The largesse from billionaires Tim Dunn and brothers Farris and Dan Wilks has made its way into local politics across Texas. Courtney Gore, a Republican school board member in Granbury, says it’s part of their strategy to build support for vouchers.
Regardless of who or what is navigating the public education system, it has gotten so bad at this current state that there’s absolutely no way I’m having the public education system manage my children 6-7-8 hours a day everyday. Public education in the United States has degraded significantly. My 5 year old is more advanced than 2nd graders (7-8 year olds) in language arts, mathematics, and science (more specifically astronomy). I don’t know what these kids in public education are pre-occupied with during those hours at school but it’s really sad, I mean that sincerely. These children have incredibly far more capacity to learn and public education is limiting them.
Yeah I know, this will get downvoted… some how many of you really put trust in government and government programs that have done nothing but fail us as a whole. It is what it is.
I think there are a few problems - many private schools are religious, many parents have to work multiple jobs for their small apartment (and so can’t do homeschooling), and a lot of people, at least in my area, that were homeschooled as children have religious fundamentalists for parents that completely fucked their lives educationally and socially (and so don’t see homeschooling as a viable alternative)
But yeah, public education has sucked for awhile. I remember in high school they gave everyone in my grade the same final exam, but half of us studied one subject and half of us studied a different subject. So my class was royally screwed. Did I mention the test determined the teacher’s pay for the following year? So the teachers were screwed also.
Regardless of who or what is navigating the public education system, it has gotten so bad at this current state that there’s absolutely no way I’m having the public education system manage my children 6-7-8 hours a day everyday. Public education in the United States has degraded significantly. My 5 year old is more advanced than 2nd graders (7-8 year olds) in language arts, mathematics, and science (more specifically astronomy). I don’t know what these kids in public education are pre-occupied with during those hours at school but it’s really sad, I mean that sincerely. These children have incredibly far more capacity to learn and public education is limiting them.
Yeah I know, this will get downvoted… some how many of you really put trust in government and government programs that have done nothing but fail us as a whole. It is what it is.
I think there are a few problems - many private schools are religious, many parents have to work multiple jobs for their small apartment (and so can’t do homeschooling), and a lot of people, at least in my area, that were homeschooled as children have religious fundamentalists for parents that completely fucked their lives educationally and socially (and so don’t see homeschooling as a viable alternative)
But yeah, public education has sucked for awhile. I remember in high school they gave everyone in my grade the same final exam, but half of us studied one subject and half of us studied a different subject. So my class was royally screwed. Did I mention the test determined the teacher’s pay for the following year? So the teachers were screwed also.