Posted on 05/28/2014 6:00:04 AM PDT by rktman
I am in ct, the schools are supposedly ranked well. I am moving to Iowa in the coming months. I have other reasons to home school. When I think about my high school days, there was a lot of wasted time. There was gym an hour a day, lunch an hour a day, and then 1 or 2 junk electives such as home education. I would surmise that I had only 2 hours of real lectures on a given day. I think I can do better and let my kids fully pursue constructive hobbies (wood working, blacksmith, piano, culinary arts, whatever) with the extra time that a public school would waste.
Without all the bureaucratic nonsense involved with a classroom of 30 kids, shuffling from classroom to classroom, you can get a full academic day in in about 3 hours, easily.
Then they can work on their chosen “electives”.
public schools are child abuse
public schools are public schools, no matter where they are located
Yes they all are public schools, but in any city the schools are invariably violent holding centers for futures in the criminal justice system. There isn’t any actual learning that goes on there, besides how to be a leech or criminal.
The rural schools do a better job of actually educating the kids for lives in the service industries of convenience stores, fast food enterprises, and very little by way of productive skills useful in more remunerative enterprises.
The suburban schools are pipelines to the colleges, which again do little in the way of actual learning outside of the hard sciences. Those who do graduate from suburban schools and don’t go to college are not very well prepared for much of anything as their “education” is incomplete.
I believe that WE should expurgate the communists/unions from the schools and have them begin to turn out citizens instead of parasites and grievance holders. They should be factories turning out republicans, and conservatives. To just abandon them IMHO is just plain wrong. My parents were the depression era children, and they were public school educated even as non-college people they were well educated.
The public schools have value, the question is whether we want them to produce more of us, or more democRATS. Because right now....they don’t make both, they only make democRATS.
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