Daryl Cobranchi found, as Daryl put it, a truly wonderful essay by an assistant professor who talks about why he and his wife homeschool. It is a good read, well worth checking out. I am reminded of some studies that found that as a group public school teachers are more likely to put their children in private schools. And in some of the worse school districts in the nation, almost half of the public school teachers would pull their children from the public schools. The observation in the study was that as informed experts they recognized how bad things were.
From a Google alert I learned of an article about a young ski racer who is homeschooled so he can get in enough practice. Another alert lead me to a column by Debra Dragon, a homeshcool columnist, who talks about how many studies show homeschoolers are doing well academically.
One more Google alert linked to an article about many problems in Montgomery County public schools. This was a scary line: "But when a kindergartener is stabbed on a bus by a sixth grader and the school system doesn't make this information public, it certainly looks as though administrators are interested in protecting only themselves." The article mentions many child safety issues the Montgomery County public schools have, and how the administration seems more interested in covering up, rather then fixing.
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We started homeschooling long before Ron taught at the college (although he did do training at wherever he worked) and his experiences have further gelled our thoughts on why the whole system needs to be torn down.
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