I will gladly bet any person that even most successful* kids in public schools are also homeschooled to a degree. I had reading assignments, free courses, etc that I was assigned by my mother because she knew that even our public school which was heavily funded by local bonds didn’t actually expand thought or critical thinking in any capacity.
Ask any teacher or read any study: the kids who perform best at school are the ones whose parents support them the most.
Parental involvment is a better predictor of student success than sex, race, religion, even parental income level.
The high performing student that uses school to be away from neglectful parents is a unicorn; everyone talks about them but no one's ever seen one. Kids whose parents don't care simply drop out.
But hey, maybe if we throw enough money at "acredited" teachers, that will somehow change.
Then what's the point of a teacher? They were supposed to teach me maths when I was younger and on a personal note deliberately lied to my family about the progress being made. I would have actually learned more and been happier outside of fucking school than in it. How dare parents expect teachers to do their jobs and teach English and Maths, yes it is their job to do that not the parents, otherwise what's the point of them? They're not supposed to be teaching anything else.
I don't have much sympathy for teachers (they tend to monopolize all the self-pity) but the system is literally setup in a way that, unless their students show up with discipline, focus, and initiative, there's little or nothing they can do.
They're babysitters, full stop. They can barely answer questions about their own lectures, let alone those from students learning something new.
That's the thing, if that's the reason teachers exist, then you can't justify the existence of the education system to me. Really I view public school teachers as little more than credit thieves.
Colleges are even worse than this. Almost every professor I had had the same schpeel: you will literally be expected to have read the entire section already before coming to class so that the lecturer will not need to spend any time explaining the topic. You are expected to have tried some of the homework problems and come prepared with those instead. The lecture is not to go over the material expected of you, but to go over a summary of the material you already taught yourself before you got to class. And since this is the case, it makes you really wonder what the hell the recitation period is for. Then on top of that, why do you have office hours, which your also implicitly expected to attend.
How fucking useless is your period of instruction if you shouldn't learn anything from it, you'll have to recite it elsewhere, and if you got questions take it to office hours. What the fuck is the point of the lecture in the first place?
What is the point of the class if all we're doing is going over the book? Shouldn't I just read the book by myself?
Hang on... why is the book also terrible? Who fucking designed this ridiculous thing?!!!
To confirm prejudices, I took a game design course for my 'A Levels' ( Grade just before 'University' ) and now I remember and perhaps to the shock of absolutely no one reading my attitude towards public education it was towards the second year they just abandoned the idea of teaching any form of real games design entirely. It was all this bizarre shit where they would have you write shitty essays about game design theory or other nonsense and really it was like being in school again instead of actually learning anything.
It got so bad partially with extra silly rules they were implementing like how you couldn't even bring water to class that I just refused to show up to irrelevant sessions. The worse thing they were doing was trying to have people re-take their GSCE's which was another irrelevant load of shit they were piling onto this complete catastrophe of a course and they barely looked at 3D work.
Despite all that, I still 'passed' and even got a B for my 3D work because that's what I was actually interested in ( The fucking cretins ) despite it being advertised as a 'games design' course we did not look at a single game engine or line of code and 3D modelling was barely taught. They were more interested in prepping people for university.
So yeah, bunch of credit thieves if they ever attached my name to any of their shit I would denounce them very publicly. By the way I'm sure other people will attest to this but their stupid legal clauses are a load of bullshit as well like them acting as if they can steal your work and claim it if you submit it as part of coursework.
They can all fuck off, god forbid you write up anything genuinely useful in code in a programming course and the shit heads try to pretend it's there's just because they taught you.
The school system is already that homework exists.
Actually think about that for a second. They have 8 hours with your kid 5 days out of the week, and then (as a parent) you have to help them with the stuff they spent 8 fucking hours on for an additional 2-3 hours at home.
The more you start to understand about education and training, the worse you can see the school system actually is. Even with good teachers, the entire structure is broken.
I will gladly bet any person that even most successful* kids in public schools are also homeschooled to a degree. I had reading assignments, free courses, etc that I was assigned by my mother because she knew that even our public school which was heavily funded by local bonds didn’t actually expand thought or critical thinking in any capacity.
EXCELLENT point.
Ask any teacher or read any study: the kids who perform best at school are the ones whose parents support them the most.
Parental involvment is a better predictor of student success than sex, race, religion, even parental income level.
The high performing student that uses school to be away from neglectful parents is a unicorn; everyone talks about them but no one's ever seen one. Kids whose parents don't care simply drop out.
But hey, maybe if we throw enough money at "acredited" teachers, that will somehow change.
Then what's the point of a teacher? They were supposed to teach me maths when I was younger and on a personal note deliberately lied to my family about the progress being made. I would have actually learned more and been happier outside of fucking school than in it. How dare parents expect teachers to do their jobs and teach English and Maths, yes it is their job to do that not the parents, otherwise what's the point of them? They're not supposed to be teaching anything else.
I don't have much sympathy for teachers (they tend to monopolize all the self-pity) but the system is literally setup in a way that, unless their students show up with discipline, focus, and initiative, there's little or nothing they can do.
They're babysitters, full stop. They can barely answer questions about their own lectures, let alone those from students learning something new.
That's the thing, if that's the reason teachers exist, then you can't justify the existence of the education system to me. Really I view public school teachers as little more than credit thieves.
Colleges are even worse than this. Almost every professor I had had the same schpeel: you will literally be expected to have read the entire section already before coming to class so that the lecturer will not need to spend any time explaining the topic. You are expected to have tried some of the homework problems and come prepared with those instead. The lecture is not to go over the material expected of you, but to go over a summary of the material you already taught yourself before you got to class. And since this is the case, it makes you really wonder what the hell the recitation period is for. Then on top of that, why do you have office hours, which your also implicitly expected to attend.
How fucking useless is your period of instruction if you shouldn't learn anything from it, you'll have to recite it elsewhere, and if you got questions take it to office hours. What the fuck is the point of the lecture in the first place?
What is the point of the class if all we're doing is going over the book? Shouldn't I just read the book by myself?
Hang on... why is the book also terrible? Who fucking designed this ridiculous thing?!!!
To confirm prejudices, I took a game design course for my 'A Levels' ( Grade just before 'University' ) and now I remember and perhaps to the shock of absolutely no one reading my attitude towards public education it was towards the second year they just abandoned the idea of teaching any form of real games design entirely. It was all this bizarre shit where they would have you write shitty essays about game design theory or other nonsense and really it was like being in school again instead of actually learning anything.
It got so bad partially with extra silly rules they were implementing like how you couldn't even bring water to class that I just refused to show up to irrelevant sessions. The worse thing they were doing was trying to have people re-take their GSCE's which was another irrelevant load of shit they were piling onto this complete catastrophe of a course and they barely looked at 3D work.
Despite all that, I still 'passed' and even got a B for my 3D work because that's what I was actually interested in ( The fucking cretins ) despite it being advertised as a 'games design' course we did not look at a single game engine or line of code and 3D modelling was barely taught. They were more interested in prepping people for university.
So yeah, bunch of credit thieves if they ever attached my name to any of their shit I would denounce them very publicly. By the way I'm sure other people will attest to this but their stupid legal clauses are a load of bullshit as well like them acting as if they can steal your work and claim it if you submit it as part of coursework.
They can all fuck off, god forbid you write up anything genuinely useful in code in a programming course and the shit heads try to pretend it's there's just because they taught you.
The school system is already that homework exists.
Actually think about that for a second. They have 8 hours with your kid 5 days out of the week, and then (as a parent) you have to help them with the stuff they spent 8 fucking hours on for an additional 2-3 hours at home.
The more you start to understand about education and training, the worse you can see the school system actually is. Even with good teachers, the entire structure is broken.