Chitsa Black
Sensorium139
I don't want to send my child to any school , I feel they would have their skills neglected , they'd be indoctrinated, and I won't be damaging them, as public school damaged me.
And your bias against it will be indoctrination in and of itself. You had a bad experience so everyone must have a bad experience. You are setting any children you have up for poor social skills and insuring that they're as biased and ignorant of the public school system as you are based on your singular experience.
there's a lot of news that it's far from a 'singular' experience, people too dumb to succeed given passing grades so they don't 'feel' they're a failure, but not holding them back so that when they get into higher grades, they'll 'know' they're a failure. people too smart to follow the curriculum, learning on their own, but failing everything in actual school, ending up in remedial classes cause they're not learning like everyone else, exactly...the...same...wayyyy*snores* schools these days are like puppy mills, child in, wait 15 years, child out, there's no individual attention, so students that need particular attention end up a dull average, and these days, the dull average is dirt stupid with a few bits of wood, some grass, pebbles.
i've had some poor experiences with school myself, i know i can teach children better than they do...so i've got some thoughts of method rattling in my head, done some examination of current practice, and can give individual attention. i'm not against public school, and for some of the same reasons that people seem to be against homeschooling, socialisation. yes a child needs to socialise, yes, a child will end up an over sheltered creep without it. if socialisation is the only difference, then there may be a way to allow my kids to have recess and lunch with the other kids, and the others not know which is my kids homeroom. there's always activities that my kids would enjoy with others that don't require them to go to school, sports, art and music classes(that must be private cause the public schools cut them), summer camps, other group activities, all kinds of things.
homework, a child comes home from school, should be able to relax, homework for each class should not take over a half hour, an hour total for grades up to 6, then a free time/education mix. some classes should not have homework at all, or be replaced with home schooling for a few hours, and on the weekend. reading, writing, arithmetic, after i got out of school, grade ten dropout, spent a lot of time undoing the damage done, i started to learn again, real things.
true, it may be indoctrination against liking public school, but is liking public school necessary?
