Alameda County schools are among the worst in the state, 23having been enrolled in the State's Immediate Intervention or Underperforming Schools Program for 1999-2000. Only when it is realized that, just like a huckster running a shell game, Alameda County's tactic is to divert attentionaway from their abject failures by attacking homeschoolers. California taxpayers are having their pockets picked as they gaze in the wrong direction, duped once again by education bureaucrats. The Education Establishment says that their intrusions uponhomeschoolers are necessary to ensure that all children receive anadequate education. Don't you believe it.
Money is behind theseceaseless attacks on homeschooling.
Targeting homeschoolers to force them into public school programs would increase that ADA and therefore bring inmore money to the school districts' coffers. Of course, the more students, the more teachers for public schools, and the greater theunion dues, which explains why the NEA for the past decade hasadvocated the abolition of independent homeschooling. In 1996, there were more bucks to be had, courtesy of Uncle Sam. The Federal Department of Education announced an initiative to reducetruancy. In California, the directive was heard loud and clear.