Traditional religious and family values.
Morals and ethics...Respecting yourself and others
Leadership and setting examples
Volunteering at home, at school and in your community.
Personal and family economics. Learning about saving, debt, investing, budgeting,
Earning a living...all the various things people do to make money and keep society functioning.
Ways we strengthen our minds and bodies and what to avoid.
I'm sure there are many others we could add to the list that would build wisdom, strength and character in young people.
Outstanding …. How can I enroll my 12yr old? I teach a big portion of these fundamentals at home now …. Yet my wife and I work full time to barely scrape by… we have a problem of time / we are certainly missing some gaps - the deep state created this in order to break down the family unit …
Yes, they did. And good on you both.
We're both working as well- without grandparents the homeschooling would be exponentially tougher. We have access to a great co-op as well, totally with it. We're also looking to expand our local connections to form a group so we can trade skills closer to home. We're both STEM nerds and like to teach, and we know there's lots of hunters, fishers, farmers, etc around with real life skills, valuable wisdom.
Dave Ramsey has a lot of financial books for kids.
Philosophy. The real stuff...at least make plato & critical thinking mandatory for 1 year
Aka Western Civilization, with all the logic, reason and rhetoric lessons that used to be there
The thing about family values is that each family is different. How can you make a public school curriculum that reflects 100% on each student's family's ethics/morals, personal/family economics, religion, etc.? This sort of thing is perfect for homeschooling, however, or at least be covered by every child's parent outside of public school.
Key word is "traditional". This means, non-woke, where work and discipline is valued and taught. Where people of all faith backgrounds shared a common element of respect for each other. Where students learned from examples set by their parents who stayed together and divorce was rare. Where kids learned responsibility at an early age. Where parents looked out for each others kids. The counter-culture of the 60's started the downhill slide. We need to get back to American culture of patriotism, belief in God, where welfare was very rare and not a lifestyle. We need to learn from our mistakes and admit that this social experiment we've been conducting has been an abject failure.
Sounds good, but what makes you think people of all faith and backgrounds share any common element of respect for one another? We have had people pouring in from our borders for 2+ generations along with the welfare state subsidizing the unaccountable. Look at Southern California, Texas or areas with high black population. I would never send my child to a public school in those places. High crime, violence, no respect for law and order, and no respect for others. What American values do we have in common with such people? If you've ever lived in these places you'd see that some cultures are absolute filth bordering on barbarism. We can't put the proverbial 'genie back in the bottle' when it comes to decades on unchecked immigration plus a rampant welfare state, so what's to be done? This very thing was a major contributing factor to what broke Rome and will be this country's undoing if the petrodollar doesn't collapse it first.
If you view it as insurmountable then you've failed before you tried. Perhaps I have an advantage of age because I remember a time when people did respect each other. It's the way we were brought up. There were always contentious elements wanting to break the rules but mostly kids were raised to respect their elders and to respect authority of your parents and those of others. You respected teachers, police, religious figures, service people, not because of who they were but what they represented. In school we said the Pledge of Allegiance, we stood for a moment of silent prayer, we dressed according to a dress code. Yes sir, yes ma'am, please and thank you were instilled in us. Men opened doors for women, we seated the women before we took our seats. Why? Because our parent taught us to do so.
Society was more civil, respectful and polite. We have a road map we can follow if these things start in the home. I know it sounds impossible but that's only because we've lost our collective memory of how much better we functioned when we gave and received respect and learned that at an early age. It's now rare, but when you meet a respectful and polite young person today you are left with a good impression and the knowledge that good parents still exist.
This is why you TRAIN civic duty in at a young age, exactly so that this baseline is established.
Yes, I'm saying it's the parent's responsibility to teach a child morality and religion, not the state's. How can a one-size-fit-all curriculum even be possible if we have a 100 different religions and cultures residing in this country thanks to decades of unchecked immigration. If Christian values are taught, the atheists will be offended and so on and so forth. With all this multiculturalism in our country, who dictates which viewpoint is the right one?
What'd be great is a serious, hard, merciless anti-idiot inquisition run through ALL of our Teacher's Colleges, the crushing of the out of control school districts, the ending of the Dept of Ed at the national level and the abolition of the Teacher's Union.
Then, clean out the depraved, degenerate, danger haired and freakazoids from the school sites and classrooms.
Bring back discipline.
Roflstomp anyone playing the "your kids belong to us" in any school site anywhere.
And just go back to actually teaching.
Not all teachers are going to college to become teachers. Problem we’re encountering now are people with bachelor’s degrees deciding to get the alternative certification. Result is that many, not all, don’t have a “teacher’s heart” and don’t exhibit the same professionalism of teachers from years ago. There are exceptions of course, but based on my experience, almost 3 decades in the field, it’s just a job to them, nothing more. You’re best bet is to put them in a private school.
Private schools have also been infested.
And the education industry needs a hard, merciless inquisition.
I was "raised by wolves" i mean, teachers. Mother and father both. I know how the school sites work. How a few teachers carry the weight and the rest hand out some dito papers or skrawl something on the chalkboard at the start of the day, and then sit behind their desks, reading papers, magazines, or shopping on line if they're computerized.
And then there's the usual pervs attracted to wherever children are gathered. The ENTIRE industry, from classrooms to management is infested.
All true, but the OP said they’re not able to homeschool, so that was my solution.
Good one too.
My comment was just useless venting.
But I do wish the general convo on this and many other things would start to focus on the cause and not just the plethora of symptoms.
I honestly believe that in order to turn this country around, real God fearing men are going to have to become teachers.
THIS
Add to this a cooking class. Teach the techniques for cooking, baking, frying, and grilling from scratch. Learn how to identify good cuts of meat and poultry. How to find quality fruit and vegetables, and how to properly store them. Learn what method of cooking works best for what you're trying to accomplish. Learn how to properly use herbs and spices. My hope is, on the other side of this fast food and processed supermarket food will become, something that we look back on with disdain.
You mean Home Ec?
No, i don't mean Home Ec, as I learned it in the 7th grade. Tuna noodle casserole, and cinnamin rolls. I mean learn to cook, well enough to feed yourself, and not have to rely on Burger King, and Ramen noodles.
You had the already watered-down version, sorry. It was to have included basic sewing, groceries on a budget, preserving food that was harvested or bought in bulk, backyard gardens and basic medicinal herbs, home chemistry (borax, washing soda, ammonia, vinegar, baking soda, fabric dyes, and all their wonders), balancing an account /checkbook, avoiding debt, understanding credit, simple home repairs.
Shop class would have been basic mechanical maintenance of autos and major appliances, fundamental home repairs (roof, siding, windows and doors, faucets and light switches), basic woodworking, sheds, roofing, garden infrastructure and irrigation, fertilization and fruit trees, and maybe simple livestock (ag tech).
Obviously a lot to cover!!
Might want to bring back finishing school for ladies who actually want to be mothers but don't know what's required for motherhood.
Pretty sure that's not what they teach at finishing school. How to hire a nanny - that is likely to be on the curriculum.
Not sure what was taught at finishing school. Only know from people who went to it. That was discontinued before I was born.
The reputable finishing schools have these subjects as compulsory curriculum.
Interesting. Yeah I don't know much about finishing school except from second hand. Thanks for clarifying this one.
Considering that public schools were designed by Humanists specifically to replace family and church with government and state, and prepare workers for the 'inevitable' merger with communism, they're accomplishing exactly what they were originally set out to do. From the designers' own writings and testimonies before Congress when they applied for the funding. Meaning that the corrupt rats all knew where it was going, over a century ago!
Independent thinking, critical thinking, rational debate, scientific method, etc were and are the antithesis to the elite rule of the masses. Simply: They will never teach you what you need to know to overthrow them.
Um
That's EXACTLY Boy Scouts of America.
Youre welcome.
You mean the Scouts of America? The one that removed boys from the name, allows girls to participate and gays to be leaders? Gotta say, pretty sure if Bud Light deserves to be boycotted, the Scouts deserve the same treatment.
Trails of America - where the good scouts went
Never heard of it! That's great news!
No.
I mean the Boy Scouts of America.
And yes.
Nothing to boycott..... It doesn't exist anymore.
Gotcha. As a former Scout myself, I share your grief at the death of a once great institution.
Trails of America - where the good scouts went
yup