If you’re like me and have kids and overseeing the shit they make our kids learn you will come to realize the extent of the indoctrination our children face on a daily basis. This Gates virus will have unintended consequences for the left whereby homeschooling will become a reality for more parents and parents will become vocal after seeing the systemic indoctrination of our children.
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Why do you think Harvard is coming out so hard against home schools now. Because they know it's about to blow up like Ramadan
How dare parents have a say in the minds of their children.
Well my wife has been homeschooling our kids for about a month now (in South Carolina)
It has been a HUGE challenge for her, and our kids. But, since SC just today closed schools the rest of the school year, homeschooling has become the reality.
And I think it's going to be a good thing. I have not seen any evidence of indoctrination here in SC from any of my kids' schoolwork, but what DOES bother me is the low-level, dumbed-down, retarded bullshit they are working on.
I could give lots of examples, but a few are: our youngest, in 3rd grade, has basically 4 things to do each day for school: Write a couple short paragraphs, read for 15 minutes, a 'math' worksheet and something social studies or science related. They also have done some stuff with their tablets, but that system is screwed up.
We have to scan those worksheets and email to the teacher for grading. Not too bad, right? She literally had a WEEK of "math" worksheets which was about telling the time! Here are some clocks; what time is it? Here are some times, draw the hands on the clock. If it is 2:45, how many minutes until 3:15?
And social studies... OMG! 2 Weeks on Goods vs. Services plus Public Goods vs. Private Goods. Is an ice cream cone a public good or a private good?
Another week on Needs vs. Wants. Do you Need or Want more candy?
Sorry for the rant and the hijack, but this is freaking ridiculous. It brings back memories of when I was in school, and how fucking SLOW everything was.
Sure, there are some kids who are average or below average intelligence, but they were mixed in with the rest of us.
I could teach my kids all about Needs vs. Wants, Public vs. Private goods in an afternoon. And could give them real world examples. And then, could drive it home by having them DO something about it... like Dad wants you to clean up the mess you made, you don't want to, but you need to! Hehehe
And the math. Oh my GOD, the math. Let's draw 4 lines in a square; how many squares are there now?
There are not enough "eye roll" emojis on the internet for me to insert into this post to indicate how annoying this entire situation is!
--- My wife and I both work, and she has been staying home with our kids. She's amazing! She is doing as much work as she can, plus watching and teaching our children. But we've started to discuss the possibility of her quitting her job, or starting off by perhaps working part days or a few days a week, and becoming a 'real' teacher for our children. Basically turning this stay at home necessity of teaching our kids into a "I WANT to stay home and teach our kids, because they deserve so much MORE than what public schools have been providing!"---
In Washington much the same. Our student only has 3 Zoom meetings (periods) a day down from 6 normally. Also any work that is done isn't actually being graded just pass or fail if you turn anything in you pass. This is only 3 days a week. Teachers are still receiving all of their pay, ridiculous. One of the teachers sounds like a fucking valley girl, she uses "like" about ever 5-6 words. I would have tuned her out at that age or told her to spit it out already.
Agree, the material dumbs down our kids, blurs lines, and wastes time. No wonder America the schools don’t perform as well as they once did. Too much time spent mending mailable minds and blurring lines than educating them on reading, writing, math and science.
When kids come out of 12 years of government school and aren't qualified to do anything, you know there is a problem.
The solution isn't intuitive, and that is to shorten the amount of time kids have to attend school. Kids should not have to go to school after 8th grade.
By 8th grade (14 years old), you should have learned all the skills you need to live life. You should be literate, know arithmetic and basic algebra, have a fundamental understanding of science and history. After that, kids should have the opportunity to work and begin their lives. We coddle children for too long, well into adulthood. Let them get out there while they have the confidence of youth, where they can take real-life setbacks and learn from them. Right now we keep them sheltered for 18 years, and then another 5 years of college. With the result that our kids are institutionalized, and believe the world runs like a school administration.
If a kid voluntarily wants to attend high school, and then college, etc., it's up to them, but this policy of keeping kids in school who don't want to be there, long after they've learned the skills and education necessary to live a fruitful life is robbing these kids of valuable time and experience in the work force. Four extra years of experience on the job is worth it for some kids, rather than sitting in a classroom learning skills they will never use practically (Shakespeare, Calculus, Chemistry, etc.).
Entire youths stolen and nothing given in exchange. My only consolence is there is an eternity in heaven to make up for it..
And of course the solution is to end homeschooling and raise taxes.
Yup
I work part-time while homeschooling, and it's been working well for us. (Gives me a break from the insanity at home. 😜) The days I go to work, either my husband can stay home and do school, or family comes over and we do schoolwork later in the day. We are pretty lucky our jobs allow this flexibility. If you guys are able to do it, I highly recommend!
I'm starting to think that keeping schools closed for the rest of the year will be a good thing.
How many kids won't be going back to the indoctrination centers next Fall?
Precisely.
I love your screen name.
Thank you, please stay at home forever. It’s for your own good.
Thank you Dr Doom; good to know my health and well being are always foremost in your mind.
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It always is which is why I’m counseling Gov Whitmer and her ilk to arrest you. It’s for your own good because you just aren’t smart enough to know better.
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This is great.
This commie virus is igniting freedom all over!
We have a chance to sit at home and watch non-propaganda news -- and really see what's happening.
Glorious.
Absolutely right! Please do!
Yes. Total indoctrination. If you can find any way to home school... do so. Do not do "online charter" because that's just the same, but home.
If you can work from home and do it... do it.
They will NOT suffer from lack of socialization or any other BS people try to convince you of.
And they will be better off.
Sure, when you get to chem or bio or calculus or trig and you want a supplemental source... take an online class or go to community college or whatever for that.
Look into hybrid home school programs as well... that offsets it a bit... they school for 2 days per week and do most of the work at home.
Also, homeschooling eliminate bullshit group work, which is a MUCH too large proportion of the work done now.
Yes! We did a hybrid for middle-school, and it was SO worth.it. Literally everyone I know is emotionally scarred from middle school and I was determined my kids would not suffer that experience.
We've been home schooling for quite a few years already. Here are some points that may help tip the balance for some of you:
A few resources:
Please that happen! I'm seriously hoping a LOT of parents have their eyes opened to what content is being presented as fact to their kids. We need a turning point for escape from the broken public system.
Parents didnt have access to what their children were learning before this event? I don't have kids but I'd think parents with kids under age 6-17 would be able to see what their kids are learning if they are helping w home work.
They aren't helping with homework. Many parents have completely outsourced this to the government. It's free!
I suspect the problem is the same issue I have with my parents: they're just out of the loop on how fast cultural marxism has infiltrated all the way down into elementary schools. They think we're just overreacting. When you as a parent are choosing to place trust in the schools based on your experience in those schools decades ago, it's a silly waste of time to examine every little thing your kid comes home with. Now that they have no choice but to examine, more and more parents will start waking up.
yes. my parents (now grandparents and great grandparents themselves) don't understand it. or at least didn't until we (their children) with children across a couple of generations showed it to them.
many parents today just "don't have time" to look at what their kids are learning.
we are fortunate... we pay for an independent private school where parents have a voice in the curriculum. my sister home schools.
government run schools are garbage today. garbage. keep your kids out at all cost.
PS/edit: my other sister is a teacher in public schools. she knows they are crap, but at this point, it's her career. but the stories she tells are amazing...
Even if parents aren't willing or able to make the jump to homeschooling, one would hope this would get more parents inspecting what their children are being taught and participating in the school board.
The majority of my schooling was learning how to socialize with other kids, understanding hierarchies, identifying face/body language tells, causing trouble and being exposed to new/different ideas, lifestyles, cultures etc. The minority was spent on school work, even though I was an A/B student K-12.
I have nothing against home-schooling, especially with the psycho liberals teaching, but how do you obtain any of the above skills without school?
After school activities can only help so much... And even then, you'll probably only be hanging out with kids in your own neighborhood who are probably from the same background (not the Asian side of town, the "bad" neighborhoods, the rednecks from the county line, the stuck up rich kids etc).
How do you combat this?
Homeschoolers are not isolated - if anything they are more healthily socialized, as they learn to relate to and interact with people of all different ages and types instead of this artificial bubble of people who are all their own age and all in the same point of development as themselves. There are homeschool sports groups, bands, proms, etc. and many places like zoos and museums have special homeschoolers days.
Oh ok, I didn't know that thanks. Seems like a damn good option
We don't so much homeschool as outschool. My kids don't have after school activities, their whole day consists of activities if that's what the family wants. Every town in this country, including yours, has active homeschooling communities, meaning tons of field trips, classes, co-ops, sports, dance, park days, theatre, music, Boy Scouts or similar, cheer, ect all with mixed ages and races, all I choose specified to my kids needs and level. And my town isn't as robust homeschooling as some. Never a dull moment. I do not know of anyone in my community who stays home all day doing "homework" around the kitchen table. Yet people who don't homeschool think this is what happens. That perception is not the reality.
Yeah you're right, I had no idea. Thanks for the information
Hanging out mainly with family and the kids in your neighborhood has been an adequate teacher of social dynamics for most of human civilization.
But most homeschooling families far exceed those parameters without consciously trying. Often this is because the parents choose interesting hobbies and friends for themselves and this exposes the children to real world adult relationships in action.
There is no one size fits all way to educate. Some children do best with lots of stimulation, some with lots of quiet.
The goal of parents as teachers should be to cultivate curiosity and sound reasoning, and to raise capable adults. Modeling behavior is the instinctual way and it works, most of the time.
Thanks for the reply I appreciate it
Yeah, it's sad. I have a kindergartner who is very smart. In the evenings I help him with the assignments and videos sent out by the school. They are PATHETIC.
He could probably read every word of my post without difficulty, and comprehend it all. And yet their "reading" material is on 3 and 4 letter words and what sounds the letters make.
And math? Don't even get me started...
Strange, the lack of anything of substance in OP post - just a comment to fan the flames of those for or against 'government' education.