The high school dropout rate continues to rise. Those students that do graduate and go to college require an increasing amount of remedial assistance. In addition, recent polls show 52 percent of college entrants are liberal and 48 percent conservative. At graduation, 88 percent are liberal and 12 percent conservative.
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A parent knows that they have made the right decision in their child’s education, when the response is heartfelt. My son clearly demanded my attention and with profound sincerity thanked me profusely for putting him in FPE. His enthusiastic response, “I love FPE. Thank you so much for putting me in FPE.”
The genuine character of each individual that we have had the opportunity to work with has been outstanding, kind, dedicated, enthusiastic and sincere. Many might think that such high regards for such an organization would be overstated, but there is no doubt that each and every teacher and staff member have been inspired to do work on a higher principle than can be found in almost any location.
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Written by: Beverly K. Eakman
Home schooling and the computer: a match made in heaven?
In many ways, yes, but with a couple of caveats. Take the recent debate over a Herndon, Virginia-based provider of full-time public virtual schools called K12 Inc. (Link), with its various nationwide components, such as Virginia Virtual Academy (http://www.k12.com/vava), Florida Virtual School (http://www.flvs.net/Cached - Similar) and Massachusetts Virtual Academy (http://www.k12.com/mava).
These are always incorporated into one of the states’ official public school districts. Thus, the twist on K12 Inc. (http://www.k12.com/): the word public, meaning tax-supported, and therefore subject to government oversight, with all the various “strings” and biases that go along with the federal government’s schools.
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Written by: Beverly K. Eakman
As public schooling becomes increasingly tainted with watered-down, politicized misinformation, and the cost of substantive private-school options soars above the $22,000-a-year mark, the online classical classroom, FreedomProject Education (http://www.fpeusa.org/), could not have come along at a better time. This is a concept whose time is now. Public schools may be accredited, but accreditation is a government label that can no longer be trusted as a seal of authenticity, except possibly in the sense that the education offered meets government’s only standard: political correctness, an ironic replication of Josef Stalin’s “political reliability.”
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