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Originally Posted by rob62521
However, unless you want to pay a lot more for public education, there are few other ways to teach large groups of students.
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Exactly so we should stop trying! I am certainly not the only parent able to teach, and there are many many people more than willing to share knowledge in their feild of interest, but todays world, kids are shclepped off, so no one has a chance to learn the 'old fashioned way' unless the parents are willing to accept major ridicule, pain, cash output (though I believe it will save us in the long run), extra time, effort, and PIA fighting the system. Home Educating is slowly gaining acceptance, we no longer have to fight the local schools with guns to keep our kids home, but it hasn't come that far either. George Washington's
Education: No formal education, was far superior to what we are trying to accomplish in Public schools.
Even if you feel there must be schools for people who will not teach (though I would argue that number grows due to the current system), why must we give a standard of care that waits till age 5 to teach, and at age 5 assumes a child should be able to behave for 6 hours away from any parent? Instead why can't we take about half the current money sent to a PS school and use it for any age education, a willing learner takes much less time (and money) to teach than a classroom full of captives.
Mass, Age based, education is a waste of time, money and rescources.