Posted on 10/07/2021 9:51:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
“Before public school as they stand today were established, parents were the primary educators of children and throughout history have produced some very brilliant people.”
Actually, in all the biographies I’ve read of those brilliant people, they had tutors. Not something your average parent could afford. They were also, mostly, from the monied class.
China had an interesting teaching model going until last month. They had two of the largest online teaching establishments in the world. (Closed down by the government to prevent outside access to knowledge and events not controlled by the government.) They had the tools and ability to teach any child anything and I think that’s the way to go.
The problem with the school system is, as the Japanese saying goes, “the nail that stands up gets hammered down.” Meaning, a kid who is really exceptional is forced into mediocrity because the teacher has no time to keep such a child engaged. This is why those children with tutors were able to outshine the others of their generations. They were allowed to shine. Our present system is amazingly dumbed down. The slowest student sets the pace and all children are “mainstreamed” whether it’s appropriate or not.
An associate of mine tried home schooling his kids. The younger boy took a full time off-books job and did his work at night. He graduated 18 months early. The older boy failed miserably and is back in school, but behind. Of the two kids, the younger boy is amazingly bright. The older boy is huge, muscular and...uhm...not as bright. So, success depends a lot on the material you start with. I know this is sacrilege in a culture where all children are above average, but home schooling (or, any schooling, really) is not the way to go for some children.
Eliminate public schooling
If parents don’t wish to homeschool then they can create or use private institutions through pooled moneys and/or tuition.
Forced public schooling has REDUCED our literacy rates. Just need to look at high school exams from the late 1800s/ early 1900s
As long as there are government schools, there will be battles over what it taught, and the left wins. Leftist teachers do what they want regardless of what parents want.
Until education is privatized at all levels, the problem will only get worse.
Ridiculous. How does this solution advance the universal control sought by the leftist in charge of education?
I may be just a redneck woman-born in the country and still living there-but no-your father does not sound like a typical parent-actually he sounds like a real prick who verbally abused his kid(s)-I don’t know any dad who treats his kids like that-my mom would have smacked my dad and thrown him into the road if he ever talked to one of us kids like that-I don’t know any woman who wouldn’t-my dad was in the military, too...
There are more kids homeschooled, in co-ops or in the tiny local Christian school out here than in the public schools-especially since the plandemic-parents-both moms and dads-who own a business take their kids to work with them, let them help wait on customers, etc during lesson breaks so they learn to interact appropriately in a workplace...
The kids here graduate HS with high marks, go to college or the military-nearly all of them learned dad or mom’s trade and work every summer and weekend-the only real juvenile crime we have is perpetrated by the kids of the “Summer people” and the kids who attend the public school.
If each state dropped the public school system, homeschooling, cottage school co-ops, private school, etc would take up the slack just fine and kids would be actually be learning something useful again...
Ny father’s mother was sold...yes, you read that right, to a farmer in Sweden when she was five. Her mother had died and her father moved on. My grandmother lived in the barn and took care of the animals. By all accounts she was a harsh woman. My father was born in 1916 in Sweden. He was a sergeant in WWII and served as General Clark’s secretary. The men of my dad’s generation largely viewed children as something you saw but did not interact with. I recall at the time I viewed my parents as considerably less harsh than my friends. I am certain that nothing my dad did would have raised an eyebrow in the fifties and sixties. But I noticed how dramatically society in general and the legal system in particular views children today.
Yes, he was harsh. But I think everyone should be viewed in the context of their times. (I’m 67.)
The present day view of children is remarkably different. Still, I can’t think of any of the parents I’ve known in recent years who could have taken on the education of their own children. I do believe you are correct in your assessment. We need to eliminate government from education entirely.
There’s a business rule. A large organization can only do one thing well. When that thing was education, as in the 1950’s, the schools were outstanding. But then education became the vehicle to mold new Leftists. Education has taken a back seat to politics in the classroom.
I’m a couple of years older than you-but my parents were Native Texans, not foreign-born-and most Hispanics also are not harsh parents, but they are strict.
My sibling and I had the benefit of going to Catholic school-so did my own cub-she was in in elementary in the Carter years so my hubby worked a second job to pay for that-even then, we wanted no part of what we saw as a deteriorating public education system. If I had a kid today, I’d be homeschooling them-taking them to work, too as part of that...
(Injections will be next.)
RUSSIA: SUBMARINE RESCUE OPERATIONS: FAMILIES
https://youtu.be/23CuwArQUiY
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Schools are ruled by the coalition of City States that have superseded the Union. The City States provide all the leadership and oversite of all educator related funds.
Education is not about children but educators
To control education you must control the City States
In every modern movie parents are portrayed as clueless idiots. Children are portrayed as smarter. And, this is the way they view themselves. Shows like “The Rifkeman” and “Father Knows Best* portrayed the parents as knowledgeable problem solvers. Every episode had a moral lesson. Compare that with what children are bombarded with daily. This has set up any parent teacher with a huge headwind to fight against.
Schools are ‘ruled’ by the sources of the funds.
So true.
-- Voltaire (or somebody!)
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