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Promote homeschooling and all 3 fix themselves!
Just listen to Michael, Steve.
When parents abdicate the responsibility of educating their children and leave it to the State, they help create children who are better (more compliant) wards of the State (not legally but theoretically–and theoretically is more important anyway).
After all, our Patron Saint and Lady of Perpetual Help has long taught us, “it takes a village to raise a child.” Anything else is failing to uphold your duty and a citizen in our demo-crass-y.
Homeschooling is only available to those who don’t work for a living
JJ Frankie–
You really think homeschooling is just feasible when a parent is a full-time homemaker?
Like I sad, homeschooling parents form networks with others so that they collaborate on subjects. If a group of 15 kids spread across 5 families forms a teaching unit, each parent only needs to teach the kids an hour or two a day, and then they move on to another subject.
This is a simplification of how it can work, but it definitely proves that a person can carry on a full-time job and be a homeschool teacher at the same time.
Like most legislative bodies, our general assembly tends to offer knee-jerk reactions to perceived problems and to pass laws intended to more often than not, focus on the symptoms of problems, rather than the root cause. (Do we really need a law on cell phones?) We see this at all levels of our government and both parties participate mutually. Why do you think this is? Most fair-minded people would agree and concede this fact, yet we as a society struggle to effectively deal with ways to bring lasting change. In my opinion, this is very apparent in our schools. The single biggest problem in the world is not global warming, covid, debt, equity, diversity, gender, artificial intelligence, or whatever else is the popular crisis of the day. It is the breakdown of the family unit in society. Until we take steps to better support, legislate, protect, and nurture the family unit, most of these other problems will never get solved and yet we will spend billions in a futile effort to bring change. When kids come to school prepared to learn, have their basic needs met, and are held accountable and guided by loving parents who teach them respect for authority, then we can begin to gain some real traction in education and many other areas of society. But we never hear politicians talk about this. The solution has to be endlessly studied, funded, implemented, tested, and usually, the results are disappointing. I applaud all those who are dedicated to teaching and helping children to grow into mature and responsible adults who will contribute to society. Doesn’t it seem odd that we through policy tend to reward sloth, error, boredom, shortcuts, and mediocrity? It is hard to promote ambition and achievement when there is little accountability. I really do not see the answer being more laws. Maybe we actually need fewer laws. That is a novel concept. If we want to decrease the gap between the haves and the have-nots in our communities, we have to do much better with our schools and in supporting families. God help us.
Maybe you should write directly to your legislators, they won’t read this!
Meh. Most of these proposals are pretty middling, at best.
Schools really play two roles in the US: 1.) To educate and 2.) To act as daycare until parents get home from work.
If Indiana wanted to really wanted to take bold steps, I suggest that The State acknowledges that schools play both rolls and takes steps to meaningfully separate them.
Kids can get a fantastic education in much less time than the American school day. The belabored American school day works to take away from the efficacy of schools. Kids end up bored and stir crazy, while teachers get overworked and overwhelmed.
Let’s focus on giving kids 4-5.5 hours of very high quality education every day, with about an hour of that time set aside for a good lunch and recess/social time.
Any additional time that kids need to be watched before their parents come home can be supervised by people who are not teachers. Let teachers focus on educating, not babysitting.