Maggie's Farm

Look at the schools (not just the colleges). What passes for education these days is plain pathetic. The classrooms enough are telling - not just the teacher, but the meta-educator, classroom monitor, and another that floats between the classes. Not sure about other schools, but its in my Son's past kindergarten class. Good to have adults, but we need 4-5 people teaching kindergarten?

Plus, what my daughter brought home for homework was a travesty - learning Algebra, and only having to do 6 problems on a tear-out sheet. She never brought home the book ("they're kept in class, we get one when we go in, and put back when we leave"), so as to see what she is learning, and how to help. Tests can be retaken, if she 'thinks' the grade is too low, averaged with the weaker test.

She was also roughed up by several boys at the end of the school year - when the wife and I went to school, we were told its Zero Tolerance, and ALL would be held to that standard, since all were involved - no victim, no perps, all would be held accountable. Furious doens't even begin to describe my ire. Needless to say, I've begun to teach her streetwise skills to survive in this jungle.

Home schooling has never looked so good....