(March 14, 2019 at 6:52 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(March 14, 2019 at 6:16 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: One of my relatives, a young man, shared my enthusiasm for the USN. He took the screening tests preliminary to enlisting a few days ago and got the results today. According to his scores he's functionally illiterate.
His parents homeschooled him and he passed all the tests the state requires for a high school diploma. I know the proctors, relatives of mine. I'm sure they didn't want to "embarrass" anyone by flunking him.
He let me know about all this while he was in transit to another relative in California. She's a school teacher there. We'll get the boy fixed up.
I know a guy who used to be a school principal in western Kansas.
When parents brought their home-schooled kids to rejoin the school system they invariably tested years behind their age groups, and then the parents invariably flipped out -- they couldn't believe they hadn't been superior.
More dumbing down.
The public school system is no different. Some kids are functionally illiterate and far behind, others are ahead, most are mediocre. We homeschooled one of our daughters in a phenomenal program. Several other families did the same and there was a group of about 10 of them. Today, those kids are all in dual enrollment college programs locally as sophomores in high school, and most of them are at the top of the classes in literature, writing and math in their college classes. Our daughter took the PSAT last year as a freshman and scored higher than all the other students in the district. Every child, every program, every school, and every family is different. Although, the story of this boy is certainly tragic, it is no more tragic than the child who is allowed to go through the public school system with the same outcome. In fact, it is happening with increasing frequency with parents and administrators complicit, and teachers powerless to stop it or advocate for their students.
