I’m in CA and all 4 of my kids and my grand kids all went thru private school. I want the to stand out among a sea of mushy minds.
These days, private schools are no longer shelter from the storm.
“I’m in CA and all 4 of my kids and my grand kids all went thru private school. I want the to stand out among a sea of mushy minds.”
ABSOLUTELY. My kids that we raised in Texas are doing great. First we taught them to read by Age 4 (and yes, any normal kid can do that, if you’re willing to spank them). We them sent them to a useless Christian school*, more for daycare and socialization, than to get anything productive out of it. Their REAL education at that point was after school, in math, without calculators, that’s where they got years ahead of their grade levels (of course that was in addition to fluent readers by age 5) - and that averaged maybe 15 hours a week, not a huge amount of time. Then it was off to the races, getting into junior college years early, and then off to a mediocre state school* and then a good grad school, and off to the races.
*when they’re young, it is far more important to keep them in the home, then in a ‘high ranking’, ‘socially conscience school
But I owe ALL THE THANKS IN THE WORLD, to the public school system that the Left has dumped on the country - for my kids are far from being the next Einstein, at best they’d rank at maybe 80% in intelligence against their peers, and if the public schools had simply stuck with what they were using 100 years ago (phonics for reading and no calculators for math), my kids would only be a bit above ‘average kids’ in this country, nowhere near being well into the 6-digits.
Think of it as owning a horse who’s going to compete against 11 others in a race - except the owners of the other 11 other horses decide to add 100 lbs. of lead weights to their horses - that was the field my kids were up against - the others never stood a chance.
What’s ironic is that other parents that we know (and knew), with ONE exception (an immigrant from Russia) basically thought we were child abusers, because we didn’t let them spend 40 hours a week playing video games.