Kids in well-run Digital Academies do much better than their Marxist indoctrinated brick and mortar peers.
This piece looks as if it was written by lawyers aligned with socialist educational unions.
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“Kids in well-run Digital Academies do much better than their Marxist indoctrinated brick and mortar peers. This piece looks as if it was written by lawyers aligned with socialist educational unions.”
See my post right above. Those academies do well because the students are cherry picked. People who send their kids to private aschools generally are ambitious, wealthier and have goals set for their kids and face it their kids are smarter-good genes.
Brick and mortar schools have every economic strata and that is where the poorer and dumber kids end up.
I took both my boys out of public school early on, and I can attest there was a large learning curve to switch to homeschooling.
The biggest problems we faced were that they were not taught to think in public school. They also did not trust me to be in charge of their learning.
I had a good friend who urged me to stick with it. After 6 months, things started to change. My boys learned to think for themselves and I became less of a teacher and more of a facilitator. By the time they were in middle school and high school, I had to do very little. They did school mostly online at that point and when they came to difficult concepts, they knew how to find answers themselves.
My older son aced the standardized tests and was accepted to every college to which he applied, but he chose a trade and loves it. He runs his own crew and is doing well. My youngest son also did well on standardized tests, started doing college work at 16 and is now on track to graduate with his bachelor’s at 19.
So, I know there are a lot of logistical problems with homeschooling with working parents and such, but I suspect that there are other issues as well. Trying to conform children to a mold when they are distance learning seems to me to be an impossible hurdle. Also, one on one really does highlight learning issues and gaps in their knowledge which I suspect were there already, but easier to hide in a group setting.
One of the joys of homeschooling was that my boys could learn at their own pace, in their own way. One of my sons would learn spelling while jumping on a trampoline, and the other could spend hours in front of a book or computer. They both struggled in school before I pulled them out, but they quickly caught up and surpassed their peers. My younger son is tutoring his younger friends who are going through the online experience now.
I didn’t mean to write so much, but I believe that what makes homeschooling work is exactly the reason it is not working in these online setups by public schools. Kids are natural learners, and too often that ability gets trained out of them in formal education and groupthink.
Socially, we kept them involved in sports, church, community activities, field trips with friends and other activities. They are socially well-adjusted. The kids right now being kept from group activities, I believe is not helping their emotional well-being.