Posted on 04/08/2020 6:30:52 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Teachers and administrators are worried parents and society will find out kids do equal or better learning at homethan at govt indoctrination centers. And be in a safer environment where the adults don’t view them as sexual appetizers.
“Drive around my area and you’ll see chest coolers at all the mailboxes for families with school-aged children. Those are for the free breakfasts and lunches that school buses are now delivering every day for every kid under age 19.”
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Loss of the use of corporal punishment as a deterrent to bad behavior. Judiciously applied, corporal punishment is a great extrinsic motivator to keep a kid from disobeying. Not saying we should hit kids, just that there is no mechanism where you can break down their resistance. Bullies do it all the time to control their peers. All teachers can do is ask, request, plead, argue, debate, convince, cajole, beg, deal, negotiate, threaten, but in the end if the kid doesn’t want to go along or to get along, the effort is wasted, and a great deal of time is consumed. I laugh at liberals who don’t believe in corporal punishment, they sowed and now they reap.
Another thing about teachers, many of them do not have children of their own. You wouldn’t believe how many teachers don’t have any kids, but they know better than you how kids should be raised.
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I hope you don't teach spelling, sweetie.
To improve the schools, we need to get rid of the people now in charge, them and their phony ideas.
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The children are being fed a toxic soup. Do we continue to feed this poison to children while the schools are in the process of being reformed?
Parents! Remove your children immediately!
At times a device like the agonizer from old Star Trek would be great for schools.
Public schools are bad simply because parents pressured schools to "be gentle with my darling".
All we have to do is make the godless communiss relinquish their iron grip on the educational industry and we might have a chance. How to do that? I dunno. Infiltration not invasion.
Let’s do something, we’ve been appalled by this failed system for decades.
This is a toxic soup of dysfunction. Remove children now.
That will never happen. So, do the correct thing for you Nation. Try to get it fixed.
I think there are two essential things that everyone can do. Learn why the phony methods used in our classrooms don’t work, things such as sight-words, constructivism, Common Core, and many more. Then citizens and mainly parents can fight back. You can’t take on the school officials if you don’t know how the machinery works. (Here are the main ones: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/public-education-has-been-a-war-on-children-for-decades
It’s happening now.
Home school advocates tend to think in terms of the 1800s or early 1900s subject matter. There is so much more to learning than study and tests. Hands on work is actually required.
The major “stall” to learning chemistry and other STEM subjects is ....***math***! Ditto for basic building, carpentry, and sewing skills. Government schools have proven to be completely sucky at teaching math.
Our community orchestras, choral groups, and string bands **welcome** young people. As for dance? Gymnastics? Karate? Blue Grass groups? Theater for elementary age kids? That’s completely private.
—My homeschooled kids entered college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13.
—They finished Calculus 3 at the age of15. Two earned B.S. degrees in **mathematics** by the age of 18.
—Two were tutoring college students in math when they were only 14.
—One was teaching math to college students at the age of 18 and earned a masters at 20.
—The other was a world class athlete and traveled the world representing the United States. He earned a masters in accounting at a typical age.
—All play a musical instrument and sing in choir.
—One plays the organ and piano for church services.
—All are accomplished ballroom dancers.
—One was a world class athlete.
—All married members of our church and continue to be highly active in the church and community volunteering groups.
—One is an Eagle Scout.
These are only a few of their accomplishments. And...As elementary and junior high age children they never spent more than 2 hours a day in formal homeschooling. They played! Gradually, their play became their teenage work. It was a fascinating process to watch.
You evidently are not into chemistry, physics, electronics, or the like. Otherwise, you'd understand that labs are very important, above and beyond the math. Chemistry does not utilize a lot of math unless you are trying to theorize at the atomic level.
Society is social. School is a social thing, one that is very much a part of our society. Sure, it has its faults. All of those can be cured. Citizens have to care enough to fix the system, not abandon it. You don't actually care about your Nation. You want to abandon its needs without considering how it all evolved in the first place. It is "pooling our resources", something you might start all over again, just to eventually come around to the same old place for the same old reasons.
Very fine accomplishment for sure. I notices an absence of any electronics engineer, chemist, or botanist. I didn’t see an aerospace engineer in the mix. To my way of thinking, you have a narrow focus, and are damn proud of it.
I have an extremely good workshop facility. I share it with high school students who have a yearning for learning by mentoring the high school's robotics team. The school isn't up to it, but it is ultimately my school to maintain. I am one of We The People, the place is my responsibility.
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