I have taught in both public and private schools, and while I agree, public schools leave much to be desired, and while I wish every parent would just home school because I think it is by far the better answer in almost every case, it will never happen. Some parents want foremost an excellent education, many are mostly interested in free baby sitting. I actually had a parent recently tell me that they thought the most important thing about education was the socialization.
With all of this in mind, we had better fight for our public schools, because there is no alternative that has a snowballs chance in S. Florida of happening.
susie
This “socialization” nonsense is what the schools have been telling the parents for many years. The parents and teachers are just repeating what they have heard from the all-knowing “experts”.
Socialization is a joke - as if kids don’t have parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors, friends, siblings etc. As if it weren’t for the public schools we would all keep our kids locked up in our attics.