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Originally posted by Jim Cesiro
I respectfully disagree. I was/am very involved in my sons education I sat with him every night doing homeowrk wioth him making sure what his teacher failed to teach him was taught to him by me.
My wife volenteered at the school every day before our 3 y/o was born. We attend every teachers conference and open house and any other opportunity to meet our sons teachers and get to know them.
All that made no difference when a teacher is an old bag that needs to retire and decides they do not like a kids personality and beats them into the ground, then lies about it.
Why should a government run entity like a school be run any different than any other government entity? Its all a clusterfock.
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Maybe you need to pick the teachers better? My wife volunteers 3x week and does HW with kids everyday. She has hand picked their teachers thus far (K-4th grade) with outstanding results. Other parents have similar experiences and the main similarity is that they participate. Parents that don't invest the time, energy, or interest get the scraps and hope for the best. Schools say parents don't get to pick but we all know that's a crock.
Can it be improved...definitely, but there are alot of GREAT teachers in the public schools these days. You need to find them and not accept any less. My position on home school is that the kids get a personally tailored program, and home cooked meals
, but miss out on all the social interaction the school grounds offers. I'm not comfortable with them missing that.