{"id":5643,"date":"2005-10-24T08:46:55","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T08:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5643"},"modified":"2005-10-24T08:46:55","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T08:46:55","slug":"says-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5643","title":{"rendered":"SAYS IT ALL"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading through this rant<\/a> on why home education is evil, I just knew this idiot was a teacher. He is, at SUNY- Stony Brook. One ‘graf ought to be enough:<\/p>\n

Let’s start with the common criticism of public schools. I have a very good friend who sent his kids to private school on the ground that the public ones where he lives are not good enough (which is actually debatable, since he lives in an area where public schools have a good reputation). As much as my friend is a kind person, smart, and generally speaking liberal, I still haven’t been able to making him understand why public schools perform, on average, less well than private institutions. The answer is two-pronged, and rather simple: good private schools have more money (which implies a variety of things, but chiefly a better teacher\/student ratio, the single best predictor of a quality educational experience), and of course private schools can select the best candidates and discard the rest. But neither less money nor the inability to fail students are ingrained into the definition of a public school, they can both be changed, if the public so wishes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think if I were a professional educator (as opposed to an amateur just faking it) bent on proving the superiority of a g-school education, I\u2019d make sure that I could at least string a paragraph together without multiple errors in both logic and grammar. Private schools, of course, function on significantly less<\/I> money than the g-schools; homeschoolers, infinitely less. And then there\u2019s that last sentence. It\u2019s just a blog, and he\u2019s just a college prof at a two-bit school, so perhaps I should cut him some slack. Naaaaaah!<\/p>\n

UPDATE: He doesn’t have TrackBack turned on. Anyone want to set him straight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading through this rant on why home education is evil, I just knew this idiot was a teacher. He is, at SUNY- Stony Brook. One ‘graf ought to be enough: Let’s start with the common criticism of public schools. I have a very good friend who sent his kids to private school on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}