Comment Re:Here's an idea (Score 1) 290
So you think that "education" is limited to learning facts, and completely unrelated to anything social? I beg to differ. Talk to any anti-social home-schooled brat, and you'll quickly find that they know 10x as much as a public school product.
In the public school system, you learn to stand up for yourself, interact with peers in the back corner of the playground without getting your teeth knocked out (too many times), and somehow managed to learn a small amount of reading, writing, and 'rithmetic in your 13 years.
I know I could make little Einsteins out of my kids by keeping them sheltered from the world's bullies and home schooling them, but I'd be afraid they would turn into the whiney little anti-social weirdoes that know everything, but can't communicate to save their lives.
Education is one of the broadest words in the English language. Please don't limit it to spelling bees and knowledge bowl quizzes.
In the public school system, you learn to stand up for yourself, interact with peers in the back corner of the playground without getting your teeth knocked out (too many times), and somehow managed to learn a small amount of reading, writing, and 'rithmetic in your 13 years.
I know I could make little Einsteins out of my kids by keeping them sheltered from the world's bullies and home schooling them, but I'd be afraid they would turn into the whiney little anti-social weirdoes that know everything, but can't communicate to save their lives.
Education is one of the broadest words in the English language. Please don't limit it to spelling bees and knowledge bowl quizzes.
