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In 2019, only 3% of school age kids were homeschooled. Now? It's up to 11%. And I suspect it will continue to rise.
It's almost as though public educators intentionally want to eliminate the population of motivated, smart, well-adjusted kids from public schools entirely.
Need to see a source for 11% homeschooled...it seems ridiculously high.
Black kids can be just as smart as White kids, all they have to do is be challenged and apply themselves. Who is really to blame that the AP classes were not diverse enough? I would blame the school system for allowing the Black kids to slide in their studies since 1st grade.
Completely setting race aside, my aunt was a K-1st teacher for a long long time.
They have zero power to compel a parent to make sure the kid does homework etc. They often had kids show up to school that had never been read a book, didn't know numbers or letters etc.
I think they should eliminate all varsity level sports. I was not good enough for the varsity football team and am still triggered by that almost 50 years later (sarcasm). It wasn't fair that just because those other boys were better than me at football they got to be on the team.
Completely setting race aside, my aunt was a K-1st teacher for a long long time.
They have zero power to compel a parent to make sure the kid does homework etc. They often had kids show up to school that had never been read a book, didn't know numbers or letters etc.
Then the so called equity should start from home. And try to buy or rent a home far away from 'these' kind of parents.
The reason to buy good school zone property lies in you want your children to be with people with similar parents like yourself.
We are a large school district with one end having schools ranked 7 to 9 and the other one all 4 or 3. The superintendent grew up from the other side of the town and would always try his best to get benefit for the part he grew up like changing zoning to certain schools or removing teachers from the good schools to achieve 'equity' for the two ends of the town. He will be disappointed because he has to agree it will be the parents behind each child as the driven force for a school to be a good school. The teachers are another factor but good teachers deserve good students and they will only have the full passion to educate when they are facing the right group of kids. They are human beings as well.
Any parent who feels their child is being held back by the public-funded school system, always has the option to simply enroll their child in college.
We enrolled our son in college when he was 16yo. At that time, I had a discussion with his college counselor, the counselor told me that the tenth, eleventh and twelve grades in highschool are really not needed in terms of education. Any student who masters the ninth-grade curriculum is fully ready to begin college level course work.
I think the counselor was over speaking a good bit. Per many college STEM areas 11-12 are very much needed for the overwhelming majority of reasonable candidates.
Our son was in medical school at 20 so we've seen that side of it was well.
That is great that the protests forced them to keep the advanced classes. What is it with the Dems that want to keep people down and perpetually oppressed? I'm talking minorities here. What else should we expect from the party that fought to keep their slaves? Back in those dark days it was ILLEGAL to educate your slaves. It seems that when it comes to the Dems old habits die hard.
Black kids can be just as smart as White kids, all they have to do is be challenged and apply themselves. Who is really to blame that the AP classes were not diverse enough? I would blame the school system for allowing the Black kids to slide in their studies since 1st grade.
This black teen got 27 admissions from the top universities. I never see any Asian kids got this though. Also I feel sorry for the kids in the same school and applied the same universities.
Will be interesting to see how much of that is temporary due to parents working from home and covid etc.
I support peoples right to decide for themselves.
The public schools in my area are excellent, truly top notch but I am not blind to that not being the situation everyone else faces.
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