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> If there is no way to effectively regulate it to ensure that the children are getting a real education, then yes. There are many places in the US where this

> If there is no way to effectively regulate it to ensure that the children are getting a real education, then yes. There are many places in the US where this "real" education is entirely unavailable in the public school system. What do you do then?

jeltz 13y ago
The usual things. Move somewhere else, vote for other politicians, petition, or supplement the education outside school time.
jlgreco 13y ago
If the issue is as bad as the issue with the majority of homeschooling, then you sue the ever-loving fuck out of the school district: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School... Oh, but you probably just mean that they don't have enough money for new microscopes... In that case @jeltz has your bases pretty well covered.
- knewter 13y ago
  I went to a private school in Alabama. Other students of the public schools in Alabama near me were clearly less well-educated than most of my classmates (I was the valedictorian, and my point is that those in the 85th percentile of our graduating class all basically trounced the public school upper-tier locally - not just me). Part of my problem with public schools stems from that experience - I knew valedictorians from a few graduating classes near mine in the public schools closest to me, and they just weren't as well-educated. It's possible that I had an abnormal experience, but I doubt it - my father graduated from one of those same public schools, and he's extremely intelligent (mechanical engineer, owns a robotics engineering company). Even still, he chose to send us to a private school because he didn't expect us to get as good of an education in the public system. Of note: the private school I went to paid significantly less to its teachers than did the public schools around. I'm very aware of this because my brother is a teacher. He had to make a conscious decision to forego higher pay for his ideals, because he too felt that the public school system just doesn't have as much to offer. My point is, microscopes and money are not the problem I have with the public schools.

jeltz 13y ago

The usual things. Move somewhere else, vote for other politicians, petition, or supplement the education outside school time.

jlgreco 13y ago

If the issue is as bad as the issue with the majority of homeschooling, then you sue the ever-loving fuck out of the school district: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School... Oh, but you probably just mean that they don't have enough money for new microscopes... In that case @jeltz has your bases pretty well covered.

knewter 13y ago
I went to a private school in Alabama. Other students of the public schools in Alabama near me were clearly less well-educated than most of my classmates (I was the valedictorian, and my point is that those in the 85th percentile of our graduating class all basically trounced the public school upper-tier locally - not just me). Part of my problem with public schools stems from that experience - I knew valedictorians from a few graduating classes near mine in the public schools closest to me, and they just weren't as well-educated. It's possible that I had an abnormal experience, but I doubt it - my father graduated from one of those same public schools, and he's extremely intelligent (mechanical engineer, owns a robotics engineering company). Even still, he chose to send us to a private school because he didn't expect us to get as good of an education in the public system. Of note: the private school I went to paid significantly less to its teachers than did the public schools around. I'm very aware of this because my brother is a teacher. He had to make a conscious decision to forego higher pay for his ideals, because he too felt that the public school system just doesn't have as much to offer. My point is, microscopes and money are not the problem I have with the public schools.