Just in case you're under the delusion that public schools are educating your children...
Less than 40% of public high school graduates know how to read, write, or do math.
The Nation’s Report Card is the largest ongoing assessment of what students in the United States know and can do. And the results aren’t pretty:
36% of public school students graduate being able to read at grade level.
25% of public school students graduate being able to write at grade level.
24% of public school students graduate being able to do math at grade level.
These trends are very consistent throughout their time in public education: The problem starts in elementary school and continues through graduation.
Yet still, we spend more and more money on public schools every year, even though they are not doing their only job of educating the public. And the teachers’ unions just demand more and more and more and more and more.
Defunding public education is a scary thought for many. But what should be scarier for all of us is the fact that we are sinking tens of thousands of dollars per student into the public schools every year, and your kids can barely read young adult fiction when they graduate.
Stop the insanity. Defund the schools. Make reading great again.
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The shocking part is that standards for grade level are so low already. Grade level is the bare minimum. Kids not meeting that standard are functionally illiterate. How do you contribute to society if you can't read or write? If you can't teach literacy, there is no room for art, music, and gym. Modern school has become this weird summer camp daycare. It needs a narrow mission and focused approach aimed at nothing else. Enrichment is not the goal but proficiency.
It's hard to see, we're in the soup for sure; most of us were public schooled, and most of us went to elementary, jr. high, and high school; I found the whole of it sort of diffusing, too many subjects covered, all in a shallow manner....too little sleep, hustling all around alot, bad lunch food or just no lunch....the one person I have met who was home schooled (a boss of mine) shone a light for me on how it might have been to be so educated by his stay at home mom, who then worked out of the house after he passed his GED/ graduated 12th grade level homeschooling. He would dismantle any problem he faced and work through it, he seemed to be able to think much better than I could. He is very self reliant. I am really greatful for all my teachers I had, good and bad, (well, there were a few clunkers) but especially for a few excellent teachers, which homeschooling would have prevented meeting most likely. Especially the music- concert band- participation I had from 5th-12th grade. This is perhaps Teacher Apprec Week or the like soon, or just past, so a moment for the teachers!!!!. Best