I’d say that graduation and literacy has at least as much to do with parents as it does with schools.
I’d also suggest that there’s a good bit of brainwashing and propaganda that goes on in the average home. Maybe a bit more in the more liberally oriented ones, I’d say unscientifically.
You want to homeschool, have at it. I’m happy with the public schools available to us. Myself, I’m the product of a private elementary/middle school. Shoddy math curriculum, and more than a little propaganda.
Best teachers I had, hands down, were the ones at the public high school, and that includes my Service Academy instructors in the mix.
Don’t get me wrong, I had several math and engineering instructors at the Academy that were first rate. Education at a college isn’t foundational, however, like it is in high school.
Color me lucky? I don’t know.
I can tell you this: show me a bad educational experience, and I’ll show you one in which you have not enough parental support, and WAY to much politization. I don’t care what the polarity, politization is bad.
For example, high school should teach you how to spot ALL BIAS in an article, independent of the reader’s ideology. High school should teach you how to spot the indications of analysis, and how that differs from statements of fact or evidence.
Ideology should come from your parents, your church, etc. Academic skills should come from your school. Most parents don’t have the background in skill necessary to produce a functional contributor to a capitalist republic.
Two very important concepts that together are essential for inclusion in the educational process, regardless of where it takes place.
Lots of *should*’s. Not much what *is*.
99% of the real learning happens in the **home**. What the school is doing is sending home a curriculum for good parents and diligent students to follow.
The real learning happens around the kitchen table or at the child's desk at home. Another word for homework (and all the other educational activities responsible parents do), is “afterschooling”.
If the home study habits of academically successful institutionalized and homeschooled children were carefully studied they would be found to be **identical**! Academically successful children ( homeschooled and institutionalized) and their parents are doing the **same** thing!
In the successful homeschooled family it is called “homeschooling”. In the successful institutionalized child's home it is called “afterschooling” or “homework”.
I have previously posted and will now again post:
**ALL** academically successful children are homeschooled. If children are institutionalized for their schooling this homeschooling is known as “afterschooling”. The only thing institutional schools do is send home a curriculum for the child and parent to follow!
I highly disagree with you. Do you realize that you sound like a pompous lib looking down your “I’m better” nose at us “average” homeschoolers who are just too dumb to teach?
Anyway, let’s suppose you are right.
What in the world makes you think that the far left is going to let ANYONE UNpoliticize THEIR schools?