Posted on 12/03/2021 9:56:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Haven’t some of the school districts in *BLUE* cities and countries tried (and maybe succeeded) in preventing parents from homeschooling their kids? I figure that’s the next tactic.
*counties
A good start would be eliminating the Dept. of Education
College Ed Depts have been labs for social engineering since the 60’s.
Since the 1896 when Dewey established the lab school in Chicago. Though Dewey would have vocally renounced most of what goes on today. He did start it.
Re: Eliminating the Department of Education
Yes,....The government system of schools is like a big, fat, juicy pimple. It needs to be squeezed from every side.
homeschooling
vouchers
charters
eliminating the Dept. of Education
eliminating teachers unions
separating school and sports
pressure on school boards
The US Dept of Education has very little to do with K-12. It manages college student loans mainly. k-12 is all up to the states. That’s why Trump couldn’t get schools in blue states open, and it’s why Biden loses mask fights with K-12 in red states.
I pulled both my teens out of public school last year—one to private and one to homeschooling. The pandemic closures were just the final straw.
My daughter will be homeschooling her 3 kids if they mandate the shots for school
Same for our grands.
Don’t let a crisis go to waste-heard it somewhere.
Ping
When I was still a school student, I noticed that whenever parents and teachers would talk about students they would speak in abstract clinical terms. It could be pretty maddening that the adult world would only look at you as a lab rat under development.
Vouchers would solve a lot of the problem. Vouchers would also put private school education within the reach of middle and working class families instead of just the upper middle class on up who can afford private schools now.
Imagine if parents could apply market forces to their children’s education. Crappy teachers? Political indoctrination rather than education? Failing test scores for students at a particular school? Pull your kid out and select a new school to get that voucher money. If enough parents do that, a particular school that is crappy gets no funding and goes under. Crappy teachers find their jobs are gone.
Vouchers are popular with everybody but the teachers’ union and the Democrat Party which they support. That includes Blacks that includes Hispanics by the way. The Republicans should be pounding this issue over and over again. They should be pro choice when it comes to education.
I wouldn’t get too het up.
10% homeschooled
10% Perhaps private schooled
80% public schooled
Some have.
Some have not.
Since the Supreme Court has determined that the schools own your kid when he is with them parents have big choices to make.
Says this former homeschooling parent
Vouchers are a nice answer however the Supreme Court denied Vouchers to religious schools. That will need to change.
“The US Dept of Education has very little to do with K-12. It manages college student loans mainly.”
I doubt you even believe that, for a minute.
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