Posted on 12/18/2014 10:19:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Colorado is rapidly discovering that elections have consequences. But, then again, who set out the previous two elections on purity issues?
Who’s going to educate the Government first?
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Government is doing that now and look what is and has happened to a once ‘great’ America.
What nerve to say that to you!
Had I not been permitted to rescue my youngest son from herd school with a period of homeschooling, his life would have turned out completely different. And not in a good way.
Elitists think they are the smartest kid on the block when really they are inexperienced, stupid... No cussing.
His thinking is very sad. These kids are not learning that it is up to them to make good choices and to study to attain this goal or that.
“Education is a shared responsibility, where we should expect to pick up the slack and correct errors in government schools, while the government picks up the slack and fills in gaps in what we do with our children.”
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I couldn’t disagree more with your statement. Educating and training a child is the parent’s responsibility. The Prussian model of education was not the original method of education used in the United States, you would be well served to investigate the history of public education in the US. If parents have to “pick up the slack” and correct errors from a government education then what is the point of sending them there?
If we concede that the education of one’s own children is something that an “individual can’t do, or can’t do well” then all individuals will lose the right to choose a better way to educate their children by homeschooling.
Absolutely. Like most commie-pinkos, the longer I knew her (she was my boss), the more the mask slipped off. She actually bragged about having “one of her favorite books,” published in the 1920s - on eugenics. The more I talked with her over the years, it became more and more evident that her view of the world was ghastly and fascistic. ... And the very things they accuse conservatives of being, without fail. I told her that with people like her in charge the world would be far from a better place - that it would be a place of unspeakable darkness and evil. One time, after I made a remark about “Governor Moonbeam” (After Brown took over in California) she exploded at me, literally spitting out with visceral hatred, about the F-ing Jews and their F-ing and their F-ing banks and F-ing PROFITS. (Meanwhile she drove a nice BMW, of course, and lived in a nice house). It was a stunning and revealing admission from the horse’s mouth what these people really are like.
I bet you would be surprisingly resourceful if government schooling disappeared tomorrow.
How many parents can effectively teach calculus, statistics, Spanish, French, or German at the AP level? A whole lot of kids get a better education on the technical side because of good public schools.
When it comes to political bias, many teachers are terrible, and it’s the parent’s job to fix that if school teachers cross that line. But the good teachers (and there are many of them) do a better job that I could do in several areas - even parts of history, and I love history.
Great post and Article too-Thanks
AWESOME Post and Esp. American Thinker Article!!
But you’re right...ever read “ The Sheep Look Up “?
Only when the masses scream to the heavens “ WHY didn’t ANYONE warn us!?!”
That’s why God made Freepers!
If you have shopped for homeschool curriculum you would know there are many choices for advanced study that do not require the parent to be an expert in order to facilitate the student’s learning. As one with a degree in Biology I know what is required with the more technical degrees and it’s not impossible to homeschool at the high school level. My dad is a retired Chemistry/Physics teacher and was skeptical until he saw what is available.
My high school age boys are friends with kids who go to public school. Whenever a conversation about school work comes up the public school kids are shocked at what my kids do. All have said that their school is so much easier. Our curriculum doesn’t have to aim for average as I am not teaching to the middle like school teachers have to. My husband is a teacher and would never send his children to school as the literature choices and conversations are greatly dumbed down from what is in our home. I know that I was not reading Henty or Ballantyne as a middle school student. I certainly wasn’t reading Jane Austin while in second grade as my daughter did. My literature class read Red Earth White Earth my junior year. It was eye opening to me and not due to the rich prose. I was exposed to ideas that I would not want to read about now, they were depressing and graphic.
Also, AP classes are high school teachers teaching classes that give college credit. One doesn’t need an AP class while homeschooling because you can just take the college class as a PSEO student, either at the local college or online.
If a parent doesn’t have the education required to teach high school level classes after graduating from high school, then our educational system is failing. Why would anyone place their child in it?
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