Something odd in the full article.
It seems that the students with average grades in average classes are the ones needing the most help!
Thank you, Captain Obvious!
The ones I teach on a daily basis are the ones who are not necessarily college material, but vocational prep students. The ones who will work on your car, change oil, dig ditches, etc. The ones you will need more frequently than not. Sorry, but I don’t need a physician every day, but I do need a road to drive on since I do drive every day.
That said, take for instance, my sister, who graduated 3rd in her class and won a FULL RIDE scholarship to the top pubic research school in the state. She will not need remediation, but the kids who have squeaked by with C grades in regular classes may, simply because they do not have what it takes. Bad thing? No, it is what it is.
As far as the homeschool bunch: again, I am 100% for you. You have a right to do what is best for you and your child. More power to you and yours for what ever reason you decide. If your children excel in college from a homeschool curriculum, I salute you, and certainly do not see a point in belittling you for choices you make given a situation I know nothing about.
Again, as one of my aces in the hole, the young man on a thread post here recently, born to a crack mother, who was raised in foster care, public schools and is now *suprise!* a lawyer, working against the same people he was born into. What chances would he had had there been no public school for him? Would he been able to achieve such results? Dunno.
What chances would he had had there been no public school for him?
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What chances would orphan have if there were no orphanages or foster care?
Yes,,,,some children ( this youth is one) must have institutional settings for their education. We need orphanages too, but no one is arguing that orphanages are the best way to raise up a child.
I read that thread. You think it was the public schools that saved him? It was his very loving foster/adoptive parents who took him in as a baby and raised him themselves.
Point out a kid who was born to the same crack mom, raised by her, and his only positive influence was his public school teachers, who did the same thing, and you’ll have a point.