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- From: jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Homeschooling (was Re: Education and the Environment by Gregory A. Smith)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.004152.14085@panix.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 00:41:52 GMT
- References: <scottj-311292082509@iamac-1.dml.georgetown.edu> <1992Dec31.152903.25127@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <31DEC92.17162343@vax.clarku.edu> <1hvedcINNdg4@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: Institute for the Human Sciences
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- In <1hvedcINNdg4@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:
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- >And what really bugs me is that the people who are killing
- >public education by pulling their kids out of public
- >schools have the audacity to blame the problem on
- >"liberal educators with their social agendas" and
- >other imagined demons.
-
- Your view that it is the parents who are pulling their children out of
- public school who are causing problems with public education is
- surprising. Parents who don't want to rely on the public schools have
- the choice of private schools, which are enormously expensive, or
- homeschooling, which is enormously time-consuming. Do you think
- parents would be making those choices unless they thought they had
- very good reasons?
-
- The problem with public schools is not too little financial support --
- from 1960 to 1980 constant-dollar expenditures per pupil doubled
- (source: National Center for Educational Statistics, _Digest of
- Educational Statistics: 1983-1984). So it appears to be the way the
- resources are being used that is at fault. If that's right, the view
- that professional educators may be among the ones creating the
- problems may be less of a fantasy than you seem to think.
- --
- Jim Kalb (jk@panix.com)
- "Rem tene; verba sequentur." (Cato)
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