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RE: School Shootings are a Tragedy. It's Time to Ban Schools.
My Experience was different. Ya I was “tough”and captain of the football and basketball team but I was friends with the biggest and toughest in the school so I never got messed with. Yet I didnt go around messing with others either.
The curriculum is junk, certain kids get away with bullying because they say it is their culture. Well guess what, we are in the USA what about our culture? What about the golden rule? Ever heard of that? Things are so backwards these days it makes me sick.
There were good jocks and bad jocks. And fortunately in my high school you could do art, drama, or music and actually be popular in your circle as well. All of which are being cut in the pursuit of "common core." Another coincidence with the rise of school shootings?
If schools don’t do common core then the state cuts their funding. What a load of crap!! Along with a bunch of other guidelines. They have the public(government) school by the ____!!
It's weird. Like our government decided it was finally time to catch up with the Asian countries that have started eating our lunch, economically. And then they adopted all the worst elements of their educational system: rote learning, repetition, crushing discipline. And at the same time they threw away the most common-sense methods of teaching those core skills.
The way they have these kids doin math is insane. I show my kids the right and easy way to do it and if their teacher marks it wrong I go and talk to them. Luckily the teachers at the school totally understand. We made sure during the parent teacher conference. We let them know where we stand and they were totally cool with it.
We have though about home school for a while but are hesitant to do so with possible backlash. Since our children started out in public school. Child neglect and all that other BS.
Yeah, it's not a risk to be taken lightly, unfortunately. On the one hand homeschooling is becoming more common. On the other, I hear more and more stories of people losing their kids to CPS because someone decided that homeschooling was a form of abuse or neglect. Best of luck with what you decide.
Damned if you do damned don’t. So sad that things have gone this direction.