Indoctrination on hold?
Gots ta keep dem keeds in fron of a union RAT teacher to prevent dee exposure of the miserable public skool seesdems!
As if education professionals know what the hell works or not.
We know for a FACT that what they have been doing for the last 40 years has destroyed education in America.
Bureaucratic-Left states like NY, IL, NJ are absolutely screwed. Revenue is going to crash, but education, welfare and medical bureaucracy expenses and pensions keep rising.
Now during this shut-down, teachers and schools are “non-essential” and many people are finding that sending kids to the local public school for 7-8 hours a day isn’t absolutely necessary.
They will fight very hard to keep their gravy-train going.
I’ve been playing teacher for 2 kids for the first time in my life. I’m absolutely floored at how little work they are actually doing in class during the day.
I’m talking 3 dittos and read this pamphlet for a young one. 1 hour of actual work across 5 subjects for a 1st grader. This is private school as well.
I’ve decided it’s not enough and put our iPads to good use with Khan Academy for a kindergarten and the 1st grader has taken to finding out about all 45 Presidents and why China and communists are evil. I did nothing to encourage either interest. She’s just in disbelief that a government would let their people get sick and make schools close around the world by not making people stay home.
It’s funny how kids connect things like that; we’re all home, they can’t play with their friends and they think communism is now evil because they lied and made everyone sick.
Chris Plante got a caller last week who was spending time with his sixth grade daughter because of the lockdown. The caller discovered that she didn’t know the multiplication tables, but they had gotten up to 7s and 8s that week.
Imagine getting into junior high without knowing that.
One of the good things that can come out of this pandemic is the realization by many that they CAN educate their children at home...no, it doesn’t work for everyone, but the freedom to do so should be cherished and embraced by as many that have the patience and wherewithal to do so...full disclosure we home schooled our six children from K-12 and all are college graduates, in college, and successfully/gainfully employed or stay at home parents beginning to home school their children.
It simply is not possible for any pile of rocks, any doorknob, any brick, or piece of driftwood, to be any more dumb, than the mainstream press or media.
I have to wonder what the WaPo staff attributes their own academically challenged minds to then?
He doesn’t want the children to miss out on the Leftist indoctrination of public schools.
The Wapo author makes an unintended point about “summer vacation” setting kids back. Unlike union layabouts, actual homeschoolers don’t necessarily take a summer break from educating their kids. Why would they?
No doubt many “parents” of public schoolchildren no consigned to “virtual teaching” (or less in some areas), lack the ability to do right by their offspring. What else is new?
The idea that two months off of school will ruin a generation is incredibly short sighted and brimming with kool-aid.
We homeschooled year round. Children graduated high school at 14 and started college at 16. I am convinced children love to learn but something in the public school design shuts down that desire in most.
The knowledge level required to teach, K thru Bachelors Degree, is quite attainable for anyone with average intelligence. The ability to teach is not. We know the ability teachers is not uniform. So let's stop acting like all teachers are valuable.
Solution: take the best teachers (those that can get the information into minds full of mush) and have them deliver instruction via distance learning. Spend 95% of effort on 5% of teachers delivering excellent multi-modal lessons of vetted hard-core curriculum devoid of PC/anti-progressive propaganda. Make the lessons viewable by parents. This offers transparency that allows parents to weed out the crap teachers spew today. Pay online educators immense salaries. ($250k plus per year) But make online educators accountable to parents. Require that parents grade the teachers. If they fall below 90% approval, fire their asses. They'll be plenty of talented teachers in line to replace them.
The pretend media hates an educated person it’s a speed bump for the dumbing down agenda.
Public education as a whole has already done that for several generations in this country.
Several months of home-schooling can only be a plus. And hopefully it will also result in many realizing they don't need public schools and can do a better job themselves.
Why on earth is there a need for a non-profit to promote public schools?!
Absolutely amazing, coming from TownHall?
They are normally left leaning.
Thanks for the post.
It was determined to be fake news right here on FR...
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3829583/posts
If they have truly learned the material they would not fall back.
Only those that have temporarily memorized and not learned the material will appear to fall back.
My two girls suffered tremendously from home schooling them. They had to start college at 13 and 14 years old.