Are Public Educators Teaching People to Ignore Facts?

Question

Just wondering if I should be teaching my children to do so because despite the FACT that homeschoolers are proven to test at or above peer level and despite the fact that they socialize just fine and despite the fact that homeschoolers whether taught w/or by a non-college educated parent and test just as high...the public school advocates continually say throughout their posts here at YA opinions based not on facts but on broad generalizations.

Is that part of the public school experience? Should I make sure to teach my children to ignore the facts and give their opinions as if they are the truth?

Just curious.

P.S I'm not bitter and of course I would never teach my children such ignorance. ;-)

Selfteach... I whole-heartedly agree with you.

IMO, there is a need for public schools because not everyone could afford a private school, not everyone can or should homeschool. And I too do not like the dogmatic home educator anymore than the dogmatic public educator.

What is pissing me off here on these boards is that the majority of every single public educator or public educated person on these boards are spouting of opinions based on generalizations and/or opinions of someone else regardless of facts stating otherwise.

People seeking to look at homeschooling as a viable option and come here to look for answers and are instead met with a barage of 'help' by people who lack understanding about homeschooling, ignore the facts about homeschooling or are just plain biased against homeschooling.

I for one am not one of the home educators that think my kids are better than everyone else. Nor am I one to say that public schooled kids are all little jerks and uncaring individuals.

Answer 1

Our friend and curriculum developer has a saying that has become a favorite of mine.

"Do not trust and parrot".

Now, trusting is okay --- BUT only if the facts are really the facts. It's better to take information that someone gives to you and research the source. Take everything with hesitation --- find out if your source is accurate and honest. And don't quote anyone without knowing for sure that they are right!!

We want to teach our children how to study -- how to find out the facts and separate them from the fiction (opinion......)

My challenge (I have quite often posted it here at YA)---- to those that think home-schooling is wrong ---- is to get out of your computer and into the real world. Meet home-schoolers and find out what it is that they do on a daily basis. Do your own research-- stop assuming things that are not in fact. Read the results of other research projects and find out if it matches what you have learned for yourself. Whenever someone has finally met at least 100 homeschoolers --- come back and talk about your findings. In the meantime please quit misleading others that are also in the dark....

I will admit that not ALL home-schoolers do better in academics or social life than ALL group schoolers. That would be a silly assumption. Statistics will most often show averages --- and we all know that to get an average you will have some less and some more.

It is difficult for anyone to hear, "...statistics show that does BETTER than ". This is why I don't like to use home-schooling as a bragging right. It isn't a feather in my cap nor is it a badge for me to wear. What I know is that home-schooling does work -- it works very well. It is a good option and for us it is the best choice for education for our own children.

I like to let others know that YES they can do it and I like to let them know HOW to do it.

Answer 2

Public educators are too busy teaching first graders how to put condoms on bananas and that being heterosexual is abnormal.

I was public school educated, and I would never do that to my children. I had very, VERY few caring teachers. I can't remember most of their names. I wasn't taught to "seek the truth" until I got to college. In 1-12, I was taught to memorize "facts" in textbooks that were written by God knows who. And the texts are so PC and politically skewed that it's sickening.

I love how people take their opinions and try to state them as fact....

Answer 3

Your not bitter?

So you attempt to rebut some perceived generalization on behalf of public education with another generalization which is equally absurd?

Oh right your like all the other people who ask rhetorical questions on yahoo... you want to hear answers that are like minded.

Answer 4

Everything is relative--meaning if you have an excellent teacher , whether public, private, or homeschooled, your child will have a great educational experience.

Answer 5

I am sorry, but home schooling is just wrong. I never understood why anyone does it. I have been in schools from rural WV to downtown Detroit, and I have not seen a real big difference. So your answer to whatever "problem" you see in your school district is to turn tail and run. Instead of doing the Right thing and righting to make the world a better place. People like you are why we do not have a cure for cancer.

Answer 6

My kids and I liked to attend programs at our neighborhood elementary school, because many of their friends were in these programs. We continue to be shocked (when will we stop being shocked!) at the adoration and uncritical praise heaped on Christopher Colombus - just one tiny example of ignoring the facts.

Answer 7

Home shooler parents actually care whether or not the kids are learning. I think that if teachers were paid more, we would have better teachers. I believe that teachers and police should be the highest paid municipal employees.