I'm all in favor of getting the public school system out of the job of raising children, but as long as a parent is sticking his child into the public propaganda/indoctrination system, the child is effectively being raised in and by that system. Think about it; the child spends eight hours at least in the system, during the waking hours, leaving about four hours at home in the evening. Of course, there's homework and "entertainment", so the effective parent/child interaction time is about an hour, at most. Is it possible to make up for that on weekends or during summer? Maybe, but it all gets erased between Monday through Friday, September through May. Homeschooling is the best, and select private education is a distant second. The last place a parent should want to put his child is in public school.
💯 As a former public school teacher, you're dead on the mark, Steve. I've caught students bullying others and taken away their recess, along with requiring them to write an apology letter. In cursive, which few are being taught anymore. The other teachers thought I was nuts because even the principal wouldn't enforce behavior. And this was in the Department of Defense Dependent Schools on military bases. 🤨 None of them want the extra work of enforcing behavior.
It’s been nearly a decade since I last looked, but back then the strongest correlation to actual criminal activity using firearms was to education. The lower the level of education attained the higher the gun crime rate. Places like Hawaii and Vermont would vie with the Dakotas for fewest murders. And even with the smaller population North Dakota was always in the bottom three by rate because half of the murders here didn’t involve guns.
I'm all in favor of getting the public school system out of the job of raising children, but as long as a parent is sticking his child into the public propaganda/indoctrination system, the child is effectively being raised in and by that system. Think about it; the child spends eight hours at least in the system, during the waking hours, leaving about four hours at home in the evening. Of course, there's homework and "entertainment", so the effective parent/child interaction time is about an hour, at most. Is it possible to make up for that on weekends or during summer? Maybe, but it all gets erased between Monday through Friday, September through May. Homeschooling is the best, and select private education is a distant second. The last place a parent should want to put his child is in public school.
💯 As a former public school teacher, you're dead on the mark, Steve. I've caught students bullying others and taken away their recess, along with requiring them to write an apology letter. In cursive, which few are being taught anymore. The other teachers thought I was nuts because even the principal wouldn't enforce behavior. And this was in the Department of Defense Dependent Schools on military bases. 🤨 None of them want the extra work of enforcing behavior.
Well said!
It’s been nearly a decade since I last looked, but back then the strongest correlation to actual criminal activity using firearms was to education. The lower the level of education attained the higher the gun crime rate. Places like Hawaii and Vermont would vie with the Dakotas for fewest murders. And even with the smaller population North Dakota was always in the bottom three by rate because half of the murders here didn’t involve guns.