Angelina, you are correct in that "Americans are poorly educated" . . . I'm an 89 year old Australian who has lived and worked around the world. The company I help found had a head office in London (where I lived for 15 years) branches in Antwerp, Cologne, Nice, Hong Kong, New York, and I am now settled in the USA . . . . But you are ill-informed on the notion that American children would be "educated even less by leaving it to "moms and pops."
Apart from the fact that wonderful resources are available for Home Schooling Parents to ensure their children win . . . the actual statistical facts show home schooled kids are academically superior to what the US Governmental system is producing.
I wrote the book "How to Learn-How to Teach: Overcoming the Seven Barriers to Comprehension." I have researched educational matters internationally. It is a subject I am somewhat expert in.
Roger, I see your point. However, leaving education entirely in their parents hands (vs. in addition to school), could lead to more troubles than we already got. Not all parents are suited to teach (nothing wrong with it), not all parents are educated well, so it would be the blind lead the blind, and as a parent, I do see many issues with above situation, and while it could be excellent in some cases, it also could be a disaster in the wrong hands. I think we'd be better off to raise an educational standard across the country, having the best textbooks (competition written) from the best teachers, etc. It's not so difficult to raise this standard, the precedents of raising educational standard even from illiteracy already exist. The US should not be too proud to learn how it was done in other countries.
Angelina, you evidently are 'under-educated', and unfamiliar as to how 'home-schooling' actually works? Yes, there needs to be competition,.. particularly, public funding attached 'to-the-student',.. rather than 'to-the-school-district' (and teacher's unions control), which would immediately solve the competition for better education FOR the public school students. But the data (and my own personal experience with family and friends who are home-schooling) shows that home-schooled are much better prepared, better-educated, more socialized, and have better moral-judgment.
That doesn't mean we should abandon Public-Education, which until the last 50-70 years of John Dewey's 'progressive' (Socialist-Statist) influence, and the DNC-NEA-Teacher's Unions collusion-corruption ,..Public Education in the US. was pretty good.
I understand your concern for home-schooling parents, who are actually paying 'twice' for educating children, since their tax-dollars are still funding the unworkable public education/government-schools, politician-teachers unions 'shell-game'.
However, parenting choices are still imperative in the education of their children. We have not yet been completely CO-OPTED by the Statist-Communist-Socialist ethos.
I'm sorry that you believe experience is not important? I assume you discount my familiarity with home-schooling? Don't you think that's being just a little bit arrogant.? Do you actually know anyone who home-schools, or home-schooled individuals? Perhaps your public-school 'education' has not made you especially empathetic about other viewpoints?
Textbooks alone will not address the deeper moral abyss of public education. Textbooks can not replace parents, or parent's choices for their children.
By the way, who chooses which textbooks are used? What is their moral ethos? What is your view of John Dewey's (Socialist-Statist) influence on public-education?
I don't discard "your experience," but being educated in Europe, and having my son educated on this continent, I can see serious deficiencies with American education. As a result, my family had to pay for our son's private school for his last school years, and to hire tutors to keep up core sciences. There wouldn't be needed abroad.
I don't suggest "replacing parents," but you're no authority to me on the above and given your chip on the shoulder, you're unable to see the issue.
Meritocracy has nothing to do with "empathy." This "empathy" already got us into the current mess with 73 sexes, and schools pre-occupied with radical race theories and in my state, replacing core sciences with "social studies" and... choir. If we are to compete with other countries, we must get our kids education right, and this "feel sorry for me" won't cut it!
I see you're that you're a little bit angry, and defensive. Please forgive my 'chip-on-the-shoulder' attitude, I don't wish to offend. Perhaps we are both a little arrogant? When you say you were educated in Europe, where in Europe? Were you native-born and raised in that country, or in the USA?
Empathy is not about enabling poor judgment, or victimhood.
You have misread my comment. You seem to discount the moral compass argument? Your animus is misdirected toward me, and the home-school movement, when it should be directed at the Statist-Socialist expropriation of America's Public-Schools,.... government-intrusion,.. DNC-NEA-Teacher's Union--the largest Union in the US, collusion & graft,.. and agencies like the ED (Dept. of Education) with it's John Dewey philosophy.
You seem to say that book-knowledge 'alone' solves the problem, brings enlightenment, prosperity, and development/growth to humanity, ... wholeness to the individual and society? It's important.
But without moral-wisdom and Biblical truth, that approach is a fools-errand touted by Leftist-Statists for two centuries,.. seeding much Darwin-Hegel-Marx based destruction of humanity.
That knowledge-sans-morality philosophy is closer to a Leftist (Statist-Socialist-Marxist-Communist/Fascist) ethos, than of an Individual-Liberty ethos?
Maybe you have conflated much of what is actually 'cultural-Marxism' (the Woke---DEI, CRT agenda) into what you deem as lack of (or right) education. There is some truth in what you say about meritocracy, as well as sound-science in physical-sciences being undermined and usurped by deceitful 'indoctrinations' of Leftist 'Social-Engineering', and politically-acceptable speech & thought.
Though real science and truthful textbooks are necessary, these constructs will not be disassembled by changing the content of textbooks alone.
Those who are choosing the textbooks must also be considered. What they believe matters. And here is where we come back to the moral-compass dilemma? Which is the problem you fail to acknowledge, and which Home-Schooling addresses more directly, by leaving whatever 'social engineering' is to be done, to be left to the parent.
Is it your usual technique to brand someone's views as "angry," if you don't like them? My son is an adult now, my parental duties are done, per se. I have no skin in the current "game." I just feel sorry for the parents who are struggling and have it even harder than we had, and I was speaking from experiences about what's offered in terms of education here, vs what is/should be expected, to help the current parents.
Now, why would I be offering my personal details in an online chat:-)?
Please don't stir politics into education. It's already the main problem here as is, and you seem unable to get it and adding on Marxism in addition.
No offense, but you seem to be all over the place with your "views." I am talking about that the core sciences like math, physicals, biology, chemistry, etc., are being replaced in America with "social-whatever/theories" - it ruins American kids chances to succeed.
The textbooks competition entries could be blinded, and I'm sure there are plenty of parents, who would be able to distinguished what's "offered."
Angelina,... not a technique, just an observation you seem unaware of the anger (or fear) within your comments. I don't agree wholly with your view, but do agree partly with it. I appreciate the burden you feel for parents wanting their children to have a sound education.
Unfortunately, I think the reality of 'politics' is inexorably tethered to public-education, since government funding, agencies, and legislation are involved.
There's not a simple solution to this complex government-bureaucracy knot. However , Home-schooling is probably the best work-around at present. And the way that movement is growing is forcing government-schools to adjust,.. or simply go out of business.
And just as you are unaware of the inevitable 'politics',.. there's a huge insurgency of cultural Marxism undermining sound-curriculums? I agree that the core sciences are being undermined and neglected in favor of nonsense social-engineering in DEI-CRT (Diversity-Equity-Inclusion.. Critical-Race-Theory).. along with another 'Grand Deceit',... the theory of Man-Made-Climate-Change,.. which also is a 'political' faux-science deceit promoted by Statist-Socialist-Marxists.
This is not accidental, but intentional 'political indoctrination' into destructive demoralizing of America's (and the West) societies. And it's those who adhere to Socialist---or Statist-Communist-Fascist-Marxist-Islamist ,.. political ideas... who are adamant about indoctrinating American kids into those false beliefs.
You know Boyd, of course i am not sure, but it's starting to sound like you may be dealing with a non-human machine, not a flesh-and-blood woman with an angel name.
My son is an adult, graduated, settled. He didn't need tutors to fit the local standards LOL. He needed tutors for the much higher standards to achieve his full potential, and he did. He had 10 university offers, academic scholarships, won math competition @ prestigious university, we had deans calling our house.
Homeschooled children consistently outperform their public school peers. There is no way I would recommend any parent send their children to public тАШindoctrinationтАЩ schools.
тАЬHomeschooled students score about 72 points higher than the national average on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The average American College Test (ACT) score is 21. The average score for homeschoolers is 22.8 out of a possible 36 points. Homeschoolers are at the 77th percentile on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.тАЭ
To 'outperform" the American public school peers is not hard, and means absolutely nothing, and the above point system is meaningless. The real question is how do they perform against the students from the countries with known high standards of education?
Parents do well homeschooling. Kids are smart. They pick up and understand and reading material very quickly. My homeschooled daughter graduated from MIT.
That's just wrong. Yo clearly are not aware of what homeschooling is today.. It;s not some kind of free range learning as some people have experimented with. We homeschooled our girls' grades 1-12 and my oldest easily got accepted to one of the most recognized colleges in TX. My youngest who is in 11th grade and already taken college level courses, is on the same track.
There are definitely school districts that as they are today would produce outstanding high school graduates but they are becoming the few. Even if we raised the standards on education we still have the threat of the ideologues in teh system poisoning our kids mind; trying to convince them their gay or queer. They could still indoctrinate while simultaneously proving the required education.
The system is a lost cause with as badly corrupted as it has become. It's not just about educational standards. You still have the terrible teachers unions to contend with and they are not going anywhere. The system is also a huge money pit. We spend more per student than other nations and still produce the worst outcomes. You would need to adress all of the bellow before you could even get to a point where the system is acceptable:
1) Fed Dept of Ed - This may finally end
2) ALL teacher unions. Public unions should be illegal since there is no competition but more importantly because these unions are corrupt
3) Raise education standards/requirements
4) Put and end to the violence tolerated by certain ethnic groups in the name of fighting racism
5) The administrative state within the education system. The buck should stop at the school superintendent. Every district should have minimal guidelines from the state and otherwise allowed to execute education the way those living in the district want.
6) End the discrimination against boys and the drugging of them to change their behaviors. The system has been modified to be pro-girl and anti-boy. They drug boys to make them more like girls b/c boys are naturally more rambunctious
The problem is much broader then just education standards
Public schools are liberals and predators playgrounds. Where else can you groom children to change their sex to match their drag queen teacher Or give them books to read that teach sodomy in kindergarten and grade school. Under the democratic rule the children were targets for every evil that came down the road. And all behind the parents backs. That was your Kamala and Joe. You know the people are not educated when they were willing to toss their kids into the fire because they hated Trump. All colleges are just as bad if not worse. The professors get to spew their hatred for anyone upon their students. Most are communists. We always seem to have a shiny new young communist party every year. Very expensive grooming going on in college. They interview them on campus. They donтАЩt even know what country they are in or how many states there are. We are in a sad state of affairs
Americans are poorly educated because public schools suck. Waiting for reforms? Hah. Taking it into one's own hands is the way to go. Raise them to be self-learners, and their future looks bright. :-)
People do not realize how much misinformation and propaganda there is in a public school education. Not going to spark debate by giving details, but it will finally start to come out in the next few years. The same holds true for university education in many fields. I studied the public health system in my MPH program and almost no one knows the history of medicine in this country. Certainly not 95% of doctors. Today, a professor would be dismissed for teaching what I was able to learn at Boston University in the 90's. Our medical education system is a study in corruption, and it started well over 100 years ago. At any rate, education is a complex topic, and there is no easy solution. However, before solutions are made, what we teach needs to be entirely revamped, and it needs to address an entirely different set of values. For example, every child should be learning life skills, such as cooperation, negotiation, conflict resolution, meditation, and health, as examples. By health I mean true health, the kind of thing you read here in AMD's columns, not the pharmacy-funded misadventures you get from universities, journal articles and government agencies.
I just saw a Baptist minister who is going after the school board for the books in the school. I have watched lots of parents go to the schools about books. You know the school is a shit show when drag queens reading to children. When they have LBTQXYZ grooming the kids to change their sex without the parents. That happened to Elon Musk. I will take home schooling. Thanks
This is an excellent example that proves the politicization of our education system. I used to think this was a very recent phenomenon until I started going down some rabbit holes and educating myself. Once you do that, there's no turning back, and you find that our entire education system, not just public, but also including private universities, was politicized from the start. What people need to know is WHO started our educational systems. This includes medical schools, dental schools and vet schools. They also started the AMA. You will find it's the same people who own our banking system, Wall Street, the FED, and have control of many (most?) other societal systems as well. To think they would be objective and have no agendas in setting up public school education of our children would be naive. For anyone who thinks this sounds a little too conspiracy theory, I suggest you first focus on educating yourself about the history of education in this country before deciding how you want to educate your children. If you don't know this, if you, yourself, aren't educated about the system itself, you can't make informed decisions.
That's ignorance talking. The idea that homeschooled means being less educated then going to public school is a conspiracy theory started by those in the public education system who are dependent on forcing as many people as they can, to send their kids to government indoctrination camps we call public schools as they can. Are there homeschooled kids who are less educated? Absolutely but those are the exceptions, the outliers.
My wife who was a public school teacher when we met, left that b/c she saw teh changes being made and did not want our kids to bed public school educated so we worked to get to where she could be a stay at home mom who homeschooled. Thus teh decision to homeschool wasn't made out of ignorance but intelligent foresight and by a college graduate so there goes the idea that we're just 2 dumb rednecks that don't know better.
Really? Just get the American "home-schooled" to test against their Chinese, Russian, or Japanese peers, then we talk.
This argument that the American "home-schooled" do better than the American "public-schooled" is really pathetic, because the measuring stick is so low.
When I first read this I thought it was sarcasm; humor. But you seem serious. The Chinese and Russians are hoping as many of our kids are public school educated as possible as it will make us easier to conquer because we'll be an even more dumbed down society then we already are. If you think public school educated kids can compete with the Russians and especially teh Chinese educated kids then you aren't living in the same reality as the rest of us.
What's pathetic is that even today we still have to combat ignorance about home schooling. if I had to guess Id say your also college educated.
@Neverforget - I am not comparing homeschooled vs. public-schooled, I'm saying that even home schools are not able to compete with the peer from other countries. Unless, you have evidence that homeschooled kids competed and found to be ok.
You're still wrong and you probably know little if anything about HS (homeschooling) today. HS today is NOT like it was just 10 years ago and HS very much can compete with many foreign nations. That's not say it beats them all but that has more to do with the fact there is no consistency in education. Even within government schools in America there are significant differences between states and between counties within those states. The reason I can speak from a place of knowledge is b/c not only id we homeschool both our kids but my wife got a degree in childhood education and worked in gov schools for about 7 years before leaving it to be a stay at home mother. She got her degree from a private university affiliated with one of teh Christina denominations so it was not infected with liberalist ideology that focuses more on teaching kids to be activists for change then educating them.
A more fair/accurate statement for you to make would be that some HS is better, some is equal to and the rest is less than, that which is provided in SOME foreign nations primarily Japan. That said even Japan is becoming a victim of the societal cancers that have ravaged America from feminism to wokeness.
I donтАЩt think that is correct. My son home schools his children. It isnтАЩt what you think. They have a program where they are online with an actual teacher. I have sat with my granddaughter and was extremely impressed. They are rigged and donтАЩt fool around. She kept them busy and the subject matter was excellent.
@Roosevelt - I'm not disputing individual successes in home-schooling. What I am saying is that a normal, well-rounded program in the public schools should be enough. At the moment, American kids are self-boiling in their own juices, without being exposed to their international peers, to see the deficiencies.
Americans are poorly educated as is, do you want them educated even less by leaving it to "moms and pops?"
Angelina, you are correct in that "Americans are poorly educated" . . . I'm an 89 year old Australian who has lived and worked around the world. The company I help found had a head office in London (where I lived for 15 years) branches in Antwerp, Cologne, Nice, Hong Kong, New York, and I am now settled in the USA . . . . But you are ill-informed on the notion that American children would be "educated even less by leaving it to "moms and pops."
Apart from the fact that wonderful resources are available for Home Schooling Parents to ensure their children win . . . the actual statistical facts show home schooled kids are academically superior to what the US Governmental system is producing.
I wrote the book "How to Learn-How to Teach: Overcoming the Seven Barriers to Comprehension." I have researched educational matters internationally. It is a subject I am somewhat expert in.
Roger, I see your point. However, leaving education entirely in their parents hands (vs. in addition to school), could lead to more troubles than we already got. Not all parents are suited to teach (nothing wrong with it), not all parents are educated well, so it would be the blind lead the blind, and as a parent, I do see many issues with above situation, and while it could be excellent in some cases, it also could be a disaster in the wrong hands. I think we'd be better off to raise an educational standard across the country, having the best textbooks (competition written) from the best teachers, etc. It's not so difficult to raise this standard, the precedents of raising educational standard even from illiteracy already exist. The US should not be too proud to learn how it was done in other countries.
Angelina, you evidently are 'under-educated', and unfamiliar as to how 'home-schooling' actually works? Yes, there needs to be competition,.. particularly, public funding attached 'to-the-student',.. rather than 'to-the-school-district' (and teacher's unions control), which would immediately solve the competition for better education FOR the public school students. But the data (and my own personal experience with family and friends who are home-schooling) shows that home-schooled are much better prepared, better-educated, more socialized, and have better moral-judgment.
That doesn't mean we should abandon Public-Education, which until the last 50-70 years of John Dewey's 'progressive' (Socialist-Statist) influence, and the DNC-NEA-Teacher's Unions collusion-corruption ,..Public Education in the US. was pretty good.
I understand your concern for home-schooling parents, who are actually paying 'twice' for educating children, since their tax-dollars are still funding the unworkable public education/government-schools, politician-teachers unions 'shell-game'.
However, parenting choices are still imperative in the education of their children. We have not yet been completely CO-OPTED by the Statist-Communist-Socialist ethos.
I was referring to the public school textbooks, which could be selected based on the national competition to write the best textbooks.
The problem is that Americans are so severely under-educated, that they don't even know how bad the state of education is.
Wow... "your family and friends experience" - lol - how very impressive!
I'm sorry that you believe experience is not important? I assume you discount my familiarity with home-schooling? Don't you think that's being just a little bit arrogant.? Do you actually know anyone who home-schools, or home-schooled individuals? Perhaps your public-school 'education' has not made you especially empathetic about other viewpoints?
Textbooks alone will not address the deeper moral abyss of public education. Textbooks can not replace parents, or parent's choices for their children.
By the way, who chooses which textbooks are used? What is their moral ethos? What is your view of John Dewey's (Socialist-Statist) influence on public-education?
I don't discard "your experience," but being educated in Europe, and having my son educated on this continent, I can see serious deficiencies with American education. As a result, my family had to pay for our son's private school for his last school years, and to hire tutors to keep up core sciences. There wouldn't be needed abroad.
I don't suggest "replacing parents," but you're no authority to me on the above and given your chip on the shoulder, you're unable to see the issue.
Meritocracy has nothing to do with "empathy." This "empathy" already got us into the current mess with 73 sexes, and schools pre-occupied with radical race theories and in my state, replacing core sciences with "social studies" and... choir. If we are to compete with other countries, we must get our kids education right, and this "feel sorry for me" won't cut it!
I see you're that you're a little bit angry, and defensive. Please forgive my 'chip-on-the-shoulder' attitude, I don't wish to offend. Perhaps we are both a little arrogant? When you say you were educated in Europe, where in Europe? Were you native-born and raised in that country, or in the USA?
Empathy is not about enabling poor judgment, or victimhood.
You have misread my comment. You seem to discount the moral compass argument? Your animus is misdirected toward me, and the home-school movement, when it should be directed at the Statist-Socialist expropriation of America's Public-Schools,.... government-intrusion,.. DNC-NEA-Teacher's Union--the largest Union in the US, collusion & graft,.. and agencies like the ED (Dept. of Education) with it's John Dewey philosophy.
You seem to say that book-knowledge 'alone' solves the problem, brings enlightenment, prosperity, and development/growth to humanity, ... wholeness to the individual and society? It's important.
But without moral-wisdom and Biblical truth, that approach is a fools-errand touted by Leftist-Statists for two centuries,.. seeding much Darwin-Hegel-Marx based destruction of humanity.
That knowledge-sans-morality philosophy is closer to a Leftist (Statist-Socialist-Marxist-Communist/Fascist) ethos, than of an Individual-Liberty ethos?
Maybe you have conflated much of what is actually 'cultural-Marxism' (the Woke---DEI, CRT agenda) into what you deem as lack of (or right) education. There is some truth in what you say about meritocracy, as well as sound-science in physical-sciences being undermined and usurped by deceitful 'indoctrinations' of Leftist 'Social-Engineering', and politically-acceptable speech & thought.
Though real science and truthful textbooks are necessary, these constructs will not be disassembled by changing the content of textbooks alone.
Those who are choosing the textbooks must also be considered. What they believe matters. And here is where we come back to the moral-compass dilemma? Which is the problem you fail to acknowledge, and which Home-Schooling addresses more directly, by leaving whatever 'social engineering' is to be done, to be left to the parent.
Does that make you nervous?
Is it your usual technique to brand someone's views as "angry," if you don't like them? My son is an adult now, my parental duties are done, per se. I have no skin in the current "game." I just feel sorry for the parents who are struggling and have it even harder than we had, and I was speaking from experiences about what's offered in terms of education here, vs what is/should be expected, to help the current parents.
Now, why would I be offering my personal details in an online chat:-)?
Please don't stir politics into education. It's already the main problem here as is, and you seem unable to get it and adding on Marxism in addition.
No offense, but you seem to be all over the place with your "views." I am talking about that the core sciences like math, physicals, biology, chemistry, etc., are being replaced in America with "social-whatever/theories" - it ruins American kids chances to succeed.
The textbooks competition entries could be blinded, and I'm sure there are plenty of parents, who would be able to distinguished what's "offered."
Angelina,... not a technique, just an observation you seem unaware of the anger (or fear) within your comments. I don't agree wholly with your view, but do agree partly with it. I appreciate the burden you feel for parents wanting their children to have a sound education.
Unfortunately, I think the reality of 'politics' is inexorably tethered to public-education, since government funding, agencies, and legislation are involved.
There's not a simple solution to this complex government-bureaucracy knot. However , Home-schooling is probably the best work-around at present. And the way that movement is growing is forcing government-schools to adjust,.. or simply go out of business.
And just as you are unaware of the inevitable 'politics',.. there's a huge insurgency of cultural Marxism undermining sound-curriculums? I agree that the core sciences are being undermined and neglected in favor of nonsense social-engineering in DEI-CRT (Diversity-Equity-Inclusion.. Critical-Race-Theory).. along with another 'Grand Deceit',... the theory of Man-Made-Climate-Change,.. which also is a 'political' faux-science deceit promoted by Statist-Socialist-Marxists.
This is not accidental, but intentional 'political indoctrination' into destructive demoralizing of America's (and the West) societies. And it's those who adhere to Socialist---or Statist-Communist-Fascist-Marxist-Islamist ,.. political ideas... who are adamant about indoctrinating American kids into those false beliefs.
You know Boyd, of course i am not sure, but it's starting to sound like you may be dealing with a non-human machine, not a flesh-and-blood woman with an angel name.
Oh, your son need tutors?
My son is an adult, graduated, settled. He didn't need tutors to fit the local standards LOL. He needed tutors for the much higher standards to achieve his full potential, and he did. He had 10 university offers, academic scholarships, won math competition @ prestigious university, we had deans calling our house.
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Something is seriously off with you
Homeschooled children consistently outperform their public school peers. There is no way I would recommend any parent send their children to public тАШindoctrinationтАЩ schools.
тАЬHomeschooled students score about 72 points higher than the national average on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The average American College Test (ACT) score is 21. The average score for homeschoolers is 22.8 out of a possible 36 points. Homeschoolers are at the 77th percentile on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.тАЭ
To 'outperform" the American public school peers is not hard, and means absolutely nothing, and the above point system is meaningless. The real question is how do they perform against the students from the countries with known high standards of education?
Parents do well homeschooling. Kids are smart. They pick up and understand and reading material very quickly. My homeschooled daughter graduated from MIT.
Congrats! Happens. Even a broken clock shows correct time twice/day.
No, it doesn't just "happen" twice a day when you spend the time with your children.
That's just wrong. Yo clearly are not aware of what homeschooling is today.. It;s not some kind of free range learning as some people have experimented with. We homeschooled our girls' grades 1-12 and my oldest easily got accepted to one of the most recognized colleges in TX. My youngest who is in 11th grade and already taken college level courses, is on the same track.
There are definitely school districts that as they are today would produce outstanding high school graduates but they are becoming the few. Even if we raised the standards on education we still have the threat of the ideologues in teh system poisoning our kids mind; trying to convince them their gay or queer. They could still indoctrinate while simultaneously proving the required education.
The system is a lost cause with as badly corrupted as it has become. It's not just about educational standards. You still have the terrible teachers unions to contend with and they are not going anywhere. The system is also a huge money pit. We spend more per student than other nations and still produce the worst outcomes. You would need to adress all of the bellow before you could even get to a point where the system is acceptable:
1) Fed Dept of Ed - This may finally end
2) ALL teacher unions. Public unions should be illegal since there is no competition but more importantly because these unions are corrupt
3) Raise education standards/requirements
4) Put and end to the violence tolerated by certain ethnic groups in the name of fighting racism
5) The administrative state within the education system. The buck should stop at the school superintendent. Every district should have minimal guidelines from the state and otherwise allowed to execute education the way those living in the district want.
6) End the discrimination against boys and the drugging of them to change their behaviors. The system has been modified to be pro-girl and anti-boy. They drug boys to make them more like girls b/c boys are naturally more rambunctious
The problem is much broader then just education standards
Public schools are liberals and predators playgrounds. Where else can you groom children to change their sex to match their drag queen teacher Or give them books to read that teach sodomy in kindergarten and grade school. Under the democratic rule the children were targets for every evil that came down the road. And all behind the parents backs. That was your Kamala and Joe. You know the people are not educated when they were willing to toss their kids into the fire because they hated Trump. All colleges are just as bad if not worse. The professors get to spew their hatred for anyone upon their students. Most are communists. We always seem to have a shiny new young communist party every year. Very expensive grooming going on in college. They interview them on campus. They donтАЩt even know what country they are in or how many states there are. We are in a sad state of affairs
Americans are poorly educated because public schools suck. Waiting for reforms? Hah. Taking it into one's own hands is the way to go. Raise them to be self-learners, and their future looks bright. :-)
People do not realize how much misinformation and propaganda there is in a public school education. Not going to spark debate by giving details, but it will finally start to come out in the next few years. The same holds true for university education in many fields. I studied the public health system in my MPH program and almost no one knows the history of medicine in this country. Certainly not 95% of doctors. Today, a professor would be dismissed for teaching what I was able to learn at Boston University in the 90's. Our medical education system is a study in corruption, and it started well over 100 years ago. At any rate, education is a complex topic, and there is no easy solution. However, before solutions are made, what we teach needs to be entirely revamped, and it needs to address an entirely different set of values. For example, every child should be learning life skills, such as cooperation, negotiation, conflict resolution, meditation, and health, as examples. By health I mean true health, the kind of thing you read here in AMD's columns, not the pharmacy-funded misadventures you get from universities, journal articles and government agencies.
I just saw a Baptist minister who is going after the school board for the books in the school. I have watched lots of parents go to the schools about books. You know the school is a shit show when drag queens reading to children. When they have LBTQXYZ grooming the kids to change their sex without the parents. That happened to Elon Musk. I will take home schooling. Thanks
This is an excellent example that proves the politicization of our education system. I used to think this was a very recent phenomenon until I started going down some rabbit holes and educating myself. Once you do that, there's no turning back, and you find that our entire education system, not just public, but also including private universities, was politicized from the start. What people need to know is WHO started our educational systems. This includes medical schools, dental schools and vet schools. They also started the AMA. You will find it's the same people who own our banking system, Wall Street, the FED, and have control of many (most?) other societal systems as well. To think they would be objective and have no agendas in setting up public school education of our children would be naive. For anyone who thinks this sounds a little too conspiracy theory, I suggest you first focus on educating yourself about the history of education in this country before deciding how you want to educate your children. If you don't know this, if you, yourself, aren't educated about the system itself, you can't make informed decisions.
That's ignorance talking. The idea that homeschooled means being less educated then going to public school is a conspiracy theory started by those in the public education system who are dependent on forcing as many people as they can, to send their kids to government indoctrination camps we call public schools as they can. Are there homeschooled kids who are less educated? Absolutely but those are the exceptions, the outliers.
My wife who was a public school teacher when we met, left that b/c she saw teh changes being made and did not want our kids to bed public school educated so we worked to get to where she could be a stay at home mom who homeschooled. Thus teh decision to homeschool wasn't made out of ignorance but intelligent foresight and by a college graduate so there goes the idea that we're just 2 dumb rednecks that don't know better.
Really? Just get the American "home-schooled" to test against their Chinese, Russian, or Japanese peers, then we talk.
This argument that the American "home-schooled" do better than the American "public-schooled" is really pathetic, because the measuring stick is so low.
When I first read this I thought it was sarcasm; humor. But you seem serious. The Chinese and Russians are hoping as many of our kids are public school educated as possible as it will make us easier to conquer because we'll be an even more dumbed down society then we already are. If you think public school educated kids can compete with the Russians and especially teh Chinese educated kids then you aren't living in the same reality as the rest of us.
What's pathetic is that even today we still have to combat ignorance about home schooling. if I had to guess Id say your also college educated.
I hope you realize I meant that the comparison is not in favor of the American kids; home-schooled or public schooled. Sad reality. Period.
I did which is why I replied to correct you. Homeschooled kids on avg are NOTHING like their public school/indoctrination camp peers
@Neverforget - I am not comparing homeschooled vs. public-schooled, I'm saying that even home schools are not able to compete with the peer from other countries. Unless, you have evidence that homeschooled kids competed and found to be ok.
You're still wrong and you probably know little if anything about HS (homeschooling) today. HS today is NOT like it was just 10 years ago and HS very much can compete with many foreign nations. That's not say it beats them all but that has more to do with the fact there is no consistency in education. Even within government schools in America there are significant differences between states and between counties within those states. The reason I can speak from a place of knowledge is b/c not only id we homeschool both our kids but my wife got a degree in childhood education and worked in gov schools for about 7 years before leaving it to be a stay at home mother. She got her degree from a private university affiliated with one of teh Christina denominations so it was not infected with liberalist ideology that focuses more on teaching kids to be activists for change then educating them.
A more fair/accurate statement for you to make would be that some HS is better, some is equal to and the rest is less than, that which is provided in SOME foreign nations primarily Japan. That said even Japan is becoming a victim of the societal cancers that have ravaged America from feminism to wokeness.
Prove me wrong - have American home-schooled kids enter in a global math/sciences contests/competition and show me their results.
I donтАЩt think that is correct. My son home schools his children. It isnтАЩt what you think. They have a program where they are online with an actual teacher. I have sat with my granddaughter and was extremely impressed. They are rigged and donтАЩt fool around. She kept them busy and the subject matter was excellent.
@Roosevelt - I'm not disputing individual successes in home-schooling. What I am saying is that a normal, well-rounded program in the public schools should be enough. At the moment, American kids are self-boiling in their own juices, without being exposed to their international peers, to see the deficiencies.
Yes. In todayтАЩs schools, and with access to knowlege anytime at your fingertips, absolutely!ЁЯШК