PARENT RIGHTS AND THEIR CHILDREN’S EDUCATION The Right to 1. Choice 2. Information 3. Be Heard & Consulted 4. Special Assistance 5. Involvement 6. Safeguards 7. Appeal For a Printable PDF of this Article Click Here The rights compiled here are those that generally apply in most democratic… Read more
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Parent Power in Each School
Parent Power (By Tunya Audain 100326, comment to blog Report Card by Janet Steffenhagen Vancouver Sun Education Reporter on: “Provincial parent group not in trouble, president says” 100324) Why do parents have to beg for recognition from their school systems? I’ve attended parent advisory meetings which spent most of… Read more
The Birth of the Home Education Movement – 1972 – Mexico
I remember people ardently ranting and raging against oppressive compulsory schooling. About poverty and the thwarted aspirations of the poor. About the escalation of school restrictions and demands being as destructive as the escalation of weapons. About school and medical systems showing declining results as more money was being… Read more
Unleash the Potential of Parent Energy!
When we are promised more parent involvement should we welcome it? Why, when so many parents are already frustrated with what we have, should we welcome MORE of the same. This article argues for radical changes to the education system, which if applied, would unleash presently repressed parent energy: –… Read more
WILY TEACHER UNIONS SUBVERT DEMOCRACY
Teachers unions are known to be mighty warriors against reasonable efforts to remove incompetent teachers from classrooms. This is an international phenomenon as these unions are well connected fraternally and they share agendas which favor union goals. In British Columbia we have had a College of Teachers which, like… Read more