Conclusion #1: If every government school were to close tomorrow the same children getting and education today would get one tomorrow. If every government school were to close tomorrow, the same kids NOT getting an education will not get one tomorrow. Why? Because it is IN THE HOME that kid is getting his education. It comes from his parents, from the student's own hard work in home assignments and informal study, and possibly from paid and unpaid tutors.
Conclusion #2: The **real** education and the **really** hard work of learning is happening IN THE HOME. The government school is merely sending home a very expensive curriculum for the parents, child, and possible tutors ( paid and unpaid) to follow IN THE HOME.
If I am wrong please provide the links to the studies that prove me wrong.
Where are the studies that show exactly **where** knowledge is acquired? Is it in the classroom or in the home due to the hard work of **afterschooling** and **preschooling** done by the parents, and by the study done by the child ( both homework and independent study), and help from paid and unpaid tutors.
Where are the studies that prove conclusively **who** exactly is doing the teaching? Is it the parents due to their home habits, afterschooling and preschooling? Is due to the hard work of the child IN THE HOME. How do tutors ( paid and unpaid) factor into the child's acquiring his knowledge?
Without knowing the Where, Who, and How of the child's acquiring knowledge, we can NOT know if the $20,000 to $30,000 spent per child per year is actually buying anything!
But...We do know one thing! Government school workers are quick to take full credit for the hard work done by the parents and child IN THE HOME, and anoint themselves “good” teachers and and grant themselves the standing of blue ribbon schools, but in a nanosecond will blame the family when there is academic failure.
Seriously it is hard enough to make time to read the drivel you write with out having to refer to multiple postings.
Your observations are in line with my observations when we are looking at the typical American middle class family. I think the children do well in spite of even the best public schools. We need to revamp the whole idea of herd education and socialist educators.
Since our country is becomming overpopulated with the never ending invasion over the borders, we should think about encouraging mothers or fathers to educate their own children and release them from the mind numbing, degrading factory schools.