Does a score of 65 mean what it used to - a D grade [edit: no, it used to be an F]? Talk about meaningless. Though I gotta say I find the appellation "Local Diploma" humorous. Guess it means that it might get you a job at the "local" gas station. Assuming that it's not all self-service, and it's owned by your Uncle Al, who owes your parents big time.
BTW, in California:
Parents who lack a teaching credential have no right to teach their children at home, an appellate court has ruled.
“Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children,” Justice H. Walter Croskey wrote in a Feb. 28 opinion for the 2nd District Court of Appeals.
Noncompliance could lead to criminal complaints against the parents, Croskey said.
If the ruling stands, California will go from one of the most liberal states in allowing homeschooling to the most restrictive.
The case involved children enrolled in Sunland Christian School, an accredited private school set up to support homeschooling parents. That was a “ruse,” the judge said, because most of their teaching is done by their uncredentialed mother.
. . . “keeping the children at home deprived them of situations where (1) they could interact with people outside the family, (2) there are people who could provide help if something is amiss in the children’s lives, and (3) they could develop emotionally in a broader world than the parents’ ‘cloistered’ setting.”
These are all hoary chestnuts used by the anti-homeschooling crowd. Like kids wouldn't do better being home-schooled than "interacting" and "developing emotionally" with the gangs in LA, for example.
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