For my wife and me, public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness at the beginning of the 21st century.
Just as my office used to have secretaries, but now we all know MS Word, the internet has brought both dons of materials and full curriculum to homeschooling parents as well as incredible sites like khanacademy.com.
Of course, it can’t replace the main reason so many people want to keep public schools: Free daycare through age 18.
So, here we are...
Free? I do not know where you live but my school taxes support the local schools. I would call them anything but free since I do not have kids in the district anymore.
Our youngest is in Public School (4th grade) and the oldest is homeschooled (7th Grade). The young one is bored out of his mind with school, but lives for the social interaction. He’s a straight A student and a member of the Elementary National Honor Society, but is NOT being challenged in school at all. The oldest is homeschooled and puts in 6hrs of work daily. Sometimes he works on Saturday if he doesn’t finish up during the week (mama don’t play). He’s testing out at the 10th grade level and was selected to the Junior National Honor Society. Both will test well on the college entrant tests and both play sports (football, basketball and wrestling), but one is going to be light years ahead of the other in academics and work ethic while the other knows all of the latest dances and can cut you down to size with his snarky comebacks (he might not make it to 5th grade... just sayin). So... puts and takes ya know?
For second-wave feminists to have it all, mothers have to subcontract out the rearing and education of their children. Whereas the function of government schools in America’s benighted past was to educate and to inculcate citizenship, mothers now insist that schools also be responsible for civilizing the little monsters as well as feeding them, educating them, and entertaining them. “Rude parents” are dissatisfied customers who have been indoctrinated to believe that children are to be reared by the government school and cannot understand that a government school cannot replace a mother and a father.
However, this is all fine with the ruling elite. They are using government schools to dumb down the future generation and to indoctrinate it for a new progressive order.
But a skilled math/science teacher like me never goes unemployed. (Got to go teach Chem, now).