I’ve said this before and it’s worth repeating! As a former public school teacher, I completely agree that parents need to do whatever they can to remove their kids from public education. Homeschool would be the best route if you can make that work. Did you know that there... is absolutely no reason for a school day to last 7 hours?show more

Educator here, too (36 years teaching, dean, coach, administrator). American education was formed by communists with the goal of socializing children, not educating them. Getting children to conform to authority was the goal. So much of what we know works for quality teaching and learning is rejected by American public education: single gender classrooms, uniforms, ability groups, nutrition, exercise, fresh air, sunshine, one-on-one instruction, flipped classroom, double periods, integrated curriculum, gifted and talented programs, comprehensive high schools, trades, memorization, reading aloud, demonstration; all systematically eliminated. Instead we have social promotion, processed foods, eliminate or denigrate physical education, eliminate health education, restrict recess, heterogenous classroom, special education, English Language Arts, Global Studies, eliminate trades, college prep for all, teach to the test, 40 minute carousel, no reading aloud, no demonstration, no handwriting or keyboarding, and on and on.

Could not have said it better myself! Thank you for that amazing post. Put the school back in the hands of those who know what actually takes place in a classroom and understands what does and does not work!! All educators are not the same. Many of us were there for the right reasons!! Educating…..truly educating the kids.

@kdawgswift @cecegkh LOL! I remember my mom’s stories about her one room school house until high school in rural southern Wisconsin. Older kids helped teach the younger kids. They learned rote, memorized facts, were taught how to DO things.

@BipulTweets None. It can be done in 4 and the rest of the time can be extracurricular activities. It’s become a defacto day care

@BipulTweets You preaching to the choir my friend!!

My wife’s & my children were among the 1st gen in our community to homeschool. Now our children are raising theirs the same way including Classical Conversations “CC” co-ops with other parents! Better, smarter, wholesome, & safe children through sacrifice and loving your children more than stuff.

I love it

I drive a school bus, the elementary school kids are unruly to put it politely. All they want to do is fight and cuss. Elementary kids!!! I dread the afternoon run sometimes because other than writing them up, there’s not much I can do.

I feel your pain.

@CRRJA5 Agree especially if the school is still teaching transgender and gay pride in the school. Send education back to the states and parents!! @EDSecMcMahon

@CRRJA5 @EDSecMcMahon We never taught any of that! EVER

That’s not across the board. I taught history and my students learned ALL of it. People have to stop making broad statements because for every bad teacher they are 10 great ones!

@iykyk_benny We need to work together to change our public schools. Those kids stuck in public schools will still be around kids that are home schooled or in private schools.

@iykyk_benny I completely agree with you on that. I am in the Bible Belt so my experience with education is quite different than the horror stories you hear.

Absolutely! I agree 💯 They’re now breeding grounds for liberal propaganda!

Major changes must be made and made quickly

It coincides with the work day, some parents cannot afford to pay for that care.

That’s not the education systems problem

@Lismarjen Pragmatic, yeah, but still not the education systems problem. That is a problem that needs to addressed outside of the system.

Remote schooling should be accommodated and preferred with self-paced classes. Physical attendance 1-2 days per week. Slash school budgets.

Nowadays 90% of the children are not intrinsically motivated. They would never stick to it and complete anything. I get what you’re saying, but the kids are not motivated enough to do it without parental supervision and parents work! Yes, I know some can, but the majority would not!

90% is a number you pulled out of thin air.

I would be terrified to have kids in public school....

There are still some great teachers in the schools. Not all teachers bought into the program. I’m from the Bible Belt, so we were still teaching the old way until about 2020. I retired 3 years later because they were starting to for more and more on us.

And the leftists manipulated language to create this alternate reality where "opioids are bad," being "addicted to them" means you are a victim who had them forced down your throat by a doctor, removing ALL personal responsibility for the problems that ensued when you kept taking them on a non-medical basis. And now we are torturing and killing pain patients. Why won't @ShawnRyanShow cover this? I have sent him all my legal documents at least twice.

@jjauthor You misspelled “public indoctrination”

@jjauthor No I didn’t because not every teacher was a part of indoctrinating the kids. Stop using a broad stroke for teachers.

@jjauthor Every government school is guilty of it, I didn’t specify individual instructors. If you know of a government school that isn’t, that would be news.

@TrumpHeartland I truly believe this. If you can afford a private religious school do it, if you can’t, homeschool.

I am also a former public school teacher and I agree with you. Until we the people start electing MAGA school boards nothing will change. They hire the superintendent who hires the administrators who hire the teachers. Anti-Americans hire anti-Americans.

i understand but for the HEALTH OF THE COUNTRY EDUCATION SYSTEM (nation-wide) HAS TO BECONE UNWOKE & WRESTLED FROM HOLD OF TEACHERS UNIONS - ASAP and controls put in so it CANT REVERT BACK (House/Senate) @realDonaldTrump @VP @EDSecMcMahon @SpeakerJohnson @LeaderJohnThune

@realDonaldTrump @VP @EDSecMcMahon @SpeakerJohnson @LeaderJohnThune I don’t disagree with you, but did you know that a vast majority of teachers are not in a teacher’s union?! The unions get their power from the government and the lobbyists.

@realDonaldTrump @VP @EDSecMcMahon @SpeakerJohnson @LeaderJohnThune true..but big unions control policy in DC eventually matastacizes across the country

There are so many Home School Coops and so many satellite systems to help parents with teaching their own children - There are workshops for the parents and NO - They do not need to sit through a class with all the nonsense and other students who misbehave in class for 7 hrs. One of my close relatives Home Schooled her children, and they are the best behaved and respectful children ever - They score much higher than their peers in the public schools, and they play the piano - are in gymnastics and have a great social life with stay-overs from the other children they meet in the church and in gymnastics.

In Florida all children can go to any private school with the STEP UP scholarship ( approx 8.000 ) and parents pay the rest . Some schools offer extra scholarships and children are leaving public schools in droves.

Agree completely. I sacrificed to send my son to a private high school and my daughter was home schooled in high school through an accredited program because of where we were stationed. My daughter self paced herself, graduated in 3 years, got college scholarships and got a college degree. I got a lot of push back from homeschooling her from family members but she had tons of time for extracurricular programs like archery and horseback riding that she was socialized. I'll never regret that. Best decision I ever made.

The number of hours is how they get state payments.

I’m aware

Get your kids out of public schools. Form a neighborhood classroom and rotate parents as teachers. You can make it work. Check your local homeschooling association. You may find there is already a local class.

@FirstAmend75255 Our public school system problems were given a shot of steroids when Carter enacted the Department of Education in 1979.

@NowPammsy Taking care of your children has to be Parents first responsibility. Get them out of these indoctrination camps

Absolutely spot on! As a parent, I've seen firsthand how public schools have strayed from teaching the basics and instilling core values. Homeschooling isn't just an option; it's a necessity if we want to protect our kids from the ideological indoctrination that's become rampant. The idea of a 7-hour school day is outdated and inefficient why not focus on quality over quantity?

Agree wholeheartedly. Former teacher here who quit to stay home & homeschool our sons. No regrets - in fact overwhelming gratitude to God & to my husband & fam for daily grace, prayers & support. Do yourselves a favor, parents: RUN OUT of public schools!!

I’m not going to be lectured by an alcoholic and reported sexual and physical abuser who can’t maintain a healthy marriage or clean financials. The man is a mess and an embarrassment.

@iykyk_benny Years of my career was spent in the public school system. I remember a student moving in from Germany. She despised our system. The school day in Germany was 4 hours long!

Amen

There should be a voucher system for all schools in America. All schools should be private, and the government should have no role in education.

We should have video cameras connected to the Internet in every classroom in every public school in America. And the parents who have kids in that classroom should have access to the feed. Not everybody would have access just the parents who actually have children in that classroom. They deserve to know what the teacher is doing and what the teacher is teaching.

Or .... Hear me out. We stop letting un qualified dipshits dictate policy for our country? We stopped listening to the experts because "we did our own research". We have a fox News analysis as department of defense and now giving advice on education. WTF.

Some of us remember when public schools were excellent and America ranked in the top of nations in education. Then along came the slide into increased liberalism. One liberal policy after another.

Truth is public schools have destroyed themselves. All they had to do was teach kids math, English, reading, science, social studies/history/geography. Help the kids with socialization. Reinforce what parents were teaching them at home. Ex. Being kind to one another. Learning to play well with others. That’s it. All the woke nonsense is what destroyed their street cred. Pete is spot on. Do everything you can to get your kids out of public school. Work 2 jobs if you have to. It’s worth it. This along with you helps set your kids up for brilliant futures.

When i was homeschooled it only took like 3hrs a day at most. Only paid attention at school maybe 2hrs a day, got into engineering. The school system is a joke, but not a funny one.