Why bother to send **any** child to government school if the real work of teaching is being done by the parents? If parents are the real teachers and doing most or all of the work, why are we taxpayers being forced to hand over thousands of dollars to so-called schools if the entire concept of prison-like government schools is flawed, and no learning happens there?
Where are the studies that **prove** government schools teach anyone anything? Where are the studies the separate what is learned outside the school from what is supposedly taught in the classroom? Has anyone ever taken the time and resources to see if government schools actually **do** what they say they supposed being doing? Huh?
It is my anecdotal observation that there is **no** difference in the home values and habits of successfully educated institutionalized children and homeschoolers. Really, where is the difference? Huh?
When there is an academically successful child ( home or institutionally schooled), the parents are doing the **same** things in the home. Both sets of children are spending about the **same** amount of time at the kitchen table or at their desk studying!
My conclusion: The **real** work ( whether home or institutionally schooled) is happening OUTSIDE the school!
So?...If parents and the children themselves are doing the real work of teaching and learning in the home, only a complete idiot would expect government schools to be of any value to children from dysfunctional homes. We evidently need an completely new approach to education if we are to reach them.
Also,...For children in functional families, maybe they would be better off and make more progress if they wasted LESS time in the prison-like government school.
My education was in a Catholic schools, a public school and a private school. Of all three, I would choose the private school as the best. If you started to slip backward they caught it right away, not during the next quarter.