Again - would love a public breakdown of where all that money is actually going. Especially by state. And the Dept of Ed didn't provide shit to me except for the need for 3 years of therapy after I got out of my few years at public high school (yes I was a homeschool brat, so getting monetarily drained for nothing but insult is a bit personal). By the time I hit public school at age 14 I was already 2 years past what they were teaching the seniors.
All the friends I had who went to public school longer than I did got fucked up by it 6 ways to Sunday and still hardly know how to read or write, much less do their own research.
My high school had a daycare and also the highest suicide rate in the state, probably because it was designed like a prison (No fucking windows!? Isn't that, like, a huge building code violation??? As an adult I just wonder HOW DID YOU GET AWAY WITH THAT?!) and the only "counselling" on staff was useless and pretty much would just wave off any distress or disputes you had and tell you that if you didn't shape up you wouldn't get into college.
Testing hell and busywork melts your brain and they just keep adding more while decreasing actual class content every year. Unless you count propaganda, which there was plenty of even by the time I got there. I'm sure it's worse now.
Agreed on all fronts (fellow homeschooler who has yet to regret it). Had multiple friends and family who had passions and talents entirely crushed by the public school system (and angry lesbians, go figure).
The best scenarios I've seen are private schools that heavily involve parents, and have the children take frequent trips out into the community to see how the world works, how business works, civics work, etc., or homeschoolers that do the same thing (don't wall a student up in a classroom and call it "learning").
Sending the money straight to parents is the first step in dismantling the Department of Ed.
Would like to see a breakdown of where our tax dollars are going in general...
A lot of education funding is state, though, isn't it? At any rate this would be amazing but I can't see how he would be able to make it happen.
Yes and no. Dept of Ed provides A LOT.
Again - would love a public breakdown of where all that money is actually going. Especially by state. And the Dept of Ed didn't provide shit to me except for the need for 3 years of therapy after I got out of my few years at public high school (yes I was a homeschool brat, so getting monetarily drained for nothing but insult is a bit personal). By the time I hit public school at age 14 I was already 2 years past what they were teaching the seniors.
All the friends I had who went to public school longer than I did got fucked up by it 6 ways to Sunday and still hardly know how to read or write, much less do their own research.
My high school had a daycare and also the highest suicide rate in the state, probably because it was designed like a prison (No fucking windows!? Isn't that, like, a huge building code violation??? As an adult I just wonder HOW DID YOU GET AWAY WITH THAT?!) and the only "counselling" on staff was useless and pretty much would just wave off any distress or disputes you had and tell you that if you didn't shape up you wouldn't get into college.
Testing hell and busywork melts your brain and they just keep adding more while decreasing actual class content every year. Unless you count propaganda, which there was plenty of even by the time I got there. I'm sure it's worse now.
I stand by my opinion. Dept of Ed is garbage.
Agreed on all fronts (fellow homeschooler who has yet to regret it). Had multiple friends and family who had passions and talents entirely crushed by the public school system (and angry lesbians, go figure).
The best scenarios I've seen are private schools that heavily involve parents, and have the children take frequent trips out into the community to see how the world works, how business works, civics work, etc., or homeschoolers that do the same thing (don't wall a student up in a classroom and call it "learning").
Sending the money straight to parents is the first step in dismantling the Department of Ed.