I’ve said for many years that, thanks to the internet, online home school curriculum and sites like MIT and Khanacademy.com, public schools have become a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century.
The problem is that it is an important form of day care for parents that have to both work to support their life style nowadays. Return to the single income family and two parent families and public schools are fairly pointless, other than for the occasional turkey shoot - and brainwashing the next generation that does survive.
>>The problem is that it is an important form of day care for parents that have to both work to support their life style nowadays. Return to the single income family and two parent families and public schools are fairly pointless, other than for the occasional turkey shoot - and brainwashing the next generation that does survive.<<
There have been a number of studies over the years that show that the incremental costs of a second career pretty much wipes out the income from that career.
This is all about women not wanting to bring up their own kids but just outsourcing it.
Anyone who doesn't beleive that need only pick up some of the text books and exams which they used.
There would be a whole lot fewer Nick Cruz types produced if we went back (or more correctly, forward) to decentralized schooling.
“public schools have become a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century.”
I think there might be a need for public schools up to the fourth grade.
We should try phasing out high schools.