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bni's avatar

At 80, barring reincarnation, I will thankfully not have to reattend Antioch College - though as an ed major there in the '60s, we helped reinvent home schooling.

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Melissa Fountain's avatar

Just a little younger than you but same generation and have often thought that I am glad that I will not be subjected to the college 'tude any longer, however, I see it in some of my children who are now past college age. At least they are using their degrees (one a dietician and one an EDO in the military). I was an ed major in the '70's and DOE was the reason that I did not teach in L.A. and EXACTLY why home schooling, for the first time, seemed an excellent option. Such a shame because since I was a little girl, I wanted to teach children. (p.s. I have very few friends from college because of my voting choices)

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Roger Simon's avatar

NOTE: The typo in the link to The Inoculator at the end of this post has been fixed. Very sorry for the confusion.

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Vik's avatar

I have a friend who has home-schooled his grade-school-age kids and says it is a lot easier and less time-consuming than most people think. Possibly an occasional article on this topic would be of interest to your readers.

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Margaret's avatar

The link is corrupted, but I found it by just putting in the name of the site.

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Jeffrey Carter's avatar

Sent my kids to school in the South. One did the Humanities Core at Davidson College. It's a rigorous two-year program and was one of the best in the US at the time. The profs were certainly liberal, but kept it mostly in the closet at that time. A new president of the University introduced all the woke stuff so I don't know how it is now. The president was from the University of Chicago too...which is woke including the storied business school. Sending kids to a school with a "conservative reputation" or in the South is no guarantee you will miss out on the wokeness. Both of my kids went to a very woke private school in the city, then college, and now are happily married with kids to conservative males and they are conservatives too.

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Gary Frank's avatar

Roger, there's a typo in the more info link, misspelled substack.

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Patrick Newcomb's avatar

The Inoculator link has a typo in the word “Substack”.

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Roger Simon's avatar

Thanks. Fixed.

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Stephen Jenks's avatar

I’m out of the market for higher Ed evaluations, but when I had younger children (they’re now in grad school) I thought. The most important thing was to expose them

To the Western Cannon in high school and to teach them how to study/ work. They went to school that did. What I missed was that it didn’t teach them how to argue or make them understand how great a country the US is.

That’s a long way of saying the high school/elementary school also needs a great deal of attention.

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Roger Simon's avatar

We envision that is something we older folks, of which alas I am one, might want to do for children and grandchildren..

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NNTX's avatar

Definitely for the grandchildren. I read of several exciting and rigorous Classical Christian schools that sound attractive.

As someone else commented, if all else fails one can homeschool. Families have been quite innovative in collaborating with one another to provide excellent education for their children.

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Melissa Fountain's avatar

Thanks for this. My kids have either finished college or (as in one instance) they were lucky not to go), however, I have many friends with whom I can have these discussions.

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bni's avatar

I took part in the ed wars of the 1960s - and our side lost. The winners run public education to this day. The best we could come up with to change education was the idea of home schooling (see the writings of John Holt to further explain the above). Oddly enough, our non directional theories of education actually worked extremely well when we home schooled our daughter in the '80s and '90s. Our biggest surprise was the recognition that Christian home schoolers were our friends and allies, when he Clinton administration & congress pulled a stunt and tried suppressing the right to home school. For a fuller explanation of why public schools works exactly the way our educators want them to work, and is not an aberration, see the writings of John Taylor Gatto.

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Patrick Nolan's avatar

Very interesting, and hopeful.

BTW- the link for the inoculator doesn't work work ,I will find it though.

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Lis's avatar

After you follow the incorrect link, go up to the URL and change "suibstack" to "substack" and it will work.

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