government controls, parents would have all the school choice in the world. This education free market would also give their kids a superb, low-cost education.

Yet too often, government officials with their bureaucratic mentality, distrust the free market, the same free market that brings them their cars, clothes, computers, electricity, and fresh food. The No Child Left Behind Act adds yet another layer of federal regulations to the already strangling layers of local and state government regulations on education.

If Congress Really Wants To Help, They Should Get Government Out of the Education Business

If the federal government truly wants to give parents more school choice, they should be working to remove local and state controls over education, not adding to those controls with the No Child Left Behind law and other regulations. That is like trying to cure a person dying of arsenic poisoning by giving him more arsenic. Naturally, government education officials can’t understand the fact that government control of education is not the solution, it is the problem.

Over the past fifty years, federal, state, and city governments have spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to “fix” the public schools. They have failed, time and again. For example, in July, 2005, the Congress-mandated National Assessment of Education Progress showed that high-school students’ dismal reading skills have not improved since 1999.

High-school drop-out rates in inner-city, low-income minority areas range from 30 percent to over 50 percent. High-school dropouts are far more likely to end up in prison during their lifetimes. A U.S. Bureau of Justice report estimates that approximately 47 percent of drug offenders and 75 percent of state prison inmates are high-school dropouts. Dropouts are also about three times more likely than high-school graduates to end up on welfare.

These are not just appalling statistics. These numbers represent millions of bright, eager chidren whose lives can be ruined by public schools that fail them.

Trying to repair the public-school system is futile, precisely because it is a compulsory, government-controlled monopoly. Trying to fix this system with vouchers, charter schools, or the No Child Left Behind Law is like trying to cure cancer with a band-aid.

Parents should not pin their hopes on any government-sponsored school-choice alternative. Vouchers, charter schools, and the No Child Left Behind Act are simply too little, too late. Also, powerful, entrenched special-interest groups in the public-school establishment fight school choice because they benefit from parents’ and children’s subservience to the system.

Parents should not expect the public schools in their neighborhoods to improve. If you want to give your children a decent education and a chance at life, you must take their future into your own hands, now. It is useless to hope that the public-school system has the will or ability to reform itself. It is a waste of your time, and your children’s precious time, to deal with, plead with, or complain to public-school authorities or employees who benefit by the system.

Instead, do as the citizen-slaves of communist East Berlin did when they fled to freedom in West Berlin-vote with your feet. Consider writing-off the public-school system. Consider taking your children out of these schools, permanently. You and your children remain victims of the public-school system only by your own consent. The power to withdraw your consent is a power that public-school authorities can’t stop. Withdraw your consent and refuse to be a victim any longer.

There are many other education resources that parents can use right now to give their kids a quality, low-cost education. These resources include the new Internet private schools, Internet tutors, low-cost, learn-to-read and learn-math books in libraries and bookstores, computer learning software, and home-schooling. I discuss all these great new education options in my book, “Public Schools, Public Menace.”

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