Comments on: IP In MD, Home-Schoolers In VA, Charters In LA, and Rhee Takes Questions!

By: Jeanne Faulconer

Jeanne Faulconer — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:45:44 +0000

Andy, as the mom to the kid in your TIME article, I wrote up our own story about homeschooling and athletics on my blog http://jeannefaulconer.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/without-a-season-virginia-homeschool-sports-access/.

This bill is supported by The Organization of Virginia Homeschoolers, a statewide organization that is inclusive of homeschoolers with diverse beliefs and political/religious backgrounds and neutral on matters of politics and religion.

Your readers might be interested to learn more about this approach to homeschooling here: http://vahomeschoolers.org/

I’m going to lead a session on “Homeschooling for Non-Homeschoolers” on March 22 in Richmond at the annual VaHomeschoolers Conference. Educators, legislators, librarians, businesses, prospective homeschoolers, and eduwonks are welcome to attend. Register on line.

The comments in the WaPo article you pointed out demonstrate a lot of incorrect information about the sports access legislation specifically and homeschooling in general — and actually, also about the nature of much of Virginia! You know — the rural, less populated parts….

By: PhillipMarlowe

PhillipMarlowe — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:25:41 +0000

Michelle Rhee wil be in DC at Politics and Prose on Thursday expanding upon her book Radical-The Miracle Worker.
http://goo.gl/OLfy9
She will be “interviewed” by Richard Whitmire, which is like being “interviewed” by Larry King.
However, unlike Richard (who was grumpy at P&P two years ago when the data came out showing her Baltimore Miracle to be another sham) or unlike Dave Barry, she is charging $12.
There appears to be no truth to the rumours that she will grant attendees to privilege to cart her about in a rickshaw

By: jeffrey miller

jeffrey miller — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:11:10 +0000

They can take my lesson plan when they pry it out of my cold, dead hard drive. Can we have more disincentives for choosing a career in teaching please?

It’s ok to privatize education so long as it’s not the teacher making the money.

By: PhillipMarlowe

PhillipMarlowe — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:45:02 +0000

On Prince George’s County, you missed this very important point:
It’s not unusual for a company to hold the rights to an employee’s work, copyright policy experts said. But the Prince George’s policy goes a step further by saying that work created for the school by employees during their own time and using their own materials is the school system’s property.
So, a teacher who writes a lesson plan or unit for their graduate class will find PGCPS sinking their teeth into it.