What Now? Unions Protect Public School Degrees?
It is unbelievable the extent this country’s government will go to prevent smart people from becoming successful. First it was the politically correct movement — heaven forbid one person is smarter or runs faster or is better at dodgeball than the next guy. Now, on the heels of California’s fight over homeschooling, Tennessee is joining the battle. Tennessee now says homeschool degrees from religious schools are not really degrees after all.
This from the Arkansas Republican Assembly:
Recently, the Tennessee State Board of Education ruled diplomas issued to home-schooled students from religious based schools were invalid as proof of the successful completion of High School should it be presented for employment purposes for a job for which state law requires a diploma. You read that right. According to the State Board of Education, all diplomas are equal but some diplomas are more equal than others.According to Tennessee ConserVOLiance blogger Red Hat Rob,… anyone from a public school (or a private accredited school) who presents a diploma in order to be hired as a daycare worker, police officer, fireman (or any other position which state law requires a high school diploma for) will be automatically accepted. Anyone who presents a homeschool diploma will be automatically rejected . . . [Read More]ARRA Editor Comments: Being from a neighboring state [Arkansas], I wonder what the legal basis was for the Tennessee State Board of Education (TSBE) to dictate to other agencies that they must only accept their potentially “inferior” highschool product. With homeschool graduates exceeding average national test scores of public high school graduates, one wonders if the TSBE is acting like a state funded “union” to control who can and cannot be employed.