Posted on 07/07/2024 5:40:56 PM PDT by grundle
Please homeschool your kids if you can.
I'm sharing my experience working in NYC public schools and the experiences have been scary and heartbreaking.
Your beliefs and values and faith matter, do whats best for your kids.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
That is BS and I am sure you know it.
This also means giving up on the community rather than trying to engage and fix the local schools, which they are paying for anyway.
I'm not against homeschooling but it requires an ideal situation that may not be possible for many people.
My income at the time was $35,000 a year. When we finished it was under $70,000. That included two job losses with long periods of unemployment due to recessions and a 600 mile relocation that featured two households for eight months while we tried to sell the house.
Next excuse?
Find a way or make a way.
In our area people from the local church band together to home school their kids.
The results have been outstanding—kids get to meet their potential without being subject to leftist brainwashing, pervert teacher grooming and hallway thuggery.
The church sponsors outdoor and indoor kids recreation so there is plenty of socialization.
They don’t talk about fixing the problem—they do it—one child at a time.
These are hardworking average folks—showing what creative parents can do.
“Fixing the schools” would be a high effort/low results activity.
Smart humans use their time wisely—educating the kids they care about most—their kids.
But if you are a ditzy actor married to a ditzy actress, your offspring may be too ditzy for any type of schooling to save them:
“That is BS and I am sure you know it.”
You don’t know me and you didn’t live my childhood, so have no right to call BS.
And why should people bring kids into the world knowing they’ll have a terrible childhood? It seems like ultimate selfishness of parents.
And at those wages, you were on food stamps, public health, etc. Else, begging from church, family, friends. Maybe you had extra money, inheritance? Bet a lot more to the story...
So, now, what about people that don't want to live off the taxpayers and others?
Local people working together for a common goal is what homeschooling is about...
If you have not lived it you cannot appreciate it.
I homeschooled four children.
I had to take over and support them and myself and a jumbo mortgage loan
I homeschooled in the morning worked afternoons and evenings three days a week and weekends
I had help from other homeschooling moms and dads.
to go to events.
the kids went to a variety of different programs via on line and local providers as well as managing their own schooling.
All four are successful
Are you a teacher? This sounds like the BS being taught to kids at school nowadays.
And I'm talking about the BS of people criticizing parents for sending their kids to public school and telling them to homeschool kids, claiming it is possible and preferrable. That is ignorant of most people's situations.
I don't know yours, you don't know mine. I can tell you that whether religious or not, few fellow parents that I know, when discussed, can homeschool. I only know of one kid successfully homeschooled. The others gave up after the first couple of grades and then sent their kids to the public schools.
As a divorced parent, I could never consider it. So instead, I try to stay engaged in the school, help, volunteer where I can, speak up. I find that more helpful and contributing to my kids AND my community than cowering at home and bitching about others not doing the same.
My neighbors homeschool their kids on a single blue collar income.
Of course they have an old van for a car, don’t take vacations and the 5 kids share a couple of bedrooms but they are the happiest kids around.
My neighbor is rightly proud of them. I’m glad to have them as neighbors.
“Are you a teacher?”
Not a teacher. 100% anti public schools.
And your neighbors, I presume they got public assistance, health care, food stamps, etc.? Not saying that is wrong but it is part of the situation. A blue collar income with five kids puts them in poverty status so they will qualify and like get pretty much everything subsidized. You, as a tax payer are thus paying for them to do so. And that brings us back to Mayflower... asking why they had the kids that they couldn't afford in the first place. :)
BTW- I've seen single parents who were able to get their kids a good education ( at a top prep school, yes they were subsidized)
And, yes, it might be nice to homeschool, some parents might be able to do it, others won't. Too often in threads like this, especially on FR, are polemics opposed to public education, maybe well past having kids themselves, but just using the topic to trash education, some even go on to disparage sending kids to college, just get them to 18 and on the dole, facilitate importing educated immigrants to take the better paying jobs, etc.
Try again pal.
Unemployment is insurance that the employee pays into the system. I also worked my butt off doing side gigs as much as possible.
For the second one, I got to be part of a corporate reorganization during a major recession. I managed to not have my home foreclosed like hundreds of thousands of others in Michigan.
We didn’t take a dime of public funds. There was a severance payment but it wasn’t huge. We had little savings and not inheritance of other windfall.
We lived and have always lived a frugal lifestyle, sounds like that’s a foreign concept to you so you feel you can be judgemental towards me and my family.
Don’t be a jerk.
And I am not disparaging your situation, read what I've written. I am repeatedly saying that not everyone can homeschool, and it is wrong to disparage people that don't find it an option.
As well, I consistently advocate for people to step up, speak up, and help fix the school system, which they are paying for anyway. Help the community instead of washing their hands of it.
” step up, speak up, and help fix the school system”
Very sub-optimal solution—a major effort that will provide minimal benefits.
It kinda reminds me of the Ukraine war.
Fight wars you can win—wherever you are.
Excellent education for you kids is doable.
No sir, you did disparage me. You told me that I could not survive on a modest income and needed government assistance.
I don’t get offended easily but that was offensive and uncalled for.
It proves my point that successful homeschooling can certainly be done in virtually any condition. Lifestyles must come secondary to the primary mission, which is raising your children.
The public indoctrination centers are fatally flawed and beyond redemption. There are no “good” school systems anymore. My brother teaches at what is considered the best system in his state. It’s a complete cesspool. He can’t wait to retire and get out.
It’s best to wash hands and work toward the destruction of the system.
https://www.whatwilltheylearn.com/
It looks to be an excellent site - for choosing which college to send your (especially homeschooled!) kids to.
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