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  Category: Articles » Articles by Author » Author: Joel Turtel
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1.Parents Need More Money --- Not Public Schools
If more money meant better education for our kids, our public schools should have vastly improved over the last 75 years. Yet the reverse is true. In dollars adjusted for inflation, public schools spent about $876 ...
[Added: 02 Dec 2006   Hits: 427   Words: 752]

2.Low-cost Private Schools For Your Kids That Charge Less Than $950 a Year Tuition?—Wow!
Millions of desperate parents today are appalled at the inferior education public schools give their kids, but think they have no where else to go. The good news is that busy working parents can now give their kids a ...
[Added: 01 Nov 2006   Hits: 314   Words: 607]

3.Most Parents Are Not Idiots Or Negligent — So Why Do We Need Compulsory-Attendance Laws?
Why do we need compulsory-attendance laws? Why compel parents to send their children to public schools? Wouldn’t parents naturally educate their children without compulsion? Human nature and history prove this to be the case. All over the world, parents push to educate their children, with or without public ...
[Added: 07 Aug 2005   Hits: 268   Words: 436]

4.Ancient Greece Did Not Need Licensed Teachers
Contrary to popular notions, teacher licensing in public schools does not insure teacher quality. A license also does not even insure that a public-school teacher is an expert in the subject she teaches. In fact, in our ...
[Added: 07 Aug 2005   Hits: 300   Words: 340]

5.School Choice Will Destroy The Public Schools? — Maybe That's A Good Thing
Public-school defenders often argue that school choice would destroy the public schools. Almost 90 percent of children in this country attend public schools. If we had vouchers, no compulsory attendance laws, and an unregulated education free ...
[Added: 07 Aug 2005   Hits: 298   Words: 458]

6.Homeschooling — Is It Worth It?
Suppose that you rearrange your life to homeschool your child and the experiment fails? You may feel that you’ve disrupted your life and wasted a year of your child’s time. Your child may even be kept back a ...
[Added: 07 Aug 2005   Hits: 189   Words: 408]

7.Homeschooling — Can I Do It?
Many parents would like to homeschool their children but are afraid they don’t have the training or ability to be their children’s teacher. This is certainly understandable, because many parents never had any formal training to be ...
[Added: 07 Aug 2005   Hits: 176   Words: 631]

8.Parents — The No Child Left Behind Law Won't Do Much For Your Child
Past experience with federal education programs predicts that the No Child Left Behind act (NCLB) will also fail parents whose children are doing poorly in school. The federal government has spent over $120 billion on Title 1 ...
[Added: 07 Aug 2005   Hits: 219   Words: 782]

9.Surprise — Public School Class Size Doesn't Matter Very Much
School authorities often complain that classes are too large. They claim that teachers can’t be expected to give their students the individual attention they need if there are too many students in the class. On the surface, this excuse seems to have some merit. Common ...
[Added: 07 Aug 2005   Hits: 303   Words: 629]

10.The Charter School Wars --- Why Public Schools Hate Charter Schools
Many public school bureaucrats hate charter schools. It's not hard to see why. Charter schools embarrass local public schools. These schools often do a better job educating students for less money. For example, in the 1999-2000 ...
[Added: 27 Jul 2005   Hits: 204   Words: 562]

11.Public Schools Are Un-American
Compulsory-attendance laws force parents to send their children to public schools. These laws presume that the politicians we vote into office, our agents, have the right to take away parents’ liberty and inalienable rights. ...
[Added: 27 Jul 2005   Hits: 183   Words: 573]

12.Socialist Public Schools In America
Many parents might think it a bit farfetched to compare our public schools to schools in socialist or communist countries. However, if we look closer, we will see striking similarities between the two systems. In the former socialist-communist Soviet Union, for example, the government owned all property ...
[Added: 27 Jul 2005   Hits: 175   Words: 624]

13.The Absurdity Of The Public School Monopoly
The notion that local governments should have almost total monopoly control over our children’s education is not only unjust and tyrannical, it is also absurd. Children need education, to be sure, but they also need food, clothing, and shelter. The same poor or irresponsible parents who public-school apologists ...
[Added: 27 Jul 2005   Hits: 216   Words: 712]

14.The Free Ride In Public Schools
To protect children’s self-esteem or deflect complaints by parents, many public schools today automatically advance failing students to the next grade level. In other schools, some students are left back a maximum of one year, then ...
[Added: 11 Jul 2005   Hits: 172   Words: 475]

15.Why Public Schools Hate Home-Schooling Parents
Home-schooling is a great success. That’s why many public-school authorities hate home-schooling parents. Home-schoolers are a direct challenge to the public-school monopoly. This monopoly makes it almost impossible to fire tenured public-school teachers or principals. As a result, tenure gives most teachers life-time guaranteed jobs. They ...
[Added: 08 Jul 2005   Hits: 233   Words: 496]

16.Parents --- Homeschooling Can Take A Lot Less Time Than You Think
The time you will need to teach your children the essentials — reading, writing, and arithmetic — is much less than you think. Let me quote author and former public-school teacher John Gatto from his wonderful book, Dumbing Us Down: “Were the ...
[Added: 08 Jul 2005   Hits: 273   Words: 808]

17.Let's Google And Yahoo Our Kids' Education
I love Google and Yahoo. With Google and Yahoo I can search the Internet on any subject that interests me, at any time day or night, in the comfort of my home. I was thinking how much fun ...
[Added: 07 Jul 2005   Hits: 285   Words: 633]

18.Ben Franklin And Thomas Jefferson Never Went To Public School
Most of our Founding Fathers, including Ben Franklin, Sam Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, like most average colonial Americans, spent few years, if any, in formal grammar schools of the day, yet they knew ...
[Added: 29 Jun 2005   Hits: 207   Words: 462]

19.Homeschooling --- A Superior Education For Your Child
Home-schooling provides children with a superior education. Parents can quickly teach most kids the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic using excellent, creative, learn-to-read, or learn-math books, programs, or computer learning software. Once children become proficient readers, they can then study subjects they love in greater depth. If a ...
[Added: 29 Jun 2005   Hits: 281   Words: 334]

20.How Public Schools Lie To Parents And Betray Our Children
Under the "No Child Left Behind Act," public schools whose students consistently fail standardized tests can now be shut down. To protect their jobs, teachers and principals are now under intense pressure to cheat — to fudge test scores and ...
[Added: 29 Jun 2005   Hits: 191   Words: 782]

21.America's Public School System --- Brutal And Spartan
The public school system in America has become a dismal failure. But education in many other times and cultures has been quite successful. The ancient Greeks, whose civilization was at its height around 500 B.C., founded Western civilization as ...
[Added: 29 Jun 2005   Hits: 205   Words: 498]

22.Invented Spelling --- Another Alice-In-Wonderland Public-School Theory
As part of the whole-language (or "balanced") reading-instruction philosophy, many public schools now teach what they call “invented” or “creative” spelling. Under this theory of spelling, teachers believe that forcing a child to spell a word correctly thwarts the child's "creativity." So in classrooms across ...
[Added: 29 Jun 2005   Hits: 218   Words: 549]

23.Parents Demand Dumbed-Down Tests --- An Unintended Bad Consequence Of The No Child Left Behind Act
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is making the problem of cheating, low academic standards, and public schools lying to parents, even worse. Under this Act, the Department of Education now requires students ...
[Added: 29 Jun 2005   Hits: 213   Words: 656]

24.Public-School Prisons ---- What Crimes Have Our Children Committed?
What are prisons? They are places were people are locked up against their will for crimes they have committed. What is life like for a prisoner? The warden and prison guards, in effect, take away the prisoner’s life and freedom. They force a prisoner ...
[Added: 29 Jun 2005   Hits: 194   Words: 823]

25.Public-school Teachers Know Best --- They Send Their Kids To Private Schools
A study done by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that nationwide, public-school teachers are almost twice as likely as other parents to send their children to a private school. The study also found that more than one in five public-school teachers send their kids to private schools. ...
[Added: 29 Jun 2005   Hits: 201   Words: 386]

26.Vouchers --- Parents, Don't Depend On Them
Vouchers, which give tax money to parents to pay for tuition in private schools, sound good in theory. The problem is that voucher programs are few and very far between. The Supreme Court declared vouchers constitutional in 2002, but currently only thirteen cities or states have created voucher or ...
[Added: 29 Jun 2005   Hits: 185   Words: 605]

27.America's Public Schools --- Deteriorating Like They Did In Ancient Rome
The citizens of the early Roman Republic enjoyed an education system similar to ancient Athens. It was voluntary and parents paid tutors or schools directly. There was very little government interference, so a vibrant education free market of tutors, schools, and apprenticeships developed. One aspect of Roman society that ...
[Added: 29 Jun 2005   Hits: 214   Words: 305]

28.Grandparents --- Homeschool Your Grandchildren And Feel Younger
Grandparents, what better way to stay close to your grown children than to advise them about important issues like the dangers of public schools for your grandchildren? What better way to feel younger if you offer to help homeschool your grandchildren? When your children grow up and ...
[Added: 29 Jun 2005   Hits: 174   Words: 264]

29.Literacy And Your Child -- Your Child's Life Can Be Ruined If They Can't Read Well
It may seem obvious to many people why literacy is so important in our technologically advanced society. However, many parents may not fully realize the emotional pain and life-long damage illiteracy can cause their children. Literacy, the ability to read well, is the foundation of children’s education. ...
[Added: 21 Jun 2005   Hits: 201   Words: 890]

30.Pagan Religions Taught In Public Schools
In classrooms throughout the country, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often cast aside or ridiculed. Multiculturalism studies, environmental propaganda, and Save-the-Earth classes now indoctrinate children with New-Age religious beliefs, often without parents’ knowledge. Public schools sometimes try to ...
[Added: 21 Jun 2005   Hits: 248   Words: 425]

31.Public Schools Can Cripple Your Children's Ability To Read
For many adults, reading a book or newspaper seems effortless. Yet reading effortlessly comes from constant use of basic skills learned at an early age. Once children learn these basic skills, they can eventually read complex books like War and Peace. What are these skills? To ...
[Added: 21 Jun 2005   Hits: 184   Words: 882]

32.Busy, Working Parents --- 22 Ways To Homeschool Your Kids
If you’re a single parent or a married couple on a tight budget so that both parents have to work, you may worry about finding the time and energy to homeschool your children, but it can be done. It comes down to planning and scheduling your time. Most ...
[Added: 21 Jun 2005   Hits: 196   Words: 361]

33.Parents Rights Violated By Public School Compulsory Attendence Laws
Compulsory attendance laws are school authorities’ first assault on parental rights. These laws force almost forty-five million children to sit in often boring classes six to eight hours a day for twelve years. Compulsory attendance laws force parents to hand over ...
[Added: 21 Jun 2005   Hits: 202   Words: 365]