On June 21, 2022, the US Supreme Court decided Carson v. Makin and overturned a Maine law that created a tuition assistance program to pay for students to attend public or private schools inside or outside of the state to ensure that school-age children receive a free public education. The program excluded sectarian school students (Catholic and other). The law was overturned, and now they are eligible.
Fine. However, this is not the direction Catholics need to go, because it gets us entangled with government. Homeschooling, which is affordable, is a better choice, or we can transform the current Catholic school system, or dump it and create a new one, from kindergarten all the way up to a professional education. We are better educators.
One way to transform the current Catholic school system is to get rid of teacher credentialing. It is a government system that I encountered and told me to my face that if I wanted a job, I ought not proclaim that I favored testing! The Wechsler test, for example, is an excellent test for assessing a student’s strengths and weaknesses.
The one good thing that my youngest student received from public school was a social skills assessment. It was informative, and his mother made some decisions based on the assessment. Personally, I do not favor medicine for hyperactive children. I know of one example where drugs were prescribed and the child became a zombie.
One learns how to be a good teacher by watching a good teacher and getting peer reviews from one’s Catholic school colleagues. I had good and bad teachers in Catholic and public school, and that was almost all I needed to know on how to do it.
Additionally, educational theory taught at schools of education is a load of nonsense. It just pays salaries. None of this existed 150 years ago, and out of this nothing came Mark Twain (1835-1910).
Fine. However, this is not the direction Catholics need to go, because it gets us entangled with government. Homeschooling, which is affordable, is a better choice, or we can transform the current Catholic school system, or dump it and create a new one, from kindergarten all the way up to a professional education. We are better educators.
One way to transform the current Catholic school system is to get rid of teacher credentialing. It is a government system that I encountered and told me to my face that if I wanted a job, I ought not proclaim that I favored testing! The Wechsler test, for example, is an excellent test for assessing a student’s strengths and weaknesses.
The one good thing that my youngest student received from public school was a social skills assessment. It was informative, and his mother made some decisions based on the assessment. Personally, I do not favor medicine for hyperactive children. I know of one example where drugs were prescribed and the child became a zombie.
One learns how to be a good teacher by watching a good teacher and getting peer reviews from one’s Catholic school colleagues. I had good and bad teachers in Catholic and public school, and that was almost all I needed to know on how to do it.
Additionally, educational theory taught at schools of education is a load of nonsense. It just pays salaries. None of this existed 150 years ago, and out of this nothing came Mark Twain (1835-1910).
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