How about the Case Against Public Education?
1.) The lessons are so dull and frustrating, students learn to hate knowlege.
2.) Many of the teachers have little knowlege of the topics they’re supposed to be experts on.
3.) The structures, rules, and cirriculum do nothing to prepare students for life after school.
4.) The conditions are sometimes unsanitary, leading to allergies and occasional health problems, like staph infections.
5.) The bullying, bad teachers, and artificial environment cause many students to have terrible emotioinal and psychological hang-ups as adults.
6.) American students consistantly post lower scores than any other developed nation in the world, even though they do more homework than most, which is closely linked to reason 1.
7.) The prevelence of gangs in some schools make those places dangerous.
8.) The textbooks are poorly written and often contain inaccuracies.
9.) Drug use is a persistant problem in schools, largely in response to the ill effects of the boring and stressful experience school treats the students to.
10.) Excessive schooling artificially prolongs childhood, making the transition into adulthood more difficult than it needs to be.
11.) Many supporters of public schools who denounce homeschooling are incredibly arrogant about their positions, even though they have nothing to be arrogant about.
Well said.
Wow aside perhaps from #3 (socialization, which can be gotten elsewhere) the reasons given are all BS, written by some teachers union hack.
Contrast with CF’s good reasons to avoid public school.