Posted on 07/29/2020 5:24:29 PM PDT by karpov
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Public schools are dominant because they don’t need to compete for funds. Taxpayers are forced to finance them. If a family decides to take a child out of the local public school, thereby saving the school board the cost of educating that child, the family gets no tax break, no rebate. If a family finds a cheap private school that charges $8,000 in annual tuition, sending the child there makes economic sense only if the family values the private education by at least $8,000 more than they value the public education. That’s a high hurdle for most parents.
But with public schools’ shift to online instruction, the equation changes dramatically for two reasons. First, the public schools have done a poor job of adjusting to the new reality. Second, and possibly more important, online instruction eliminates arguably the most valuable service provided by public schools: child care. On net, therefore, the value of the online public school is much lower, especially for young children, than the value of in-person public school.
Many will opt instead to home-school. This summer, parents have had time to plan for the fall. Many of them are forming “learning pods,” which are small groups of families getting together to hire a teacher or a tutor to teach their kids.
What if, as I predict, home-schooling works, on average, better than the public schools before the pandemic? Once the pandemic ends, many parents will want to continue with home-schooling. A poll taken in May of 626 parents found 40.8% of them saying they were more likely than before the pandemic to enroll their child in “a home school, a neighborhood home-school co-op, or a virtual school” once the lockdowns ended. There are now about 56 million children in K-12 schools.
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School choice.
Could be the start of the end of government school indoctrination.
Eliminate all tax funding for education. Abolish the NEA.
Well, that is one dilly of a pickle of a problem..
Home school and home sports.
If they refuse to do their jobs then they don’t get paid, and I don’t pay property taxes.
How can you tell which is better? Standardized tests? Isn’t there a movement against that? Because it’s racist?
Homeschool coops:
https://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/what-is-homeschool-co-op/
Get creative, get it done
They don’t want to teach because they are too busy burning down cities. Apparently, teachers are at the heart of this Communist insurrection.
I wish they would pass a law that says if the school doesn’t open up, the taxpayers get a refund of property taxes based on each day they stay closed, as a credit against next years tax bill?
Find a couple of teachers that want to teach and go back to one room schools with students that want to learn with parents etc footing the bill.
If the union wants ‘virtual learning’ with no one accountable etc give them virtual paychecks.
No schools also puts a lot of people out of work but the expense per student goes way down.
With banks restricting people in house, it won’t be long till they figure out one person can handle the drive in window and rest can go on line etc
This crap isn’t going away and you can watch life as we knew it slowly slip away.
But how will kids find out which gender to identify with?
The teachers are giving the kids a junk education anyway
They’ll still take taxes out for education.
It’s a well established scientifical fact that masks can protect WalMart workers and Smithfield slaughterhouse worrkers, but not teachers.
(What about teachers at WalMart??)
Hopefully, we will see the demise of the public school system, with its incompetent teachers, mobster union, bloated pensions, and Marxist curriculum.
People changing over to not using the public schools should get refunded a portion of the school tax in the year that they homeschool or send the kid to non public school.
They should not pay School tax from then on, or only if one of the kids goes back to public school.
“Could be the start of the end of government school indoctrination.”
This is what I have been pointing out to friends. This is a good thing.
Pres Trump needs to close that federal office of education in Washington DC. Send the money to every county education board - divided. Send parents ten thousand dollars per child for education of their children. The county board would regulate the parents.
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