Any decent public school system has teachers that are more than qualified as educators. The ★■◆● of it is how many districts out there don't even meet the standard of "decent."CUDA wrote:And this is different from the public school system how?????Top Gun wrote:but there is a huge issue in that the majority of people out there aren't qualified to personally educate their children,
And I said that the numbers are "encouraging" because, even though they are certainly very positive, there's something of a built-in bias inherent in them. The parents who pursue home-schooling today are, by and large, people who are qualified to do it and/or very enthusiastic about it, not to mention those who have the ability to do so. It's not something that would ever work on a massive scale, for several logistical reasons. Even putting aside the fact that the majority of parents of school-age children are probably not qualified to handle material beyond the elementary level, there's the simple fact that there aren't all that many stay-at-home parents anymore. Obviously, a family where both parents have to work full-time jobs in order to make ends meet, or a single-parent family, simply wouldn't have that luxury.
Honestly, I'm not defending public education as some sort of personal statement, as I didn't even attend public schools beyond kindergarten myself. However, I recognize them as an invaluable resource, and one that desperately needs fixing in order to ensure our country's prosperity in the future. We need our kids to be proficient in math and science and reading, and we need that universal decree of taxpayer-funded education in order to do that on a large scale.
(Also, Thorne, I suspect your quip about "impressionable minds" proves my point, given many other statements you've made on here.)