Public schools are child abuse,... ...and RICO criminal organizations.
Another reason for the separation of School and State.
To ask the question is to answer it.
It is impossible to know how well a school is doing unless the hard work done by the parents, the child doing homework, private tutoring, and preschooing ( parent-led and private) are measured.
This has **NEVER** been done.
It is entirely possible that schools teach nothing and that it is the parents, child, and tutors who are doing the really hard work. It is possible that there are no “good” schools, merely very good parents.
Finally....It is my anecdotal observation that there is no difference between academically institutionalized children and successful homeschoolers in the amount of time spent at the kitchen table or child's desk doing “homework”. Both sets of families ( institutionalized and homeschooled) have similar home habits and value for education.
Conclusions; Schools teach very little. They are merely sending home a very expensive curriculum for the parents and child to follow IN THE HOME.
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Headline contains my pet peeve. Public schools fail to educate. That is not what they are for. Public schools are there to create worship of the state. In that, they have been wildly successful.
The Detoilet Pooblik Skrewl Collective at its best, baffle gabbing the taxpayers, just as some black tribal leader in Africa.
Going tribal, AKA “voting Democrat”, has consequences. The present condition of Detoilet, MI is proof positive that Nathaniel Grigsby’s grave has the correct message on it.