Iowa GOP rep: ‘Nothing worse’ than homeschoolers telling us how to vote

LifeSiteNews ^ | 5/4/15 | Ben Johnson

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When I look at the results, especially of inner city school systems, I don't see that much, if any, education has taken place.
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It was this sentence above that caught my attention. I agree with your point. i suggest that we look a little deeper and farther. Maybe little education is happening in the school for the academically successful child, too.

I, too, see little education taking place. In fact, if it were investigated the education that is taking place is likely entirely due to the efforts of the parents, family, friends, paid and unpaid tutors, study clubs, and the efforts of the child ( himself) **in the home**.

It is entirely possible that we are spending up to $30,000 per child per year on a government schooling program that is ineffective for all children. Without studying where the learning is taking place and who is doing the teaching place it is impossible to know.

Maybe, just maybe, the only thing government schools do is send home a very expensive curriculum that the academically successful child follows in the home.

Parents go to considerable expense and effort to move to a so-called “good” school. Maybe the government school isn't good. Maybe it is the “afterschooling” done by the families in that district that is really good and is entirely responsible for the high test scores. When so-called “good” schools publish their test results I never see how many of those students are receiving paid and unpaid tutoring or “afterschooling” **in the home**.