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Originally Posted by 33girl
The thing is....the teachers/admin are not the ones who cut music and art programs. The teachers/admin are not the ones mandating standardized tests (or should I say, elevating standardized tests above where they should be). A lot of the time that comes down from the state or federal government.
If we keep pulling our kids out of the public schools, we lose any rights to say what we think should happen there and things just get worse. I hate to think that this country is going to go back to the days of education being a privilege for the rich, but it's happening as we speak.
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Ditto.
My siblings and I were educated in a poorly resourced public school system. We were surrounded by some kids of different socioeconomic and family backgrounds who were real badasses with horrendous grades. Frustrated teachers and all of that. Instead of taking us out of this structure and sending us to private or gifted schools (my parents don't agree with home schooling), they kept us there. They wanted to stay involved with these schools so that they could challenge them to change. We were urged to associate with the other kids in the National Honor Society and honors courses but of course we felt peer pressure from being surrounded by the kids who didn't think school was important. We were taught some great stuff because there were some EXCELLENT teachers and our parents reinforced what we were taught when we came home (without needing to home school us). If there was something the school didn't teach, my parents who are college educators gave us books and talked to us about the stuff so we could be exposed to it.
All of this without home schooling. We learned how to adjust to successes and failures, be around others who don't share our background (even if our interactions were restricted to school hours), and to work toward a common goal without axing the idea altogether.
Sorry, T La Rock, LL killed it. 
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