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I would still prefer public school because where else will you learn to fight for your whole life and dodging bullets?
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Also as curriculum gets tailored for this nationwide learning I feel it’ll be dumbed down to accomodate a lower level of student ability. I think this is already being shown to be happening based on student test scores.
"We pulled our youngest out of the public schools after the change to the "common core" curriculum. That system over time is just going to migrate teaching methods and materials to the lowest common denominator student."
What are some examples of things that you think your youngest would have missed out on, had they remained in a Common Core school?
States and local communities need to determine what works best for them and their communities.
Can you think of an example for why a local community should have a different standard for what grade their students should be expected to learn algebra?
Now if I could have one more for tying my shoes and wiping my own ass, that would be great!
1. I had a straight A kid that was coming home to really struggle with his homework. I had him independently tested after he told me that teachers were giving him answers to tests in public schools to find that he was really 2 grades behind where he should have been in school.
2. The school was threatening us with court due to absences... even though he was supposedly a straight A Student that always stayed on top of his work.
3. I did a TON of research to finally find a program that was accredited and fit our needs or we would have had to throttle down his racing program. My son has really taken to that program and was testing at college levels in 10th grade.
My son is no slouch on a bike for sure. We beat some factory level kids on 65s and 85s and even embarrassed a few when he 1st got on Supers. He grew a huge amount in a short period making Supers really awkward though and then struggled with a couple years of long drawn out recoveries from some injuries. We were definitely all in... fitness trainer, riding coach, a fantastic sponsor support system around us, traveled all over the East coast and hit a couple Canadian races, went through 5-6 bikes a year, etc...
Looking back... He earned multiple lifetimes of life lessons that most adults couldn’t comprehend and I had a huge joy spending some great time with my kid. We were thinking of sending him to a training facility... but I just couldn’t wrap my head around losing that much time with him at that age. He’s 17 now and has decided on his own to stay healthy by staying away from MX and move on in to a career in the military after he graduates. When he gets an itch... he’ll go out and give some local A riders hellfire on his 125 just for kicks.
The system does aim for similar minimums at the end of each grade level, but they don't mandate in any way that students are studying the same material at the same time. They don't even mandate curriculum, only the suggested minimum levels of attainment. That doesn't "dumb down" the level of teaching that students receive, it actually increases it. Teachers are encouraged to stretch their kids to attain more knowledge, and students who struggle are able to be identified more easily to divert them into environments that are more conducive to their abilities.
States and local communities are still able to determine "what works best for them and their communities", but they can no longer ignore basic education for their students.
Having had children through the public school system at both ends of the extremes, it's been a lot better for opportunity to learn than it was back when I was in school.
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Why would we want a kid to be taught only 1 way to solve something? That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. I’d rather have a kid that understands that there are a multitude of ways to solve a problem.
Or a trade which will be viable for awhile.
Anything else, bad idea.
Look at problem #14 that my daughter brought home 6 years ago when she was 12 yo before we started homeschooling her. This isn’t a common core issue but just represents some of the “messages” kids are receiving in public schools.
Maybe I watched too much Andy Griffeth when I was a kid but I really think our schools could illustrate a higher value system when crafting a problem to the kids that what this problem portrays.
Complaints about Common Core almost always come down to math. This is incorrect. Common Core is actually about teaching kids more ways to work with math. The idea is that when you learn how to solve a long multiplication problem using an algorithm, you don't really learn what the numbers mean. It becomes an abstract operation.
Instead, Common Core asks students to look at numbers a different way. It teaches them to actually understand what they mean. It teaches them to break them up into parts to do large problems in their heads. I always did well at math in school. And I have always been good at working with numbers in my head. I can break them down into pieces and calculate them. This is something I figured out on my own. Common Core is trying to teach everybody those same tactics.
Occasionally you will see somebody post something online where their kid was graded wrong because they didn't solve a Common Core math problem correctly, instead they used the traditional method. Usually, this is because what the teacher was giving them was not an assignment to solve a particular math problem. It was to get them to think about a number in a certain way, so that it could be used as a building block in the future.
Here is a good video:
Four kids through the "system", and none of them were subject to what you are describing. Although I will admit that the sort of view you are presenting was definitely a big push for the conspiracy peddlers and the ditto-head listeners.....
What I CAN say is that depriving your kid of a proper education and normal social life is a pretty shitty thing to do. There *are* excellent homeschool programs, but there are just as many that create functionally and socially illiterate incels, with brains pickled in wingnut propaganda.
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