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Thanks COD.
Orson Scott Card on the public schools and home education.
There is no such thing as an "educational expert."
There are people who have snookered us into paying them a lot of money because they claim to be experts on education, but it's all a game. They collect degrees by taking classes from people who don't know how to teach and don't recognize good teaching when they see it. Then they come to the school districts and get ridiculously high salaries for thinking up ways to keep teachers from doing their jobs.
Do you know what I find, as a college teacher? That the best writers, the best thinkers, the most broadly educated among my students are the ones who were home-schooled.
Think about that. And then think about this: Most of those home-schooled kids get their schooling in a few hours a day. By noon, most of them are done. Then they have time to live together with their families. To read or play on their own. To have a childhood.
Meanwhile, the educational establishment makes ironclad, unbreakable rules about how many days and hours our children must be put under the control of the "experts," who march them through the halls in lines, refuse to let them use the toilet without being punished for it, and inflict group punishments like "silent lunch" for the crime of sitting near other kids who were daring to talk to each other. (I'm describing one of the "better" middle schools in our district.)
And as if that weren't enough, they're maneuvering to take away our summer again
Read the full article here.
- Schneider: Lack Of Oversight For Home-schooled Alarms Educator
Sharon Ganssley of the Shiawassee Regional Education Service District, which covers Perry Middle School, said that as far as she knows her district has never pursued charges against a home-schooler. That, despite the fact that they sometimes see kids...
- Eat Your Words Anonymous
Anonymous said... Nice hatchet job interpreting Greg Ladens thoughts and ideas;-)Greg is about the promotion of science--and I am sure that when there "comes into bee-ing" a homeschooled kid who wins the 'science or chemistry bee' instead of a...
- The Other S Word
For some reason in today's politically correct world, it's still OK to bash homeschoolers. First homeschoolers were attacked on the academic front. How could parents possibly be qualified to teach their own children unless they had teacher's...
- Educational News
Homeschoolers are a very diverse group contrary to what some people think. For the Native American Homeschoolers amongst us The Native American Homeschool Association and Native American Homeschoolers are two groups you may want to check out. *********************************************************************************...
- Public Education Is Inherently Destructive
One of the big problems with the public school system is that the schools are not accountable to the parents. Parents have their children's best interest at heart; unfortunately public schools often do not. Public education is inherently destructive....
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Thanks COD.
Orson Scott Card on the public schools and home education.
There is no such thing as an "educational expert."
There are people who have snookered us into paying them a lot of money because they claim to be experts on education, but it's all a game. They collect degrees by taking classes from people who don't know how to teach and don't recognize good teaching when they see it. Then they come to the school districts and get ridiculously high salaries for thinking up ways to keep teachers from doing their jobs.
Do you know what I find, as a college teacher? That the best writers, the best thinkers, the most broadly educated among my students are the ones who were home-schooled.
Think about that. And then think about this: Most of those home-schooled kids get their schooling in a few hours a day. By noon, most of them are done. Then they have time to live together with their families. To read or play on their own. To have a childhood.
Meanwhile, the educational establishment makes ironclad, unbreakable rules about how many days and hours our children must be put under the control of the "experts," who march them through the halls in lines, refuse to let them use the toilet without being punished for it, and inflict group punishments like "silent lunch" for the crime of sitting near other kids who were daring to talk to each other. (I'm describing one of the "better" middle schools in our district.)
And as if that weren't enough, they're maneuvering to take away our summer again
Read the full article here.
- Schneider: Lack Of Oversight For Home-schooled Alarms Educator
Sharon Ganssley of the Shiawassee Regional Education Service District, which covers Perry Middle School, said that as far as she knows her district has never pursued charges against a home-schooler. That, despite the fact that they sometimes see kids...
- Eat Your Words Anonymous
Anonymous said... Nice hatchet job interpreting Greg Ladens thoughts and ideas;-)Greg is about the promotion of science--and I am sure that when there "comes into bee-ing" a homeschooled kid who wins the 'science or chemistry bee' instead of a...
- The Other S Word
For some reason in today's politically correct world, it's still OK to bash homeschoolers. First homeschoolers were attacked on the academic front. How could parents possibly be qualified to teach their own children unless they had teacher's...
- Educational News
Homeschoolers are a very diverse group contrary to what some people think. For the Native American Homeschoolers amongst us The Native American Homeschool Association and Native American Homeschoolers are two groups you may want to check out. *********************************************************************************...
- Public Education Is Inherently Destructive
One of the big problems with the public school system is that the schools are not accountable to the parents. Parents have their children's best interest at heart; unfortunately public schools often do not. Public education is inherently destructive....