I don't know how to say this It's not a radical position to homeschool your children The idea that public school is *must be the* solution is as far as I can tell a new, like, hyper-liberal position that is just incoherent when facing the reality of the pandemic...
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Home schooling is great and I’m sick of everyone acting like it endangers kids and regular schooling is safe and optimal cause it’s not for everyone
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And we don’t home school (until September
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But I believe in a completely funded public school system with small classes and excellent facilities and full accessibility for everyone along with the choice to homeschool
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We homeschooled each of our children for several years and it worked out fine. Both ended up with college scholarships. It can be a good option.
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Fantastic. Now talk to the households that may or may not be single parent, that may or may not have each adult working more than one job, that may or may not have adults who speak the language of the dominant culture, who may or may not have a culture of reading to their kids...
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there should be thousands of such efforts across the country which could ultimately provide a network, or social connections, or materials, or projects, to enrich or support public school efforts.
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Exactly - every school should have an extensive outdoor program, sports, extra curricular activities, food, nutrition, financial literacy, digital and most importantly community. And than can be a school of 3 or a school of 3000. But we can reimagine a lot of what we do
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Talk to public school teachers. They have many ideas along these lines. However the current battle is to keep even the current level of education funded. You have to win that battle first.
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why do you think that's the current battle, and why should public school teachers have dominion over extracurriculars also? they're overloaded in the pandemic certainly
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can you link me as to the current state of the school funding situation is the trump admin moving to reduce funding further??
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I believe in the US it is all state / municipal? In Canada it is all provincial funding except on reservation schools which are federal (which is the serious mess we really really ducked up in terms of funding). So the Ontario government cut tons of funding and we had strikes
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and that’s the only reason we aren’t dealing with 25 class size now is cause of the strikes
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