Gee, I wonder why conservatives value learning the way it used to be done in the US when students actually learned what they were sent to school to learn. We have turned out scientists, invented more than any other nation, our technology cannot be beat, usually. When someone does beat us we improve it and make it better.
In the last 50 years, since liberals started controlling schools the education of our children has deteriorated. We think that throwing money at schools and introducing new techniques that actually make children stupid will somehow solve the problems the libs have made. Lood at the nations Sat scores and tell me we are doing well! These are not the results of conservatives, they are a direct result of the dumbing down of American schools by liberal BS. Homeschooling? The reason so many conservatives do it is because the liberal ajenda in our schools teaches our children NOTHING, not to mention history is being rewrittten, falsely, to try to convince students America is evil. If conservatives were to take over our schools, start TEACHING subjects again you would see our students reach the levels they once did in this country. You can keep the British BS, we get enough liberal crap here without any outside help.
I would have been more articulate but I am so pissed that I am not at my best right now. Liberal jerk.
I really hope you weren't referring to me as a "liberal jerk". I may be a jerk, but I am a LONG way from liberal.
You are correct: the schools are a mess because the liberals have had their way in the educational system for too long. It will take a long time to reverse this trend - too long for MY kids.
I'll be homeschooling, probably using the "unschooling method" that I referred to in my original post. The idea is to engage kids with challenging, real-life examples and exercises; rather than the by-rote busy work of the last 50 years. When you let kids learn at their own pace, with loving encouragement and ocassionally the "board of education" you will produce kids with higher intellect and a profound love for lifelong learning.
Personally speaking, I know for a fact that I have learned more valuable information OUTSIDE a classroom than I ever learned in one.