New group aims to clear path for microschools, church-based schools as choice movement grows - The Lion
As school choice surges past 1.5 million students nationwide, a key problem is emerging: how to create enough seats for families seeking alternatives to public schools. Schools for America, a new organization that launched publicly this week, says it has a...
I suppose this is good... but I always thought that the community should pool money and hire their own teacher (s) - essentially going back towards the one room schoolhouse - AND parents approve the curriculum & have DIRECT oversight.
In this day & age there's no reason you can't have say 1-8 grades in one room, each doing their own individual tracks. With technology, each student could have tailor made work on par with their abilities - which would keep smart kids from getting bored & higher placement going forward.
I don't think a church needs to be involved, but I'm okay if they do the right thing.
Sounds good! No more public schools and no more special needs kids in school. They need different type of care and learning.
Most of them just need better doctors/medicine and/or food.
I do not understand people that are okay with having their 14 year old in a class with 6 and 7 year olds. Diluting the education, spreading it thin. To a 14 year old maximizing their learning situation, having to share curriculum and learning space with 6 year olds would be tantamount to being in a learning disabilities class, imo.
I see it the other way around...
Aside from certain mature discussions, which would be few and far between, I'd want the 7 years old learning what the 14 year old is learning.
Let's get real... they spread the level of education WAY too thin even when I was a kid many decades ago. As a kid, I NEVER studied and always got straight A's. I was a race horse throttled and governed back by the herd and the machine...
It seemed every year they'd spend months reviewing the previous year's work...it was damned painful... These school "systems" absolutely RUIN potential. I was a fcking genius when I was a kid... but "playing the game" and fitting in - put the kibosh on that...
My child went to kindergarten in a private Christian school with a total of 5 children. The school was brand new, its first year in existence.
The next year, they expanded to include first grade, so we went along for the ride. Still five kids. But they shared a classroom with 10 kindergarteners, who had their own teacher. So two teachers, 15 kids in a decent sized classroom.
I noticed an immediate decline in the quality of education. In reality, we ended up with two teachers handling the 10 kindergarteners while the first graders, to a large extent, participated in the curriculum of the kindergarteners. The work they did was essentially the same as the previous year, and ALL non-science and non-English activities were geared to the 5 year olds. They also dropped Latin, and never explained why (obvious...)
Anyway, complained about it for several months and ended up withdrawing my child to homeschool.
So, yeah, I agree with you.
The purpose of a proper school is purely for learning our methods of communication and information processing, i.e. the 3Rs. That is sufficiently covered in 1-8.
In the case of a "one room schoolhouse", the older kids get to learn how to teach the younger kids, which substantially improves their own learning.
In the "reading and writing" categories, any good education system should give you all the rhetoric/logos/grammar/etc required by eighth grade. In "arithmetic" (or even more advanced math), eighth grade is more than sufficient, and again, the older kids teach the younger kids. As a long time teacher and/or tutor, I learned WAY more about all of those topics while teaching than in my "classes."
..as a learned adult.
What?
The little red schoolhouse model works well in conjunction with a classical education.
Even the churches have to make sure every color and race is in the ads
He's got the whole world in his hands, sucka!
Get your 30,000+ ly goggles on, son. It's a real big thing we're talking bout, here now.
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Well, School Choice uses government funding and is a socialist program similar to Obamacare. Churches taking government funding for education will want to make sure they toe the line.
School Choice is a Trojan horse.
Having homeschooled my two kids I can tell you we covered much MORE than the regular schools did, and in far less time.
Microschools
Or as we used to call them
Mothers
I didn't have one of those, I heard they're nice.