The lesson every kid learns on day 1 of school, regardless of who is teaching or what is being taught: “I’m forced to do something I don't like for 8 hours every day for the rest of my life.” A consumer-slave is born.
“Unschooling” is the natural way of learning. See John Taylor Gatto, John Holt.
Up until very recently I was an elementary school teacher, now I homeschool. I am beginning to see some very positive affects of unschooling. I have not done any research on it
but I’ve noticed success my own children are having with my casual approach to education. I will check out your above mentions.
Most definitely, they socialize as much as I do since they are with me all the time. They socialize with adults more than children but because of this they have more enriching conversations. From my experience I can assure you, much better than they would ever have with God knows who’s child at school. We have a close family so they have cousins and aunts and uncles they see often. They play with the neighbor when she gets home from private school and always share with me that she had a bad day because of other kids! My daughter has riding lessons, and my son is starting boxing soon. We are not much into organized sports. Most importantly they have each other! They are best friends.
The only constant they have daily is journal and handwriting. My seven year old is doing cursive already. We have curriculum books but we may not get to them daily. I can make a lesson out of anything. Daily activities can turn into fraction lessons, grammar lessons, etc. Because of this their vocabulary is very extensive. With my five year old almost all lessons are geared to his interests which is huge at this age and not always met in the public school setting. My seven year old can do laundry start to finish including folding and putting away. This is something some college kids can’t even do.
From my recent experience in the public setting I can assure you their days are more enriching compared to peers their age. They are not confined to one room, have to raise their hand to speak/use restroom, they play like kids should, they learn at all times, and it’s a beautiful thing!
I could go on and on about the beef I have with the public school setting and why I choose to leave. I had an amazing classroom but let me go on record saying I did nothing by the book and this is why I made the decision of not wanting my children sitting in one of those desks. It really was prison like. I felt sorry for the kids being there for so long and having assigned everything. Not to mention, the amount of behavior problems they would have to witness everyday is not something I would want to include in my child’s socialization.
I reread this five times, I kid you not! 😂 I could not figure out what was wrong. In my defense I have a one month old and some serious brain fog. Whose....
Thanks for the reply !
I'm in England and my kids (8 and 6) are lucky to have a fantastic school. Not without it's issues but they're safe, enjoy it and learn lots.
I'm a governor so I have oversight of lessons etc which helps.
It seems the US is very different! But it's great you can do the best for your 2, you should be proud!!
They aren’t free, you pay with taxes. You also pay by your precious children being taught to hate their parents, their parents morals, their country and religion. They believe in less work, freebies, student loan forgiveness, abortion, video games, RAP as entertainment and sexually explicit songs and movies. They also believe in free sex and no responsibility. They believe marriage isn’t necessary and children are inconveniences. They believe that if children don’t fit in with their self centered goals, then the “problem” is easily solved by abortion. If they happen to marry and they fight, divorce is the easy way out.
When we get our money back from corrupt school systems, there will be more than enough.
However the math is very wrong.
There's only 36 weeks of schooling per year, so $9k annually per student. So, maybe 14 or 15 students.
BUT in first grade, there's only about ONE HOUR of book learning. Add 15-20 min per day per year after that.
So, not day care, just teaching. Throw in art, music and some PE and you've got a half day in the mornings with another set of student for a half day in the afternoons, or you could do full days on alternate days and probably get things done in 4 days.
Parents may want day care though, if they haven't gotten to the point where mom is raising her kids instead of serving The Man full time. We need to help each other get here.
It's illegal to charge to homeschool unless it's a co-op, and those have specific laws to abide by and the parents don't make money doing it.
And you can't send your kids off to homeschool anywhere but at their own home too. You can't trade off homeschool days with other parents, etc. Unless it's really an emergency. Certainly not to get a break or anything.
Homeschool laws are pretty stringent. They shouldn't be, but are.
Mentors, counselors and tutors can charge, can have multiple students at enrichment centers, and since the students aren't in there all day, lefttards won't believe it's a full school anyway. The kids only need half a day or full days twice a week to cover everything.
Ya, youre taking about teachers quitting their jobs to start illegally moonlighting, in which they won't be getting paid hardly anything when parents who homeschool if the first place do it for the sole purpose of TEACHING THEIR OWN KIDS.
OP clearly doesn't understand the WHY in the very reason parents do it.
Currently in Midwest, was in CA. It's same laws everywhere, aside from CA having even stricter additional layers of requirements to make it nearly impossible to home school.
And electricity, and capital expenditure, and accounting costs, etc. There is more to running a business than "books and supplies". Problem definitely not solved.
Not to mention that it's no longer "$250 a week" now for parents...
No, you charge a flat rate that includes operating costs. You don't hound your customers with microtransactions for everything.
People can run their business however they want, for starters, and I believe you're over exaggerating the costs.
Of course costs need to be considered when determining profit. Nobody's arguing that.
Laserjet printers which can print thousands of copies very cheaply can be had for pennies on the dollar if you buy used. It's all you need to print quizzes, tests, and short reading selections. Paper can be bought in cases at a discount and one case of paper is enough for 10 students easily.
Nothing's stopping a homeschool teacher from going with used textbooks, which are plentiful online. McGuffey Readers and anything else on Project Gutenberg are open source and are absolutely free for use by anybody.
And if you want hardcover books, an entire set of McGuffey's Readers can be purchased for under $40 and willing to purchase used. $400 would cover 10 students and you only charge the parents if the kids destroy the books.
A brand new set goes for around $100-$140, so $1000-1400 for 10 kids.
Those books would cover every single grade for English.
Also people donate or sell cheaply their used sets, when their kids outgrow them. Local businesses can help with simple supplies and printing (they might put their names on stuff).
How can I be over exaggerating the costs when I gave no estimation of cost? My comments addressed that the meme doesn't account for the cost of running a business, which is misleading. You've then listed a bunch of stuff that cost money, thus proving my point. In fact, from my experience, people who have never run a business before grossly underestimate the cost of running a business; which would be the target audience of this meme.
"People can run their business however they want". No they can't. You have to run your business in a way that best serves your customers, or else you won't be running a business for long. I for one wouldn't be paying you $250 a week to use a set of McGuffey's.
You're sounding illogical. Schoolrooms used to have only little chalkboards and some reference books. Good teachers like Socrates needed little else. We are talking about good teachers being allowed to do what they do best, after all.
The inability to inhabit nuance is a large sign of ignorance, amigo. Your mind must be truly blown that there are vlogging homesteaders out there, because tech and off-grid couldn't possibly cohabitate right? SMH
How can I be over exaggerating the costs when I gave no estimation of cost?
You mentioned electricity, capital expenditure, and accounting costs as if these would be substantial.
I tossed out the fact there's plenty of open source free resources and laser printing is super cheap.
You're obviously not familiar with McGuffey Reader's as they are an outstanding resource for teaching reading. One will be at a college reading level by the time one finishes them.
Calm down, Karen. Sessions only have to be half-days, meaning you could have another set of students in the afternoons. Book learning at first grade is only about an hour a day, then add 15-20 min per day per year after that.
Bad math? No math has been presented except for that in the meme. I said that it doesn't take into account expenses. I don't see what's so controversial about this. You even admit it in your statement "expense model is totally different", thus implying that expenses exist in both services and factories (don't know why you are even bringing up factories in the first place as this is off topic).
Service business have heaps of expenses. Hospitality is an obvious one. Regarding tutors, they need extra space for kids, tables, chairs, computers, etc. If they tutor on location they need to pay for transportation.
I live in a rural area and I know many, if not most, conservative people around here want to homeschool. But they can't afford the type of situation in this post. It's easier to put the kids on a bus for free. If it were this easy, a lot of conservative teachers like me would have jumped ship a long time ago.
Get together with some families and share the burden, there are retired teachers who would help out part time as tutors. Counting on the government for day care because we've been shoved into a two-earner household template is killing our kids, and selling their souls.
Get passionate and brainstorm with the mommas. Guarantee there will be good ideas and with love and faith, convince the dads to help make the changes required. Work will be needed, patience with each other, but in the end the kids will be safe.
I homeschooled both of my kids from 1993 - 2007...hardest thing I ever did because of the pressure I put on myself. When they were in middle/high-school, they attended a co-op once a week, as well as community College classes as they drew nearer to graduation. After they went to college, I got my teaching certificate and taught in the public schools for 10 years - middle school i.e. the front lines of the culture War. It certainly reinforced my gratefulness that homeschooling was worth the effort.
Also as I said above, schooling can be accomplished in a half day or less, depending on the grade. The rest is day care. You could have two sessions a day, or longer days only twice a week, alternating groups of kids. Double money.
My kid went from a football loving ladies man at his PK-4th grade years of private school to a long hair EMO who is "dating" the Atlantic ocean in only 4 months at his new public school. I am currently making plans for a switch and his mom can choke on a BBC.
I think one of the often-overlooked issues with the public education system is that many families rely on it as a daycare. single parent families and families where both parents have to work during the day have serious problems with this.
I wonder what kind of loans a teacher could get to rent out a one-room office space or mortgage a small lot or something. This is definitely an interested thought trail.
Bruh I ain't paying 9k a year for my kid to go to school. The private schools around her full of Carissa's and chads learning about Jesus and having straight white babies are 3-5 for k-12
I like the idea but with those rates it will never happen. They should pay a lot less, and then write up a letter to gift it to the teacher. So that the teacher has a legal way to argue against paying taxes.
But it's not day care. The cost of giving up a crappy day job to raise your own kids is still to much for some, apparently. They have to break the mold completely and start their brains fresh.
I'm hoping that when we create the new system, kids are in school all year long. With less work and less hours. Once we cut all the b******* out of their curriculum, plenty of time for the important stuff and plenty of time for rest which is very important for children.
There are places that already do this. Check out classical conversations for one, co-ops for another. Plus the many programs (HSC is one in our state) that take your kids one day a week for classes. The thing is, you need to pay for a place to have the program (CC and HSC do churches) so you need to pay for your space. Also for insurance in case anything happens while the kids are there. You also need to set it up as a business, which we all know is crazy money. PLUS, have a place for the kids to go outside and play for a bit, as we all know how much energy they have. Then you also have not only the good teachers doing this, but also the bad so you need to vet the teacher like crazy before sending your kid to them. It's a good idea, however parents aren't interested in investigating all their options very closely before sending their kids, and there will still be indoctrination.
This is bad how? If we would stop giving our money to government, we could go back to managing charity in our own local communities. A little school for those who need it would be set up locally and controlled locally, no shenanigans.
I’m all for homeschooling children, especially if the parents can afford such. Paying $250 a head, per week, is ridiculous. And most could not afford this. I’ve gotten all my kids through school, and college. And I remember paying a crazy high daycare bill per week, per child...and couldn’t wait to get them into kindergarten so I could finally afford a vehicle payment. Or move out of the rat hole we were in. According to the original post, it would have cost me $500 a week to school my children. That’s just ridiculous and impossible for most people. $24000 a year to color inside the lines....awesome.
Tutors should not be needed for anything like coloring, be real. Daycare should not be our go-to. It's time to re-invent a working economy, we probably have to start with a parallel economy. Local, cash, trade, barter. I didn't say the original post was the only way to go, if you knew me you would know my usual advice, which I walk, is to pool with other families and work with each other.
We're outside of the city, remote work and building gardens gradually, working with neighbors, some of whom were shut down/shut out of their places of work and worship, also finding out what filth was being pushed into their kids' heads. Strong churches didn't give in, but where they did, other spaces are found. Used books, libraries, shared books, pulled money to buy materials, Christian bookshops with curriculum, etc. Time and work of course are required. We find ways to make ends meet, new ways to make money from home, many times from other homeschoolers. Did you know you could roast coffee from home? Grow herbs, press essential oils, make soaps? Tutor for pay?
I'm sorry you had to rely on daycare. My family watched its own for generations, it was always expected the older would care for and then be cared for by the younger. Still amazing to me how disunited so many families are. But we can form new families and watch over each other; in the coming years, we will have to. You are strong, surely your children have grown strong as well; you all can help lead the way.
Terribly thought out and more social media clickbait. No one's going to pay this when they can't even afford a mortgage or rent right now. Public education is just as flawed as it was 30 years ago, its just more apparent and blatant now
I would become a teacher if these were the conditions.
My business can run without me and it would be a pleasure.
The lesson every kid learns on day 1 of school, regardless of who is teaching or what is being taught: “I’m forced to do something I don't like for 8 hours every day for the rest of my life.” A consumer-slave is born.
“Unschooling” is the natural way of learning. See John Taylor Gatto, John Holt.
I loved school and got a great education. But that was in the 70's and '80s.
And I've always been a non-conformist and a free thinker. Education was turned into cancer. It is nothing like it was 40 years ago
60s and 70s for me … Loved learning, but would have despised being indoctrinated…
Love learning, acquiring new skills, etc. hated the teachers, my peers, etc.
Those were the days.
I hat3d school amd avoided the indoctrination. I love learning though. I realized I could learn far more on my own and I'm not bored.
Up until very recently I was an elementary school teacher, now I homeschool. I am beginning to see some very positive affects of unschooling. I have not done any research on it but I’ve noticed success my own children are having with my casual approach to education. I will check out your above mentions.
Interested to hear more about your experience!
Are you getting enough social time for the kids with friends?
Most definitely, they socialize as much as I do since they are with me all the time. They socialize with adults more than children but because of this they have more enriching conversations. From my experience I can assure you, much better than they would ever have with God knows who’s child at school. We have a close family so they have cousins and aunts and uncles they see often. They play with the neighbor when she gets home from private school and always share with me that she had a bad day because of other kids! My daughter has riding lessons, and my son is starting boxing soon. We are not much into organized sports. Most importantly they have each other! They are best friends.
The only constant they have daily is journal and handwriting. My seven year old is doing cursive already. We have curriculum books but we may not get to them daily. I can make a lesson out of anything. Daily activities can turn into fraction lessons, grammar lessons, etc. Because of this their vocabulary is very extensive. With my five year old almost all lessons are geared to his interests which is huge at this age and not always met in the public school setting. My seven year old can do laundry start to finish including folding and putting away. This is something some college kids can’t even do.
From my recent experience in the public setting I can assure you their days are more enriching compared to peers their age. They are not confined to one room, have to raise their hand to speak/use restroom, they play like kids should, they learn at all times, and it’s a beautiful thing!
I could go on and on about the beef I have with the public school setting and why I choose to leave. I had an amazing classroom but let me go on record saying I did nothing by the book and this is why I made the decision of not wanting my children sitting in one of those desks. It really was prison like. I felt sorry for the kids being there for so long and having assigned everything. Not to mention, the amount of behavior problems they would have to witness everyday is not something I would want to include in my child’s socialization.
Hopefully, you aren't trying to teach them English grammar! ;-)
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I reread this five times, I kid you not! 😂 I could not figure out what was wrong. In my defense I have a one month old and some serious brain fog. Whose....
Would suck to give strange kids a better education than your own were going to receive.
Now you are their teacher as a parent should be .
My thoughts exactly! Not only that, but care and attention too.
Thanks for the reply ! I'm in England and my kids (8 and 6) are lucky to have a fantastic school. Not without it's issues but they're safe, enjoy it and learn lots. I'm a governor so I have oversight of lessons etc which helps.
It seems the US is very different! But it's great you can do the best for your 2, you should be proud!!
Good for you!
Yes! I wouldn't want to trade our lifestyle to play school at somebody's house.
Every teacher I know is retired with medical at 45-50. Boofuckinghoo “muh low pay”
This is very untrue. Teachers have to put in 30 years for a pension in my very blue state.
Idk i used to have a lot of old teachers
Why would you think I was talking about then? Im talking about now.
I wasn’t, its only been like 7
You are quite an . . .
if only the government schools weren't "free"....
They aren’t free, you pay with taxes. You also pay by your precious children being taught to hate their parents, their parents morals, their country and religion. They believe in less work, freebies, student loan forgiveness, abortion, video games, RAP as entertainment and sexually explicit songs and movies. They also believe in free sex and no responsibility. They believe marriage isn’t necessary and children are inconveniences. They believe that if children don’t fit in with their self centered goals, then the “problem” is easily solved by abortion. If they happen to marry and they fight, divorce is the easy way out.
250 per week per student, yea not many can afford that , maybe private school folks
Cheaper than what the govt pays. It apparently costs taxpayers $20,000/year to send a kid to school.
Many people pay double that for daycare or after school care…this would be a worthy investment.
When we get our money back from corrupt school systems, there will be more than enough.
However the math is very wrong.
There's only 36 weeks of schooling per year, so $9k annually per student. So, maybe 14 or 15 students.
BUT in first grade, there's only about ONE HOUR of book learning. Add 15-20 min per day per year after that.
So, not day care, just teaching. Throw in art, music and some PE and you've got a half day in the mornings with another set of student for a half day in the afternoons, or you could do full days on alternate days and probably get things done in 4 days.
Parents may want day care though, if they haven't gotten to the point where mom is raising her kids instead of serving The Man full time. We need to help each other get here.
Except in the blue states with controlling public sector unions....teachers make easy 6-figures and many also get that in retirement for life.
Every teacher that leaves and takes 10 students with them also removes power from the teacher's unions and ultimately removes that system
Wrong.
We homeschool.
It's illegal to charge to homeschool unless it's a co-op, and those have specific laws to abide by and the parents don't make money doing it.
And you can't send your kids off to homeschool anywhere but at their own home too. You can't trade off homeschool days with other parents, etc. Unless it's really an emergency. Certainly not to get a break or anything.
Homeschool laws are pretty stringent. They shouldn't be, but are.
So that is the money pushed into public schools causing lobbyists to push legislation to protect that pipeline of cash.
Mentors, counselors and tutors can charge, can have multiple students at enrichment centers, and since the students aren't in there all day, lefttards won't believe it's a full school anyway. The kids only need half a day or full days twice a week to cover everything.
Illegal, who gives a flying fuck. Find a way. Still letting them think for you.
Ya, youre taking about teachers quitting their jobs to start illegally moonlighting, in which they won't be getting paid hardly anything when parents who homeschool if the first place do it for the sole purpose of TEACHING THEIR OWN KIDS.
OP clearly doesn't understand the WHY in the very reason parents do it.
Great, then the parents hire a "housekeeper" for 32 weeks of the year
Unfortunately, is strict. If anyone found out and reported the situation, it's jail time for all parties.
Crappy. What state are you in? Is it uniform across the country?
Currently in Midwest, was in CA. It's same laws everywhere, aside from CA having even stricter additional layers of requirements to make it nearly impossible to home school.
They want heads in chairs to get paid.
That's not income, that's revenue. A significant chunk of that $130,000 will be used to run the business.
Parents have to pay for books and supplies.
Problem solved.
And electricity, and capital expenditure, and accounting costs, etc. There is more to running a business than "books and supplies". Problem definitely not solved.
Not to mention that it's no longer "$250 a week" now for parents...
No, you charge a flat rate that includes operating costs. You don't hound your customers with microtransactions for everything.
People can run their business however they want, for starters, and I believe you're over exaggerating the costs.
Of course costs need to be considered when determining profit. Nobody's arguing that.
Laserjet printers which can print thousands of copies very cheaply can be had for pennies on the dollar if you buy used. It's all you need to print quizzes, tests, and short reading selections. Paper can be bought in cases at a discount and one case of paper is enough for 10 students easily.
Nothing's stopping a homeschool teacher from going with used textbooks, which are plentiful online. McGuffey Readers and anything else on Project Gutenberg are open source and are absolutely free for use by anybody.
And if you want hardcover books, an entire set of McGuffey's Readers can be purchased for under $40 and willing to purchase used. $400 would cover 10 students and you only charge the parents if the kids destroy the books.
A brand new set goes for around $100-$140, so $1000-1400 for 10 kids.
Those books would cover every single grade for English.
Also people donate or sell cheaply their used sets, when their kids outgrow them. Local businesses can help with simple supplies and printing (they might put their names on stuff).
How can I be over exaggerating the costs when I gave no estimation of cost? My comments addressed that the meme doesn't account for the cost of running a business, which is misleading. You've then listed a bunch of stuff that cost money, thus proving my point. In fact, from my experience, people who have never run a business before grossly underestimate the cost of running a business; which would be the target audience of this meme.
"People can run their business however they want". No they can't. You have to run your business in a way that best serves your customers, or else you won't be running a business for long. I for one wouldn't be paying you $250 a week to use a set of McGuffey's.
You're sounding illogical. Schoolrooms used to have only little chalkboards and some reference books. Good teachers like Socrates needed little else. We are talking about good teachers being allowed to do what they do best, after all.
Oh that's nice. The world used to have the horse and cart and almost everyone used to be a farmer. Shocking how technology changes isn't it?
You don't just sound illogical, you are being illogical.
The inability to inhabit nuance is a large sign of ignorance, amigo. Your mind must be truly blown that there are vlogging homesteaders out there, because tech and off-grid couldn't possibly cohabitate right? SMH
You mentioned electricity, capital expenditure, and accounting costs as if these would be substantial.
I tossed out the fact there's plenty of open source free resources and laser printing is super cheap.
You're obviously not familiar with McGuffey Reader's as they are an outstanding resource for teaching reading. One will be at a college reading level by the time one finishes them.
Don't forget that the government gets a cut.
Child care licensing can be expensive, then you need a business license, insurance, taxes, etc.
No you don't. No child care, that's on parents.
Teachers are counselors, mentors, tutors. Remember back in the day all the rich people hired private tutors for their children?
Calm down, Karen. Sessions only have to be half-days, meaning you could have another set of students in the afternoons. Book learning at first grade is only about an hour a day, then add 15-20 min per day per year after that.
This comment doesn't address my argument that businesses require other expenses to run. Not sure who this was intended for.
General bad math I suppose. Tutors are services, not factories. Expense model is totally different.
Bad math? No math has been presented except for that in the meme. I said that it doesn't take into account expenses. I don't see what's so controversial about this. You even admit it in your statement "expense model is totally different", thus implying that expenses exist in both services and factories (don't know why you are even bringing up factories in the first place as this is off topic).
Service business have heaps of expenses. Hospitality is an obvious one. Regarding tutors, they need extra space for kids, tables, chairs, computers, etc. If they tutor on location they need to pay for transportation.
Would only need 3 hours per day
I live in a rural area and I know many, if not most, conservative people around here want to homeschool. But they can't afford the type of situation in this post. It's easier to put the kids on a bus for free. If it were this easy, a lot of conservative teachers like me would have jumped ship a long time ago.
Get together with some families and share the burden, there are retired teachers who would help out part time as tutors. Counting on the government for day care because we've been shoved into a two-earner household template is killing our kids, and selling their souls.
Get passionate and brainstorm with the mommas. Guarantee there will be good ideas and with love and faith, convince the dads to help make the changes required. Work will be needed, patience with each other, but in the end the kids will be safe.
Come to my house for shop class.
This is a great idea, but i'm not sure parents want to pay for summer vacation. If kids are in school 32 weeks a year, that would be 80k.
32 weeks x $250/week = $8,000
Do you have 10 children? The math didn't add up; that's why I didn't get full credit unless I showed my work :-)
For whatever reason they're thinking you'd get paid to teach a kids all 52 weeks in a year: 52*250 = $13,000 per student per year times 10 students.
I homeschooled both of my kids from 1993 - 2007...hardest thing I ever did because of the pressure I put on myself. When they were in middle/high-school, they attended a co-op once a week, as well as community College classes as they drew nearer to graduation. After they went to college, I got my teaching certificate and taught in the public schools for 10 years - middle school i.e. the front lines of the culture War. It certainly reinforced my gratefulness that homeschooling was worth the effort.
Good bless you, great work.
$1,000 a month is a poverty wage. I would charge $1500 a week. That’s only $150 a week per family.
Edit: I’m an idiot I read this as charging $250 a week for all the kids. Not per kid.
Also as I said above, schooling can be accomplished in a half day or less, depending on the grade. The rest is day care. You could have two sessions a day, or longer days only twice a week, alternating groups of kids. Double money.
Lol, I was wondering what type of person you are to think $15,000 a week was a poverty wage.
My kid went from a football loving ladies man at his PK-4th grade years of private school to a long hair EMO who is "dating" the Atlantic ocean in only 4 months at his new public school. I am currently making plans for a switch and his mom can choke on a BBC.
You need to get her straight if she's going to be managing his education at home, though.
She's long gone was cheating on me with a religion teacher no less 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wow.
Remind me, the nastiest person in authority I ever saw was a religion teacher too, he got into a girl's school while young and, well. Short-lived.
I think one of the often-overlooked issues with the public education system is that many families rely on it as a daycare. single parent families and families where both parents have to work during the day have serious problems with this.
I wonder what kind of loans a teacher could get to rent out a one-room office space or mortgage a small lot or something. This is definitely an interested thought trail.
Won't be getting any loans from regular banks, I guarantee. Co-ops borrow space from churches.
Groups of parents might want to invest in something or find a generous benefactor.
Got the math right anyways :)
Go cash only and file no income.
People are doing it… parents are seeking out retired teachers.
Bruh I ain't paying 9k a year for my kid to go to school. The private schools around her full of Carissa's and chads learning about Jesus and having straight white babies are 3-5 for k-12
I like the idea but with those rates it will never happen. They should pay a lot less, and then write up a letter to gift it to the teacher. So that the teacher has a legal way to argue against paying taxes.
It's 36 weeks, 9k a year. Not a bad deal.
But it's not day care. The cost of giving up a crappy day job to raise your own kids is still to much for some, apparently. They have to break the mold completely and start their brains fresh.
I'm hoping that when we create the new system, kids are in school all year long. With less work and less hours. Once we cut all the b******* out of their curriculum, plenty of time for the important stuff and plenty of time for rest which is very important for children.
Amen to that.
Flexibility around harvest, hunting or fishing time would be useful too, give time to making and learning to make as well.
There are places that already do this. Check out classical conversations for one, co-ops for another. Plus the many programs (HSC is one in our state) that take your kids one day a week for classes. The thing is, you need to pay for a place to have the program (CC and HSC do churches) so you need to pay for your space. Also for insurance in case anything happens while the kids are there. You also need to set it up as a business, which we all know is crazy money. PLUS, have a place for the kids to go outside and play for a bit, as we all know how much energy they have. Then you also have not only the good teachers doing this, but also the bad so you need to vet the teacher like crazy before sending your kid to them. It's a good idea, however parents aren't interested in investigating all their options very closely before sending their kids, and there will still be indoctrination.
At that price teachers would lose their jobs to low income parents teaching their own children.
This is bad how? If we would stop giving our money to government, we could go back to managing charity in our own local communities. A little school for those who need it would be set up locally and controlled locally, no shenanigans.
I’m all for homeschooling children, especially if the parents can afford such. Paying $250 a head, per week, is ridiculous. And most could not afford this. I’ve gotten all my kids through school, and college. And I remember paying a crazy high daycare bill per week, per child...and couldn’t wait to get them into kindergarten so I could finally afford a vehicle payment. Or move out of the rat hole we were in. According to the original post, it would have cost me $500 a week to school my children. That’s just ridiculous and impossible for most people. $24000 a year to color inside the lines....awesome.
Tutors should not be needed for anything like coloring, be real. Daycare should not be our go-to. It's time to re-invent a working economy, we probably have to start with a parallel economy. Local, cash, trade, barter. I didn't say the original post was the only way to go, if you knew me you would know my usual advice, which I walk, is to pool with other families and work with each other.
We're outside of the city, remote work and building gardens gradually, working with neighbors, some of whom were shut down/shut out of their places of work and worship, also finding out what filth was being pushed into their kids' heads. Strong churches didn't give in, but where they did, other spaces are found. Used books, libraries, shared books, pulled money to buy materials, Christian bookshops with curriculum, etc. Time and work of course are required. We find ways to make ends meet, new ways to make money from home, many times from other homeschoolers. Did you know you could roast coffee from home? Grow herbs, press essential oils, make soaps? Tutor for pay?
I'm sorry you had to rely on daycare. My family watched its own for generations, it was always expected the older would care for and then be cared for by the younger. Still amazing to me how disunited so many families are. But we can form new families and watch over each other; in the coming years, we will have to. You are strong, surely your children have grown strong as well; you all can help lead the way.
Most people couldn't afford that
Terribly thought out and more social media clickbait. No one's going to pay this when they can't even afford a mortgage or rent right now. Public education is just as flawed as it was 30 years ago, its just more apparent and blatant now