It’s amazing how much time is wasted in the classroom on crap like this. I agree with an earlier post that what these kids and all kids need is quality instruction. It’s not going to do these kids any good to finally get to college and not be able to complete the necessary work because they wasted their valuable learning time on a field trip. I see this all the time as a substitute teacher. Some days I add up the time we spend on legitimate lessons and a lot of the time it’s less than 2 hours (remember I’m following the teacher’s lessons, not my own.) Kids who are homeschooled really don’t miss a lot.
Don't you just love the teacher who thinks you're too dumb to teach her class so makes it a movie day?
My homeschooled kids rarely spent more than 2 hours in formal ( at the kitchen table) instruction. Yet,...By 13, 12, and 13, my kids were enrolled in community college. By 15 they finished all college general courses and Calculus III. The younger two had B.S. degrees in math by 18.
My husband and I help tutor the Spanish kids in the Spanish speaking congregation of our denomination in our valley. Wow! I am appalled at the nutty and ineffective teaching methods of the government schools!
And...The kids are sent home with as much to do in homework and my homeschooled kids would do all day! I've concluded that the **only** kids who are getting an education in county are being **afterschooled** by their parents, or they are getting outside help in places like our church tutoring program or in expensive formal tutoring centers.
By the way...tutoring centers in our county are thriving in this Obama created depression.