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Indiana home-schoolers were once again slapped in the face with allegations they are somehow failing their own children. Absurd! The twist of the knife was suggesting submission to the ISTEP would somehow solve this mythical problem.
Indiana home-schoolers were once again slapped in the face with allegations they are somehow failing their own children. Absurd! The twist of the knife was suggesting submission to the ISTEP would somehow solve this mythical problem.
Can we get serious? These yearly allegations are coming only from the media, and possibly a misguided legislator or two. Your editorial on home-schoolers taking the ISTEP test contained mostly inaccuracies and little if any factual information. We can only assume inciting emotions was the intent.
Let's end at least one rumor: "All too often, children who are being taught at home are failing to learn what their counterparts in public or private schools are supposed to be learning."
There are between 22,000 to 45,000 home-schoolers in Indiana.
Indiana home-schoolers are private schools. No nonaccredited private school in Indiana takes the ISTEP. So technically, we don't know whether private schoolers are failing to learn, either. Should they take the ISTEP? And what kind of number is "all too often?"
If caring parents, taking the responsibility of educating at home, thought their children were failing to learn, don't you think they'd go for the free state education?
Benjamin Bennett, Project Coordinator, IHEN Web Project; Jane Casey, Founder, Indiana home-schoolers Networking E-list; Debbie Harbeson, Indiana home-schoolers E-list manager
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