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The author of this book (most famously known for his novel Snow Falling on Cedars) was a high school English teacher in Washington state. He and his wife homeschooled their three children, which gives the author a unique perspective on the differences between formal school (in this case, public school) and homeschooling. For the most part, I agree with many of the authors conclusions: there is something tremendously industrial about how we educate our young people, which may have made sense for a manufacturing economy, but weve moved well beyond that now. Likewise, despite billions and billions of dollars being spent by local governments, state governments, and the federal government each year, the result of our public systems efforts to educate our kids is generally dismal. Overall, more often than not, Americas school systems are failing to educate our kids. The authors main contention--and it is unassailable--is that without family involvement in, and commitment to, the education of children, very little can be done. This book was written twenty years ago; since then, the anecdotes the author refers to have become data sets: the overwhelming vast majority of homeschooled children do tremendously well on every measure when compared to children who are more traditionally educated. The author insists, and I concur, that the difference is to be found in the commitment of the parents, not the quality of the teaching or the learning materials. If your parents arent making education important, it is the extremely rare child who will learn a damn thing. I see this every single day in the school where I work. It is like the Law of Gravity. So what is the answer? In the absence of some sort of stick (connecting a drivers license to a childs attendance and grades? Making Section Eight housing vouchers, food stamps, Medicaid and other welfare benefits contingent on parenting classes? Levying tax fines for parents who are inflicting ignorant little savages on the rest of us?) I dont see how parents can be forced to take responsibility for their childrens education. America has yet to deal with the 800 pound gorilla in our collective living room: poor children, especially poor children of color, are failing spectacularly in our schools. Likewise, the average kid who comes out of high school does not have the knowledge, skills, or habits of mind to be competitive in our technologically advanced global economy, regardless of whether they go to college or not. Parents with the means and the wherewithal spend too much money to live in suburbs with good schools, or send their kids to private schools. More and more people choose homeschooling...and I dont blame them one bit. Having taught high school for five years, and middle school for seven, I can tell you that the cultural and social forces that bear down on our children--and on their families-- are remarkably powerful. People tend to think that, because they went to school, things are just like they were when they were kids. They are seriously mistaken. Things dont just seem worse than they were; they are, measurably, objectively, much worse than they were when I was in school 25 years ago, and certainly when my parents where in school 40 our 50 years ago. By every measure you can imagine, children are doing poorly. Not all children; there are pockets of excellence and success. But overall, the state of our nations young people is grim. Im not talking about teen pregnancy and drug use; Im talking about the basic ability to learn, to concentrate, to apply, and to think. There are many reasons for this trend toward stupidity; schools are wildly incapable addressing any of them (unless you count suggesting that kids get put on medication). Julie and I have talked about homeschooling. It would be a tremendous commitment on our part, but Im confident that we could do it were we willing to make the necessary sacrifices (like losing one of our incomes). We are gambling--as so many people do--that if we make our childrens education our responsibility, and view school as necessary but not in and of itself sufficient, we will see our daughters grow into the knowledgeable, skilled, thoughtful, and kind people that we wish them to be. I must say, though, as a dad, as a public school teacher, and as a person who has studied the American school system in some detail, I am not committed to educating my daughters in this giant machine. There is too much wrong, too little right, and too little margin for error. So well see how it goes. We may end up being homeschoolers yet.
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