> You “get it”.
Heh. Home-schooling 8 kids right now. The “professionals” would call two of them, “special needs”. My experience is that they’re ALL “special needs”. That’s what makes home schooling so effective.
Godless schooling is obviously a violation of religious parents' rights, and can never be considered good in any meaningful sense.
Moreover, compulsory schooling itself is a modern, socialist invention, which came from Bismark's Germany.
Its notorious history and early fusion with behavioral psychology in the late 1800s should be well-known here, and there should be no need to repeat it.
But what follows below is just one problem that demonstrates how schools are fundamentally flawed, even from a secular perspective.
The standard, and often strangely arcane, high school curriculum, is measured in units of time, or Carnegie units. Yes, we can thank the famous industrialist, exclusively, for this irrational system.
Why irrational?
Has anyone ever asked you how many classes you've taken in Microsoft Office? Or do people ask whether you know how to use Microsoft Office?
Placing children in rooms, talking to them, and expecting them to learn is... ludicrous, or at least woefully inefficient.
If the object of compulsory schooling is for students to master a subject, students should be told that they may leave the class once they pass a test of mastery.
How much faster will they learn? How focused will they be?
Once my homeschooled students figured out, at age 8, that they could go out to play, once their work was done, they finished in 2 hours. Not only that, they found mom's planner, and would pull it out before she woke up, often to be finished before mom got out of the shower.
So that gave them an extra 6 hours each day to do whatever they wanted, in comparison to kids in school. If anyone is wondering about their skill level, my eldest just received an academic scholarship that payed her small tuition at a state college.
So why don't schools implement this system?
BECAUSE SCHOOLS AREN'T ABOUT LEARNING.
Why? It's all spelled out in this book that's available on line for free, for anyone who's interested.
The Underground History of American Education
8 kids? You rock!