Back in ‘87, I was a teacher. In ‘88 we had an influx of older people - not blaming them, the state was hiring, the economy at the time wasn’t (It was when Soros broke our country for his own gain)
Standards improved dramatically for a couple of years. Attendance up. Grades up without being fiddled. Student enthusiasm WAY up.
Teaching was actually a complete joy for this time. I’d wake up and be eager to get to work, there is no better feeling than seeing a concept suddenly “click” in someone’s mind. It is better than sex. (coarse, but you get the point)
Of course, our government worked hard to remove these new teachers. Piled paper requirements on us until most left from exhaustion.
But, it is a thought. True conservatives tend to be, to put it delicately, older. A couple years teaching in a school between retiring from work and actually retiring and who knows what change you can make.
Wasn’t it the communist idea to change the system from within? Any reason why conservatives shouldn’t borrow that tactic?
I know our system is slightly different from yours. I also know what I saw with my own eyes. It works. For a while.
Homeschooling is and should be always the preference. Every kid is different, and it is a lot harder to snow Mom or Dad than a teacher looking after 30 kids at once. Yet a lot of parents, especially now, cannot afford one earner to stay home. It is bad, but it is what it is.
My kids, bless them, went to school (homeschooling is not a viable option here), came home, did their homework in about 15 minutes, THEN started the real lessons of the day. The wife and I traded off days, depending on our own workloads.
We do it now, with the grandkids. The 4 year old has a tested reading age of 12, and a complete immunity to pain (I babysit him in the workshop). The eldest two could get into any university in the country right now, academically speaking. They are a bit young yet though.
Government schooling must be abolished.
There are three fundamental problems with government schooling that can not be fixed because they are **intrinsic to the very foundation of the system. In fact, we should completely stop using the expressions "public" schools or government schools. They are really **socialist** schools because they are the very definition of a single payer socialist-entitlement program. /p>
1) It is impossible to have a religiously, culturally, and politically neutral education, and the worldview of socialist schooling reflects the religion, culture, and politics of the biggest political bully. If it is a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination for atheistic Marxists to impose their religious, cultural, and political worldview on unwilling students and taxpayers, it is just as much of an abomination for conservatives to impose their worldview on the children of the liberal/Marxists.
2) The religious worldview ( by default) in government socialist schooling is godless secular humanism. Simply by attending children must think and reason godlessly just to cooperate in the classroom. How could it be otherwise? Even at their very best, modern government socialist schooling ( beginning in the mid-1800s) merely offered up a lukewarm and generic Protestantism. We know what Christ does with the lukewarm. He spits them out of His mouth! This can not be fixed. No matter what action the government socialist school takes regarding religion it will establish the religious worldview of some and utterly trash the beliefs of others.
3) Government socialist schooling is the very definition of a socialist-entitlement program. Simply by attending children risk learning that the government and the voting mob has great power to take money from a neighbor to pay for their tuition-free schooling. Well?...Why not use the government and the voting mob to take money from a neighbor for **lots** of socialist goodies?