What is Wrong With Private or Home Schooling?
I realize that not everyone can afford to send their children to private schools, nor is homeschooling within everyones career plan, but after reading this article at Michelle Malkin’s, I have got to wonder if a parent can afford not to do this after seeing what is happening at public schools. Here is the link to the Boston Globe story.
“I wish Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there are theories that his everyday diction charms the below-average mind, hence insuring him Republican votes,” said one question on a quiz written by English and social studies teacher Bret Chenkin.
The question referring to the president asked students to say whether coherent or eschewed was the proper word. The sentence would be more coherent if one eschewed eschewed.
Another example said, “It is frightening the way the extreme right has (balled, arrogated) aspects of the Constitution and warped them for their own agenda.” Arrogated would be the proper word there.
Now listen to what the Principal says;
Principal Sue Maguire said she hoped to speak to whoever complained about the quiz and any students who might be concerned. She said she also would talk with Chenkin about the context of the quiz.
“I feel like this needs to be investigated,” she said.
Contact Chenkin and the English Department here
November 26, 2005 - 08:40 AM on November 26th, 2005
Theres nothing wrong with home schooling it sure beats these rotten public schools where they just brainwash the kids with SAVE THE RAINFOREST and cram this animal rights crap in their heads or revionist history sex education evolution and all sorts of other dreadful junk. Its time to shut down the Dept of education and return to home education:cool:
November 26, 2005 - 11:03 AM on November 26th, 2005
snowy you are correct, there is nothing wrong with home schooling. This example I gave is one of many.
November 26, 2005 - 05:55 PM on November 26th, 2005
well aside from the lack of interaction with other students, an established curriculum, a real diploma, a certified teacher…i guess nothing. i almost wish people would home school their kids, it’ll keep the real morons at home with their parents.
November 26, 2005 - 09:48 PM on November 26th, 2005
I wrote the principal. Here is the text of the email.
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I wonder how much of a bee that’ll put in her bonnet.:lol:
November 26, 2005 - 10:07 PM on November 26th, 2005
3: “The lack of interaction with other students” is nonsense.
Home-schooled kids, like only children, interact more with adults, which means (in general) they tend to act more mature than kids their own age.
Next, they can take a much more advanced curriculum at home, which is one of the reasons why they tend to score quite well on the ACT and SAT, and can test out of many required general college courses.
In many public schools, advanced placement classes have been eliminated because it was deemed damaging to the self-esteem of the students who… tested and placed in remedial classes. So the smart ones have to suffer.
Home schooling seems like a viable alternative when you consider the number of special needs students and problem kids in public school sucking up all kinds of valuable time, downright certifiable teachers having sex with their students (rape in most states), that some parents actually take their parental responsibilities so seriously that they believe they can do a better job of educating their kid than some adult whose only interest in their kid is a continued income.
November 27, 2005 - 09:36 AM on November 27th, 2005
Home scholed kids are not exposed to sex education,evolution,enviromental education,revionist history,gay and lesbian indroducion,animl rights,new age thinky feely, and their not forced to read DADDYS ROOMATE and HEATHER HAS TWO MOMMIES,and their not harassed by PETA advocats handing out their trashy propeganda:smile:
November 27, 2005 - 02:25 PM on November 27th, 2005
steve, you mean morons like you?
Show me the public school kids that kill other kids, then tell me just how many home schoolers have gone on such rampages, steve.
You’ll find the home schooled kids are smarter, more well read, and better citizens than your average Democrat, and well above your average NEA dumbed down teacher.
Peejz, didn’t I send you the link to that quiz, etc.? I must be slowing down.
November 27, 2005 - 02:39 PM on November 27th, 2005
Isn’t Hillary Clinton one of those liberals who preaches about the joys of public education, but sent her daughter to private school?
November 28, 2005 - 02:06 AM on November 28th, 2005
Homeschooling is definitely the way!
Just look at what upstanding citizens homeschooling turned out with David Ludwig and Kara Borden!
I don’t agree at all with this teacher who inserting his personal political leanings into a vocabulary test, but Peejz would have us all believe that this issolate incident is overwelming proof that our public education system is broke beyond repair.
To suggest such issolated incidents mean we should consider sending our kids to “private” (aka ‘elitist’) schools or homeschool (overly protect our children from the real world they will face as adults) is just plain dumb.
You are as far off the wacky meter to the ‘right’ as any hardcore leftists you spit upon, Peejz. I could see her raising the next “David Ludwig”.
November 28, 2005 - 07:45 AM on November 28th, 2005
tofu,
Our dear trolling leftie, there are more teacher incidents than you wish to acknowledge.
Let’s look at all the debris that comes from Public Schools.
November 28, 2005 - 09:54 AM on November 28th, 2005
No Tofu, we should continue abusing children by sending them to those metal detector laced, baby-sitting gulags you call “public schools,” where kids can’t read, teachers can’t teach and parents have no say in whether or not their child (instead of learning to read) should be a willing participant in 3rd grade “Condom Week”
you moron.
November 28, 2005 - 10:17 AM on November 28th, 2005
No tofu sorry, but no kids so we won’t know how they would have turned out. What I do know is that Sasha brought up in # 5 a good arguement for homeschooling. Within my brothers and sisters, there is a split between those that educate privately or publically. Those that went public lived in school systems at the same level or better than what our parents gave us. And those that are in private don’t like what the public had to offer in ther cities so they chose private schools.
November 28, 2005 - 10:44 AM on November 28th, 2005
I found another case for private schools. The 9th Circus Court said again it was okay to indoctrinate public school children with Islam!
November 28, 2005 - 10:55 AM on November 28th, 2005
Rocky,
Maybe it is time to indoctrinate the 9th Circus with American law and values, not the crap they substitute for the Constitution.
November 30, 2005 - 01:32 AM on November 30th, 2005
The public schools I went to couldn’t keep me busy. I even subbed for the teacher a couple of times. Imagine an 8th grader substituting for a couple of classes for the 7th and 8th grade science teacher while she took care of some things. Unfortunately, in my case, home schooling would’ve been far worse. I was mathematically, scientifically, and politically savvy beyond my parents by the time I hit Jr. High. High school was interesting simply because I was always one year or more ahead of 99 % of my class mates in science classes. I had really wanted to go to the nearest military academy but that was beyond my parent’s means, so I ended up in a public school where I was bored most of the time.