“But then the ole Captain got thinking again. Specifically, about the handful of women he knows that home-school their children. They do an infinitely better job than the public schools do. Some of their kids are already learning to program and code at age 12. Another one knows how to inseminate, milk, and tend cows. And all this from stay at home moms who “shockingly” don’t have degrees, certifications, or licenses. So if for the vast majority of families it doesn’t pay to have a two income household, and kids are better educated when home-schooled, would there not be a case for eliminating schools altogether?
This is not only simple logic, nor wishful right-wing thinking. It’s simple economics.”
Great idea. Just keep the guvamint out of the decision.
It’s actually trending that way…but shhh don’t tell the school board! Some boards are already trying to intervene with homeschooling parents.
This was why the Notley Dictator Party (NDP) of Alberta was “dancing in the streets” when they shut down Home Schools for a short time – due to some technical fiance thing. The NDP hate them, the Alberta Teachers Union (ATU) hates them and of course Alberta Union of Public Employees (CUPE)- because the students do better than the “union” teachers – on the whole. If parents do not belong to a union, then they should leave teaching to certified Alberta Teachers Union members – that is the Notley Dictator Party policy and goal – SAD.
Shame on the Captain ! Doesn’t he KNOW that two parents (male+female) raising a child are GUILTY of privilege ! Then, you add to that … parents who actually READ books to their children … and you have EXTREME privilege ! Then … you go and SEPARATE your child from the leftist indoctrination factories … and ensure they actually LEARN something useful … and you have CATASTROPHIIC PRIVILEGE !
How DARE you make your child … better … more successful than the average crack-parents child !? You are a REAL HATER … aren’t you ? You better CHECK that PRIVILEGE … right NOW!! Or we will be forced to create a “day without privilege” for all our … “average” kids. Just to make them all feeeeel better about themselves.
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barack obama said it’s easier to pick up a glock on a street corner
than a book. just another argument for not sending kids out into
the urban wild.
ps… anybody know which street corner he was talking about…
i love a good deal.
It will never fly… it doesn’t present enough opportunities for graft.
This may shock some people, but the vast majority of women want something more out of life than being Kitty from ‘That ’70s Show’. The idea that woman should sacrifice career for family is repellent and rightfully buried in the past. There are many good arguments for homeschooling and this isn’t one of them.
You really are a dildo with dead batteries.
Uh, not everyone is good at homeschooling. Had to pull my daughter out of school halfway through grade seven because her school went into the crapper. I learned an appreciation for things teachers were very good at and that I wasn’t. Got her through the rest of the year, but I don’t think I’m cut out to be a home educator.
You clearly haven’t spoken to the majority of women who are moms that would have given up the job to stay home but the high cost of living and high taxation( fembots made sure that the income tax act changed) gave them no choice.
And how sexist of you to think only the women would stay home….the discussion was about ‘a parent’ staying home.
Try to keep up,eh?
Excellent idea! “Education” is now so dumbed down that I see nursing students unable to do simple math without a calculator, completely unable to prepare IV solutions and coming into the hospital with less knowledge than someone with 4+ years less schooling from 20 years ago and equivalent to elementary school knowledge 50 years ago.
Looking at the curriculum of a friends 11 year old, I estimate the level of knowledge is about 3 years behind what I was doing at that age. Most of elementary school time is spent on learning about “Canadian history” which seems to be how bad the white men were when they destroyed the civilization of the noble savages. Significant points of myopia are the common practice of one tribe raiding another for slaves but the horror of the residential schools must be an important part of the anemic dregs of knowledge imparted to the young. Exquisitely complicated means of teaching simple arithmetic are used when one only has to memorize 28 products to know how to multiply single digit numbers (the idea of putting a 0 after a number to multiply by 10 is reserved for higher grades). “Science” is about vanishing polar bears and how we’ll all fry unless we stop driving and switch to using bird blenders for power (Doesn’t seem to stop the teachers from driving new gasoline vehicles though). I won’t belabor the point.
The primary function of public schools is to indoctrinate the young to be servile ignorant sheeple who are unable to function on their own and thus easily managed by the “elites” who just need people to vote the right way in the sham elections that ensure the right people are elected. Most of the teachers are not much better than the students now that mathematics is no longer required to get a teaching degree. The state system hates home schooled individuals as they know how to think on their own, don’t follow the party line and actually are capable of using logic rather than preprogrammed emotional responses.
The cost of education has been steadily rising while the knowledge of graduating students has been falling at a similar rate. To anyone who still considers objective logical thought as a valid technique to use, it’s clear that dumping more money into the system has not helped and that a radical rearrangement is required. Paying a parent to stay home and school the children is a far better solution than the current kleptocracy masquerading as an “educational” system.
My mother stayed home and took care of us, she did work as a teacher before I was born, but the most important thing I learned from her was reading up on things on my own and after that point I was self-educated. Most of the things I know have been as a result of my curiousity and it’s now far easier to access information than when I’d have to sneak into the adult section of libraries to peruse electronics books that weren’t in the childrens section. Any craft/art does require working with a competent practitioner of that art whether it be a trade or learning the art of medicine. Science one can do on ones own and one just needs the drive to master the subject.
One of the Captains best posts for a while.
Excellent idea! “Education” is now so dumbed down that I see nursing students unable to do simple math without a calculator, completely unable to prepare IV solutions and coming into the hospital with less knowledge than someone with 4+ years less schooling from 20 years ago and equivalent to elementary school knowledge 50 years ago.
Looking at the curriculum of a friends 11 year old, I estimate the level of knowledge is about 3 years behind what I was doing at that age. Most of elementary school time is spent on learning about “Canadian history” which seems to be how bad the white men were when they destroyed the civilization of the noble savages. Significant points of myopia are the common practice of one tribe raiding another for slaves but the horror of the residential schools must be an important part of the anemic dregs of knowledge imparted to the young. Exquisitely complicated means of teaching simple arithmetic are used when one only has to memorize 28 products to know how to multiply single digit numbers (the idea of putting a 0 after a number to multiply by 10 is reserved for higher grades). “Science” is about vanishing polar bears and how we’ll all fry unless we stop driving and switch to using bird blenders for power (Doesn’t seem to stop the teachers from driving new gasoline vehicles though). I won’t belabor the point.
The primary function of public schools is to indoctrinate the young to be servile ignorant sheeple who are unable to function on their own and thus easily managed by the “elites” who just need people to vote the right way in the sham elections that ensure the right people are elected. Most of the teachers are not much better than the students now that mathematics is no longer required to get a teaching degree. The state system hates home schooled individuals as they know how to think on their own, don’t follow the party line and actually are capable of using logic rather than preprogrammed emotional responses.
The cost of education has been steadily rising while the knowledge of graduating students has been falling at a similar rate. To anyone who still considers objective logical thought as a valid technique to use, it’s clear that dumping more money into the system has not helped and that a radical rearrangement is required. Paying a parent to stay home and school the children is a far better solution than the current kleptocracy masquerading as an “educational” system.
My mother stayed home and took care of us, she did work as a teacher before I was born, but the most important thing I learned from her was reading up on things on my own and after that point I was self-educated. Most of the things I know have been as a result of my curiousity and it’s now far easier to access information than when I’d have to sneak into the adult section of libraries to peruse electronics books that weren’t in the childrens section. Any craft/art does require working with a competent practitioner of that art whether it be a trade or learning the art of medicine. Science one can do on ones own and one just needs the drive to master the subject.
One of the Captains best posts for a while.
“majority of women who are moms that would have given up the job to stay home”
Citation needed.
“How Eliminate the Public Schools”? That’s me before a coffee.
How sexist of you…stuck in the 70’s are you? The discussion is about ‘a parent’ staying home. Try to keep up.
It’s about choice uknow. You clearly have spoken with the majority of women that would choose to stay home if one parent could cover all expense. Fem bots made sure the Canadian income tax law changed which promptly boosted the taxable income( not claiming a stay at home spouse as a dependent)
“Try to keep up.”
This is what happens when trolls visit topics where their media and oh-so-wise celebrities have yet to tell them what to think.
It is ABSOLUTELY about choice. But, women’s freedoms don’t mean shit to leftards when it comes to defending those women that cherish motherhood as the ultimate career nor those women who are trapped in Islam’s slave-like conditions…. just to name a couple.
And your citation for the use of the term ‘vast majority’ is …where?
Mine experience is the women who stated that to me when I chose to stay home from a health care career.
Your point?
ITT, conservatives whining for special tax treatment for married couples.
I really don’t need a cite for the patently obvious. 1956 is that a way.
Well said.
Yes, the socialists get right upset if they can’t indoctrinate the children with their Marxist crap unimpeded.
I’m not surprised to hear about the nurses with math issues; my mother was an old-school head nurse and she made the odd snide comment about the abilities and work ethics of many of the new young nurses even 10 years ago.
As for the decline in standards, I recall meeting a colleague’s daughter about 8 years ago when she was in Grade 6. In making small talk with her to keep her entertained when her dad was busy on our project, she told me about her homework: writing a summary of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
I couldn’t help but think of having read the Hobbit when I was in Grade 6. Granted, I was a book nerd at the top of my class, but still: no way should anyone still be working with Goldilocks in Grade 6.
Somewhere in my internet travels I saw a blog post talking about standard Victorian private school curriculum by grade and it boggles the mind how young kids were expected to know all their multiplication tables and have some grasp of basic Latin grammar and principles of rhetoric. And back then, most of them succeeded in that, but we don’t even expect our college kids to understand any Latin or rhetoric or (genuine) literature anymore.