[SoConPubbie]

It isn’t as easy as that. All children in government schools, including the “good” suburban schools, are being irreparably damaged academically by the bogus theories of pedagogy flowing out of schools of education. Single-payer education works no better than single-payer medicine.

It may not be the sole cause, but it is the 800-pound gorilla in the room.

My wife is a reading specialist in Anahiem Elementary schools and my sister-in-law is a principle. My mother is also a teacher of 40+ years.

This isn't just my opinion, but settled opinion of a whole lot of experts in the field of education.

[achilles2000]

I come from a family of teachers. The 800 pound gorilla is the rejection of sound phonics instruction in the classroom. The kids in better schools are “after-schooled” by their parents so that the educational malpractice by our “highly trained education professionals” is not as evident with them.

In international tests our students from “good schools” do even worse against their international peers than do our students taken on average.

[wintertime]

This isn't just my opinion, but settled opinion of a whole lot of experts in the field of education.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

They are wrong.

Were you aware that **NO** studies have ever been done that show how much knowledge is acquired in the classroom as compared to that learned at home due to the parents, friends of the family, or the child himself.

This has NEVER been studied. NEVER!

We spend up to a quarter of a million dollars or more per child for 13 years of education and NO ONE knows if they learn anything in school. Or...If the knowledge they do acquire is due to the parents, the child, or others outside of school! Imagine that!

If you doubt me, I will send the e-mail from a prominent Stanford University professor of education where he plainly states these studies were NEVER done.