Tennerseans!

[Full Quiver]

My kids have friends who are homeschooled that can't read or write at all.

Funny thing is that the govt. school system graduates these types each and every year

I don't think the testing is the prob since testing is already required after the 6th grade. The private schools are up in arms about something so it has to be deeper than this post reveals.

[Pastor Bill]

Don't assume though. It's easy to understand why private schools would not want standardized testing, It is always the assumption that private schools are SO much better than public, but that isn't always the case, and the margin of difference may be less than one would think, especially when it's the students being graded, even the best schools still have some students who don't work at it, whose parents are not involved and don't care, and those students will test just as poorly at a private school as they would at a public school despite greater opportunities and efforts to help them.

Testing on a level playing field should not scare a good school, nothing in this seems to be skewing things toward public schools, so I don't think it should be a concern.

[mom of two]

After a lot of prayer, I decided to start my kids off in public school...they went to private Baptist preschool. My oldest started Middle School this past Fall, & I faced the decision of keeping her in public or finding a private school I approved of. I decided to keep her in public. There are many reasons. This is what I feel God wanted me to do, so understand I am not judging those who choose otherwise!

I have several nephews & 1 niece who are homeschooled...they are so far behind what they would be if they were in public school. My oldest nephew heads off to college next Fall...he is highly intelligent, but I'm not sure he will be able to keep up. They are in Penn, & have found ways "around the laws"...according to my sister-in-law. This is why I am not really for "just anyone" being able to do this.

Some of my friends kept their daughter in an expensive private school...she wanted to graduate with some friends & switched to public school for her Senior year. She almost got to go an extra year because she was so far behind our county's curriculum. Not every county is as blessed as ours.