I have given them,
that they may be one,
as We are one."
prayed Jesus for those who are His.
John 17:22
Sunday, May 27
Glory
"And the glory that thou gavest Me,
I have given them,
that they may be one,
as We are one."
prayed Jesus for those who are His.
John 17:22
I have given them,
that they may be one,
as We are one."
prayed Jesus for those who are His.
John 17:22
Friday, June 24
Saturday, August 9
Thursday, March 20
Virtual Schools & Charter Schools
Please help me understand how to tell the difference between a public school and a school operated by private individuals where the school must follow all the rules that govern the public school. This is a charter school.
On virtual school, the fact that school takes place in your home may not mean you home school and it may mean that you are the cash cow for the the overseeing agency. The attorney general in Alaska ruled that when someone has a virtual school that their home has become a branch of the public school. Since public schools cannot have Bibles out, then Bibles are not allowed to be part of their school experience at home.
And don't think that Alaskan children taught at home as part of their virtual program can learn from any textbooks. Nope. Certain publisher and certain books are specifically excluded from the child's educational experience.
Does that say I'm against virtual schools and charter schools? Yes I am. The unsuspecting are caught in a trap, just like the one used by my father in law to get rid of chipmunks. Its not until they take the bait that it becomes evident that they are trapped.
When you see a trap being set, is it good to warn your friends. Yes, it is. My father in law relocates the chipmunks to a local public park.
Where will your children be relocated to?
THINK ABOUT IT.
Now your free. You want virtual school or charter school for your family. Go for it. You're free, at least today, but maybe not tomorrow.
On virtual school, the fact that school takes place in your home may not mean you home school and it may mean that you are the cash cow for the the overseeing agency. The attorney general in Alaska ruled that when someone has a virtual school that their home has become a branch of the public school. Since public schools cannot have Bibles out, then Bibles are not allowed to be part of their school experience at home.
And don't think that Alaskan children taught at home as part of their virtual program can learn from any textbooks. Nope. Certain publisher and certain books are specifically excluded from the child's educational experience.
Does that say I'm against virtual schools and charter schools? Yes I am. The unsuspecting are caught in a trap, just like the one used by my father in law to get rid of chipmunks. Its not until they take the bait that it becomes evident that they are trapped.
When you see a trap being set, is it good to warn your friends. Yes, it is. My father in law relocates the chipmunks to a local public park.
Where will your children be relocated to?
THINK ABOUT IT.
Now your free. You want virtual school or charter school for your family. Go for it. You're free, at least today, but maybe not tomorrow.
Wednesday, March 19
Co-ops, Tutorials and the Fire Marshall
Home school coops and tutorials were being closed down last year.
Your local Fire Marshall has stricter controls for schools than for churches.
No one wants to be in a fire trap. No one wants their child to be in a fire trap.
Last year home schoolers with their coops and tutorials threatened with closure met with Department of Commerce and Insurance representatives along with State Fire Marshall officials to clearly spell out the problem. There are multiple sets of standards that local officials can select as fire standards. Those standards were carefully evaluated and a bill has been introduced to fix the problem all across the state.
Rep. Stacey Campfield has introduced legislation HB3019, see below, to address the problem that home school groups have had in using church buildings for their meeting places.
This bill is scheduled to be heard in the Industrial Impact Sub-Committee on March 26, 2008.
A full list of the members of that sub committee and how to get In touch with them is below.
Please contact these members. Ask them, “Were you aware that facilities used regularly by larger church groups were not acceptable for home school coops and tutorials? HB3019 fixes this problem for us. Please support HB3019 when it comes to your sub committee on March 26, 2008.”
As soon as any member of that committee says they will vote for HB3019, please post the good news to claibornethornton.blogspot.com/.
Until you see they have agreed to support the bill keep calling to ask for support.
After they support the bill call or email them and say, "Thanks for supporting HB3019."
A republic works best when elected representatives are informed in a timely fashion of your desires.
NOW IS THE TIME FOR HB3019.
Thanks.
Claiborne Thornton , President
Tennessee Home Education Association
Industrial Impact Sub Committee
206 War Memorial Bldg. Phone (615) 741-3513
David Shepard, Chair
Richard Montgomery, Vice Chair
Members:
John DeBerry,
Joanne Favors,
Dennis Ferguson,
Jim Hackworth,
Bill Harmon,
David Hawk,
Joe McCord,
Dennis Roach,
Charles Sargent,
Park Strader,
Curry Todd and
Eddie Yokley
To get the contact information for these committee members please go to http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/ In the left column click on House, then click members for phone numbers and email address.
HOUSE BILL 3019
By Campfield
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68,
relative to safety.
WHEREAS, Many home schools are conducted in environments that are designed for
multiple uses by groups of people; and
WHEREAS, Some fire safety and codes inspectors are enforcing more stringent standards for home school organizations than for other organizations that use the same or a similar building; and
WHEREAS, Safety is always paramount and should never be compromised, but unreasonable restrictions interfere with the opportunities for home school students to exercise their rights to obtain an education; now, therefore,
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 102, Part 1, is amended by adding a new section thereto, as follows:
Section 68-102-154. When the principal purpose of a facility is not for educational purposes, neither the state fire marshal nor any inspector who contracts with the state shall enforce fire safety codes applicable to a school. The state fire marshal or any inspector who contracts with the state shall enforce the fire safety codes that are applicable to the facility, even though educational activities may be conducted at the facility.
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 120, Part 1, is amended by adding a new section thereto, as follows:
Section 68-120-119. When the principal purpose of a facility is not for educational purposes, neither the state fire marshal nor any inspector who contracts with the state shall enforce building codes applicable to a school. The state fire marshal or any inspector who contracts with the state shall enforce the building codes that are applicable to the facility, even though educational activities may be conducted at the facility.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
Your local Fire Marshall has stricter controls for schools than for churches.
No one wants to be in a fire trap. No one wants their child to be in a fire trap.
Last year home schoolers with their coops and tutorials threatened with closure met with Department of Commerce and Insurance representatives along with State Fire Marshall officials to clearly spell out the problem. There are multiple sets of standards that local officials can select as fire standards. Those standards were carefully evaluated and a bill has been introduced to fix the problem all across the state.
Rep. Stacey Campfield has introduced legislation HB3019, see below, to address the problem that home school groups have had in using church buildings for their meeting places.
This bill is scheduled to be heard in the Industrial Impact Sub-Committee on March 26, 2008.
A full list of the members of that sub committee and how to get In touch with them is below.
Please contact these members. Ask them, “Were you aware that facilities used regularly by larger church groups were not acceptable for home school coops and tutorials? HB3019 fixes this problem for us. Please support HB3019 when it comes to your sub committee on March 26, 2008.”
As soon as any member of that committee says they will vote for HB3019, please post the good news to claibornethornton.blogspot.com/.
Until you see they have agreed to support the bill keep calling to ask for support.
After they support the bill call or email them and say, "Thanks for supporting HB3019."
A republic works best when elected representatives are informed in a timely fashion of your desires.
NOW IS THE TIME FOR HB3019.
Thanks.
Claiborne Thornton , President
Tennessee Home Education Association
Industrial Impact Sub Committee
206 War Memorial Bldg. Phone (615) 741-3513
David Shepard, Chair
Richard Montgomery, Vice Chair
Members:
John DeBerry,
Joanne Favors,
Dennis Ferguson,
Jim Hackworth,
Bill Harmon,
David Hawk,
Joe McCord,
Dennis Roach,
Charles Sargent,
Park Strader,
Curry Todd and
Eddie Yokley
To get the contact information for these committee members please go to http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/ In the left column click on House, then click members for phone numbers and email address.
HOUSE BILL 3019
By Campfield
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68,
relative to safety.
WHEREAS, Many home schools are conducted in environments that are designed for
multiple uses by groups of people; and
WHEREAS, Some fire safety and codes inspectors are enforcing more stringent standards for home school organizations than for other organizations that use the same or a similar building; and
WHEREAS, Safety is always paramount and should never be compromised, but unreasonable restrictions interfere with the opportunities for home school students to exercise their rights to obtain an education; now, therefore,
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 102, Part 1, is amended by adding a new section thereto, as follows:
Section 68-102-154. When the principal purpose of a facility is not for educational purposes, neither the state fire marshal nor any inspector who contracts with the state shall enforce fire safety codes applicable to a school. The state fire marshal or any inspector who contracts with the state shall enforce the fire safety codes that are applicable to the facility, even though educational activities may be conducted at the facility.
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 120, Part 1, is amended by adding a new section thereto, as follows:
Section 68-120-119. When the principal purpose of a facility is not for educational purposes, neither the state fire marshal nor any inspector who contracts with the state shall enforce building codes applicable to a school. The state fire marshal or any inspector who contracts with the state shall enforce the building codes that are applicable to the facility, even though educational activities may be conducted at the facility.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
Saturday, June 24
HOME SCHOOLING GROWS
For an analogy let's assume your 13 year old is no longer on an allowance because he is earning over a million dollars a year.
When he was on an allowance, you did not have tax related issues to address. Making over a million dollars a year brings with it tax issues.
Home schooling has moved from the allowance phase to the million dollar phase, or I should say the multi billion dollar phase. If you don't believe me multiply the estimated number of home schoolers by the number of $'s that are given, through taxation, to the public schools in your state.
In Tennessee that amounts to over $10,000,000,000 annually, assuming all home schoolers lived in TN, which they don't, but that number is the revenue shift from the public schools. They notice.
In most rural counties across the country, the largest employer in the county is the public school. THINK ABOUT IT!
For an analogy let's assume your 13 year old is no longer on an allowance because he is earning over a million dollars a year.
When he was on an allowance, you did not have tax related issues to address. Making over a million dollars a year brings with it tax issues.
Home schooling has moved from the allowance phase to the million dollar phase, or I should say the multi billion dollar phase. If you don't believe me multiply the estimated number of home schoolers by the number of $'s that are given, through taxation, to the public schools in your state.
In Tennessee that amounts to over $10,000,000,000 annually, assuming all home schoolers lived in TN, which they don't, but that number is the revenue shift from the public schools. They notice.
In most rural counties across the country, the largest employer in the county is the public school. THINK ABOUT IT!
Tuesday, June 13
Three Immediate Dangers to Home Education
1. Virtual Schools
2. Charter Schools
3. Our Boundryless Courts
Virtual School - Electronic connection between the teacher and student
Charter School - A public school operated by a private board. All rules of public schools must be followed, including teacher certification, text book rules, and mandated testing.
Our Boundryless Courts - Today our courts ignore USA historical precedents, support their rulings citing the laws and constitutions of other countries, ignore the US Constitution, ignore the Constitutional limitations placed on the courts.
Kansas passed a Virtual School bill. In that bill they did not differentiate on the money between students enrolled in a Charter School with desks, books, teachers, buildings, etc. and those students, who remained at home. The cost for the student in the classroom in their Charter school was similar to the costs for a public school student. The cost for the student in the Virtual school was much less. Let's say they were paid $5,000/ year for each student. Assume the Charter school student costs them $4,200 per year. They make $800 for the year. Now let's assume that a Virtual school student costs them $1,200/ year. For that student they make $3,800 per student per year. How many of those students do you want? How much can you spend advertising to get those students?
In Alaska we have seen the impact of Charter Schools. Initially they were not called Charter schools, but in fact that is increasingly how they are operated. Families that initially were allowed to purchase any curriculum with their state supplied money today must only buy state approved curriculum. The word Bible, Christian or God in the name of the publisher or on the book means those books are not acceptable. When an Alaskan home schooler accepted State money, their home became an extension of the public school. They must operate under their "Charter."
Our Boundryless Courts stray from our Constitution increasingly. Robert Reisch, the Secretary of Education under Clinton, in his work at Stanford has developed a new theory of educational rights. Understand that historical cases about home schooling before the courts have been frequently decided by referring to "parental rights." Now the Constitution does not specifically name parental rights, but these rights are deduced from concepts in the Constitution. But now Mr. Reisch has published a theory of the three legged educational rights stool, parental rights, the child's rights, and the state's rights. As cases work their way through the courts of today addressing parental rights to control the education of their children, it is not far fetched to believe that some judge will cite Reisch's "Three Legged Stool" approach to educational rights.
Should this happen and an appeal be made to our highest court in the land, what will our current Supreme Court find? In Germany they will find there is no home education. If caught parents are fined and their children are taken away. All who live in Germany and want to home school move out of the country. Will they cite that European model?
It is entirely possible that 3 justices will reject parental rights in education because of their liberal bent and 2 may reject it because of their conservative bent. The liberals because "it takes a village." The conservatives because "parental rights" are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. The words are not there. So on a 5-4 vote parental rights in education, which is the basis of many of the victories of home schoolers could be lost.
Are you paying attention?
Don't let your rights to control the education of your children be taken from you.
Personally I believe that God created everything that exists in 6 evening and morning type days; that God assigned for me to love my wife; that our children are a gift from this Creator God; that they are no accident, but a perfect gift for our situation; that all men need a Savior; and that only Jesus Christ can possibly save anyone.
You may not wish to teach your children such things. I do. In a free country we should both be able to teach the children under our care as we desire. We should be able to direct our children's education.
When they are mature, let's say at age 12, they begin to make their own choices, decide on their own values, and choose their direction in life. From birth to adulthood they move from being 100% dependent on their parents to being 100% independent of their parents. Parents can then enjoy an adult to adult relationship with their children. Much wisdom is required as the child moves from dependency to being independent.
We'll talk more about that later.
1. Virtual Schools
2. Charter Schools
3. Our Boundryless Courts
Virtual School - Electronic connection between the teacher and student
Charter School - A public school operated by a private board. All rules of public schools must be followed, including teacher certification, text book rules, and mandated testing.
Our Boundryless Courts - Today our courts ignore USA historical precedents, support their rulings citing the laws and constitutions of other countries, ignore the US Constitution, ignore the Constitutional limitations placed on the courts.
Kansas passed a Virtual School bill. In that bill they did not differentiate on the money between students enrolled in a Charter School with desks, books, teachers, buildings, etc. and those students, who remained at home. The cost for the student in the classroom in their Charter school was similar to the costs for a public school student. The cost for the student in the Virtual school was much less. Let's say they were paid $5,000/ year for each student. Assume the Charter school student costs them $4,200 per year. They make $800 for the year. Now let's assume that a Virtual school student costs them $1,200/ year. For that student they make $3,800 per student per year. How many of those students do you want? How much can you spend advertising to get those students?
In Alaska we have seen the impact of Charter Schools. Initially they were not called Charter schools, but in fact that is increasingly how they are operated. Families that initially were allowed to purchase any curriculum with their state supplied money today must only buy state approved curriculum. The word Bible, Christian or God in the name of the publisher or on the book means those books are not acceptable. When an Alaskan home schooler accepted State money, their home became an extension of the public school. They must operate under their "Charter."
Our Boundryless Courts stray from our Constitution increasingly. Robert Reisch, the Secretary of Education under Clinton, in his work at Stanford has developed a new theory of educational rights. Understand that historical cases about home schooling before the courts have been frequently decided by referring to "parental rights." Now the Constitution does not specifically name parental rights, but these rights are deduced from concepts in the Constitution. But now Mr. Reisch has published a theory of the three legged educational rights stool, parental rights, the child's rights, and the state's rights. As cases work their way through the courts of today addressing parental rights to control the education of their children, it is not far fetched to believe that some judge will cite Reisch's "Three Legged Stool" approach to educational rights.
Should this happen and an appeal be made to our highest court in the land, what will our current Supreme Court find? In Germany they will find there is no home education. If caught parents are fined and their children are taken away. All who live in Germany and want to home school move out of the country. Will they cite that European model?
It is entirely possible that 3 justices will reject parental rights in education because of their liberal bent and 2 may reject it because of their conservative bent. The liberals because "it takes a village." The conservatives because "parental rights" are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. The words are not there. So on a 5-4 vote parental rights in education, which is the basis of many of the victories of home schoolers could be lost.
Are you paying attention?
Don't let your rights to control the education of your children be taken from you.
Personally I believe that God created everything that exists in 6 evening and morning type days; that God assigned for me to love my wife; that our children are a gift from this Creator God; that they are no accident, but a perfect gift for our situation; that all men need a Savior; and that only Jesus Christ can possibly save anyone.
You may not wish to teach your children such things. I do. In a free country we should both be able to teach the children under our care as we desire. We should be able to direct our children's education.
When they are mature, let's say at age 12, they begin to make their own choices, decide on their own values, and choose their direction in life. From birth to adulthood they move from being 100% dependent on their parents to being 100% independent of their parents. Parents can then enjoy an adult to adult relationship with their children. Much wisdom is required as the child moves from dependency to being independent.
We'll talk more about that later.
Friday, January 27
Wednesday, January 4
Home Schooling - Continuous since 1981. Yes, even now with our 15 year old son.
Home Schooling Leadership - President of Tennessee Home Education Association since it was formed in 1984
What do parents want for their home educated children?
The basic driver in the home education equation is that fathers and mothers want their children to be well educated in a safe, loving environment. They are working to insure that a well rounded, knowledgeable adult emerges from the educational program, which they have developed or are developing. They want no discriminatory doors closed to their children.
Home Schooling Leadership - President of Tennessee Home Education Association since it was formed in 1984
What do parents want for their home educated children?
The basic driver in the home education equation is that fathers and mothers want their children to be well educated in a safe, loving environment. They are working to insure that a well rounded, knowledgeable adult emerges from the educational program, which they have developed or are developing. They want no discriminatory doors closed to their children.
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