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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (63327)	3/29/2018 12:49:27 PM
From: epicure	2 Recommendations Recommended By GPS Info Mannie Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362717

"Homeschooling for a fraction of the money per student clearly turns out better educations than public school can or will." Hardly. If you measure only one metric, test scores- then yes, probably. My oldest, having two highly educated parents (though it's the mother's education that determines a child's success- if you look at the studies) was reading by the time she was 3 and was college level reading by the time she was 10. But the problem is, school teaches a lot of other things. How to get along with other people in your community that are not Just Like You or your weird family. How to balance many competing demands. How to have friends. How to be involved in the secular world. How to be a resident of the "United" states rather than the Disunited One. If you want to Balkanize America, there is no better way than to support private religious schools and homeschooling. If you want America to somehow live up to becoming comfortable with its very diverse population, only public schooling can probably do that. It's just too tempting to bubble up when you can- I do that myself, with my friendships. It's just easier to have people around who you aren't going to argue with. It's relaxing. But if you do that in every area of your life, because you've been schooled to be that way, you're never going to be around people you don't agree with- it's going to be too uncomfortable. So I disagree with you that kids turn out "much better". They seem to turn out much weirder- but that's not an outcome I am looking for. If I could not put my kids in public school, I'd opt for Catholic school- since they're the least weird alternative. But public school, in a good district, is by far the best way to give your kids wife ranging opportunities, and the ability to meet other people, and to break free of the family and become their own person. If you want to just pour information down your student's neck, than home schooling probably is the way to go- especially if you want, as many home school parents do, a "purity" of environment- in terms of what ideas the child is exposed to. But that's one giant fucking bubble, really. And you righties claim not to approve of bubbles- though you really do, don't you?