I think public education in the us is horrible

Yea, I have worked at a school since last year.
In my experience, they only care about numbers, which equates to money.

I am not a teacher per se but I facilitate a phonics program.
I told the assistant principal that "Bobby " is really struggling, and that i think he should be placed in a lower group (group, not grade).

I was told, verbatim: " yea but if we do that, it will hurt our numbers ".

They aren't numbers, they are children 🙄
Can't wait till school is out. I don't want to return.

Well, I have experience with all three options -- public, private, and home schooling. I was bed ridden for four years so home schooled by my mother. Fortunately, she was a public school teacher when she wasn't caring for me. When I went back to school, I was about two years ahead of everyone academically and woefully behind in social activities with peers. We put my oldest son in private middle school because they were having difficulties at the public school. He wound up becoming involved in drugs and dropped out of high school. We and other parents became more involved with the public schools, helped turned them around, and youngest went only to public schools including college. Has had a very successful career.

The primary problem with public schools is not the red herrings over curriculum. It is underfunding and lack of discipline. The class sizes are too big, too many of the kids come to school lacking any discipline, and teachers have to spend all their time on discipline rather than teaching. And the only time most parents are involved is when they come for disciplinary hearings or to complain about the "atheistic, communistic" curriculum.

It's true. Public schools spend too much time on Transgender issues, building self-esteem and other Leftist Cultural Indoctrination.

Public education is bad. They also teach many atheistic lies like evolution as opposed to biblical creation, as well as climate change.

raising a boy who’s now in 2nd grade. Basically we had to teach him his math, the teacher didn’t, just gave out assignments and wouldn’t send a textbook home. It was very frustrating. I believe that it is the policies in place that are tripping us up. Have had him in a private school from 6th-8th grade, his last year of private school.

You are right.

There may be a few good government schools, but sending kids to the vast majority of these so-called schools constitutes child abuse if it is willful and with knowledge. Not only do they get an inadequate education, but are indoctrinated with dangerous ideas.

Private schools and home schooling are the only viable options.

There is a reason they spend do much time teaching evolution , and fight so hard for the right to do it. It is not necessary to know, or accept, the evolution theory to become the greatest medical doctor in the world. They teach evolution because it is simply secular humanism --which is the unconstitutional indoctrination of a religion by the government.

doesn't help when the marxists want to fill their heads full of all kinds of nonsense at an impressionable age...

public school isn't that bad here

Its not much better in the uk sadly

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