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?
SAT/ACT homeschoolers:
http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/hslda/200105070.asp
Standardized test scores homeschoolers:
http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200410250.asp
The issues are separate. Public schools - SOME public schools - have issues.
As far as my attitude toward the average parent, I point to the election process of 2007/2008. The average parent’s grasp of history, math, economics, logic, and science is sub-fifth grade level.
You’ve seen the results of the history exam given to Harvard Seniors, right? 8th grade level American History exam - 30% passed.
It’ not just the average parent, it’s everyone.
It’s my belief that if we actually understood how to calculate net present value and future value, and understood what that meant in the context of TARP and Porkulus, we’d be assassinating elected officials everywhere.
We ‘hate’ math, however, and as such, Obama pledges the mortgaging of my daughter’s great, great grandchildren’s future, and he’s elected in an electoral landslide.
The argument, for example, that the idiots that signed up for their mortgages didn’t understand what they were getting into is just a metric ton of horse dung.
Their INABILITY TO COMPREHEND THE LOAN DOCUMENTS, in my mind, disqualified them from signing them - regardless of their age or educational level.
When they affixed the signature to the document, they SWORE they understood what they were getting into.
This is THE SAME CREW that you want teaching their own kids?
The school system is under some degree of public scrutiny, and the curicula is published. That’s at least something.
The average parent? Not qualified to sign a loan doc, apparently.