I just can’t resist sharing Gary North’s take on the current debate over how to stop school shootings: close all public schools.
Here’s another article in the same vein. (Warning: some offensive language in the comments.)
I just can’t resist sharing Gary North’s take on the current debate over how to stop school shootings: close all public schools.
Here’s another article in the same vein. (Warning: some offensive language in the comments.)
Parents choose homeschooling for many different reasons, but one common reason is that they’re unhappy with their local public school, or with public education in general.
Here’s a question to think about. What is the purpose of public school? Most people would answer that it’s where children get an education so that they graduate prepared to go out into the world on their own and support themselves.
Let’s take a look at what children experience in school on a daily basis:
Schools aren’t the only place where you’ll find this kind of environment. There’s another place where the daily routine is almost identical. Rereading that list (this time replacing the word “teacher” with the word “boss”) makes it clear that the school experience is designed to replicate the experience of the workplace; that is, the workplace that was common during the 20th century. Children in school were and are trained to be “good workers”: to get to work on time, to do what the boss says, and to accept the lack of autonomy inherent in the traditional hierarchical work environment. They experience this indoctrination for the bulk of childhood; thus it will be hard for today’s children to shake off their school-induced dependence on authority once they have to make it on their own in a world where all the rules have changed, and where self-sufficiency is back in style out of necessity.
(Excerpted from my book Thriving in the 21st Century: Preparing our Children for the New Economic Reality.)
Here’s a story for those well-meaning relatives and friends who tell us we shouldn’t be homeschooling our children because we aren’t certified teachers.
You know what bugs me the most about this story?
It’s not the fact that this fifth-grade teacher sent 3800+ emails over the course of 169 school days. (At a rate of one minute per email, that’s 57 hours of paid work time.) Continue reading