I’m all for home schooling, but when you take a look at most (yes, most) of the parents out there this would be an unmitigated disaster of biblical proportions if done on a massive scale.
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Our government schools are a massive failure on a biblical scale!
If every government school were to be razed to the ground tomorrow, the **same** children who are getting an education today would get one tomorrow. The **same** children who are wallowing in ignorance today would still continue their downward slide of illiteracy and innumeracy tomorrow!
Why?
Answer: Because the **ONLY** children who are getting an education in the U.S. today are AFTERSCHOOLED or HOMESCHOOLED!!! It is the parents and the children themselves who are doing the hard work IN THE HOME!
And...Yeah! As for this post and the previous post, I am shouting, jumping up and down, and having a fit!
I don’t know where you live, or what kind of schools you have around you, but here in central Indiana my kids get a great education, especially in math and science. We’re a small town with teachers and administrators who still care about the kids, unlike most of the schools you seem to hear about in the news.
My oldest daughter is entering her second year of college now and is doing very well, my other daughter is going to be a junior and is holding a 3.947 gpa, something I am very proud of because she chooses to work hard to be the best in each class she has. I graduated high school with a 3.00 and I am to the point where I have to work hard just to help her with her advanced algebra and chemistry homework anymore. Do I think that some homeschoolers have it better than if they went to public schools? Of course I do, but half of homeschooling is dictated by the parents, and that is where I think that the biggest problem lay. Most, and I do mean most, parents are not capable or even WILLING to do this for their kids. Even you would have to admit that.