How to cut education without libs going bat shit crazy

Crispy · Mar 4, 2011

My wife is a board certified NYS teacher who does not work in the public school system. She does home based teaching for kids with special needs. We have discussed the drawbacks and benefits of home based schooling for our children and socialization was not a drawback. The kids go to dance class on the weekends, plays, shows, gym...etc. Socialization as an excuse to send them to PS is BS. You go to school to learn, not show off your new clothes and learn how to dish out /receive drama.

Even better then home schooling are the results private institutions get.

Allow parents to opt out of the portion of property tax that fund the public school failure, in my county 80% of tax bill is schooling with 80% of that going to fucking teacher pensions. And allow us to use that money to send kids to a private institution/charter school.

Public schools have failed. Its time to trigger the stop loss and evolve people.

Free Thinker · Mar 4, 2011

homeschooling is big in my state. very few rules. anyone can yank their kid out of school and homeschool them. it is usually used by religious folk to keep the children ignorant of science. no evolution taught there.

Crispy · Mar 4, 2011

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homeschooling is big in my state. it is usually used by religious folk to keep the children ignorant of science. no evolution taught there.

I would move. Sounds pathetic.

OPTIONAL777 · Mar 4, 2011

Goober wants to perpetuate his species...

Being exposed to different ideas, different cultures, people of different religious beliefs, people of different color is not something that Goober wants.

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homeschooling is big in my state. very few rules. anyone can yank their kid out of school and homeschool them. it is usually used by religious folk to keep the children ignorant of science. no evolution taught there.

peilthetraveler · Mar 4, 2011

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What good is it if you raise a kid who can score a 1600 on the SAT's, with a 150 IQ, if the kid can not function in society? We all have met one of those kids who was a frigging genius in school but a complete social misfit. Odds are pretty bad that someone who completely lacks social skills will be able to make any kind of meaningful life for themselves.

Yeah, I knew one of those kids. From kindergarten to high school he had an average GPA of 4.2. He was a total nerd and really socially inept. What happened to him? He got into Cal-tech and gravitated to smarter people that understood him. I think he has got a pretty meaningful life for himself now. Last I heard he became a scientist at NASA.

Hello · Mar 4, 2011

In my experience most parents are not willing to take the time to put their kids into lots of those after school activities. It wasnt until I left home that i truly realised the sacrifice my parents made to put me in hockey, and baseball, and golf, football, etc. and drive me around and watch all my stuff.

Imagine if the parents were also stuck with the kids all day(because they were homeschooled.).....

In terms of bullying, you have to learn at some point that some people are assholes. That is part of the reason why some kids have such huge problems after being homeschooled for their elementary years. When you take a kid out of a safe haven where he never had to deal with any of that then throw him into highschool they have no idea what to do about it.

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Just because you are homeschooled doesnt mean you dont join clubs outside of school.

There also also a ton of problems kids can have in public education....for instance..

Peer pressure and bullying is a regular affair at public school. Non conformism and innovative thinking is not easily acceptable.
Kids are so much more likely to use drugs & alcohol because of peer pressure in public schools. Any child that stands out like a nail, gets hit like a hammer for doing so. Think back to when you were in high school. Did the smartest kids that went on in life to be successful have lots of friends growing up? Generally they dont...maybe thats why they are smart...they avoided the social interaction of the kids that would grow up to be idiots.

denner · Mar 4, 2011

Quote from Hello:

What good is it if you raise a kid who can score a 1600 on the SAT's, with a 150 IQ, if the kid can not function in society? We all have met one of those kids who was a frigging genius in school but a complete social misfit. Odds are pretty bad that someone who completely lacks social skills will be able to make any kind of meaningful life for themselves.

They'd probably end up spending countless hours on Elite Trader.

peilthetraveler · Mar 4, 2011

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homeschooling is big in my state. very few rules. anyone can yank their kid out of school and homeschool them. it is usually used by religious folk to keep the children ignorant of science. no evolution taught there.

They teach them about evolution, they just teach them more about it than you learned. When a person learns more and more about evolution, they come to realize that its a complete joke.

Anyway, Home schooled children generally earn more money in the life than public schooled children. I guess believing you're a monkey makes you work for peanuts.

pspr · Mar 4, 2011

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......In terms of bullying, you have to learn at some point that some people are assholes. ........

Parents home schooling their kids could be required to make their kids log into the ET P&R forum and see there are plenty of liberturd bullies in the world. I think they would get a great education in bullying and narrowmindedness displayed by the lefties here.

denner · Mar 4, 2011

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Yeah, I knew one of those kids. From kindergarten to high school he had an average GPA of 4.2. He was a total nerd and really socially inept. What happened to him? He got into Cal-tech and gravitated to smarter people that understood him. I think he has got a pretty meaningful life for himself now. Last I heard he became a scientist at NASA.

I agree with the other poster about social skills and development and that would be my number one concern about homeschooling. That being said, if a kid is a genius, he's probably not going to adapt easily in a school setting either. At least not until he reaches a certain age where kids get past the juvenile bullying and peer pressure.

Either way, social skills are far more important for the other 99% of the population that really need to combine their intellect with social skills to get ahead.