Why would parents want the government marxists to indoctrinate their children in transgenderism?
I see School Choice as a solid position for Republicans. You’re not going to lose the votes of the public school teachers, because you never had them to begin with. Many parents want to have an alternative but feel that they cannot afford one. Sending property tax money back to families can allow private, parochial or home schooling options. Perhaps even a return to a single income family.
Retired urban high school teacher here. I don’t know about suburban or rural schools, but city schools are broken. They are past the point of no return.
That’s why I support charter schools.
The trick is to take government funding without letting the government dictate the rules.
“In some Democrat-controlled school districts, sizable percentages of “graduating” high school seniors read at an elementary school level”
And you think that the parents (parent ?) of those kids are in a position to improve their reading level?
The vast majority of kids who are substantially behind grade level almost certainly have parents (who may or may not be present in their lives) who are similarly educationally challenged.
The best thing anyone can do to improve education in America is to eliminate public schools AND compulsory education laws.
The ‘media’ and the NEA have failed the public and US students
They are just going to try and outlaw it. Even if they have to do it like California did years ago. It was legal, but they required the home instructor to have a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree to legally teach homeschool. And they had to use State mandated material. They will overregulate it right out of existence.
Homeschooled my kids after school.
Taught them algebra when they were in 3rd grade with “Hands On Algebra” and now one is an M.D. and the other a PhD in A.I.
Parents have to step up to the plate.
my brother is an engineer, his daughter had a love of math, he said after about 3rd grade she was past him. She spent summer at math camps, now 23 and working for the Federal Reserve Bank.
Hang their heads in shame? Desperately seek solutions? C'mon, J.B., committed socialists celebrate their power with dance.
Private schools are the way to go.
Younger kids can be home schooled,
but once you start into Mathematics
from Arithmetic many parents will
be uncertain.
eg. 2+4 = 4 is easy, ab+c = d isn’t
quite so easy nor is an integration
from 0 to 1000 over a Function of X.
I was a math major and drove my daughter nuts
when she did her homework. I was doing mine
at the same table. So I was certainly
up to teaching her, through high school level.
I didn’t earn a BS degree till age 34.
Life slowed me down. I did the Job,
marriage, and kid thing before getting
a BS degree.
Ping
Stuff like this is why Shurk is one of my favorite writers.
Babysitting. So you can enjoy 2 incomes and the house you mortgaged to be close to that job you "prioritize" over your children.
By the way, they learn plenty. Just not a lot of reading, writing, or arithmetic.
The GOP wonders why they lose elections and the youth vote is 90% Democrat. It’s because the GOP has failed to reform K-12 and the teachers teach kids to become Democrats - perhaps the biggest GOP fail over the decades.
Yesterday we visited Kootenai Classical Academy, one of Hillsdales sponsored/supported K-12 schools. WHAT A BREATH OF FRESH AIR! They are expanding throughout the nation. If you find one in your state, SUPPORT THEM!
Perhaps what I am going to say sounds harsh, but the erosion of education in the public school rests simply upon the catering to minorities who show less academic promise. In order to show that schools are progressing, they have to make the work easier for academic impoverishment to appear as if it is conversely , successful.
Mrs Srednik (teacher) and Srednik (principal) home educated six.
Results?
Four bachelors degrees. Three masters degrees. Six well-read, well-informed, thoughtful citizen-adults.
Srednik only wishes his mother had schooled him at home.