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Only the one which detects flawed logic.Hit a nerve did I?
"Generations of children have been let down by so-called progressive education policies which have taught skills and "empathy" instead of bodies of knowledge,
You have failed to recognize the care and love, and actual concern for learning behind homeschooling.
Only the one which detects flawed logic.Hit a nerve did I?
When you base you complaint on logic, using quotes like
"Generations of children have been let down by so-called progressive education policies which have taught skills and "empathy" instead of bodies of knowledge,
And then switch gears to an emotional appeal such as
You have failed to recognize the care and love, and actual concern for learning behind homeschooling.
Then you end up looking like, what was that term, oh yes, an Ignorant Buffoon
Perhaps your home school should have taught a tiny modicum of logic.
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Home schooling does not work.
If it did work, then the home schooled students would be as capable as public school students from 1950. Public school students from 1950 possessed a median knowledge which would blow the curve off modern students; rather akin to foreign students (from say Japan) when compared to American. Instead the "loving, caring" parents can barely manage to beat the newest low of modern education. Just because public education has finally been dragged below the level of Home Schooling does not mean that home teachers are now succeeding.
Perhaps the home school teachers should be under the same indictments as the Chicago Teachers.
If people want to blame someone for their child's failings, they should firstly look in the mirror.
They are the product of the DNC environment that has been saving them for generations now. The only requirement for them is to show up on Election Day and support Their Keeper! Everything else is forgivable.
It is one of the things that seriously pisses me off about parents - they want to blame anyone but themselves.
Only the one which detects flawed logic.Hit a nerve did I?
When you base you complaint on logic, using quotes like
"Generations of children have been let down by so-called progressive education policies which have taught skills and "empathy" instead of bodies of knowledge,
And then switch gears to an emotional appeal such as
You have failed to recognize the care and love, and actual concern for learning behind homeschooling.
Then you end up looking like, what was that term, oh yes, an Ignorant Buffoon
Perhaps your home school should have taught a tiny modicum of logic.
I refuted the specious statistics which allegedly Proved homeschooling as a panacea cure for education's ills. Sure the 17 year old with one parent a good mentor and university humanities instructor and the other a good mentor and university science instructor who is headed to Harvard for their own PhD in humanities or MIT for science is a wonderful success story and an example of home schooling vying for the best choice for that student. But most homeshoolers have been effectively cheated of their opportunity for effective primary education, rather like the rest of the students with today's morass of Federal regulations and inept teaching techniques foisted by ambitious PhD's in the field, who have seen their schools drop in quality to the point that home schooling has finally become competitive.I'm certainly no stickler for topicality, but to flatly say Home Schooling, or ANY type of education doesn't work based on comparisons of median knowledge is both specious and irrelevant.
Home schooling is only one CHOICE, that works well for SOME students.
I refuted the specious statistics which allegedly Proved homeschooling as a panacea cure for education's ills. Sure the 17 year old with one parent a good mentor and university humanities instructor and the other a good mentor and university science instructor who is headed to Harvard for their own PhD in humanities or MIT for science is a wonderful success story and an example of home schooling vying for the best choice for that student. But most homeshoolers have been effectively cheated of their opportunity for effective primary education, rather like the rest of the students with today's morass of Federal regulations and inept teaching techniques foisted by ambitious PhD's in the field, who have seen their schools drop in quality to the point that home schooling has finally become competitive.I'm certainly no stickler for topicality, but to flatly say Home Schooling, or ANY type of education doesn't work based on comparisons of median knowledge is both specious and irrelevant.
Home schooling is only one CHOICE, that works well for SOME students.
The Criminals in Chicago who stole or embezzled should be prosecuted, but the true problems which cause such poor student performance go past a simple one sentence solution.
I am leery of having technology take too much hand. Television is an example of a technology which certainly did not help education. How many times did you have a (poor excuse for a) teacher put something on the school television to "teach" the class and half the students slept while the majority of the others ignored the TV for some diversion.While I don't disagree that today's education is not perfect, and suffers from the increasing burdens of Federal Regulations it was never intended to address, I think the rise of Home Schooling's popularity has much to do with technology and the ability of students to take online courses from home.
I agree with this one. Coaches and directors tend to make a significant amount more than math and English teachers, even though we, as a society, supposedly want the three R's taught.One thing I will also add is that MONEY is NOT a problem until the school system can no longer support a basketball team, a football stadium, a marching band, a cheer-squad, a dance team, and all the transportation and various and sundry administrative needs of all these ridiculous programs that have absolutely NOTHING to do with the school's purpose.
I am leery of having technology take too much hand. Television is an example of a technology which certainly did not help education. How many times did you have a (poor excuse for a) teacher put something on the school television to "teach" the class and half the students slept while the majority of the others ignored the TV for some diversion.
Online courses CAN be a tool, but I am reminded of the lesson of the hammer. "When your only tool is a hammer every problem starts to look like a nail."
Few parents have the training, experience or knowledge to make good choices of online tools and marketing departments exist to insure that second rate product (courses in this case) competes in the market.
I have long contended that the Federal level of education should include only review and evaluation of methods and materials for the State and local educators to review in their decision making process. Such a resource, if bias could be minimized, might be invaluable to both home-schooling efforts and communities like Chicago trying to escape the long folly which has caused the decline of public education. Unfortunately such a move, while probably beneficial for the education process, would result in less power for the central government and hence would not be pursued.Meh...I suppose you need to compare the "second rate product" with the alternatives....in Detroit, thos alternatives don't look so great.
I have long contended that the Federal level of education should include only review and evaluation of methods and materials for the State and local educators to review in their decision making process. Such a resource, if bias could be minimized, might be invaluable to both home-schooling efforts and communities like Chicago trying to escape the long folly which has caused the decline of public education. Unfortunately such a move, while probably beneficial for the education process, would result in less power for the central government and hence would not be pursued.Meh...I suppose you need to compare the "second rate product" with the alternatives....in Detroit, thos alternatives don't look so great.
You are correct the dismal performance of Chicago schools is alarming; they have sunk to such a low level that recovery may take generations even if the politicians can be inclined to sense.
Remembering back to when I was a kid. It certainly would have given me much satisfaction to see some of my teachers dragged off to jail after flunking me.Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores | detnews.com | The Detroit NewsDetroit -- Impassioned parents demanded jail time for educators and district officials Saturday following the release of test scores that showed fourth- and eighth-graders had the worst math scores in the nation.
City students took the National Assessment of Educational Progress test this year, and 69 percent of fourth-graders scored below the basic level in math and 77 percent of eighth-graders scored below basic.
The Detroit scores on the progress test were the lowest in its 40-year history. The sample of students included 900 of Detroit's 6,000 fourth-graders and 1,000 of the district's 6,000 eighth-graders.
Sharlonda Buckman, CEO of the Detroit Parent Network, called for jailing and civil lawsuits against anyone in the city's educational system that is not doing his or her share to help properly educate children.
"Somebody needs to go to jail," she said in a tearful address to 500 parents gathered Saturday for the organization's annual breakfast forum. "Somebody needs to pay for this. Somebody needs to go to jail, and it shouldn't be the kids."
Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb told the crowd the test scores weren't the result of children who were incompetent or parents who didn't care. He blamed the scores on the district not doing its job.
Comments?
Our Federal Government has almost nothing (no absolutely nothing) to do with HOW anything is taught in US schools.
The only State that has a school system is Hawaii.
I believe that if a near majority fail a test, there is a good chance that the test is the problem...
That's possible...unless that same test is passed by the majority in another school.
Our Federal Government has almost nothing (no absolutely nothing) to do with HOW anything is taught in US schools.
The only State that has a school system is Hawaii.
Yet I pay a lot of extra property taxes because of unfunded federal education "mandates"
How many states have a state board of education? I recall a report that over 40% of all Texas State funds were spent on local education. Money gives control, as does the ability to "mandate" yet the problems faced by a rural east Texas school with less that thirty students per grade level is far different from those faced by an urban Detroit school with more than thirty students per classroom (the Detroit example may be an exaggeration, but the Texas one is not).
One of the comments on this story said that Detroit public employees have to live in Detroit. Residency requirements would be an easy thing to change and could help with a bigger talent pool.
