[john in missouri]

When our kids were in public school... The results were horrendous... homework instructions sent home by teachers were hardly recognizable as English... We also became quite used to correcting mistakes... MADE BY THE TEACHERS... We were appalled. I honestly believe that my grandmother, sitting in her one room schoolhouse with five grades at one time, learned more and in better fashion than today's kids in public school.

This is exactly why we need to raise all teachers' salaries by at least 30%, build bigger, nicer school facilities, add lots more professional administrators and counselors, pass legislation to greatly restrict what homeschoolers can and can't do, mandate state supervision, teaching certificates, etc., and adamantly oppose vouchers or any other schemes which might take tax dollars away from our already struggling public schools, or which would allow parents to remove their kids from the public schools and pursue any other educational options.

[yendu bwam]

This is exactly why we need to raise all teachers' salaries by at least 30%, build bigger, nicer school facilities, add lots more professional administrators and counselors, pass legislation to greatly restrict what homeschoolers can and can't do, mandate state supervision, teaching certificates, etc., and adamantly oppose vouchers or any other schemes which might take tax dollars away from our already struggling public schools, or which would allow parents to remove their kids from the public schools and pursue any other educational options.

Good one. Let's just hire the followers of Mao, Stalin and Lenin instead!

[john in missouri]

Out of fear that my preceding post may be misread by some: that was entirely sarcastic.

And we have homeschooled our 4 kids since birth.

[j271]

Only in the perverse world of government-run education does failure justify more funding.

In real life, if you have a method that works you should be able demonstrate success on a small scale and use that success to justify increased funding to expand the scale.

Otherwise, all you're demonstrating is that you don't know what to do with the money you're already receving, so why would anyone be foolish enough to trust you with more?