My son went through private schools and did fantastic. My wife is a long time public school teacher. The reason our son was sent to private schools was not because of the teachers but because of the other students in the schools.
A good percent of these children are parenting failures. And the failure of their parents to create responsible children who can follow rules and want to learn has created an empty hole in our public schools.
A good many of these children are bullies, have no self discipline, refuse to follow the simplest of rules, will never do their homework, are disruptive in class, and disrespectful to all authority. Lack of parenting creates these children and then the teachers get screamed at by the same exact non parents who are responsible for their attitudes and continued failures. If you could afford otherwise what good parent would want your children in that arena of monsters? There are a lot of good kids in this mix but they will always be over shadowed and drowned out by the bad ones. Home school is another alternative but there should be a price to pay for the failures that occur there too. At the end of every school year each home schooled child should be tested in an independent facility to make sure they have been taught to grade level. If they pass their parents/teachers should have a monetary reward. If they fail the parent/teacher should face a fine. If a parent wants to take on the job of educating their own children that is usually good but sometimes it goes bad and the children always pay a huge price for that failure. I know I'll hear a bunch from this post but it is what it is. Bad parents build bad students who are almost always doomed to failure...... and then they blame the schools and teachers....
“I know I’ll hear a bunch from this post but it is what it is. Bad parents build bad students who are almost always doomed to failure...... and then they blame the schools and teachers....”
You will get no argument from me. No school, public or private, is a substitute for good parenting. The ultimate responsibility for raising children is on the parents, and that duty is non-delegable.
“Home school is another alternative but there should be a price to pay for the failures that occur there too. At the end of every school year each home schooled child should be tested in an independent facility to make sure they have been taught to grade level. If they pass their parents/teachers should have a monetary reward. If they fail the parent/teacher should face a fine.”
As government schools are pretty much an unmitigated failure, I'd suggest that the government clean up its own act before trying to infringe on the rights of homeschoolers.
Get back to me when you propose to punish public school teachers whose charges fail to progress sufficiently, as judged against standards derived from the typical success of homeschoolers, including loss of job, forfeiture of assets, and prison terms.
Government has no business sitting in judgement of homeschoolers. It is homeschoolers who should judge the public schools, and especially their near-universally incompetent teaching personnel.
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You used the word “should” a lot in your post. “Should” inherently means there is a standard being applied, which begs the question of why the standard has any authority.
By biblical standards, the gov’t SHOULD keep its nose out of the affairs of the family, which SHOULD have full say over the education of its children.
If no schooling is the choice of the family, no one else has a right to force a different approach on them.