Mr. Bob has an excellent 2-part series on the challenges his family faced in public school. After realizing the first of their 4 children were not being taught in the Jefferson County Public Schools, they made a change.
The shock we had that day is why three of our other children attended private, or home or a charter school at least for their primary education. You may want me to blame the teacher (I don’t) or the child (nope) or just call it abnormal but we learned it was typical. Frighteningly we learned that this was a system of a bureaucracy run by people with religious devotion to the “system”.
There are plenty of other education choices available, even though the teacher’s unions, school districts and politicians don’t want you to make those choices yourself.
The kids that came after him all attended Charter Schools, private school or were home schooled and had a great foundation laid. They’ve all done well in school, and in spite of intermittent dealings with a system that is “preparing global citizens” rather than teaching them, our other children survived well because of the initial foundation we fought for in alternate forms of schools.
This is really good series - you should read it all.
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thanks, that one was easy to write. The Preparing Global Citizens comment lit my fuse.