School is largely tax funded babysitting. Any parent who insists on working from home, but wants their children to do in-person learning is doing so because they miss said babysitting.
“School is largely tax funded babysitting. Any parent who insists on working from home, but wants their children to do in-person learning is doing so because they miss said babysitting.”
My wife, who just turned 81, came to the same conclusion that you did after talking to some of the parents you described above. Even with the pandemic and staying at home with the kids, the parents didn’t want to teach at home nor their kids at home.
She tried to suggest ways to do the home schooling from pooling w/other parents, relatives and retired people. They were not interested in doing that. They wanted baby sitters.
Our oldest son’s, 2 life long and best friends, now living in two different counties and cities have worked out job/sharing the teacher roles with other parents and relatives and even older siblings over a decade plus.
All their “grads” have shredded the SAT’s and basically got into any college they wanted and done well. Those, who have finished colleges with real degrees have excellent jobs.
One of my wife’s adult nieces did something similar after some good teachers retired, left or passed on in their area. Then, the public schools became liberal BS schools.
Both of that niece’s adult sons now have engineering degrees and jobs using those degrees. Their engineer dad put in 40 hours of work in 4 days, and taught the math skills at home and on each Friday and the weekends. Other relatives added their kids and helped with the math and other courses.