Likewise here.
I was also a public school graduate, for all the good it did me.
I learned more on my own than all the years I put in in the system.
And not only was my public school experience the greatest impetus in my decision to homeschool my own children, I learned more homeschooling them than all those teachers were able to interest me in leqrning from them.
I can count on one hand the number of good teachers I had, that is, techers who actually taught me something and motivated me to learn.
“I can count on one hand the number of good teachers I had, that is, techers who actually taught me something and motivated me to learn.”
Actually, in my case, it is one finger - Mrs. McKenzie. She taught math with NO CALCULATORS (sorry Varga) and clearly explained why she had that ‘retrograde’ attitude.
>>I learned more on my own than all the years I put in in the system.
And not only was my public school experience the greatest impetus in my decision to homeschool my own children, I learned more homeschooling them than all those teachers were able to interest me in leqrning from them.<<
My exact experience. I tell them, I would cut off my right arm before I would send them into Junior High.
(on the 16th, one 12-year-old and one 14-year-old will take the ACT because they were both accepted into “Early College”. Better than I did at their ages!)
I have a doctorate today **in spite** of institutionalized, Prussian-model, prison-like schooling. It took nearly five years to educate myself, on my own, before having excellent success in college and graduate school.