Anyone can take a shot at the public school system. They take in tons of money, have multiple layers of bureaucracy, they pass people that cannot read or write, and then they say the solution is more money. It’s the definition of insanity1.
Why is it that a stay at home mother who pays $1000 or less for a curriculum’s worth of books, $15 to join an area group for sports, recreation and activities, and spends $100 for a sport and then pays school taxes for services that they can’t take advantage of (instead of getting paid by the government) can end up training children that have great academics and are an asset to our community, but New York state can spend $7,642 per pupil with the average teacher salary of $46, 800 and can graduate students that cannot read? [Education Backgrounder]
Where our country and our world is going can easily be seen in what is being taught to our children. The Roman Catholic’s knew it. The Marxists knew it. Plato knew it. The Pro-Life movement knows it.
What children are taught and who should be doing the teaching is, therefore, a big issue.
Not having enough to do trying to brainwash all the public school children to only believe one worldview, the press believes that it now has the right to dictate to the makers or home school curriculum what worldview they teach as well.
Never mind that the article itself states that the textbook writers are giving what a majority of their clients want—it focuses on how “unjust” it is that non-Christians do not have many text book options as homeschoolers where they can learn their preferred beliefs.
Whether you’re sending your child off to school or homeschooling like we are, you need to make sure that you identify those things that belong to your little learner.
When I was a kid going to school we had to cover all of our school books in brown paper bags, and then we’re color them and put our name on them.
I’ve long thought that the fact that “no one fails” in school was something that made the whole thing silly. Failing has a negative connotation, but it also says that a person needs more work in a given area in order to master it.
That we have taken the teeth out of grading by continuing to process children forward even when they haven’t master basic skills is at the heart of our education problem in America.
Each of us who are parents have to make many decisions every day, but one of them is critical: who will raise them?
I do not believe the current culture that tells us that we have to send our children to day care because we have to have two incomes. And I think it’s a convincing lie, because our society is constantly telling us what we need to have, where we need to live, and that we have to have it our way now.
A few weeks ago we talked about Morality in education using as a springboard the whole topic of homosexuality in the public school system. Core to the premise that the school is a proper place to teach right and wrong is the concept that the children belong to the state, not to the parents.
What’s strange is the parallels between this concept of “it takes a village” to raise children and Plato’s Republic. Two portions of Plato’s Republic I find scary (especially when you consider that Plato is thought to have lived between 427 and 347 BC).
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