Yes, but I can't at the moment think of how else we'd do it. Do you have any practical suggestions about changing the public school system?
Yes, but I can’t at the moment think of how else we’d do it. Do you have any practical suggestions about changing the public school system?
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I encourage every parent to very seriously consider homeschooling and make the sacrifices necessary to make it happen.
For those who must institutionalize their children, I would recommend private schooling.
Hopefully, government schooling will simply collapse like the Berlin Wall and disappear into the trash can of failed collectivist experiments.
“But,,,,shouldn’t we look at the system and recognize that it is abnormal to institutionalize children the way we do in prison-like settings?
Yes, but I can’t at the moment think of how else we’d do it. Do you have any practical suggestions about changing the public school system?”
When I was visiting Denmark in 1973, a Danish man told me that at the age of 12, the kids were tested and then put into either an academic track or a vocational track. Some people in the US would strongly dislike such a system because it doesn’t seem to promote equality, but I have taught kids who have absolutely no interest in academics. School really does become like a prison for them. Schools in the US ignore the 50% or so of kids who will either not go to college or else drop out of college. Secondary education focuses on college prep. courses and ignores the huge number of kids who will later take very necessary jobs like garbage collector or cashier.
I think that vocational training (in auto mechanics, construction work, being a beautitian, etc.) could reduce the drop out rate and maybe even discourage young people from joining gangs because they get to do something productive with themselves. It’s also a lot better than our current system of having many young people flounder for a direction when they are young.