I agree with you 200% it goes deeper. I think the mandatory attendance laws are a form of socialism, I don’t see how something based on that can ever be good long term. Even the DOE says school is the most dangerous place for a child to be abused or have violence against them and it’s from students and staff. Other state agencies also have high rates of abuse from staff and other children.

Sometimes, like with condemned buildings, you just have to bring the wrecking crew in to take out the old and start all over with a new building. It is at this point we may be with the education system in this country.

But then, it may be that the foundation is still sound but the walls, windows, and roof are termite ridden and rotted wood.

Homeschooling was a response to liberal encroachment of the public schools. The same with private school, for those who could afford it. And the problem with both that they pose for the liberal half of the country is putting kids out of their reach, hence of out their control. Since the socialistic do not want anyone or anything out of their control, there is a battle going on for the right to determine who educates the kids.

Yesterday, a man in Murfreesboro was arrested for video taping his students having sex. He was accused of doing this over a period of 30 years. Tennessee supposedly does background checks. So, in thirty years time, they never once had anything come up to red flag this guy?

More and more we here these kinds of stories and you touched on it yesterday on another thread, the one about Vermont.

Think about it. It’s not just a matter of home schooling or private schooling because not everyone has the resources to do either or the luck of getting a voucher.

The rot in the public education system goes much deeper than that.

There’s a difference between “welfare queens” and people who need TANF for whatever situations life has thrown at them.

Back in Chicago (where the Mayor had to take over the schools because the school board and State had done so badly), Obama sent his girls to the University of Chicago Lab School. It’s upscale, trendy, and expensive.

Though teachers in the rural South have somewhat more ability to discipline students than is the case most other places, they really aren’t able to effectively discipline. Consequently, there is almost no order in the classroom and even those with a desire to learn have little opportunity. Frankly it isn’t that teachers don’t have the incentive to teach, it is that there is no reward for trying to teach and many negative consequences if a teachers disciplines or places demands on a student.

She is a much happier person now that she’s retired.

You have the talent of “fair” journalism and criticism.

And I agree.

I can’t blame the poor young woman. But I will never forgive the Ivy Leaguers and the Wall Street tycoons who voted for the One and are now waiting for their own special kinds of voucher (i.e., bailout money and pro-liberal projects funded by the government).

We aren’t that far along, there is a legal way to homeschool in every state, they may be classisfied as private school students on paper. We would need to educate the families on how to deal with the state truancy officers and social service workers though if we did push for withdrawl from the district though. I don’t know what the disctrict is like, but I think that would be prudent.

I disagree that we are stuck, parents have this option, and it would solve many problems immediately.

I answered the question thinking it was a woman living in government housing or getting section 8, on TANF, food stamps and medicaid that is unemployed.

Your solution, while sounding good, is impractical without radical governmental reform in the entire system. We’re still stuck with public schools run by an inept group of educators.