Starting Points and Deterrents

[Unkotare]

In bemoaning the state of education today, a few salient points should be kept in mind.

In comparing national standards, it should be remembered that education in America is far more inclusive and democratic (not to mention republican) than in most countries.

A large and growing number of students in American public schools are new arrivals from other countries where they may have, for a number of reasons, missed a number (sometimes a shocking number) of years of formal education. Overcoming these gaps in formal education is a huge challenge. This is to say nothing of the obvious challenge of engaging academic material in a second or third language. If you think that's easy, give it a try.

Then there is the very real matter of previous and/or on-going trauma in the lives of students from war-torn countries or war-like inner city environments. such negative influences can greatly impede the learning process in many ways. Add in the left's zealous mission over the past 40 years to destroy the nuclear family, and you've got a panoply of persistent problems to prevail against.

And for all that, scores and scores of people from all over the world (no, not just the third world) flock to our shores each year to enroll in our schools (yes, even the public ones).

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[mgh80]

... There are too many distractions in public education, too many social issues and children are not learning what they need to be learning.....

Kids in private schools are still kids, with their own distractions and social issues. Private school does not mean little robots who are not growing up.

Meh, I'll send ours to private school where they run laps around public school kids. It's not even close

One of my senior students last year is now attending Harvard. Let me know where your kiddos who're "running laps around him" end up going.

 

[Unkotare]

In bemoaning the state of education today, a few salient points should be kept in mind.

In comparing national standards, it should be remembered that education in America is far more inclusive and democratic (not to mention republican) than in most countries.

A large and growing number of students in American public schools are new arrivals from other countries where they may have, for a number of reasons, missed a number (sometimes a shocking number) of years of formal education. Overcoming these gaps in formal education is a huge challenge. This is to say nothing of the obvious challenge of engaging academic material in a second or third language. If you think that's easy, give it a try.

Then there is the very real matter of previous and/or on-going trauma in the lives of students from war-torn countries or war-like inner city environments. such negative influences can greatly impede the learning process in many ways. Add in the left's zealous mission over the past 40 years to destroy the nuclear family, and you've got a panoply of persistent problems to prevail against.

And for all that, scores and scores of people from all over the world (no, not just the third world) flock to our shores each year to enroll in our schools (yes, even the public ones).

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