I am getting sick and tired of people complaining about students getting too much homework, too little homework, etc, etc.

Guess what?

Home school.

Two words that could help out your situation. Go home school your kids and then you will truly find out that they are stupid, just like Mrs. Maple said.

Oh, wait, let me guess. You have no time for that, and you wouldn't know where to begin. Well maybe you should stop yelling at the teachers.

Some people think they are better than others, but refuse to trade shoes.

-Mike Freas

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-Mike Freas, conservative Independent

Never forget September 11, 2001.

You just made a complete moot point. What in your mind made you type that???? I am sorry, but your information is backwards and your comments rendered useless.

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"I'm not saying you're wrong, that would be rude. I'm just right."

-Mike Freas, conservative Independent

Never forget September 11, 2001.

Edit it so you don't have the same content in it. How ingenious. ....*Insult removed by moderator*

-Mike Freas

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"I'm not saying you're wrong, that would be rude. I'm just right."

-Mike Freas, conservative Independent

Never forget September 11, 2001.

it's not my fault i couldn't read the screen because i forgot my glasses. If i had my glasses, i would have never posted. Also, you need to shut your big mouth, you talk to much. I apologize for posting what i did......

Every thing you just said is contradicting the last sentence you spoke. Are you just learning proper English or something? If you are attempting to be immature, please stop using this site. It is for those who want to discuss politics.

-Mike Freas

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"I'm not saying you're wrong, that would be rude. I'm just right."

-Mike Freas, conservative Independent

Never forget September 11, 2001.

well i agree that home schooling is an option, but i think that most americans dont have the opportunity to home school because we have more families now with both parents working than ever. if there was some way for my mom to not have to work and to have taught me at home, i would have chosen that over my experience in the public education system.

the only problem i see with teachers these days, is the no child left behind program, which is not the teachers fault. they are being forced to teach to a test and certain guidlines so that their students can pass with a certain percentage and the school gain more governmental funding (at least thats the way it is here in VA, not sure if same for other states). When i graduated, the teachers were developing their lesson plans exactly word for word for the state standardized tests, and class was more a lesson on simple memorization and multiple choice test taking methods than it was actually learning the topic.

what got to me the most was when each of my teachers spent entire classes teaching students how to efficiently guess the correct answer...if this actually is the way public education is heading, we're in a sorry state of affairs

I think I get your point, Mike, and I agree if I understand you right. Parents quite often don't seem to take responsibility for their own kids and prefer to blame teachers for the failures of our education system. With that said, one major problem is that many parents who are concerned about their kids' futures are themselves undereducated and have neither the booksmarts or the experience with school to truly understand how to best help their kids. Even if our classrooms are improved, we will still see this problem unless we can apply the voucher logic also to personal tutoring or perhaps parental classes. Many of the biggest problems in our society are caused by the ignorance of parents.

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I was homeschooled. My elementary school was okay, but my middle school, in which I lasted only two months, was a chaotic labyrinth and I was the other students' favorite target for emotional abuse. My parents got me out of that mess and put me in a private Christian school that they thought would be harmless. Unfortunately, it was run by utterly fanatical Fundamentalists. I stayed there for one month (the other students gave me hellfire pamphlets to "save" me when I left) and then my parents began homeschooling me. In spite of serious mental health problems I did quite well, finishing in the 97th percentile on my first test, then the 99th percentile on my next two and finally in the 95th percentile on my last required homeschool test despite the fact that I was too ill to study (a higher number is better, by the way). Homeschooling definitely worked for me.

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As long as the parent actually knows how to home school, and theres logic behind it, then I say go for it.

Sometimes bullying can be good for children.

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