Dont let your kids go to college
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Home schooling now. Private college after if it's necessary.
I hope we use this as justification to start defunding some of these schools.
School funding is to an extent based on enrollment. So by homeschooling you are indirectly defending public schools. That's why the left and unions fight so hard against anything other than public school. Home school, charter school, private school, etc. they want the funding, and to indoctrinate your kids.
*defunding.
As he said, *defunding, but yes.
I don't understand why we are funding them in the first place.
Because the progressive educational system has been in place since Theodore Roosevelt, and it's a hard nut to crack.
Everyone around here always calls for homeschooling, but what honestly do you think makes the average person remotely qualified to teach?
Ask the average person on the street to shoe you where countries are on the map, or to explain the origin and ramifications of the stamp act, or how to calculate the distance between two points, or how to minimize sn equation, or to describe projectile motion, or repeat Newton's laws, or the difference between the subject and predicate of a sentence, or any of a thousand other simple things children should be taught, and they'll freeze like Mitch McConnell on the floor of the house.
The solution isn't homeschooling. The solution is to reclaim the educational system and fix it. We've had functioning schools and colleges before, and we can again.
What makes you think the average government employee is qualified to actually teach? We keep throwing more and more money at government schools while literacy and numeracy in graduates keeps dropping.
Lotta typos for someone calling everyone else stupid. Just saying, if you're going to rant about education you should proofread.
Go ask the average teacher to name any fact slightly more obscure than common knowledge without preparation or notes and they'll freeze too. Did you think your teachers were geniuses who never referred to the textbooks they were teaching out of before a lesson? Do you think homeschooling is just off the top of the parent's head? That there are zero resources or curriculum available?
If the only criticism you have of my points is that I made a pair of minor typos while using the obscenely small screens we've all gotten used to, you're not actually challenging what I've said, only nitpicking how I said it.
And work on that reading comprehension. I said "reclaim and fix". We had perfectly decent education systems before the DoE was founded, and we can have it again. Professional, properly professional, educators will always trump laymen floundering on their bedrooms and garages trying to teach msterial they themselves barely comprehend, if at all.
Using phones for anything other than travel or calling someone is for retards.
You know who's not fucking qualified to teach?
The political hyper-partisans telling my kids not to tell me about the fact that they are promoting gender confusion in children, and that they should literally bring a seperate set of clothes to school and have a completely alternate persona while at school, even to the point that they start having them go to and see doctors from a "gender transition clinic" without ever fucking telling me.
The other political hyper-partisans that lied to the police department about the fact that my kid was sexually battered by a tranny student.
The other political hyper-partisan who's going to tell my white kid that he's guilty of the crimes of his race.
Bro, this culture war thing has been going on for over a decade now, and I have seen every single school in the country engage in some fucking absolute madness where they: crackdown on political dissent, racially segregate or discriminate children, act as political hyper-partisans that refuse to teach their own subjects in lieu of political subjects, literally enable criminal sexual violence against children and/or cover it up, endorse harassment and bullying of students for wrong-think, allow teachers to engage in sexual discussions with children, give children access to pornographic materials, mandate participation in political events, etc. This has gone on unchecked for around fourteen years. At no point have the schools gone any other route but worse. This is because not only are schools terrible, but the whole educational structure is an explicit leftist institution at this point. There are no right-wing professors, there are no right-wing educators, there are no right-wing teachers in the pipeline, and if they were, they'd be accused of rape in college and forced from the program. Public school teachers and public librarians in the US are the employment demographic that is the single most Leftist supporting employment demographic in the country. The Leftism is so ubiquitous, it is what is causing the youth to push right-wing, because it is so in your face. The high-school national debate champions of 2014 won their national debate by: refusing to abide by the rules of the debate, ignoring the issues that they were required cover, appealing to the political biases of the judge in the debate, and in one case explicitly calling for the mass execution of white people as a counter-argument to debate opponent who was white, and who's arguments were therefore invalid. That was 11 years ago, and it hasn't gotten any better.
Here's an example, in Britain, there is a private school called "The American School". It's an elite-level high-school which has an average tuition of about $85,000 a year. It was famous for taking the best American educators and education policies in the US and making them accessible to the UK's elite families. Or, at least it was. A few years ago the UK's educational regulator gave it the 2nd worst possible grade in their system, which meant that if they had preformed any worse, the school would be defunded and closed. This was because the school was a Leftist madrassa to a point so extreme that the students began to fail basic literacy tests, not for their educational level (like 11th grade), but in general. Almost the entire school was below their performance requirements on every subject, and an enormous number of highschoolers struggled with elementary reading, elementary writing, and elementary math. Imagine seniors not being able to do multiplication.
Why? According to the regulator, none of the subjects seemed to ever be covered. Every class was substituted for a political effort. Math Class spent 5-10 minutes on math, and then the rest of the hour was spent on gender studies. History class became lectures on race. Language Arts / English became lefty-sex education. To be clear, the UK is a Leftist shithole, and the regulators despise the political right, but this was extreme even for them.
And all of this partisanship doesn't even take into consideration how many public schools in major cities are so shit that we, again, have basic literacy problems with highschoolers. The results coming back from educational test scores are that Gen Alpha may be one of the most incompetent and poorly educated generations we have direct records for, while the public school system fucking drowns in money. Even if they weren't hardcore Leftists that supported cutting up little kids, they still can't do their jobs.
My point, that your missing, is that I am fully aware that homeschooling is being done by parents who are not educated in education. GOOD. That means they won't be pedophiles or racists thanks to the education in education that they didn't receive. In the mean time, homeschooling has gotten so much more advanced that they have books, tutors, and remotely available teachers that can come in and give lessons on subjects the parents don't know about.
Thanks for the manifesto. You've still not disputed my point, you've merely given a long and detailed account about how the modern system is broken, and must be reconquered, fixed, and reformed by good and qualified people.
I'm glad we agree.
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Homeschooling regularly crushes both public and private school in standardized tests. Even outside of that, they have an excellent grasp of critical thinking. There are isolated cases of poorly socialized kids growing up when being homeschooled. However I have also seen worse out of public and private schools. Think the chronically online, discord and reddit types.
No education system will be perfect. Considering a bunch of poorly funded homeschoolers, with no formal collegiate training in teaching, can best the results of the public and private schools with huge budgets is a telling result
Around here, teachers are the bottom-end people at uni.
My wife and I joked about that while at school, reality hit hard when those bottom-end people had some degree of authority over our kids. We switched and went the home-school route.
Wife had hard science formal education no problem with teaching.