From Boortz

A good blurb at Nealz Nuze today about an alternative to gov't indoctrination centers:

NOW -- IS THIS YOUR OPTION OUT OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS?

During dinner with a friend last night we started talking about the sorry state of government schools. His child is being home schooled ... and has just been offered a full scholarship to an elite private college. The stigma attached to home schooling is gone. Now home schooling stands as no obstacle at al to college admission.

My friend told me that there are several Internet sites that supplement home home schooling. The home schooling parent can get full curriculum support from the Internet Academy. Lesson plans, materials and even the testing ... all done over the Internet. Some of these Internet academies are purely secular, others, like this one, have a religious base. The left will surely think this is the end of the world. How in the world can you let people who actually believe in God teach our children? Won't their minds be forever poisoned?

We're working supply and demand here ... and the magic of competition. Look for more Internet academies to spring up, and look for more parents who are disgusted with government education to take advantage of them. Dare we hope that the Internet could be the doom of our hideous system of government education?

I'll drink to that!

Colleges love home schooled kids and, in fact, seek them out. Why? Because, in most cases, they are exceptional students. Colleges seek them out because they would rather have exceptional students than mediocre (or worse) students. Both of our kids were home schooled and my daughter was able to attend a local community college free while simultaneously finishing high school. After attaining her AA degree (with honors), she won a substantial academic scholarship to SMU where she maintains a gpa just shy of 4.0.

My son received a full academic scholarship at the University of Texas at Arlington School of Engineering. He also maintains a near 4.0 gpa and has been active in student government from the gitgo.

There's a flourishing future for the home school movement whereas the gov't schools just keep getting worse. They've been in a state of crisis for more than a generation and we are continually coerced to throw more and more money in what has become an ever deepening cesspool. A favorite Reagan quote comes to mind, "In this present crisis, government is not the solution to the problem, government IS the problem."