Ron Paul launches his own curriculum

[Charles Kozierok]

This is being run by that fruitcake Gary North?

I just lost some respect for Ron Paul.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It's part of the game of life. You play along to get along. Fighting against the system means your kid can't get into university because his education is not accredited.

Do an experiment of what happens when you try to be a rebel. Get out there and try practicing medicine without a license. You might be a fantastic doctor but you'll still get in big trouble because you're not part of the system.

Examples? Even the Missouri Derpartment of Education acknowledges that they know of no case where loss of a highschool's accreditation resulted in rejection from a university. If it does happen, I would imagine that it's limited to very exclusive schools or otherwise extreme examples. As far as I can tell, Paul's point is that there is no national standard in secondary school accreditation, and that concerns over lack of accreditation (which is probably widespread throughout "homeschools" aside from those Accredited By Jesus&#8482 are unnecessary. All you have to do is look at the extreme disparity in public education quality throughout cities, let alone states or regions, to know that standards are incredibly low.

EDIT: That should say "Missouri Department of Education", but the typo made me chuckle at myself, so I'm keeping it.

 

[DucatiMonster696]

The worst case scenario is that this initiative on his part becomes a failure and closes down. Those parents who wanted to be satisfied by this endeavor of his will be disappointed and move on to other private options available to them.

In other words the failure (if it occurs) will only be limited to those who decide to test out this home-school program being offered by Ron.

It won't be forced onto the rest of society and you won't have standing politicians telling you that everything is a raging success. Meanwhile students continually underperform year after, year while standards in every regard (academic and social) are reduced to the lowest common denominator year after year. All in order to create a false illusion of success in many school districts, in a system long ago taken over by those who are more politically motivated to keep everything unchanged then they are willing to fix and change the a taxpayer funded public educational system.

 

[halik]

LOL at all of this.

I have just accredited myself in acute trauma diagnosis, please next time you need to go to the ER, come to me. My prices are better.

 

[First]

Y2K controversy

North was recognized as one of the most visible of people who predicted a Y2K catastrophe in print and online.[13] North suggested that a Y2K date-rollover failure of the global Information Technology (IT) infrastructure would precipitate severe disruption and perhaps even an economic collapse. North urged his readers to take various survivalist preparedness measures. It turned out that no significant problems took place, but North later described Y2K as "a close call." North deleted the Y2K material from his website after the disaster failed to occur, but his comments, Gary North's Y2K Links and Forums, have been archived at a mirror site.[14]

lulz.

Oh Ron Paul, how funny it is you choose to associate with sad loons like these.