Well, thank Obama cronies like this one who put their silly racial quotas and other related ideas above all else and basically permit schools to become violent cesspools.
Posted on 09/26/2018 11:16:14 AM PDT by Perseverando
Polls find the majority of U.S. parents don't want to put their kids in public schools, but most do anyway. A new book explains why they should stop, and here's a gameplan for achieving that.
When I was a child, my parents listened to Dr. James Dobson’s “Focus on the Family” radio show. He regularly hosted education guests, including Raymond and Dorothy Moore, who helped launch the homeschooling revival in the 1980s due to concerns about public schools pressuring children too much, too soon. Those concerns persist, and have been compounded by many other mass education failures.
At the time, almost nobody homeschooled except for off-the-grid apocalypse types or Mennonites. Today, of course, practically everyone knows a homeschool family, and homeschooling has come a long way from the Amish jean jumper days.
Data can be hard to pin down, but estimates suggest about 4 percent of U.S. kids are now homeschooled. Homeschooling grew fast since Dobson, the Moores, and many others urged parents to try it, but the vast majority of American children have remained in academically degraded U.S. public schools that cultivate hostility to religion and to conservatism. The 1980s campaign to get religious and conservative parents to jettison public schools was largely a failure. Homeschooling grew, but only slightly, and private school enrollment tanked.
These enrollment trends are decidedly not, however, what parents wish they could do with their kids. Currently, approximately 86 percent of U.S. children attend public schools. Yet only 33 percent of Americans, in the latest national poll, consider public schooling their top choice. Fifteen percent say their top choice is a charter school — a privately run, independent public school — and the plurality, 42 percent, say their top choice is a private school. Homeschooling is the first choice of 7 percent.
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Well, thank Obama cronies like this one who put their silly racial quotas and other related ideas above all else and basically permit schools to become violent cesspools.
Public school is no place for a child.
America is no place for public schools.
Catholic schools have a proven track record of stronger academics AND building good character — even in the most troubled areas and inner cities. It is well worth people’s while to donate to Catholic schools serving low income communities!
For what it is worth, it is also catching on in Mexico, and they are leaving the public sector of forming uniformed obedient subjects. Free thinkers, independent people come to different conclusions.
Gun free kill zones, teachers runamuck, taking students ‘hostage’ literally.. Ohhhhh Yeahhhhh.
This is what public education is all about? To the Left, Yes, Yes it is.
bump!
Can’t afford it. Excuse me to bore you with my Canadian perspective. In my province the private schools get about 50% of their funding from the government. The rest comes from parents via tuition. It is a huge sacrifice of course, costing us $900 per month for 4 kids. Means we may never get to take our kids to a Disneyland trip we hoped to. We just tell people at Christmas we have no money. So only buying for the kids.
The leftists hate this arrangement we have here claiming it is “for the rich” which is total BS. In our Christian school NONE of our friends are rich. If I was to guess maybe 25% are wealthy who send their kids to the school. The rest just make the sacrifice.
We have a leftist government right now, with a Minister of Education, who use to be the union leader for the teachers union. Safe to say she hates this arrangement. So one day we may lose the funding.
You still have to keep on your toes to counter some socialist nonsense. Just part of being Canadian sadly.
Instead of handing $13,240 a student to the State Department of Education and School Districts, and then trusting them to manage it (which they obviously aren’t doing well), put that money into an educational savings account controlled by the family that could only be spent on education.
Then let all schools, public and private, compete for the best teachers and compete to earn clients (students) by the quality of their product. If parents want their children to be taught social justice, climate change and transgenderism, they can send their kids to those schools.
Parents that prefer quality reading, writing, arithmetic, real science and history, can send their kids to schools that emphasize those classes. The quality of education will be fixed overnight, and parental control will be returned.
Public schools should excel as they already have the facilities, buses and personnel. The only way they don’t win is if they don’t provide a product the parents want at a price that is competitive.
Teachers will immediately have choices. When a known great teacher is on the free market, he/she might demand $100,000 in the first year. Great teachers will be paid great, good teachers will have a financial incentive to become great and average teachers will be motivated to find other employment.
Students that don’t ride the bus, play sports or if they decide to bring their lunch from home, then they will save money.
Any money left in their education account can be rolled over. If a student graduates high school with money left in his/her ESA, they can use it for college or trade school, reducing needs for student loans.
The teachers win.
The parents win.
The students win.
Colleges and Employers win.
The only ones that lose will be the unions who are constantly stirring seeds of dissatisfaction to justify their existence, educational bureaucrats that will no longer have a reason for existence (Can’t each school district choose its own curriculum and manage its own affairs?) and politicians that won’t be able to use the teachers as a tools for their next big tax increase or pet project to raise revenue – for the teachers.
Maine Voters, please support Republican office holders and candidates that support the above,
Rev. Bob Celeste
Harrison, Maine
Bob,
This is the exact plan that I have described to many friends and family. It is the first time I have ever seen someone on FR lay it out exactly like I do when I explain it to people. Great minds, I guess... Awesome Post Sir!!!
Because too may of them have been into the public school system’s BS since the 80’s...
I was so proud.
The curriculum has to be addressed, to include textbooks. Then, parents have to parent and the discipline issue has to be addressed, up front.
A student is not a client. They wield no decision making authority. The parents are the clients.
Public school is waaaay better than putting them in Holton Arms.
We paid $100,000 for private Christian education to keep our 3 children out of public schools. It was the best investment we ever made.
Go back and read it again.
Instead of handing $13,240 a student to the State Department of Education and School Districts, and then trusting them to manage it (which they obviously aren’t doing well), put that money into an educational savings account controlled by the family that could only be spent on education.
Then let all schools, public and private, compete for the best teachers and compete to earn clients (students) by the quality of their product. If parents want their children to be taught social justice, climate change and transgenderism, they can send their kids to those schools.
Parents that prefer quality reading, writing, arithmetic, real science and history, can send their kids to schools that emphasize those classes. The quality of education will be fixed overnight, and parental control will be returned.
Public schools should excel as they already have the facilities, buses and personnel. The only way they don’t win is if they don’t provide a product the parents want at a price that is competitive.
Teachers will immediately have choices. When a known great teacher is on the free market, he/she might demand $100,000 in the first year. Great teachers will be paid great, good teachers will have a financial incentive to become great and average teachers will be motivated to find other employment.
Students that don’t ride the bus, play sports or if they decide to bring their lunch from home, then they will save money.
Any money left in their education account can be rolled over. If a student graduates high school with money left in his/her ESA, they can use it for college or trade school, reducing needs for student loans.
The teachers win.
The parents win.
The students win.
Colleges and Employers win.
The only ones that lose will be the unions who are constantly stirring seeds of dissatisfaction to justify their existence, educational bureaucrats that will no longer have a reason for existence (Can’t each school district choose its own curriculum and manage its own affairs?) and politicians that won’t be able to use the teachers as a tools for their next big tax increase or pet project to raise revenue – for the teachers.
Maine Voters, please support Republican office holders and candidates that support the above,
Rev. Bob Celeste
Harrison, Maine
Excellent post.
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