Posted on 08/31/2015 2:53:24 PM PDT by jazusamo
Many public primary and secondary schools are dangerous places. The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics show that in 2012, there were about 749,200 violent assaults on students. In the 2011-12 academic year, there were a record 209,800 primary- and secondary-school teachers who reported being physically attacked by a student. Nationally, an average of 1,175 teachers and staff were physically attacked, including being knocked out, each day of that school year. In Baltimore, each school day in 2010, an average of four teachers and staff were assaulted. Each year, roughly 10 percent of primary- and secondary-school teachers are threatened with bodily harm.
Many public schools not only are dangerous but produce poor educational results. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress for 2013, sometimes called the Nation's Report Card (http://tinyurl.com/mn6snpf), only 33 percent of white 12th-graders tested proficient in math, and 47 percent tested proficient in reading. For black 12th-graders, it was a true tragedy, with only 7 percent testing proficient in math and 16 percent in reading. These grossly disappointing educational results exist despite massive increases in public education spending.
Many parents want a better education and safer schools for their children. The best way to deliver on that desire is to offer parents alternatives to poorly performing and unsafe public schools. Expansion of charter schools is one way to provide choice. The problem is that charter school waiting lists number in the tens of thousands. Another way is giving educational vouchers or tuition tax credits for better-performing and safer schools. But the education establishment fights tooth and nail against any form of school choice.
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Did you grow up in PA? Sounds like my experience being homeschooled in PA. I’m homeschooling my daughter in Nevada. One letter to the district and we’re home free.
It’s a good thing, they don’t need me to show up how pathetic the local schools are.
The concept that HS'ers are right wing fundamentalists is slowly fading as others seek more effective alternatives to gov't schooling.
The looting, marches, and protests need to stop - focus on education.
The black literacy rate in 2910 was 70%. Now we are at 7%. At what point do we admit failure.....
Ours range from 19 to 12. We have 6 very easy years left...;-)
We’re still toilet training one.
Ping for both lists.
You learn as you go and your kids reach a point where they can pretty much self-teach, an invaluable tool for later in life.
And that's what homeschool support groups are for. There's always someone out there who can help you in an area you are weak in.
You lived in PA, right?
I’m always amused by responses like yours -
Whodecides what demonstrates that my child is getting educated?
Guessed it.
Sheesh, even NY isn’t THAT bad.
Somehow that slipped under someone’s radar in NY.
Years ago, he was taking $$$ from a foundation that advocated “School Choice”. It sounded noble. But, as we know, warehousing kids is just wrong.
He would say nice things about home schooling, but go on to say that advocating the overthrow of public schooling was unrealistic. Or something. He was paid to prop up school choice.
Sounds like he's finally free, now.
Ha!!
You misunderstand me. What’s to keep a derelict parent from refusing to send a child to school or to give them any education at all? Do you think a bunch of illiterate children growing into adulthood is a good thing?
I’m not advocating for any government meddling nto anyone’s business. I’m just asking about the logistics of the situation. A simple “yes” or “no” would do.
Good for you.
Thank you. I love Walter Williams.
My wife and I started HS'ing in SoCal..back in 87-88 I guess....
Ended up in OK...
My kids are both well adjusted successful tax-paying citizens..these days.
Mine too.
Both girls are getting grad degrees.
The boy doesn’t need one as his job is paying PLENTY enough to support himself.
Nobody on drugs, in jail, pregnant, or otherwise suffering the severe consequences of really, really bad life choices.
Good for you!!
Congratulations yourself.
Nothing, except the fact that they don't want their children around. Most parents I know - very responsible parents - are thrilled when the school buses show up in August, because they don't like having their children at home.
Do you think a bunch of illiterate children growing into adulthood is a good thing?
You just described a far from insignificant percentage of high-school graduates. And no, it's not a good thing. According to my friends who volunteer in prison ministry, the majority of inmates can't read at all or read at very minimal levels - but they went to school.
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