On Wed, March 19, 2008 10:08 am, Gus Wirth wrote: The > certification process consists of taking a test that could be passed by > a sixth grader (well, maybe not in California). Despite that, there were > a couple people there taking it for the second time! ...
> The idea that a concerned parent making the effort to teach their own > child is somehow going to be damaging because they aren't "certified" is > ludicrous. How much do you need to know to be "Smarter than a Fifth > Grader" (tm) ? > > Gus Right. Except that some of those people who are taking the test for the second time would be keeping their kids out of school were it not for the certification. I'm quite certain that most people on this list could easily teach an average elementary school kid. But certification isn't designed for people on this list. It's designed to keep people who really have no business educating children from depriving their children of decent schooling. Is it a "one size fits all" solution? Probably, yes, but government tends to be a hammer not a scalpel. -ajb -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
