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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Yes I can. But if I lived in Alberta I would have the third option of sending them to public school and being notified and offered a choice when things come up I might be concerned with. The school gets higher enrollment which might mean enough funding for a second language teacher or something like that and the children who would have been homeschooled get a fuller education. I don't see the down side. Why must parents conform to the school or be left completely out. Why is Alberta not being seen as progressive by allowing a simple compromise that will probably bring more Albertain children into the public system?
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Here's the problem: if not every kid has to learn about evolution then they probably won't be able to put it on the tests.
What will nut-bars decide they don't want their precious little snow flake hearing about next because it may go against something in their personal view of their religion? Geometry? Gravity? Long division? Geology? History? Fractions? Seriously - where do you draw the line in watering down education standards?