Schools are NOT responsible for your childrens' education

You are(and they are too, when they're older).

 

i agree for the most part. although if parents don't teach there kids modern dance and drama i won't hold it against them :tongue:

and at 21 i now feel more responsible than ever to educate myself further than i could whilst in education, and hope i'm succeeding with that.

 

...that's why we prefer to home school our children. My oldest can add smaller numbers, count to 100, say the alphabet, spell words out, read a lot of words....

 

Yes, but at the same time... schools are there for a reason.

 

You as a teacher....awesome.
I just hope you're not teaching them how to spell.

 

name something a school can do that a parent can not.....

haha, no, not me... I'll leave that one up to him, he's good at spelling, and REALLY good at Math.

I'm good at the creative stuff.... and good ideas and things. As a team it works out very well.

 

What happened to provoke this outburst?

 

Don't you have had to have had (gulp) an education to teach your kids?
Perhaps not primiary schools..but your gonna have to provide better evidence for there redundancy...

Why (no flaky answers please)

 

Actually...

It takes the collaboration of both, generally.

 

I could not agree more, we taught both our children at home!
Our daughter graduated HS at 11 and JC at 14, got her BA at 17 and her MA at 20.
We did not make her in to a repeater.
Our son graduated HS at 13 and is a graphic artist and loves the guitar.

Schools are for making children into good corporate citizens, it has nothing to do with giving them an education. If you wonder why our children are fucked up you need only look to the schools, they have them longer than you do and are very well schooled in how to mold the minds of the young to love big brother.

FUCK BIG BROTHER and the FASCIST STATE

 

it's a random thought.

 

you should send your kids to school.......thus being responsible for there education. :tongue:

 

yeah, parents who have no idea what's going on with their kids' education need to get on the ball and start paying attention, above and beyond "do your homework."

 

i'm not gonna learn my kids anthing

 

I work in a school. I'm sorry but I don't believe that schools are trying to make kids into corporate citizens.

What I was actually getting at with my OP, was that most of the kids who do well at school are kids whose parents are involved in their education, helping out with homework and teaching their kids at home too.

Some parents(quite a few actually) think that all you have to do is drop your kid to school everyday for 14 years and then they will get an education. I'm sorry. That's just NOT ENOUGH.

 

Lol. I like it. That took a good education at school, that did.

 

Social interaction with peers.

 

Maverickness?

 

Nothing really. I was speaking with a guy about his kid(not my student) and he was moaning about her low marks at school etc. while at the same time admitting that she worked at his somtam shop every hour she wasn't in school.

What a fucking idiot!

 

PJ parties .... Play dates.