[rockprof]

Go to any large college and look at the graduate departments in engineering, math, and sciences. At least half of the students will be foreign (I'm speaking from experience having spent a fair amount of time in several colleges and universities).

I also teach science at a two-year college. Virtually none of my students (high school graduates all) have any competency in even simple grade-school mathematics.

My wife and I are planning to homeschool are children (currently toddlers).

[Bahbah]

"My wife and I are planning to homeschool are children"

Would that be "our" children?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Virtually none of my students (high school graduates all) have any competency in even simple grade-school mathematics.

My wife and I are planning to homeschool are children (currently toddlers).

What would happen if, say, The University of Phoenix Online, were to adopt a "graduate assistant" approach to online teaching at the High School level? U.Phoenix could recruit crackerjack Asian students to enter its online curriculum tuition-free and with a subsistence stipend just like graduate assistants at the college level. The stipend and the costs of each such "undergraduate assistant" could be defrayed by that assistant's support of a "Prep School of Phoenix Online" program--marketed to American parents who, like you, demand more of school than Political Correctness.

Seems to me such a system could arouse and meet eager wants on both the supply and the demand side . . .

[4mycountry]

My wife and I are planning to homeschool are children (currently toddlers).

Good for you! I am homeschooled, and in advanced math. I'm actually in summer school because of my math skills: I was on an advanced math curriculum that unfortunately didn't have any books above the 6th grade level. We switched to another curriculum, but that put me behind (in other words, in tune with public school kids), and now I'm doing summer school to put me back in the advanced math catagory.

You're doing a great thing, homeschooling. It may be tough at first, but it's totally worth it. I'm in grades 8-10 because of it. Homeschooling is the best!

[Graybeard58]

"Virtually none of my students (high school graduates all) have any competency in even simple grade-school mathematics".

"None has" professor not "none have" Perhaps a little remedial English?

The word "none" is a contraction of the words "no one". Read it that way and it makes sense.

[RipSawyer]

"My wife and I are planning to homeschool( are) children (currently toddlers)."
My wife and I are planning to homeschool are children (currently toddlers).




Better have some coffee before you approach a keyboard next time.