Public Schooling

[wiffleball 4,639]

I think we're seeing the writing on the wall. With the advent of the internet, more and more white parents are having their kids staying at home for school. Add in things like school shootings, parents having to provide far too many supplies to supplement minorities who have 300 dollar "kicks", but somehow can't afford crayons. Then throw in trannies and all the other nonsense we see popping up.

 

So, five years from now, is public schooling mostly just some kind of minority baby sitting?

 

Pretty sure it will be.

 

Then what?

[KSB2424 3,083]

The answer to your question is....yes. This is pretty much the step by step process for middle class parents who care once their kids are school age.

 

 

Step one: Does the wife want to and willing to home school? If yes then stop here, if no then go to step two.

 

Step two: Is there a Charter school nearby that is highly acclaimed? If yes then submit child in the lottery, if accepted then stop here. If no then move to step 3.

 

Step three: Can middle class family afford private school? If yes, then stop here, if no then go to step 4.

 

Step four: Is the local public school actually good after research and visits? If yes then stop here, if no then go to step 5.

 

Step 5: Talk wife into home school.

[Cloaca du jour 2,064]

Ive seen cyber school curriculum. Its not very good. It works for kids who are motivated to learn, and those are few and far between. I see alot of students who come back from a year of cyber school with no credits and a year behind. Is it good in some situations...sure. Will it replace public school...No.

 

No internet can replace a good teacher that can meet the needs of its students. Humans are social animals and cant sit at home isolated.

 

The next generation of students wont be judged based on what they know. Google already knows everything. They will be challenged to show what can you DO with all this knowledge.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

My local school district is one of the richest and highly rated in the US. They have pretty much put magnet programs in every middle and high school to keep smart kids in the system. It's like having 2 schools in one building, which keep test scores up at the schools that are filled with minorities.

[IGotWorms 3,311]

You're a fockin idiot if you home school your kids, IMO. They need socialization.

[OldMaid 1,838]

You're a fockin idiot if you home school your kids, IMO. They need socialization.

Socialization these days is Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

[Cloaca du jour 2,064]

Socialization these days is Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

No...most of that is disturbing. Lowering empathy. Creating a generation of unfeeling snots.

[IGotWorms 3,311]

Socialization these days is Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

God help us

[Cloaca du jour 2,064]

I see families that homeschool. They bring their kids to church events. 2 have speech issues, all act several years younger, total misfits. Its sad. On the other hand i have seen homeschooling where the kids do well. Its just rare.

 

Once again, it depends on the parents.

[IGotWorms 3,311]

I see families that homeschool. They bring their kids to church events. 2 have speech issues, all act several years younger, total misfits. Its sad. On the other hand i have seen homeschooling where the kids do well. Its just rare.

 

Once again, it depends on the parents.

Frankly I think it's a pretty arrogant act to home school. You really think you can do it so much better than the average teacher in the average school?

 

It's like if someone with very little carpentry skills tried to renovate their whole house. Sure some DIY projects you can pick up on your own, but by and large that house is going to look like sh!t, because you don't have nearly the requisite experience and know how.

 

Not to mention your job is to PARENT and you need separation between the roles of parent and educator.

 

The whole venture just smacks of hubris.

[NorthernVike 2,080]

Socialization these days is Facebook, Twitter and my fax line.

[SUXBNME 1,328]

Socialization these days is Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

And low rent, lightly trafficked forums

[naomi 343]

Frankly I think it's a pretty arrogant act to home school. You really think you can do it so much better than the average teacher in the average school?

 

It's like if someone with very little carpentry skills tried to renovate their whole house. Sure some DIY projects you can pick up on your own, but by and large that house is going to look like sh!t, because you don't have nearly the requisite experience and know how.

 

Not to mention your job is to PARENT and you need separation between the roles of parent and educator.

 

The whole venture just smacks of hubris.

 

Many kids aren't actually being parented at home and teachers are expected to fill in for that.

 

The need for that to be acknowledged is more on the education community IMO. Teachers need to be separated out from that expectation to parent. My mom has a lifetime teaching credential and she started to get bothered by how much of the focus shifted away from subject matter and onto classroom management and behavior modification.

 

As far as homeschooling and socialization..I'll admit I talked my parents into letting me go to public school because I wanted friends. My two brothers were each other's best friends and since they were boys they were able to get out further (on their bikes, skateboards, etc) and they made good friends from that.

 

I've known smarty pants but awkward homeschoolers (not from networking, because we didn't do any) and I've been impressed with some for their intelligence, curiosity and social skills. It really depends on the parents...it's not homeschooling in of itself that does it.

 

I won't forget this 16 year old otherwise-homeschooled classmate I had in a community college class who was learning the subject far better than most of us and she was popular and affable. When I was 16 I was adjusting to public high school and completely distracted by everything like an Amish person in Times Square.

 

It only seems arrogant in a culture where being schooled in an environment with a big group is the norm, but learning "at home" as you grow up, in of itself...not weird. Isolation is weird, and cult-like socializing is weird. Homeschooling doesn't necessitate either.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

I see families that homeschool. They bring their kids to church events. 2 have speech issues, all act several years younger, total misfits. Its sad. On the other hand i have seen homeschooling where the kids do well. Its just rare.

 

Once again, it depends on the parents.

Also depends on the kids. Socially, an introvert is not going to be much different, nor is an extrovert. Kids with ADHD certainly have their difficulties learning in a 30 kid class. I would not home school kids, but it works for some.

[DankNuggs 305]

Buy a house in a rich town and avoid the BS.

 

Public schooling isn't the issue, the issue is how the kids are raised

[BunnysBastatrds 1,914]

Buy a house in a rich town and avoid the BS.

 

Public schooling isn't the issue, the issue is how the kids are raised

 

 

Public schools where I live are not an option. The magnet schools are an option but but i'd rather spend 9 grand a year knowing I don't have to worry about her education. It's tough, but, by the time she graduates, she'll be ten times smarter than she would otherwise.

[KSB2424 3,083]

Just dropped off little KSB to Kindergarten for the first time this morning.

 

We had four options.

 

1. Private School

2. Charter School (Lottery)

3. Public School

4. Homeschool

 

I am not against homeschool, but my wife doesn't want to do it, and is not qualified to do it either as she was a dental hygenist. So we put him in the lottery for the Charter School and lost in the lottery.

 

Luckily the nearby public elementary school is a Magnet School and rated very high in our county. People from surrounding areas try to get their kids in there, so we decided public school was perfectly fine. If we weren't lucky and had a really good public school nearby I'd be forking over some cash for private school. And if we stay in the same house we are at now I may have to do this once little man hits 6th grade as the pubilc middle and high schools suck. He's not going there. Period. But I have 5 years to worry about that.

 

My point is that if the public schools are not rated high or have bad reputations, middle class parents will in fact go another route and do have options, even if it means going in debt.