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In the USA the Education behemoth has been run by progressives for decades. Where do we begin to bring this Leviathan back to where it should be?

Leninsghost 5 Mar 3
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Homeschooling is a start and also Discussion about what is best for the future of our children. The public education system has become a monopoly

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I don't have any big answers that may satisfy this important question, but I do have school age children who I am responsible for educating.

I think as parents, we have to show our children how to think for themselves; to ask relevant questions and to consider the consequences that come with certain intentions.
We have to be instructors that respect diversity of thought, first and foremost, so they are not easily partitioned into intolerant ideological tribes.
If we do this, ideology will not so quickly take root in our kids, but rather, it will be subject to their own critical analysis.
Eventually, a cultural habit of reason and critical thinking may again emerge in our society.

So the where and how are:
Where.. Anywhere they're with you.
How... Instructing kids on how to apply critical thought and practice respect for divergent opinions.

It's a micro approach to a macro question, but I think It's one that has a good chance of succeeding over time, if patents again view education as their responsibility no matter where their child attends school.

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Everyone bloody homeschool. Thats a great reason to have a stay at home mom. Then boycott the public education system. Do you have any idea how useless paper tests are to the real world?

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Charter schools would be a decent start.

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Bulldoze public schools. Keep your tax dollars. Every family find like minded familues and form school co-ops. Teach 15 children in a garage or basement. Implement the one room school mode until 8th grade. It worked beautifully. After 8th grade access whether the child is college bound or get them an apprenticeship. All schools of higher learning should be private with the parents holding the purse strings. That way you can fire teachers/professors who are brainwashing on your dime.

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Don't send your kids to a garbage college for a liberal arts degree.

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I think we need to start at the local level. School boards, administrators, teachers. Common core needs to go and the states need more control. I agree that parents need to be more involved, especially in holding the school, and their own children accountable.

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Well I think the president's doing a good job by bringing diversity back to the college is by making it illegal to discriminate on Free Speech but it really needs to start nor elementary schools Junior highs and high schools with the books that they are taught from and we need to bring back Civics I didn't even get it and I'm 50 years old we weren't taught Civic through tough social studies and I love politics in high school but I kept getting in trouble for arguing

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Parents MUST be more.involved. when my son was in HS, I knew what was being taught in each class. When something came up that I had an issue with, I contacted the school and had my son do something else for the grade. Make SURE to let your kids know you trust THEM, just not the people making the curriculum . That's how we got through it.

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Great question! I think we start by dissolving the Dept of Education, followed by defunding taxpayer supported schools and privatizing them, giving local control back to the people.

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