According to the Huffington Post, 08/28/2012, this is one of the key elements of the Republican Platform. There is a lot that I could take objection to but, for crying out loud, why would any normal parent want to follow this ridiculous rule.
"Republicans support consumer choice, including home schooling, local innovations such as single-sex classes, full day school hours and year round schools. Republicans renew their call for replacing family planning programs for teer education which teaches abstinence until marriage as the responsible and respected standard of behavior."
The name of the education program that Romney named "A Chance for Every Child" is a pro-choice, pro-voucher, pro-states-rights education that just yells privatization of the education system.
Romney is proposing a voucher system that would have parents of the most needy children to shop for schools, which would probably make an already bad situation worse. Poor and special education students would choose a school, based on standardized test scores and other data (?) and only then a certain amount of public money, to be determined (they don't give specifics on that) would be allowed to follow the child to school. Romney disregards how factors outside the classroom can affect the child. He ignores the fact that many of the poorer children live in poverty and turmoil, come to school hungry, tired or sick with parents who really care little about their child's education.
Romney would eliminate the No Child Left Behind Act, so states would no longer have to meet federal requirement for improving schools. States would be left to run their own systems, providing the funds were there. And this is a good one - he opposes "unnecessary" teacher qualification requirements. Paul Ryan voted against $10 million in education funding for states to hire qualified teachers and repeatedly voted to cut millions from the Head Start Program. His budget could cut 200,000 children from that program in 2014 alone.
With regard to higher education - Romney has no specific plans to address student loans. Ryan's plan would allow student loan rates to double, costing students on average another $1,000.
On college tuition: Romney's only advice to those struggling to afford college was to "shop around", or "borrow money from your parents". Ryan told a student "he should work three jobs to pay for college".
On student aid: Romney would "drastically cut federal student aid causing roughly 1 million students to lose their Pell Grants". The Romney-Ryan budget would cut Pell Grants by an average of $1,000 for 9.6 million students by 2014.
THIS IS ONLY ONE OF THE ISSUES IN THE ROMNEY-RYAN PLATFORM. THINK THIS THIS IS BAD, WAIT UNTIL I EXPLAIN SOME OF THE OTHERS.
Romney is proposing a voucher system that would have parents of the most needy children to shop for schools, which would probably make an already bad situation worse. Poor and special education students would choose a school, based on standardized test scores and other data (?) and only then a certain amount of public money, to be determined (they don't give specifics on that) would be allowed to follow the child to school. Romney disregards how factors outside the classroom can affect the child. He ignores the fact that many of the poorer children live in poverty and turmoil, come to school hungry, tired or sick with parents who really care little about their child's education.
Romney would eliminate the No Child Left Behind Act, so states would no longer have to meet federal requirement for improving schools. States would be left to run their own systems, providing the funds were there. And this is a good one - he opposes "unnecessary" teacher qualification requirements. Paul Ryan voted against $10 million in education funding for states to hire qualified teachers and repeatedly voted to cut millions from the Head Start Program. His budget could cut 200,000 children from that program in 2014 alone.
With regard to higher education - Romney has no specific plans to address student loans. Ryan's plan would allow student loan rates to double, costing students on average another $1,000.
On college tuition: Romney's only advice to those struggling to afford college was to "shop around", or "borrow money from your parents". Ryan told a student "he should work three jobs to pay for college".
On student aid: Romney would "drastically cut federal student aid causing roughly 1 million students to lose their Pell Grants". The Romney-Ryan budget would cut Pell Grants by an average of $1,000 for 9.6 million students by 2014.
THIS IS ONLY ONE OF THE ISSUES IN THE ROMNEY-RYAN PLATFORM. THINK THIS THIS IS BAD, WAIT UNTIL I EXPLAIN SOME OF THE OTHERS.