The US public education system is not "corrupt and broken," and money is the problem.
When adjusted for poverty, American students score as high as Singapore and Hong Kong. We have the best education system in the world.
Test scores and poverty levels are strongly correlated.
If we address poverty and our economic system, we will see amazing results.
I completely support a family's right to homeschool. Our family homeschooled both of our kids at times.
But homeschooling requires a certain measure of privilege. It's not sustainable for families who struggle to pay the bills.
Let's stop ignoring the evidence and acknowledge that some families prefer to avoid the public system, while tens of millions of students and their families benefit from the world-class education public schools provide.
Money is not the cause of the problem and money will not fix a system that is corrupt and broken. The deliberate dumbing down of America IS and HAS BEEN deliberate. We continue to ignore the root cause and lack of funding is not the. Homeschool children are generally light years ahead of homeschool children and it's done at a minimal cost. Time for parents to step up and do their job and stop allowing otbetsto raise and destroy their children. If you want to make it happen you will; if not you will make excuses. We are not abandoning the public school system; it abandoned us long ago but we refuse to see the real problem or we are just so disengaged from our children that we have also become part of the problem.
Actually, Karen is wrong on two points.
The US public education system is not "corrupt and broken," and money is the problem.
When adjusted for poverty, American students score as high as Singapore and Hong Kong. We have the best education system in the world.
Test scores and poverty levels are strongly correlated.
If we address poverty and our economic system, we will see amazing results.
I completely support a family's right to homeschool. Our family homeschooled both of our kids at times.
But homeschooling requires a certain measure of privilege. It's not sustainable for families who struggle to pay the bills.
Let's stop ignoring the evidence and acknowledge that some families prefer to avoid the public system, while tens of millions of students and their families benefit from the world-class education public schools provide.
Money is not the cause of the problem and money will not fix a system that is corrupt and broken. The deliberate dumbing down of America IS and HAS BEEN deliberate. We continue to ignore the root cause and lack of funding is not the. Homeschool children are generally light years ahead of homeschool children and it's done at a minimal cost. Time for parents to step up and do their job and stop allowing otbetsto raise and destroy their children. If you want to make it happen you will; if not you will make excuses. We are not abandoning the public school system; it abandoned us long ago but we refuse to see the real problem or we are just so disengaged from our children that we have also become part of the problem.