What baffles me is the narrative that emerges after each case. The parents will talk about months and months of bullying and months and months of "we begged the school authorities to do something."
You sent your kid back every day for months, to be tortured? Anyone needs lessons on "enraged mother face" I will be happy to show them.
I agree. I think government schools have become a disaster. Many private schools are not any better. Some of the best outcomes I saw were home schooled, but not everyone can do that. The throw off line I made is what we see so often in public where the kid tantrums to get what he or she wants. That is a failing in parenting as well as the education system and leads to a lifetime of manipulation behavior for personal gain.
Forced herding of any group anywhere anytime is always going to result in painful outcomes for the one who sticks out for any reason.
Home schooling has now become an elite signaling too. Extremely normal non-extravagant-show-off families need two incomes just to achieve a modest life in any urban area. Public schooling has always been a form of babysitting and even in the prosperous '50s there were plenty of families who needed that.
But I agree the schools are truly abysmal now. Martyr Made has a great series on Blacks and Jews (paywalled but worth it in my view) that gives an excellent history of what happened to big-city public education.
Where I lived the home schoolers were farm families who did not like what was going on in the schools. They worked from home so they were available to do the teaching. The kids also learned a lot about farming from gardening to tending the chickens and feeding animals. As they got older they learned to drive tractors and mechanical maintenance skills as well as carpentry. Girls learned all the home economics and sewing. but they all learned bookkeeping and business skills. (This was the 1980s and 90s into the early 2000s for refeference to my experience with it)
Urban and rural areas are entirely different cultures from each other. And I think after you reach a certain size, no city is really able to sustain a decent life for all its inhabitants. Probably the Sumerians could have told us that but nobody ever listens, do they?
I'm following a case in NZ - a man (custody battle?) took his 3 kids into the bush. They've been there for 3 years.
I think about - the schooling, the NZ government during COVID, the jabs - and suspect he might have very good reason for pulling his kids into the bush, and out of the System.
I read the Daily Mail Online so I'm familiar with that guy's story.
Menstruating in the bush probably won't be such a fun experience for his girls if they're still out there when the time comes around. He seems like a vengeful schmuck.
"Kids are resilient"
Until they hang themselves in the closet after a fight with mom.
Because they did not get the shiny toy or candy bar they wanted at the grocery store.
To be fair there's usually more to it than that.
What baffles me is the narrative that emerges after each case. The parents will talk about months and months of bullying and months and months of "we begged the school authorities to do something."
You sent your kid back every day for months, to be tortured? Anyone needs lessons on "enraged mother face" I will be happy to show them.
I agree. I think government schools have become a disaster. Many private schools are not any better. Some of the best outcomes I saw were home schooled, but not everyone can do that. The throw off line I made is what we see so often in public where the kid tantrums to get what he or she wants. That is a failing in parenting as well as the education system and leads to a lifetime of manipulation behavior for personal gain.
Forced herding of any group anywhere anytime is always going to result in painful outcomes for the one who sticks out for any reason.
Home schooling has now become an elite signaling too. Extremely normal non-extravagant-show-off families need two incomes just to achieve a modest life in any urban area. Public schooling has always been a form of babysitting and even in the prosperous '50s there were plenty of families who needed that.
But I agree the schools are truly abysmal now. Martyr Made has a great series on Blacks and Jews (paywalled but worth it in my view) that gives an excellent history of what happened to big-city public education.
Where I lived the home schoolers were farm families who did not like what was going on in the schools. They worked from home so they were available to do the teaching. The kids also learned a lot about farming from gardening to tending the chickens and feeding animals. As they got older they learned to drive tractors and mechanical maintenance skills as well as carpentry. Girls learned all the home economics and sewing. but they all learned bookkeeping and business skills. (This was the 1980s and 90s into the early 2000s for refeference to my experience with it)
Urban and rural areas are entirely different cultures from each other. And I think after you reach a certain size, no city is really able to sustain a decent life for all its inhabitants. Probably the Sumerians could have told us that but nobody ever listens, do they?
I'm following a case in NZ - a man (custody battle?) took his 3 kids into the bush. They've been there for 3 years.
I think about - the schooling, the NZ government during COVID, the jabs - and suspect he might have very good reason for pulling his kids into the bush, and out of the System.
I read the Daily Mail Online so I'm familiar with that guy's story.
Menstruating in the bush probably won't be such a fun experience for his girls if they're still out there when the time comes around. He seems like a vengeful schmuck.