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What happened to Education in America?OT Home Schooled wins spelling bee!
Jun 03, 2007
55 Replies
Why do you ask?
The left became the establishment, and have tried to control everything.
Flunked statistics, eh?
....and the obvious answer is right in front of our faces
Liberals took over government education.....
EVERYTHING Liberals take over fails....
Whooosh!
You think one kid who was home schooled has some sort of meaning, statistically speaking.
One kid.
One kid.
You failed statistics. Splatt's example has no meaning whatsoever.
One kid in my son's school was doing 12th grade calculus when he was in 9th grade. What does this mean? That we have an amazing math department?
You want STATISTICS Joey?
ONE KID????????
Go review the statistics and tell me the results....
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Based on your logic, if a kid who went to Cornell wins the Nobel price 20 years later, it means all other colleges were bad.
So, to conclude: The fact that a home schooled kid did well in a spelling bee means "the schools" (all of them, everywhere) are having problems.
Right?
You really want to own that conclusion, don't you?
How about the differences between teaching one kid vs. an entire classroom of kids - who all have various aptitudes & skills in various subjects, and have varying interests, while maintaining discipline at the same time? Kind of difficult to focus on everyone in that classroom with the same intensity with which one could focus on the one kid (or say even 3, if a family's being home-schooled).
Cathy
You didn't review the supplied statistics, Joey.....
Oops. ;-P
Cathy
How dare you question Strickland's expert knowledge of teaching?
Oh the NEA line of bull crap comes flowing out of your mouth....
How the hell could a dumb parent teach better than all the 'teachers' in America?
How could a home schooled kid beat EVERY Public School educated kid in a spelling bee?
Let's turn your question around: If a family can afford the best in private education, how can the result be a person who can't assemble sentences and ideas any better than a 6th grader?
Yeah. Oops is right. Jeff's an expert. So is Splatt.
Something tells me that the parents who home school aren't exactly at the bottom of the parental heap. Nevermind the fact that they have to follow strict guidelines, re: the state's curriculum. Then, as mentioned above, there's the extremely small class size.
Cathy
Joey, you have been assigned a task.
Get with it.......
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