I’d love to see a poll on where FReepers with children send them to school.
Very, very little. Many have no idea of how bad it is in the public schools. Generally speaking (not in every case), they run the REALLY good teachers off. The reason is that the really competent teachers mirror the incompetence of those who are not doing their jobs correctly. The whole system is broken down.
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They are learning to be liberals. Taught by socialist leaning gov workers (teachers unions) what else would you expect?
Oh, it means "Up yours, Whitey!".
Well, this will start up a major, blazing flamewar, but if more conservatives would go into teaching, we’d have a chance to counter this trend. But they’d rather jeer from the sidelines.
My grandfather, who was educated in a one room schoolhouse in rural NC between 1905 and 1917, received a better education than 99% of the children in public school today. He often praised the school teacher who alone taught 40 children in grades from 1 to 12 at the same time.
My grandfather learned to read, write and cipher, giving him the essential skills that would enable him to one day open his own business. From school, church and home he learned to have great pride in his country. He worked on the family farm after school. When he completed his schooling he went to work at the local general store, living in the attic above the store until he saved enough money to move to a local town where he worked a few more years until he saved enough to open his own store.
The focus of that one room school house was education, not social engineering. The teacher insisted on discipline and would paddle the students if they misbehaved. No doubt if they misbehaved in class, the punishment they would receive at home would be worse than anything the teacher would deliver.
In the 1980’s my grandfather would comment as to how much better an education the worst students in his school received than the students graduating from public school at the time. He said every student could read, write and do elementary math. It was an expectation of the parents and the teacher.
Poverty was not an excuse. He and his classmates were the sons and daughters of sharecroppers and tenant farmers. They had no plumbing at home and no electricity. They grew their own food and wore hand me down clothing. No computers, no televisions, no iPhones, no automobiles, no video games. No education bureaucracy filled with PhD’s to oversee the teacher. Just good fundamental family values and old fashioned rote instruction.
The day will come when we return to this type of basic education. Once our society and economy collapse, the survivors will have to rebuild from scratch.
They are learning that diversity and multiculturalism is the state religion, that whites should be discriminated against and America’s founding and founders were evil.