I have been paying attention to education ever since I tried to figure out what my kids would really need. I discovered John Dewey and his sappy band of socialists in the early 1900s and their plan to make American education one that created little socialists so that by now we would become a socialist nation and would want to rip the Constitution to shreds.
I also discovered the plan in the 1970s to experiment with the inner city schools by implementing techniques that would produce children who could not read and were functionally illiterate - perfect fodder for a dictator down the road.
The reason why they started with the inner city schools was that inner city moms are mostly single and are easily distracted enough that they would not complain like suburban moms.
Worked like a charm.
Then when they had learned what they could about reacting to parents and they saw the end result of their distorted teaching, they then moved their teaching to the suburbs.
As a result of my research I ended up putting my children in private classical Catholic schools, good classical charter schools and I even spent 7 years homeschooling. When I put them into college we made sure they went to as close to classical colleges as possible. My daughter went to Hillsdale College, one son went to the University of Dallas, and my two other sons went to a good college where lots of down-to-earth horse-sense type of farmers kids go to. They all learned how to think.
So, “equity” is a word that sounds good to people who don’t know what it really means which is the dumbing down of all the kids so that everyone is easy to lead to serfdom.
Good for you, totally agree. My picture I was told, was on the pretend dart board/cork board at the local H.S. because of my prolific letters to the editor of the local weekly.
I am glad you were on top of the education mess. It looks like you made good decisions. Your children will appreciate it one day if they don’t already.