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If that was true we would have a totally non functioning society. Agreed that a percentage of our children in public schools do poorly. I'm sure that some homeschooled kids in a smaller percentage also do poorly.
I could introduce you to my kids. Or both of my sisters kids, or any number of other kids I have personally met that were public schooled and do quite well. How a child does in school has a lot more to do with parents and their home environment than it does the school.
It's too bad this thread is degenerating into the old self righteous argument about home schooling. In my opinion, most people home school so they can indoctrinate their kids without any real world issues figuring in. It also makes it easier to keep your kids on the straight and narrow. Unfortunately, real world experience is a necessary evil in my opinion. The very narrow segment of life and different people that home schooled kids are exposed to keeps them very sheltered.
Sir, I don't know where you have been, these last few years, but today's education system, from K-college, is one huge government indoctrination system, so, I guess you choose your poison.
The public school system doesn't always live up to our expectations. It's part of why this country is great though. The only people who's opinions have any weight are those that have been involved in the system. Those that listen to politicians blather on about how we're wasting money on our education system are fools. IMO of course.
Haven't we all been involved in the public school system? Why should a teacher, who's only desire is to get on the secure side of the tenure system, care about anything, beyond reaching their desired goal? Very few people have the moral capability to police themselves and do the right thing, when it's so much easier just to go along, to get along.
We need a lot more money directed towards our education. We rank near the end of the list in civilized countries for our education. They need to put more money towards education, but spend it where it's needed, instead of just throwing it at the system and letting them waste millions on an astro turf football field. The current system of property taxes paying for the schools doesn't work. All the wealthy districts have all the best schools and equipment, while the poorer districts have trash. Just another reason for the huge difference between the wealthy and the poor. The better your education the better you make out in this country.
Sadly, all that the powers that be, know how to do, is to throw money at a problem.....I was thinking about this, last night....Government's job should be to eliminate itself from peoples' lives, by being effecient. Instead, it becomes a huge, plodding machine, which will, eventually, get stuck in the mudhole of its own making, and completely grind to a halt.
Public sector unions retirement packages, local, state and federal, are completely unfunded, and you can only rob the private sector for so long.
Royd. We actually agree on something. I agree that public schooling is inefficient. They could probably do better by privatizing. As always though the less fortunate will get the short end of the stick. Private school systems that serve wealthy people will offer an excellent education. Most of the best teachers will work there. Even though a good teachers primary objective is to teach children, they have to make a living too. There just aren't that many Sidney Poitier type guys around. So poor people will get the basic amount from the govt to spend for schooling and the wealthy kids will be able to afford to supplement the basic and get an excellent education. Home schooling is not a viable alternative for 99.9 percent of the population.
The poor schools though privately run will resemble the slums that pass for housing and are subsidized by the govt. Just another way to separate the unwashed masses from the more fortunate.
People will stand in line, for months, to get into this cheap housing, because they believe that they are entitled, rather than looking around and saying to themselves,"You know, I can do better than this."
If that was true we would have a totally non functioning society. Agreed that a percentage of our children in public schools do poorly. I'm sure that some homeschooled kids in a smaller percentage also do poorly.
I could introduce you to my kids. Or both of my sisters kids, or any number of other kids I have personally met that were public schooled and do quite well. How a child does in school has a lot more to do with parents and their home environment than it does the school.
It's too bad this thread is degenerating into the old self righteous argument about home schooling. In my opinion, most people home school so they can indoctrinate their kids without any real world issues figuring in. It also makes it easier to keep your kids on the straight and narrow. Unfortunately, real world experience is a necessary evil in my opinion. The very narrow segment of life and different people that home schooled kids are exposed to keeps them very sheltered.
Sir, I don't know where you have been, these last few years, but today's education system, from K-college, is one huge government indoctrination system, so, I guess you choose your poison.
The public school system doesn't always live up to our expectations. It's part of why this country is great though. The only people who's opinions have any weight are those that have been involved in the system. Those that listen to politicians blather on about how we're wasting money on our education system are fools. IMO of course.
Haven't we all been involved in the public school system? Why should a teacher, who's only desire is to get on the secure side of the tenure system, care about anything, beyond reaching their desired goal? Very few people have the moral capability to police themselves and do the right thing, when it's so much easier just to go along, to get along.
We need a lot more money directed towards our education. We rank near the end of the list in civilized countries for our education. They need to put more money towards education, but spend it where it's needed, instead of just throwing it at the system and letting them waste millions on an astro turf football field. The current system of property taxes paying for the schools doesn't work. All the wealthy districts have all the best schools and equipment, while the poorer districts have trash. Just another reason for the huge difference between the wealthy and the poor. The better your education the better you make out in this country.
Sadly, all that the powers that be, know how to do, is to throw money at a problem.....I was thinking about this, last night....Government's job should be to eliminate itself from peoples' lives, by being effecient. Instead, it becomes a huge, plodding machine, which will, eventually, get stuck in the mudhole of its own making, and completely grind to a halt.
Public sector unions retirement packages, local, state and federal, are completely unfunded, and you can only rob the private sector for so long.
Royd. We actually agree on something. I agree that public schooling is inefficient. They could probably do better by privatizing. As always though the less fortunate will get the short end of the stick. Private school systems that serve wealthy people will offer an excellent education. Most of the best teachers will work there. Even though a good teachers primary objective is to teach children, they have to make a living too. There just aren't that many Sidney Poitier type guys around. So poor people will get the basic amount from the govt to spend for schooling and the wealthy kids will be able to afford to supplement the basic and get an excellent education. Home schooling is not a viable alternative for 99.9 percent of the population.
The poor schools though privately run will resemble the slums that pass for housing and are subsidized by the govt. Just another way to separate the unwashed masses from the more fortunate.
People will stand in line, for months, to get into this cheap housing, because they believe that they are entitled, rather than looking around and saying to themselves,"You know, I can do better than this."
