| It’s becoming more and more obvious, as | | | | embarrassment for thousands of public school |
| research on the success of home schooling is | | | | districts that parents with not formal training in |
| making clear, that home schooling is | | | | education are outdistancing their teaching staffs in |
| outperforming the US public school system in the | | | | the quality of the education which they are giving |
| quality of the education, self-esteem, and social | | | | their children. |
| awareness it instills in its students. And there are | | | | Public school authorities would much prefer that |
| large numbers of public school authorities who are | | | | the parents in their school districts operate under |
| not happy with that realization. | | | | the belief that teaching should be reserved for |
| The Tyranny Of Tenure | | | | degreed and state-certified teachers. But the |
| The public school system, to be fair, is saddled | | | | statistics indicate that parents who home school |
| with regulations which make necessary change | | | | who have never been within a mile of a |
| almost impossible. The tenure policy in most public | | | | teachers’ college or had a single |
| school districts, for instance, prevents the firing of | | | | college-level course in education are proving better |
| tenured teachers and school officials, and allows | | | | teachers than those on the public school faculties. |
| incompetent or unmotivated teachers who have | | | | The Eroding Tax Support |
| hung on long enough to achieve tenure the | | | | Another reason public school officials are livid |
| security of lifetime employment. They are free to | | | | about the number of parents choosing to home |
| under educate our children whose parents cannot | | | | school is that the public school system loses, on |
| afford to put their children in private schools. | | | | the average, $7500 in government funding for |
| If tenured public school teachers were held to the | | | | each child removed from it. The public school |
| same standards as private school teachers who | | | | system in the US is funded by tax revenues and |
| are up for job reviews on a regular basis, they | | | | each school district gets money according to the |
| might take a different attitude toward fighting to | | | | number of students enrolled. Form that money it |
| maintain their tenured status. And home schooling | | | | pays for its teaching staff, and as the number of |
| might not have become the education method of | | | | students drops, the number of faculty must be |
| choice for millions of American families. | | | | cut as well. Bye-bye gravy train. |
| It is nothing less than a catastrophic | | | | |