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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What makes you think that kids are getting educated in the public school system?
So someone might use the excuse of homeschooling just to keep the kids home and maybe they'll be illiterate? What happens to all the kids who attend public school and either drop out or "graduate" functionally illiterate?
How has government oversight prevented that from happening?
In the worst case scenario of homeschooling, like you presented, the kids are going to be no worse off than if they had attended public school.
Attending public school is no guarantee of an education.
Besides, having lived in welfare community for far too many years, those parents who care so little about their kids that they would not educate them, do NOT want them around anyway. They send them to school so they don't have to feed them and put up with them.
In the aggregate, public school students fall further behind students of other countries with each year they attend. That one fact should make it obvious that the government is incompetent to produce well-educated people. Therefore, they should just keep out of it.
For later
In ever state there are laws requiring children of a certain age range to attend some type of educational training. I think this is reasonable. I suppose it would be the most conservative course to ASSUME that parents are complying with the law and only take lawful punitive action when evidence surfaces that children are not being educated. But by then, it’s largely too late - for the child.
If the parents are keeping the child home under the guise of homeschooling them and are not bothering to educate them, then the least of the kid’s problems is literacy.
They can learn to read and write later.
But their home situation is going to be so bad, that the baggage that they are carrying is going to cripple them for life without the intervention of God in their lives.
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