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Where in the heck are the parents!
I taught my kids algebra in the 3rd grade.
Now I have a PhD and a MD
Invest in your children.
I feel very sorry and terrible for parents who want to put their children in private schools and cannot possibly afford it. Too many public schools are practically a death sentence to a decent future.
Do you think all parents, especially single parents are capable of teaching children? Very many are not able to home school for many different reasons, and many are not smart enough, or educated enough themselves to handle it. This is a sad state of affairs for millions.
My Dad taught himself as a farm kid. He was quite accomplished in maintaining building systems - hotel laundries, boilers ac, heating and building upgrade and maintenance throughout his life.
He was extremely good at math, mechanics and chemistry. 8th grade education., some high school and then air force.
My wife and I live in the outskirts of a major city but within the city school district. The public schools stink, and that became an issue because we were considering taking full-time custody of a greatniece and didn't want her to go to the public schools. So we started looking for potential alternatives.
We found and toured a local Catholic school that was just fantastic. Great administrators, teachers, very highly rated. Best of all we learned that the city would give vouchers so it would actually be completely free.
We found in talking to the principal that about half of the students were actually from suburbs, and their parents paid the full $12k tuition each year because the school was so good. So here's the kicker - the school is required to take city residents first - meaning that despite it being a great school and absolutely free for city residents, city parents didn't send their kids there.
That was just astonishing to us. Here's a great, free school to send your kids to, without any of the big city problems, but city parents couldn't be bothered to send their kids there. It was suburban parents, whose own school districts were far better than the city's, who nevertheless paid the premium out of their own pocket so their kids could attend this school.
School problems aren't about a lack of money. They're about parents who simply don't care enough about their kids' educations.
Not true.
Having homeschooled for 12 years and being very active in homeschool support groups, where there’s a will, there’s a way.
And you act like all parents are idiots and incapable of learning. I don’t suppose it ever occurred to you that the parents can learn as they go as well?
Besides, public schools are not only so bad academically as to be useless, by the time those poor kids get done being indoctrinated in socialism, marxism, and sexual perversion, the kids would be far better off not even attending school./
What “liberalism” has brought to the USA.
Bailing...... to where??
Common Core was never repealed,(CC is in all private schools, that was the design) and the Department of Education has not been abolished by Congress.
They have us surrounded and boxed in. Are we escaping one deck chair of the Education Titanic for the other deck chair right next to it?
Defund public education NOW!
We have to burn the village to save it.
Yes.
If they have their children in their primary care, they can homeschool their children. If they can't do that, how can they feed and clothe their children, and do all the other things they do, called "parenting?"
With all the resources available -- financial (welfare) and educational (internet) -- there are no excuses for sending a child to a school when only a third emerge proficient in reading, and in some schools it's zero percent.
You’re right—private school is out of reach for a lot of families (and some private schools are still centers of indoctrination).
But there are affordable alternatives.
Lots of homeschooling parents now pool resources, hire tutors together, or form small learning pods that work almost like micro-schools. They’re not full private schools, but they give kids structure and good instruction at a fraction of the cost. There’s more flexibility out there than most people think.
Parents are the ones who caused the most damage to the school system.
We need as many states as possible to pass school choice laws and implement a voucher program - essentially privatizing education. Not only is public education lousy, it is infested with Communist, anti American, Groomers.
Bravo...well said. Degrees in “Education” are a crock
How have parents done this...please explain?
Is it by being passive?
Why do the public school bureaucrats care? We continue to have to pay for public schools through our property taxes. The incompetence in public schools (top to bottom) is appalling, yet continually funded. What a pathetic racket.
Glady!
When Johnny can't get into advanced class, the parents sue to get him in.
When Mary can't get decent grades, the parents sue to lower the grade scale.
When George takes his sweet old time to take the test he missed, the parents sue to give him all the time he wants.
When Eleanore gets a low grade because she doesn't turn in any homework, her parents sue to make homework unnecessary.
When Earnest can't get into the girls PT class, his patents sue to get him in.
When Greta is all screwed up with Tourette syndrome and severe autism, her parents sue to put her in normal classes.
...on and on again. ALL of the changes which destroy education were made to satisfy lawsuits or threats of lawsuits brought on by parents.
In our area the local conservative church works with parents to assist with home schooling.
That assistance takes many forms:
—Members who are good in math and the sciences offer their services to assist parents who do not have those skills. They use rooms in the church to teach small groups.
—The church offers its property as a playground where kids can socialize and play during afternoons.
—Members skilled in Internet usage train parents on where to find on-line resources as part of their home schooling.
The home schooled kids are easy to identify just by the way they walk and talk.
They hold their heads high and have good posture, are polite to adults and each other, have great vocabularies, and easily master their studies.
We do not have to create stupid and anti-social children in union run leftist public schools.
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