What a great Idea ! Home Schooling with the resources of the government .
The "EXPERTS " have failed , results based education similar to free market forces .
Deliver superior service or be removed from the position , It's all good.
Parents Poised to Take Over Failing SoCal School: Best for Kids?
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2012/07/24 20:00:00
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California's public schools have faced serious operational challenges due to the state's budget woes. The parents decided they had enough with the poor performance of their local public school. They filed enough petitions under the "parent trigger" to take over the school.
The judge accepted the petition and ordered the school district to hand the school over to the parents. State Senator Gloria Romero (Democrat 24th District) drafted the "parent trigger" law in 2011 to help families in "chronically underperforming" schools.
KTLA.COM reports:
The judge accepted the petition and ordered the school district to hand the school over to the parents. State Senator Gloria Romero (Democrat 24th District) drafted the "parent trigger" law in 2011 to help families in "chronically underperforming" schools.
KTLA.COM reports:
ADELANTO, Calif. -- In an historic move, parents in the community of Adelanto will become the first in the nation to seize control of a failing public school under a controversial "parent trigger" law.
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ray 2012/07/24 11:38:21
The predominate home schooled kids are white from middle to upper middle class families. If I tested only that group in public school, the results would be very similar.
You can not compare a small secluded sample with a large totally culturally/socially/economically diverse group.
Compare apples to apples and you would see results that are just about the same.
In my child's math class, during parent visitation week, I watched his young teacher run rotating math groups with the precision of a drill instuctor. Every kid in a class of 29 knew his role and his task to contribute to a finished math project. Each had to then communicate how he/she arrived at the answers. Very impressive.
Those parents now have 30 days to work with the district to overhaul Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto or begin the process of selecting a charter school proposal. I'm guessing they will go with the charter school proposal.
Get real!
If you were one of my kids, you would be as well informed as they are.
I wish I could live in your la la land of perfection. Kids skip school here the parents do not care and the school district still gets blamed.
And you are correct, the school gets blamed for what any sane and rational parent should be doing but isn't.
Good teachers open a kids eyes to learning, and let them seek the path they choose to follow. As to Religeon, it was never a subject in my experience in the Public system.
That was up to the parents after we let them go in the afternmoon. Too bad however more parents do not think it important for children to abide by religeous guidance in their lives.
Perhaps we would have fewer Psychos running around with the morals of a Pig.
I've yet to see anything to support the claim that following religion provides a positive moral framework. Anecdotally, I've observed that many use their religion only as a way to justify their existing biases.
You wrote, "Perhaps we would have fewer Psychos running around with the morals of a Pig."
There is a difference between those who are mentally disturbed and those who are immoral.
But that's your right. I personally got good guidance from my spiritual relations with religeon, and I would suppose many more in here feel the same.
Good morals are taught from Childhood. And raising 5 well adjusted kids in a Religeous environment contributed to all of them becoming successful and well rounded adults. Not a bad record actually. And they as well are raising families with good moral values based on their faith.
When I see some of the young families torn apart by divorce, kids in Foster care, or abused. Etc. Etc It makes me wonder if perhaps a bit of religeon, and self morality might have helped.
And, if you gave a teacher 2 or 3 kids to a class, with no behavioral problems (as you have in home schooling), their scores would improve.
Do a test, give a home school mom or dad, 25 kids, 5 with behavioral problems, 2 with ADHD, 4 who don't get a good (if any) breakfast, and a set curriculum that they had to finish in 5 subjects (Math, Science, English, History and a foreign language) and we will see just how the test scores woud compare.
It is real easy to blame the public schools when you compare teaching 1 or 2 students to teaching 25 or more at the same time.
On testing home school verses public school:
* Students who take these tests are self-selecting, so we don't know if homeschoolers overall are doing better than other students. But all SAT and ACT takers are self-selecting regardless of how they were schooled. However, there is no way to know if homeschoolers are taking these tests at a lower or higher rate than public or private school students.
* If broken down by demographics, homeschoolers may not fare so well. Homeschoolers tend to come from higher earning and better educated families, which may account f...
And, if you gave a teacher 2 or 3 kids to a class, with no behavioral problems (as you have in home schooling), their scores would improve.
Do a test, give a home school mom or dad, 25 kids, 5 with behavioral problems, 2 with ADHD, 4 who don't get a good (if any) breakfast, and a set curriculum that they had to finish in 5 subjects (Math, Science, English, History and a foreign language) and we will see just how the test scores woud compare.
It is real easy to blame the public schools when you compare teaching 1 or 2 students to teaching 25 or more at the same time.
On testing home school verses public school:
* Students who take these tests are self-selecting, so we don't know if homeschoolers overall are doing better than other students. But all SAT and ACT takers are self-selecting regardless of how they were schooled. However, there is no way to know if homeschoolers are taking these tests at a lower or higher rate than public or private school students.
* If broken down by demographics, homeschoolers may not fare so well. Homeschoolers tend to come from higher earning and better educated families, which may account for the higher scores.
* Sampling is sometimes done to compare homeschoolers to public school students. Critics point out that successful homeschooling parents may be more likely to allow their children to be tested than less successful homeschoolers.
Parents do not have to be educators they only have to make sure the educators are doing what they agreed to do when they became teachers ( that is ask to see lesson plans and have on file a writen acknowledgment of the teaching philosophy tat is the schools main ideal)and parents need to make sure students are agreeing to do what they are supposed to do as students (pay attention, partisipate in class and do assigned work in a timely manner). that's it. No secrete handshakes or anything just make sure everyone is doing their job. studets teachers and parents. that is how education gets you ahead.