Posted on 08/31/2015 2:53:24 PM PDT by jazusamo
Many public primary and secondary schools are dangerous places. The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics show that in 2012, there were about 749,200 violent assaults on students. In the 2011-12 academic year, there were a record 209,800 primary- and secondary-school teachers who reported being physically attacked by a student. Nationally, an average of 1,175 teachers and staff were physically attacked, including being knocked out, each day of that school year. In Baltimore, each school day in 2010, an average of four teachers and staff were assaulted. Each year, roughly 10 percent of primary- and secondary-school teachers are threatened with bodily harm.
Many public schools not only are dangerous but produce poor educational results. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress for 2013, sometimes called the Nation's Report Card (http://tinyurl.com/mn6snpf), only 33 percent of white 12th-graders tested proficient in math, and 47 percent tested proficient in reading. For black 12th-graders, it was a true tragedy, with only 7 percent testing proficient in math and 16 percent in reading. These grossly disappointing educational results exist despite massive increases in public education spending.
Many parents want a better education and safer schools for their children. The best way to deliver on that desire is to offer parents alternatives to poorly performing and unsafe public schools. Expansion of charter schools is one way to provide choice. The problem is that charter school waiting lists number in the tens of thousands. Another way is giving educational vouchers or tuition tax credits for better-performing and safer schools. But the education establishment fights tooth and nail against any form of school choice.
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Homeschool Ping.
I would home school, to my point of competence, for as long as possible.
I was and am so thankful for it.
Just about the only way to go these days.
We’re in our 20th year of homeschooling, another 15 or so to go. It’s not perfect - nothing to do with childrearing is perfect - but we’re in control, we’re free.
Agreed...Our daughter home schooled her three and the last one only has three years to go, they’re great young ones.
I’m with Walter on this..
When I saw this piece by Dr. Williams I thought of you, that’s quite a commitment and you’ve done a great service in my view.
Q: Why Home Schooling?
A: Because it’s not the hard core Communist PC sewage that the vile Public Schools vomit up for the kids to defile their minds with.
I was probably at the tail end of marginally decent public school education (in a conservative state) in the 70’s. After that, it went to the sh*ts, or was a mixed bag at best.
I’m the product of my own public school experience, which resulted in (a) a National Merit Scholarship and (b) a visceral rejection of school attendance for my children.
Our homeschool graduates so far were all qualified for life, although #3 hasn’t exactly leapt at the opportunities so far.
Is there any state “oversight” at all involved? I know this varies from state to state, but just wondered what minimal requirements you have to meet to demonstrate that your kids are getting educated.
I prefer the term “non-government indoctrination education”
If your children are in a public school it would take more time to re-educate them than homeschooling alone.
Sorry to say if you send your children to government indoctrination day camp, (so-called “public schools”) you are going to get your investment back in spades.
Yes, yes must check in with the “State” to ensure the children are properly “indoctrinated”.
Funny we aren’t shutting down the baby killing clinics but we do think it is necessary for the “state” to have oversight in the education of ones that survive.
I would rather a child only have basic skills and be taught how to work or have a trade than 12 years of indoctrination by the government.
It is the parents choice how they choose to raise their children. So long as they are not abused it is nobodies business.
Why can’t those who identify as conservatives understand simple logic? No “state” involvement. Does anybody even understand communism or socialism anymore?
I know that in most conservative states, it’s just a statement by the parents that their child(ren) is/are being home educated. That should be enough.
It depends on the state. In North Carolina, students have to take a nationally-standardized test each year, and the Division of Non-Public Education is allowed to very that we have done so. However, they are not allowed to enter an opinion on the results ... and if they did, the results of state public schools would render it laughable.
In Oklahoma, where we lived before NC, the state constitution gave parents complete authority over education. If the state showed up on the doorstep, our kids were supposed to demonstrate their education. It was a joke among homeschooling families that we all wished our children would stop demonstrating their education long enough to eat their meals, use the shower, or sleep at night.
“Verify,” that is.
The “oversight” varies from extreme to essentially nothing, depending on the state. Studies have shown that academic achievement does not vary according to the degree of government oversight. If you think about it, the reason is obvious. If you don’t really care if your child receives an education, the easiest and cheapest thing is to send him to a government school. By the way, because of cheating, the rigging of “accountability tests”, and lack of independent oversight, government schools aren’t accountable at all. Of course, that doesn’t stop them from receiving hundreds of billions of dollars.
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