Heh, my kids are just fine. Oldest is a college graduate with a BSME and working full time with benefits, college senior in honors college and working on her honors thesis and asked to present it (the rough draft, lol, they haven’t even seen the final draft) next year at a marketing/management conference and working an internship at Warner Music in NYC. The high school senior (in gasp, a public high school) is an honors student and going to college for nursing, on a scholarship, but may take an athletic scholarship instead since it offers more money).
Now my high school sophomore, she’s unfortunately stuck in the new standards, as she was back in Catholic k-8 which didn’t prepare her for the academics in public high school.
But see, in the long run, she will be fine too because she was raised to be. I’m thrilled they are all living their lives as Catholics, Conservatives.
We’re fortunate
(or maybe not since we worked our asses off to get here) to live in an affluent community with excellent (and declining) schools.
What you may not see, and others may not see, is soon the SATS are going to reflect the Common Core requirements and private, Catholic, and homeschooling won’t matter as all will have to teach it in order to pass the SATs.
Our education system sucks and the incremental changes since the 70s or earlier can be blamed on the liberals and the nanny staters, some who claim to be Conservatives. And those who didn’t fight the changes and still don’t fight them.
It’s idealistic to think everyone will pull out their kids from either public, Catholic, Christian, and private schools to homeschool. It’s not going to happen. We’re not going to stop what’s happening in public school curriculum, and the dumbing down of our education system, by expecting every conservative to homeschool or send their kids to private school. Especially now with this economy (our parish catholic school has so many students on tuition assistance, $70,000 worth just for this school year). This is an affluent area and most of the kids in our parish school are coming from non-affluent areas since the out of parish tuition thing isn’t happening anymore. So, those who pay full tuition, are also paying for those “economic cases” that keep increasing every year.
So the get “your kid out of public school” means nothing to me. To where? The Catholic high schools I can’t afford? The private schools I can’t afford? Fortunately, none of my kids needed any of it so we’re good. And to those who send their kids to the Catholic schools with subsidies, who the hell do you think is paying for those tuitions? The rest of us.
Fortunately, my kids are fine. I just hate paying for everyone else’s kids. What do we do about that when the “government” pays which means we pay?
-— , and homeschooling won’t matter as all will have to teach it in order to pass the SATs -—
Are we supposed to care about the SATs, or something?
Twink, think back to your Baltimore Catechism. The purpose of life is to know, love and serve God in this life, and to be eternally happy with Him in the next, not to get a BS degree from a BS college to get a BS job.