We are committed to Catholic schools
I take issue with the idea that it’s easier to please your peers than your mother.
Your mother loves you. She is already overall pleased.
To please your peers you often have to bully, get bullied, dumb down, or engage in lousy behavior.
So not so much. It may be easier to please your mother than a really strict teacher.
If your kids are college bound they will eventually hit the strict schedules etc that you warn about for high school. Being mature young adults they will manage fine.
Four down one to go. My kids are frikkin brilliant.
While it is appropriate to write off many urban schools, I deeply dislike the idea of conservatives writing off all public schools. "Public school" is not a monolithic entity to be rejected by all decent people. The problem is that when conservatives refuse to participate as teachers, we abandon the majority of the next generation to a constant drumbeat of indoctrination from America's enemies. We need to be in there, fighting for the hearts and minds of the next generation.
Our oldest went through private Christian education pre-K - high school. The next followed along but wanted to attend “real school” his junior year. So he switched to public school his junior year and lasted 5 days. The Amish girls bullied him in the cafeteria. I was like, that’s it. And he felt the same, too. He graduated from private Christian school. The last kid was home schooled K-graduation and is a freshman at a well known state college. If I had it to do all over again I would have home schooled all three.
I have to disagree with the author. Government schools offer a very valuable education on the seamier sides of our culture. Going to the LA Unified School district taught me a lot of valuable life lessons. For example, I learned about:
- the operation and management of black markets.
- educational novelty.
- the correct height for fences surrounding an institutional facility.
- black racism directed at whites.
-how long you can hold off going to the bathroom (to avoid getting jumped by gangs).
-the benefits of truancy.
-how busing kids from ghettoes to middle class areas made school a much more exciting experience.
-how to study in spite of noise.
Great experience if you want your kid to grow up to be a gangsta.
It’s a shame but some children will need to be institutionalized for their schooling.
We need orphanages, too, but no one is claiming it is the best or most natural way to rear a child.
But I have seen some cases where it has been Done Wrong (or Not Done, which is the worst of all), and I am a strong advocate for home schooling.
It can be done wrong, especially when one fails after three or four years, then sends the poor object of his/her/their fantasy back into public education.
So, man, if you are going to undertake it, finish it with the advice, help, and criticism of fellow participants. At some point, the child will become your teacher, given the right direction.
Mother never graduated from grammar school. I doubt my mom had any knowledge of math, history or science. She was an excellent hand writing teacher and made sure my homework looked neat enough to give to the teacher.
Not everyone is qualified to teach their own kids or has the education and ability to home school. We see immigrants excel in even inner city schools so home life is very important.
Teachers unions cause much of the turmoil and chaos in schools along with administrators who enforce political correctness.
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THE A-to-Z of Homeschooling
https://a2zhomeschooling.com/about/ann_zeise_of_a_to_z_homes_cool/
From 2009 article.
http://www.oak.homeunix.org/~marcel/blog/2009/08/15/making-money-online-while-homeschooling
Few parents are prepared to deliver calculus, physics, chemistry, or computer science topics with a high level of competence.
I have a few problems with the homeschooling. The result is amazing though. My 3 year old daughter is starting to read and write (and pretty well, too).
But I feel like a wanted man on the run from johnny law because I don’t like vaccines. I’m not even anti-vaccine I just want answers, I want to make smart decisions and I didn’t want to pump a pint of chemicals into my baby.
And I want to choose what she studies. This means there are a handful of states that I can actually live in now.
True public schools are not for anybody...