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It is ironic that for years teachers complained that parents did not care about their children's education, treated the schools has babysitters, etc. Then the
by syshum 5y ago
It is ironic that for years teachers complained that parents did not care about their children's education, treated the schools has babysitters, etc.
Then the parents get wind of some of the things being taught in schools, take exception to it, and now they are conspiracy theorists or worst terrorists for wanting to have a say in their child's education.
- orwin 5y agoEducation is a parent's/ a community's job. Instruction is a teacher job. If Parent don't agree with the programs (which they of course read), they are free to choose another school or to teach their kids home. School programs ARE flawed, whether it's science (even math course are!) or non-science. This is a trade-off, accuracy losses against information speed and time spent in problem resolution. I've heard two years ago that the US is becoming a bit too grade-centric and that problem resolution is not a valued skills anymore pre-college, due to decisions in the ministry under Bush-Clinton-Bush administrations, but my point is valid for most of europe
- syshum 5y ago>> they are free to choose another school I wish that were the case, I fully support School Choice, and a Voucher system that will put the money in the hands of parents to make the choice best for their child instead of only having school choice be an option for the wealthy
- cloudfifty 5y agoVouchers with for-profit school corps?
- syshum 5y agoYes? and coop's, Learning Hubs, Money for Home Schooling resources, etc etc etc Unlike many here I am not opposed to capitalism
- cloudfifty 5y agoIt's been a disaster in the few places it's been tried. Chile (since abolished) and currently in Sweden. It very obviously causes the school corps to cut costs by various means that have a negative societal impact. For example by giving undeservedly high grades that upper-middle class seemingly happily accept to get their kids into high-status high education. These grades then conveniently becomes part of their marketing. An even more sinister example is their willingness to actively segregate their schools to have "easy", as in cheap, students that don't require as much resources (like actual teachers) as people - on average - from less privileged backgrounds.
- orwin 5y agohomeschooling is a choice available too, and i'll tell you one thing: most homeschooled kids i worked with were from poor families, almost always single-income and often with this income being close to minimum wage. Mostly rural (or rather in small, 100 to 500 hab towns). The context in which i met them was great, and their parent had to be involved to put them there, so i guess i received the "best" examples of homschooled kids in my area, but they did not have any major issue (often missing some in STEM knowledge, but all of them with a logical/creative mind that make learning hisghschool math a breeze, and anyway, our association was there for this exact issue)
- syshum 5y agoI would like to see some of the money from a voucher be allowed to be spent on Home Schooling resources and technology, Provide computers, internet, books, etc all in some way under the same School Choice Voucher system
- dragonwriter 5y agoExperts in <field> dislike it when laypeople treat <field> as unimportant and disregard it, also get even more upset when—still paying little attention to it but jumping on nonsense spouted by propagandists—laypeople pretend to know more about <field> then experts while undermining it by parroting dumbass conspiracy theories they are fed about <field>. Seems perfectly normal, and common across fields of expertise, not “ironic” in any way.
- syshum 5y agoI always love the hand-wave of Conspiracy Theory to label everything these days It is not "Conspiracy Theory" when you have actual evidence, video evidence no less, and official statements from national organizations, and paper records all supporting the claims.
- antifa 5y agoWe're probably not talking about anything that has "actual evidence".
- syshum 5y agoSo the many many videos of teachers talking about all the things they do in class rooms, statements from the NEA, recording taken from the Remote Learning classrooms are not evidence? Remember that is what started all of this, at the start of COVID both parents and students where home at the same time, and many parents started to observe their childs lessons in real time since they were conducted via remote learning. This is what got the ball rolling as parents where shocked and alarmed at what they were hearing with their own ears coming from some of these "teachers"