Does it matter that the student-teacher ratio in this horseback-riding class is one-to-one, if the instructor is an idiot or uses bad teaching methods?
Continue reading about Public School Excuse no. 2 – Classes Are Too Large?
For over two hundred years in this country, before public schools became entrenched by the 1890s, families of hard-working farmers, craftsmen, and even laborers managed to teach their children to read at home.
Continue reading about Public School Excuse No. 6 — It’s Society’s Fault?
We have seen how public schools fail and betray millions of children, year after year. The only “right” most public schools give to school children is the right to suffer through a mind-numbing, third-rate education for twelve years.
Continue reading about Excuse No. 12 — The Right to an Education?
Parents who want quality education for their children cannot depend on a public-school system whose only real achievement is an endless list of excuses why it can’t educate their children.
Moreover, if we agree that children have a right to an education because their parents are poor, then shouldn’t they also have a right to food, a bicycle, a nice house in the suburbs, and designer clothes? If poor kids (and all children) have an alleged right to an education, don’t they also have an alleged right to everything else that other kids have whose parents are well-off? Why not then say that anyone, poor, middle-class, or rich who has less money than his neighbor, has the “right” to steal from his neighbor? Where do we stop if some people can legally steal from others because they claim their kids need this or that?
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Most low-income families don’t need government education handouts anymore in the form of allegedly “free” public schools. Parents today can buy quality, low-cost food in a competitive, free-market food industry full of grocery stores and supermarkets. In the same way, parents today can give their kids a quality education using low-cost Internet private schools and homeschooling.
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Here are some education-resource websites for parents and students looking for alternatives to public schools. I hope you find valuable and informative
With state governments burdened by multi-billion-dollar deficits, what is the chance that you will see a voucher program in your neighbor-hood any time soon? It might not be wise for you to wait around for such a voucher miracle
Continue reading about Vouchers — Parents, Don’t Depend On Them
