They’re called, “Mama’s and Papa’s” and they’re home with their kids ... EDUCATING them ... be patient ... the kids’ll show up in a few years.
What if they believe that the federal government has no legitimate, God-mandated role in educating their children?
He seems to have forgotten the part about taking over the Education Establishment, not just telling it what we want.
Personally I think trying correct public schools is a waste of time...that’s why their efforts are aimed at establishing Christian schools and supporting home schooling.
Big problem here is that the author doesn’t define the purpose of education. He simply assumes educators will know what he means when he uses the term.
In actual fact, education has been corrupted and politicized to where the word itself no longer means what it should. To many of today’s educators the purpose of education is to pursue “social justice.”
The easiest way to do so is to make sure all children get a poor education. It is MUCH easier to drag down the top 20% than to raise the bottom 20%.
Well, the parents have been removing their children from the public schools for years. HSLDA was started in the early 1980s to support homeschooling. An organization called ACCS supports Classical Christian schools. There is Veritas Press... and on and on... (see my tagline for a another group)
At this point most people deem public schools unreformable. You have California in 2011 mandating that homosexuality be taught in public schools as an acceptable lifestyle, and on and on...
see my tagline for a another group
They are hiding because they lack the courage and conviction to “impose their religion on others”.
They’ve been cowed and threatened into believing that if anyone is able to see ANY outward sign of their religious beliefs, then they MUST be GUILTY of “imposing”....
Oh...and we’re “too Christian” to tell the PC crowd to “GET LOST!”, in varying terms.
If WE don’t stand up for Christ, have we relinquished the expectation that Christ will stand up for us?
The parents with courage, intelligence and love for their children have all gone to private schools, Christian schools or homeschooling. Many of them are veterans of "school wars" where they were stomped into the ground when they suggested that parents should have something to say about their own children's education.
Public schools are government schools, run by bureaucrats. Your child's teacher might be your next door neighbor and a nice person, but she doesn't have autonomy in her own classroom.
Who has influence in our schools? Teachers unions, state and federal agencies, education professors and giant textbook companies. All of these people make MONEY from producing a bad product.
My kids go to a Christian school that I am increasingly disappointed in. It’s beginning to feel like an expensive public school. They have adopted the Common Core curriculum, they spend money on expensive items like a huge aquarium and an obsevatory, and they are more concerned about being the best in things like sports than on serving God.
I don’t blame the teachers. Most of them are very good still. It’s the administration.
My girls have 1 more year, and I’m wondering if I’ll send them for that.
Bureaucracies can't be reformed.
1)No flow of information from the top to the bottom.
2)Poor incentives to improve product – no rewards, no punishments. Bureaucrats can act irresponsibly with no fear of punishment.
3)No competition - teachers have a captive audience and a monopoly.
4)Bureaucracies are inflexible . They cannot reform themselves.
5)In the bureaucratic machine the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of their supervisors.
6)Teachers who are efficient incur the dislike of their peers (“You make the rest of us look bad”).