Study Halls supply a vital, missing element of study progress, for students to coordinate between textbooks and instruction. (The continual demand of junior students for the teacher's attention in the open classroom, tends to limit the effectiveness of the teaching and study enterprise to the lowest common denominator; a group instructor who is both giving the lecture and monitoring students' individual progress, can only go the speed of the slowest student.)
In the Study Hall, elder students help more junior ones, as they did in One Room Schools. The quiet environment naturally promotes studiousness, on the model of virtue as the incremental practice of building up good habits. But the chief difficulty in the current situation is insuring remotely linked study hall participants have the proper environment of quiet and focus to foster concentration on the course of study.
Another vital issue for homeschooled, former public school students, is working around attempts by central school authorities to hobble progress by linking it to the policy of systematic, calculated failure of the past century. So, homeschoolers need to update themselves with a primer on the policy of failure.
The Hall of Shame of the 19th-20th Century of Mis-Education Saboteurs
Consideration of a bullet list of the historical architects of failure can help homeschoolers now to sidestep the futile outreach of the school hierarchy.
Ideology From the Ivory Tower Down to the Normal Schools. Intellectuals spin etherial theories about how the little people must live, but dont pick up the tab. John Dewey destroyed primary 1-6 education between 1920 and 1940, from Columbia Teachers College for trainers of trainers, to mis-educate generations of teachers at Normal Schools across America, effectively jettisoning of the Western civilization legacy of Good and Great Books from Americas schools across the board.
By the first quarter of the 20th century, broad public awareness of socialist mis-educators' destructive plans caused them to veil their actual intentions in smuggled phrases like "democracy" and "progressivism".
At the beginning of the 20th century, education was subjected to the broad action of monopolization of all institutions, cartelizing the educational enterprise that had been the natural domain of families and local towns.
Instead of senior students of the One Room School assuming Headmaster and Headmistress roles at the local level, Teachers must be mass-processed through Normal Schools (Horace Mann). Mega High Schools with thousands of anonymous students must replace the intimate, home and local educational enterprise. School Districts must be combined into larger and larger districts, so that the NEA could dictate Federal Educational policy.
Ranting against Universal Public Education is a sure fire loser as an issue.
Educational Reform wont proceed or succeed if you challenge the concept that every child deserves an education. Taking that position is a great way to be ignored.
The President needs nothing. Poor headline.
Gosh Charles, I'm really glad you're here to teach The President stuff. He'd just be in a hell of a mess were it not for all your long winded wisdom.
This has more non-sequiturs in it than I can count. There’s a difference between correlation and causation and Chuck needs to brush up on the difference.
And then there are those who embrace the socialist way.
Bless the remnant.
When parents can’t read, who’s going to read to the kids “the good books”? Many parents can’t be bothered to change a diaper or shove a greasy chicken nugget in their kids’ mouths.