{"id":4908,"date":"2005-04-30T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=4908"},"modified":"2006-04-06T21:36:02","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T02:36:02","slug":"letter-of-the-day-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=4908","title":{"rendered":"LETTER OF THE DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> isn’t really a home education letter, but it raises an interesting point:<\/p>\n

Let’s ask the parents<\/p>\n

Re: “Rotten Education \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd Students can’t prepare for the world today in the schools of yesterday,” by Bill Gates, April 24 Points.<\/p>\n

I have been a teacher since 1965 and was an A student in New York in the ’40s. I earned a master’s in education in 1972, while raising four children. I am still teaching visually impaired students in Rockwall. I love what I do, and I love children.<\/p>\n

I’m also the first to agree that the present education system is not preparing our next generation for the future. The only way that school has changed since the ’40s is the addition of technology.<\/p>\n

Two questions that can be answered in one simple sentence: (1) Why is home-schooling becoming more effective than public school? (2) Why do Indian and Asian children excel in public school?<\/p>\n

Their parents are involved and see education as of prime importance and worth spending the time and effort to facilitate.<\/p>\n

Parental education and more emphasis on preschool programs might be a start to help parents’ priorities and values.<\/p>\n

Betty Donovan, Richardson <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve probably been guilty of this more than most, but I’m really starting to question the wisdom of even comparing home education to g-schooling (Tim and Chris are likely singing a hallelujah breakdown chorus ’bout now). Right now we think we can show that HEKs outperform g-schoolers in any number of measures. We’ve used these stats to justify home education. But what if they’re bogus? Or if the g-schools improve so much that their kids routinely outperform ours? Do we really want to build our justification for home education on such a flimsy foundation? Better by far, I think, to just point out that our kids are happy, they’re not being obviously deprived of an education (or anything else), and that raising our kids as we see fit is our fundamental right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This isn’t really a home education letter, but it raises an interesting point: Let’s ask the parents Re: “Rotten Education \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd Students can’t prepare for the world today in the schools of yesterday,” by Bill Gates, April 24 Points. I have been a teacher since 1965 and was an A student in New York in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}