The hypocrisy is staggering.
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The hypocrisy is staggering. And...What is even more staggering is the refusal to consider or admit that institutional schooling has likely made a less than ideal situation **worse**!
The families that I am referring to, indeed, lacked parenting skills however in every case, there were good family members in these children’s lives, with solidly good living habits, who loved and took and interest in the child.They were often grandparents, aunts, or uncles. These children would have been far better off if they had been able to work in the small family businesses that these responsible family members often owned or were employed in, and mentored by caring adults, who knew how to show up for work every day and live orderly and respectable lives.
Teachers say that they “love” children, but no one is as “invested” in the long term welfare of a child more than his own family ( nuclear and extended, functional or dysfunctional).
It was my anecdotal observation that institutionalized schooling actually made matters worse in two ways. One, and most influential, was the friends made in school, and the other was the push to have these kids diagnosed ADD or ADHD .
Question: If a good fairy were to sweep across the land, wave her magic wand, and close all institutional schools tomorrow, what would happen?
Answer: There would be chaos for about 2 weeks. Within days, same children who are getting an education today, would continue their education. The same kids who aren’t being educated would not be educated.
Why? Because, it is my observation that any real learning a child acquires is outside of the institutional school and is due to the hard work of the parents and other very “invested” family members, the child himself doing home study, and paid and unpaid tutoring.
Answer: There would be chaos for about 2 weeks. Within days, same children who are getting an education today, would continue their education. The same kids who aren’t being educated would not be educated.
Why? Because, it is my observation that any real learning a child acquires is outside of the institutional school and is due to the hard work of the parents and other very “invested” family members, the child himself doing home study, and paid and unpaid tutoring.
Humblegunner guess who is at it again.
I agree.
People who value an education will get one anyway. Those who don’t won’t no matter how many hours per day and how many days per year they are forced to spend in public schools.
Students get an education in spite of public schools, not because of them.
Parental involvement is so critical that the best demonstration of the success/failure of public education is to look at those children whose parents are not involved in their education, and at that point, the abysmal failure of the public education establishment becomes blindingly obvious.