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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Is that an issue or a what if?
Have you seen the public school samplings of reading and math skills in high school seniors?
I home school my daughter - people ask me all the time if she’s at grade level - don’t know, don’t care. I’m not concerned at all that she’s at some bureaucrat’s ideal of where she should be. I do however use some of my the books my grandmother used a a teacher in the 30’s and 40’s because the vocabulary and spelling words are so much different than today’s.
My version of homeschooling is raising a life long learner who knows how to do more than ask siri or google a question and getting a limited response.
What other people do at their home school is none of my business and quite frankly none of the government’s. I fail to see how a parent not giving a formal education is really any worse than that same parent sending their kids to school and not caring.
“competence” really isn’t much of a factor.
When examining homeschoolers’ test scores, which AVERAGE in the 85th percentile,
the parents’ education level only accounted for 1-2 points.
She’s saying they aren’t being properly indoctrinated to love Big Brother.
She would have homeschooling outlawed, truth be known.
I assuming you’re “home” toilet training?
;)
The “baby” hasn’t left the house in over a week.
If there was a toilet-training contractor I could hire for this, I would.
Best “device” in the world for keeping your kids out of trouble in their teen years - the dinner table.
Absolutely. Duct tape them to it.
The underside, so they won’t disturb your meal.
Oh, good idea! I’ve been eating standing at the kitchen counter.
I would still need to understand the material to teach it.
Not to be argumentative, but Dr Carson’s mom couldn’t read...
HSLDA sate laws resource:
https://www.hslda.org/LAWS/default.asp
What do you think we have now? Ever more of what you fear.
I understand that, but she didn’t teach her kids. They still learned in school, but she was on top of them at all times to make sure they were learning what they were taught.
Thanks. What a wonderful resource!
Usually parents who really care that little for their children’s education opt for public school. It costs them nothing extra, and keeps their little darlings out from underfoot for most of the day.
A motivated parent is the single largest determining factor in a child’s educational outcome, no matter what school option they choose. If you want them educated you can manage to master the material up through middle school. For high school on, lots of curriculum options and teaching methods present themselves... you can send them to the local community college, for example, or even buy entire instructional courses on DVD.
A local homeschooling association often offers specialized classed like Biology (with animal dissection) or advanced math.
That’s really the advantage of homeschooling - the individual attention of a caring parent.
I agree wholeheartedly. All education should be sold on the free market. A government-funded education might be offered, too, but it would cover the basics without any embellishments (i.e. sports teams, etc.).
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