Public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century. Its primary strength for most families is as a free daycare.
I saw this coming long ago. Parochial or homeschooling is the way to go.
Anyone with a modicum of mental & moral health should get his/her child out of public school. Especially if the child is a boy — he’ll end up either waving a gun or wearing a dress.
before we know it, homeschooling will be classified as child abuse.
No matter the choice of schooling, Christian parents must be active in their children’s schooling. My kids are in private Christian schools, but even then, you have to keep an eye out...
It casually chats about abortion as no big deal, bananas as dildos, how to get the condom on and of course why homosexuality is just keen!
This is REQUIRED for 8th graders! If you try to opt out, they force your kid to sit in the office and contemplate the wall. Translation: we will punish you if you don't chug a lug our propaganda.
We’re retired homeschoolers. I even got my wife a “gold” watch when we graduated number four.
We started just after the pioneers of homeschooling were finishing up.
It was still a little weird but not unheard of. Now, it’s not uncommon at all.
I kind of wish we were still in the game so we could be an active part of the rebellion.
For those who think you can’t do it. It’s hard, but there are so many helps that anyone can successfully home educate your kids.
The key is diligence and focus.
You’ll see stories about families that graduate each kid by the age of 14, three of them own their own McDonald’s Franchise by the time they’re 16 and the rest are PhD’s at 20. That ain’t the norm. Out of the hundreds of homeschool kids I’ve known, I know exactly two who were at that level. One has gone on to be productive, the other is an idiot who can barely tie his own shoes without someone to tell him to do it.
The other hundreds are flat out normal kids. Most do OK, some struggle.
Our have all split the nest (The last one is on a 600 mile drive as I type for a summer volunteer job). When he gets back, he’ll start his career as a semi driver.
One moved out last week and as of an hour ago is fielding two high paying job offers in the Space industry.
One starts a job at a Christian publisher next week and the other manages the children’s dept as a bookstore.
We let them follow their passions. The Space geek wanted to be a rocket builder when he was six. He followed his dream and works at NASA.
Two love literature.
Number four will be the tradesman. I had a CDL and drove big trucks, buses and some heavy equipment, but semi rigs are the one thing I’ve never driven. I’m jealous.
Leftists who are distorting the minds of children need to burn in hell.
I so distrust and disrespect the many countries that don’t allow parents to homeschool their kids. I think there are very few countries where we can.
All my grandkids are either in private or homeschool. A few of the kids follow an outdoor curriculum - they have to spend at least half the day out doors exploring, climbing trees, etc. My 6 year old grandson carries a pocket knife and already knows how to use a compass. I’m impressed to say the least.
Okay, how about we just re-segregate the schools then? Then, no people of color will ever again have to be "educated" along side "privileged" whites.
John Dewey got a bunch of compadres together back in the early part of the 1900s and they planned to change American schools, first by taking over the teacher colleges most importantly Columbia University. They had to work consistently and just under the radar. By 1923, they had begun to change the natural mode of reading where the child learns individual sounds and then puts them all together to form words. That excellent way was replaced with teaching only whole words which causes a number of students to trip up. From this they worked to dumb-down education itself from pre-K all the way through college. After first experimenting in the inner city schools in the 1970s, they were ready to implement social engineering in all public schools.
Interesting fact, after WW2, when American troops helped Japan to get back up on their feet, they installed the American school system, which was then still reliably good. Today, Japan has a good school system, so much so that they are outpacing American students and our student can't read as well nor do math as well.
Dewey's goal was to turn American school children into socialist drones that would do whatever their socialist leaders told them to do.
But then Donald Trump got elected.
I’ve homeschooled my kids off and on for 20+years. They are in great programs but out they come if this sh*t starts.
“Get you children out of the cess pool public schools.”
But, but, but, MY public schools are JUST WONDERFUL. In fact, just last Saturday, I saw Johnny’s WONDERFUL teacher at the supermarket - proving that she is human. And she really cares about people, as she always smiles when I see her.
Sure, there are other schools, bad schools, but those are OVER THERE, not here, in WONDERFUL school district that my WONDERFUL students attend.
[rationale of a typical parent here at FR, who values the boat and keeping up with the Jones’ more than the future of their kids]
It was just revealed to me that my child’s high school history teacher was giving extra credit to those who were enamored with the Hamilton Play. My daughter thought the play was so wrong how it was racist. She has two years left. I am finding alternatives for these last two years.
What kind of compromise are you willing to make to get out of your responsibility to raise your child. Many parent's I witnessed over my 11 years of homeschooling would say things like, I can't wait for school to start to get them out of my hair." Then when they turned up pregnant or taking or selling drugs, or bringing their same sex boyfriend home, they wondered out loud how this could happen to them? The child is your responsibility. Ask yourself how much you can pay someone to love your child as much as you do? Sort of like asking someone else to guard your money.
Joh 10:13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.
Ping. Outstandingly good news.
Both another reason to homeschool and a homeschool ping.
Dear taxpayers, what are your local schools doing differently since Parkland? Anything at all? What are they waiting for?
I would think that this country is ripe for a well organized group of companies to put forth ON LINE SCHOOLING, which parents can monitor at will.