[Thanks to Susan for the heads-up.]
Since the pandemic descended on us, homeschooling in America has increased fourfold–its biggest increase ever. And that’s good news!
Tucker Carlson and his guest recently discussed the homeschooling wave–and they don’t think it’s going away. In addition to more and more parents working remotely from home, the pandemic “has exposed” the deficiencies in public education.
Parents don’t like Critical Race Theory, which Far Left “educators” employ to turn children into race fanatics (all white people are guilty, all non-whites are “oppressed,” yatta-yatta), they don’t like the schools pushing and promoting “transgender” and stocking school libraries with sleazy, unwholesome, filthy reading material. And they don’t like school boards mocking them, ignoring them, and getting the Justice (LOL) Dept. to sic the FBI on them as “terrorists.” And if all that weren’t enough, the quality of education received in so many public schools falls far short of adequate.
Without public education and its incessant propaganda aimed at children, there would be no Far Left Crazy in America.
Kill public schooling, and Wokeism dies.
Yes, I heard that too, and thought goody, goody gumdrops
This is the answer, privatized education and homeschooling is a great way to do that. The Constitution leaves education up to the States. Our State Constitution says education is the responsibility of the State, but they cave to the Federal gov’t to get the bribe money – that’s what Obama did with the Common Core.
This is great news. No matter what, IMO, the parents should be take the lead in educating their children.
I could not learn to add a column of numbers when I was in elementary school. The teacher thought there was something wrong with me.
My father, who had none but basic 1930s education, taught me in 20 minutes. I didn’t forget how to do it. And I’m positive my mother, my grandpa, and my aunts could have easily taught me reading, writing, and history.
Education is not a one size fits all proposition. In a classroom, the teachers can’t really tailor their teaching to the needs of each student. When I went to school, the most disruptive kids in the class really dominated the experience.
Math comes easy for me, and that’s probably because my dad taught me how to think through math. But they way schools teach algebra strikes me as asinine. I have a cousin that can’t get anywhere in algebra courses, because he can look at a problem and work it out in his head. He can’t “show his work”, because it’s automatic and subconscious. I’m much the same.
Math is logic and relationships of numbers. I actually see it as almost mechanical in nature, which is to say that it can be comprehended in much the same way that someone can look at a mechanical device and comprehend how it operates. If you look at a lever or a wheel, it’s easy to understand how it works. Mechanical devices are collections of levers, wheels and inclined planes (such as a wedge), these are known as simple machines.
Math is a collection of simple functions and, IMHO, if they taught people to break down math the same way that complex mechanical devices can be broken down into simple machines, it strikes me that this would make it easier to learn, but I’ve never seen a math course that effectively does this.