The Moment a Veteran Teacher Decided to Pull His Own Kids From Public School

The Epoch Times ^ | 3/18/2024 Updated: 3/26/2024 | Jon Miltimore

[Jeff Chandler]

I never had anything against school itself; it was the principal of the thing.

[arthurus]

Me- I am a Jazz fan, especially Be-Bop and Dixieland.

[arthurus]

I loved school in my primary years. I attended a Calvert System private school in Istanbul that was installed for the benefit of American consular kids, military and American business folk. By the time I started Jr Hi in Virginia I was years ahead of all my classmates and had had more American and World History than I met through my senior HS year. I gave me tales to tell, too, about walking up a mountain past an old Bosphorus guardian castle and in the snow for most of the school year in 52.After that year less snow and in a converted army deuce-and-a-half school bus twice as far on a very narrow switchbacky one lane.

[metmom]

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[Svartalfiar]

“We show that suicides among 12-to-18-year-olds are highest during months of the school year and lowest during summer months.”

unexpected...................

Hmm I wonder how close adult suicides line up with working and vacations...

[fwdude]

Yes, I look back fondly at my years in school. But for most kids they were ready for Summer break. I lived for it!

[Svartalfiar]

Often described as “outsourced homeschooling,” they tend to be less bureaucratic than traditional schools, which often emphasize standardized testing and fixed curricula. This makes microschools more agile, flexible, and adaptive, proponents say, allowing them to tailor education to students.

Not to defend public schools, but standardized testing is a good method to ensure students are properly progressing. The problem (one of) is poor teachers that then only teach for that.

Home schooled kids often do fine, but I have met a couple who were pretty smart but lacking in some minor basic knowledge because they didn't get a full general education.

[spankalib]

Page 161, “From Dawn to Decadence”
“Many evil and depraved men misuse music as an excitant in order to plunge into earthly delights, instead of raising themselves by means of it to the contemplation of God and to praise His glories.”

Victoria (Greatest of Spanish 16C composers, whose works are uncommonly exciting). (1581)

Example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3Es3dYgs4

(yes, this was said over 400 years ago!)