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In what government school district in which no parent has a college diploma do the children score on average in the 83th percentile on a composite battery of achievement tests?
Answer: NONE.
But "amateurs" - homeschooling parents - do accomplish this.
The government school system needs to be closed.
The edu-fascists will not like this. Look for home schooling to be banned in the USSA within 5 years. (Must indoctrinate the young to be model socialists.)
Don’t worry about Obama going after homeschoolers either. HSLDA will fight to the death over parents’ rights to homeschool their children. Personally, everybody should pull their kids out of schools, as the Internet has tons of sites where kids can get edumacated.
“The government school system needs to be closed.”
Or, at least, return to city school boards with local authority and local participation only. Federal intervention, as it has everything it touches, has ruined the education process.
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In my opinion, our education system was fine until the government decided they could run it better than local communities could. Makes me wonder about their ability to run our health system.
Those institutionalized children who are academically successful are likely 100% “afterschooled”! The institution is doing nothing more than sending home a curriculum, administering tests, and grading projects! It is the parents and child who actually doing nearly all the hard work in the **HOME**.
In fact, the time spent in the institutional school actually **retards** the social and academic progress of children with committed parents. It wastes a ton of their time. These kids would do better if the school mailed the curriculum and textbooks to their home, and only saw them for testing.
So?...What about children from dysfunctional families? Are the government schools helping them? NO! These kids would be better off in institutional schools that attempt to duplicate in the school what should be happening at home. George Will calls these schools “paternalistic” schools. KIPP schools are a good example.
It is utter and complete foolishness to continue with the typical government school model that have today. These schools waste the lives of children who are motivated and who have motivated parents, and they are utterly and completely inadequate to meet the needs of unmotivated children with dysfunctional parents.
While I am completely for homeschooling and greatly admire those who have taken on this responsibility, your final sentence is wrong. Our school system, like our health care system, needs some surgery - school system is in worse shape - but it does not need to be discarded.
There are plenty of great teachers out there - Christians and conservatives. We need more of them in the schools. That’s the way to solve the problem, not your answer.
7% in ten years means the number of graduates will almost double every ten years. Not too bad.
Imagine that, small groups of kids brought up similarly learn better than large groups of kids from many different backgrounds. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
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The risk to the ‘at risk’ youth is obvious. Great Leader MUST soon appoint a homeschooling czar to issue mandates and regulations for all children, especially those who are being diminished by the pedagies and bell-curves of the past.
Their mom and dad are children’s first, natural and best teachers.
As a brand new homeschooler about to start HSing my 6th grade son in a week I am nervous and excited about it. After his spending 6 years in the public education system I know that he and I together can assure a much better education than he was getting in the public school system but it's really nice to see that the stats back it up.
I don’t think they need closed, but they need to be understood. Public schools are to education what public housing is to housing.
Its the education of last resort, those that are unable to educate their child in any other manor.
We cannot have a completely ignorant population and expect to survive. Unfortunately though the public schools have been taken over by social manipulators and are nothing more than indoctrination and dumbing down factories by and large.