Enemies Of Homeschooling
Are Scared. Here’s Why
Daily Caller,
by
Corey DeAngelis
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/7/2020 9:35:05 PM
Nearly every family with kids has gotten a taste of homeschooling over the past two months. In an attempt to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, at least 124,000 schools have closed for over 55 million children in the U.S. At the same time, opponents of homeschooling launched several unfounded attacks on the practice. For example, The Washington Post ran an opinion piece claiming “homeschooling during the coronavirus will set back a generation of children,” and a Salon article said that “homeschooling as a result of the pandemic will likely worsen education for students and pose serious problems to the economy and nation’s social well-being.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 6/7/2020 9:59:22 PM (No. 436631)
Homeschooling is the answer to the evil of government schools.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 6/7/2020 10:19:15 PM (No. 436646)
They seem to score high on standardized tests and get admitted to good schools. As for study habits, who's going to make lame excuses to the teacher when the teacher is Mom?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/7/2020 10:22:21 PM (No. 436651)
The public schools consist of pupils, half of which don't speak English, another quarter that despise America, and the rest poor whites that can't afford to go anywhere else. I can't see how anyone could get an education in that type of atmosphere. We need to give the parents vouchers and allow them to choose their schools. That would introduce entrepreneurship and competition into the school system. Teachers would have opportunities with more than one employer, and they would own their retirement accounts, allowing them to leave their property to their descendants.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MMC 6/7/2020 10:26:39 PM (No. 436658)
Here is what Covid did for education- it exposed the abject failure of public education..
Parents suddenly realized the problem wasn’t the school - their kid was a jerk who couldn’t read, finish an assignment, and was unable to write a sentence..
#homeschool #leadorgetoutoftheway
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
OhioNick 6/7/2020 10:28:30 PM (No. 436661)
It's not the public schools, it's the powerful teacher unions that make it nearly impossible to fire a bad, unqualified teacher. Look what happened in post-Katrina New Orleans when all the teachers were fired and the unions abolished. In the new system, teachers who were inept were easily fired. So what happened to the students? Standardized test scores went up dramatically.
Also, this country needs to do something about the fact that in state after state, our teachers have the lowest SAT and ACT scores of any field. And that's who teaching our children. Raise the requirements and force teachers undergo academic testing before they're allowed to be around children.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
texaspast 6/7/2020 11:12:05 PM (No. 436694)
Husband of my stepdaughter (step son-in-law) looked at his sixth grade son's first assignments after school shutdown. For the Social Studies (where us older coots studied government, history, etc.) class it was on 'kindness.' SIL wisely countermanded that for his son and assigned him a paper on the electoral college. Grandson wasn't happy at all, but he learned a heck of a lot more in the shutdown than he would have in class. There must be a lot of parents who have realized during this forced home-schooling time how bad the actual school curriculum is for there children and will want to home-school their own kids.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TXknitter 6/7/2020 11:16:55 PM (No. 436696)
It is the public school system. Even in my state with no teacher unions, kids scoring abysmally low compared to other countries yet parents still put their precious children in these indoctrination camps.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
texaspast 6/8/2020 1:06:14 AM (No. 436746)
OK, here's the difference between when us old coots went to school and now: the teachers. Back when the teachers I had in elementary through high school started teaching, there were very few 'professional' jobs open to females. She could be a nurse, a secretary, or a teacher. That was about it. So the smartest women went into the teaching or nursing fields. My mother graduated from college in 1947 with a chemistry degree, because when she started college (in the middle of WWII) the U.S. needed chemists! When she got out of college, the U.S. didn't need as many chemists, and there were all those men coming back from the war who needed jobs . . . so she taught first and third grade for the rest of her working years. Now, all those women who were my (excellent) teachers in school wouldn't be teaching elementary, Jr. High or high school - they'd be doctors, chemists, bank vice-presidents, lawyers, CEOs, etc. The pool of people willing to put up with the carp that teachers have to put up with today is (sad to say) mostly from the bottom of the barrel. Yes, there are some excellent teachers who are brilliant, dedicated and love what they do. But most of the teachers out there today are NOT from the cream of the crop. Why would they be?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 6/8/2020 2:29:23 AM (No. 436761)
#8, there still are some good teachers, or were until recently, many have been driven out. For three years I did a program of teaching science to sixth graders twice a week. I got to be personal friends with the teacher I worked with, she and her husband vacationed with my wife and myself. Super smart, dedicated lady, but she left a worthless husband a few years before I started the teaching science thing, and while I was working with her, she married a very well set man. And with the terrible overriding pressures of the school system making it harder and harder for her to teach effectively each year, she finally gave up, and retired to focus on raising her daughter and being a stay at home mom. I quit the science teaching after that, too. They lost a great teacher, driven out by the idiot bureaucrats grinding out the best teachers, the ones who cared the most, who hated being forced to do a bad job.
A sister in law is a retired teacher and her daughter, a niece, is homeschooling her four kids. When I am around, I help out checking work, and sometimes reading with the little ones. I love it. And I love that they are learning properly, not in government schools.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MDConservative 6/8/2020 10:20:55 AM (No. 437094)
Homeschooling is a great concept, with some great results. And it is impractical for a large number of households with working parents and those who are, ahem, intellectually challenged.
Frankly, I'd like to see the abolition of government schools. And it won't happen because for many it is a highway for freebies, from three squares to babysitting. And while many clamor for more values education, they complain the values taught aren't theirs...
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Too many people are confused about so called education
here in AmeriKa. Our system is a rousing success if
indoctrination is the goal, education? ( not so much).
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