Now that’s fucking insane. I’ll bet more money was spent prosecuting them than was lost in library fines.
In context of this whole conversation, it would be quite obvious to all but the disingenuous that I meant physical, hands-on involvement with the school itself.
My turn to :dubious:
We know that’s what you mean. But why is “physical, handson-on involvement with the school itself” the only kind that counts? If that’s the only way parents involve themselves in their childrens’ education, then somehow, the whole system is inferior?
So I guess homeschoolers are the only parents who really care then?
Did I say it’s the only kind that counts? I didn’t mention the other ways of getting involved because you already covered them at the start.
I have no frigging idea what you’re even trying to say here. My point was that there are lots of parents who expect the schools to do all the work in educating their kids, here just as much as in America. They just “hand them over” to the schools, they never get involved in their kids’ schooling. You say nobody does this. I call bullshit on that. You then segue into homeschooling like it’s…some kind of comeback?
I don’t know how, but OK…
My point is, you seem to think, unless the parents are directly working at the schools, then they’re not truely involved. I said, our system is just different than your’s, but it doesn’t make it inferior. That does NOT equal just “sending them off to an institution or whatever”.
Of course there are parents who don’t give a shit about their kids. That happens everywhere.
As far as “homeschooling”, just forget it. In fact, this should probably just be a different thread, because it’s starting to veer off into a total highjack.
Fair enough.
Charter schools are taxpayer funded, but not run by the school district. That’s what makes them different from actual private schools (which aren’t taxpayer funded). How they manage to get away with such a thing, I don’t know, frankly doesn’t seem fair to the actual private schools, but that’s how it is.