What troubles me is this: I'm a widow with two kids under 10...I desperately want to homeschool and help round them out and still be able to critically think the list goes on! But, how am I to do this when I've to work to support us? It seems unattainable and I find that pretty distressing at this point. Any suggestions? Serious ones. KIND ones?
@@ItsFreshItsAnne I just wrote a research paper for school about how children are more likely to be abused or neglected in childcare. Unfortunately there’s not much of a solution that I could find besides having a family member or trusted caretaker he responsible for a child. I wish there was a better solution for those who can’t homeschool.
@@ItsFreshItsAnne It takes a village to raise a child, find a good local community that you can trust (family is best). I know there are various Christian organizations that help single parent households with necessities so that would lift a ton of your shoulders
@ItsFreshItsAnne work at home jobs. You could even run a at home daycare. Find something to sale at farmers markets, or and craft fair. That is in high need. Find a job that is 12hr 3 days a week and Split some of the teaching and children care with someone you trust. You can always put up cameras for extra protection.
@@ItsFreshItsAnne I know a woman who worked full time and homeschooled 3 boys. I run a business, homeschool 2 kids, and chase a toddler while nursing a newborn. I'm not saying it's easy, but don't dismiss it completely. If you can make it work, it's worth it. Praying for you.
As a dental student who sees patients everyday and having a lot of them say to my face "I hate dentists, they suck" it is beyond me as to why people take one person's opinion so personally. Almost like people break down so quickly without that external validation.
I'm a dental tech, I say I hate dentists every day. :D Just joking, my dentist is great, I am just salty about having to work so much with crazy deadlines and such.
I had a horrible childhood dentist. I didn't go to one for years. My husband made me go, I bawled the whole time. My dental hygienist and dentist are the nicest people, but when I met them I just said "no offense to you at all. I am sure you ate great, but I hate what you do" They didn't take it personally, and Years later now we have a decent relationship. (I still hate going but I just sit down and let them do their jobs)
The problem is, is teachers are constantly berated, about everything, you never know what their actually going through unless you have teachers in your family. My mom use to love her job but hates it now. There’s a reason why there’s a national teacher shortage, because it’s not worth the crap they go through every day.
But people like Meagan aren’t actually talking about all teachers. I’m also in a heavy teacher family - we don’t take it personally. It’s very much the bad apples ruining it for everyone. It’s up to us to get them exposed and out. Example: look at the recent happenings at San Francisco school board. Some loonies were legitimately kicked out. The unions aren’t actually our friends btw…
@Herping Hobbies and a majority of the time is doesn't but just like at any job, when you're treated like crap, it's going to affect your work. Good teachers will still do their job and do it well, but that doesn't mean sometimes inside their not struggling.
I'm a former teacher (quit right before COVID to be a SAHM) and I didn't get offended by her comment because it honestly sounded to me is they were talking about specific teachers they had. And if you are lucky enough to say you never had a bad teacher, good for you 🤷♀️ I think most of us can think of at least one that was terrible. On the other hand, teachers are very much abused by the system at the moment. Kids get away with murder in schools. A kid sent my coworker to the hospital and he was back in her classroom 2 days later. So you don't want to exactly send a message to kids to disrespect teachers more than they already do. Majority of teachers mean well, but that doesn't mean as a parent you shouldn't be aware of their bias and what they are teaching.
I wish more parents would get involved in their kids schools. It worked in the 80s and early 90s. My mom always seemed to be helping in some way or another, even when she worked. She was involved in what our teachers taught us and would have and did, discipline us if we acted up at school. Which wasn't often since you never knew when she'd suddenly show up. 😂
When I have went in for parent/teacher conferences, instead of focusing on their schoolwork, the teachers have raved about my children’s respect and manners. I couldn’t understand until I went to a program that was held in the classroom. The total disrespect that the majority of the children showed for their teacher and fellow classmates was appalling.
I had two teachers that bullied me badly. Sadly I had them in the same year. As you said, I don't say f-teachers because those are two bad apples in an overflowing barrel of good teachers. I'll be honest and say that my mother and aunt were teachers. That made me appreciate the good teachers more and hate the couple of bad teachers more. I did have another teacher who tried to bully me but I stood up for myself. I knew that my mother would back me if he didn't back down.
When I taught public school, the looks I would get from other teachers when I said I wanted to homeschool my children were unbelievable. Brett is 100% spot on.
I'm a former teacher and at one school I worked at there was a former teacher who was homeschooling her kids, my co-workers who also lived in the town of the school would talk so poorly about this woman like her homeschooling was some personal vendetta against them. I never understood it and at the time I wasn't even thinking about homeschooling since I didn't even have kids. Now that I do have kids, they are homeschooled though. ;)
@@Fatemaforlife it reminds me of doctors and veterinarians. How they can seem to think that because they went to school it means they know better than everyone else, even the person inside the body they're treating.
As a teacher, who grew up homeschooled, my takeaway is: 1) you shouldn’t say f-any career. You have every right to be wary based on your experiences, but f-(fill in career here) is immature 2) are there bad teachers and schools out there? 100% yes. Are there also good ones out there? Also yes. Is it possible the schools in her area are ones she doesn’t want to send her kids to? Sure. 3) she has a right as a parent to decide the best place for her children to be educated 4) homeschooling done right is a beautiful and healthy thing. It has things schools don’t, just like schools have things it doesn’t. Frankly there’s no universal fit, it’s really individually based 5) as Brett pointed out, not everyone has the personal circumstances that allow for homeschooling. It’s so important people respect that every parent is doing the best they can with the circumstances they’re given. Instead of bashing that, let’s support them and the various careers out there. Thank you as always for being reasonable in your response Brett!
I am a teacher who quit the education system, and my kids are now home-schooled. America's education system is, in my opinion, unsalvageable; it needs to be completely dismantled and rebuilt under a more beneficial system.
Anything administered by the government seems to head that way. I was a teacher myself and went back to school for IT. One of my classmates said I should be a teacher and the prof and I immediately giggle snorted. I told her the problem is systemic and there is no quick fix because the people within it are perpetuating it.
exactly what republicans wants, and once republicans rebuilds the education system, we'll be teaching kids about christianity and not science, technology, and history
We homeschooled our son from 2nd to 12th. We got a lot of flack for it from teachers, friends, our church, family, strangers and everyone in between. It was ridiculous. But our son, who is now 29, tells me that it was the best experience he had. He graduated High School at the age of 16 and immediately went into our local college, got a 2-year degree by the age of 18, and is a happy, well-adjusted, very social young man doing a job he loves. He told me that he plans on homeschooling his kids when he has them. So if you're thinking about homeschooling...DO IT! No one else's opinion matters.
Good on you! I was homeschooled from 1st-12th and don't regret any of it. I am thankful for parents who are willing and able to take charge of their children's educations!
We had one guy who was homeschool and finished high school locally. He graduated early like your son, and seemed so much more intelligent than the rest of us. Obviously that doesnt prove anything. But i feel like having one on one teaching really makes a difference
It's sad that you got flack from your church and family/friends even church of all places there fine with the public schools indoctrination methods. It's all bs am 25 and am all about school choice happy your kid is successful if you can do it DO IT.
As someone who was homeschooled from third to seventh grade and then went back for one year but hated it, homeschooling is AMAZINGG I got to learn on my own pace and be flexible! So 100% if you have the means to homeschool do it, its so worth it.
My mom was a teacher and I had a few amazing teachers growing up who changed my life. That said, a lot of teachers are people who failed to achieve their dream job and then turned to teaching as an acceptable backup. I really think there should be higher standards for teachers and higher compensation to make it a career people actually aspire to for reasons other than helping kids. Same with cops. When you give someone a job that is arguably extremely important for the betterment of society and stick them with an average-at-best salary and low expectations, little good can come of it.
Absolutely. “Those who can’t ‘do’ teach.” Really, many teachers aren’t brilliant or talented, or even caring. A few educators are great but most can’t really offer children anything of substance.
Like cops, you aren't going to find very intelligent people doing it. Intelligent people get easily bored and move on to something more intellectually challenging leaving the mediocre to do the work...
I had very... mixed experiences with teachers throughout my time in school. I won't go out of my way to insult them, but I refuse to worship the ground they walk on like many others do.
Same here, but I guess I was lucky because for every bad teacher I had, I had three good/great ones. I admire what they do, but just being a teacher doesn't mean you are a great educator or even an adult role model. Curriculum seems to be getting more and more politicized, too, which isn't great imo.
Most didn’t but I had 3 teachers that were extremely necessary for making me who I am today, they cared a lot, I think it’s still better than homeschool
It’s definitely a difficult subject to tackle. On one hand I see the horrendous things educators think is okay to teach children; and on the other I see teachers who bend over backwards to protect and enrich children. My judgement is quite literally in limbo.
As an Arizona resident, I couldn't be more proud of our state being one of the first to implement true school choice. I am seeing the first hand impact of every family having the freedom to make decisions for their children's education, and it's amazing. Funding follows the child, eliminating the expense that used to be associated with homeschooling and private schooling.
But you have to get rid of Katie Hobbs. She’s a fraud, Kari Lake proved it in court. I lived in Arizona for 6 years. It’s a wonderful state and I would hate to see that b!tch destroy it.
The schools suck, but when I was in school it was because the teachers had to work 3 jobs. So ofc the teachers who stay are bottom of the barrel and terrible at their jobs. You can’t do a good job on 4 hours of sleep.
@TheKlamminator which is disgusting and I think she has kids of her own why should every kid go to the same horrible school all in the name of equity or some bs. while the kids suffer we need to keep school choice alive here in AZ but everywhere they can't feed kids, teach them or protect them why would we get rid of something like this it's all about control.
As a homeschool kid who was homeschooled from K-12, I would say it was the best thing for me. The curriculum I used was top-notch and prepared me for the major in college I chose to study. People were absolutely disgusting to my and my family because we were homeschooled, and treated like we were inferior just because we did our school at home.
Fellow k-12 homeschooler here. Definitely a great thing for my siblings and I, we were able to excel in areas of our interests and strengths and our mother was able to give us the attention and time we needed to focus on our weaknesses.
Funny how they look down on us for being homeschooled, yet all I and my brothers ever got were compliments from adults for how well-behaved and polite we were. It most certainly does *NOT* take a village. There isn't a better way to confuse a child than to have a whole village worth of people "raising" them.
@@vl8175 We used Seton Home Study, out of Front Royal, VA. Idk what it is like now, but it involved lots of reading and writing and challenging math when I did it from 2d grade up. But now I have a great six figure job by my 30's on a simple BA so I would say it def challenged my critical thinking and helped with intellectual growth.
Yeah some teachers are not mentally fit for their jobs. I hope that kid is ok now did the desk hit them? Were they injured? Hopefully that teacher was fired. At my high school a boy with ADHD was thrown at a locker and dragged by his ankles by a teacher for being "annoying". She was promoted not fired public school sucks.
as someone who just applied for their first teaching position, what she said isn't a slap to all teachers. it's a slap to teachers who don't know how to properly do their job. they're upset bc they got called out.
Not to piss you off but I am 51 and even when I was in school way back the. I could count the amount of good teachers I had o none hand. I also did not need all the fingers on that hand to do so.
Fr shouldn't teachers understand how not everything applies to them not all teachers are bad but there's many 😅 she definitely didn't mean all of them it's not that deep anyways
Feel like they wouldn't have this energy if she'd said something similar about parents or another oft denigrated profession/vocation like priests or garbage collectors
My mother homeschooled us and taught us to read. It was absolutely beautiful to me. Now that I'm older, I see how great that time together is. A family really has impacted my life as well. While my friends were sitting in a classroom getting picked on by their classmates and steam rolled by their teachers, I was going on field trips with my 4-H group & with my family. I feel like I was more socialized when I was homeschooled than when I was in public school. I went back to public school in high school, a lot of my trauma came from that. Of my life and if I could go back in time I would ask my mom to continue homeschooling me. As far as my mother goes, she was not educated very far, she had a hard childhood, but thankfully we had Florida virtual school and i was able to learn everything I needed online or through academic books. I think a lot of people feel like they're not smart enough to home school their children, but they don't realize that there are homeschool groups, 4H groups, tutors, churches that have after school programs, etc. To help you out. A lot of places have homeschool discounts and you can go online to get different activities to do in your area for field trips that are educational.
Came here to say this. Brett’s mom did a wonderful job, and I only hope my 2 nephews and future niece (sister is due in October or November) turn out like her. If teachers would quit telling the 10 yr olds what type of genitals they like we would have less hesitancy towards them
@@Josh.C88 yes if they just teached numeracy and literacy leave what they employed for leave the other stuff to parents. I hate bagging teachers most are good underpaid but this new wave need to be sifted out.
My mom chose to homeschool my three younger siblings after the first month of covid because the teachers refused to teach the kids at all. Just assign homework and then didnt let them have their paremts help. ??? Yeah no. Homeschool is the only way to go.
Well everything in our state is referred back to a “race problem” as soon as people on that side of the aisle aren’t getting what they want, exactly how they want it.
Because they have us focused on other sh** that doesn’t actually benefit anyone! If we had school choice, then it would actually motivate schools to do better. I just had a son and I have no idea how I’m going to handle schooling for him. I want to homeschool, but I work full time. I hope schools improve before he’s old enough to go..
Great episode, Brett. People losing their minds over this is ridiculous. I was homeschooled for the majority of my life. I can tell you none of my teachers from private school were good. They literally all sucked. And I definitely learned more and got a better education being homeschooled. I do know how amazing a lot of teachers are. But even the amazing ones are overworked and can’t possibly give the kids all they need. The education system is just so messed up. And I’m a daycare provider, so a lot like a preschool teacher in a lot of ways. I sacrifice my own time and money for these kids all the time. I thinking teaching kids can be one of the most selfless jobs out there. All that being said, my own kids will NEVER be in public school. They will either go to a good Christian school or be homeschooled. People who are losing it over what Meghan Trainor said need to get a grip.
Teachers work less than most other people. They have a three month vacation every year plus an extremely long Christmas vacation. Teachers are the most entitled brats I've ever met.
I was very much bullied by a teacher in elementary school. My older sister was treated so poorly by multiple elementary school teachers that she was in and out of homeschool before my mom decided to home-school all of us when I was in middle school. My grandmother was an elementary school teacher and she was an amazing teacher. My cousin is a preschool teacher and I'm sure she is a good teacher. My aunt is a school librarian and she is an amazing person. There are bad people in every industry. But even the best teacher can't teach well when the government has too much involvement (common core) I will be homeschooling my children and everyone in my family supports me.
I will say, as a teacher, it's nice to have set standards/expectations because if a child moves you know what education they've recieved. However, there are many ways to recieve that education and many literacy programs fall short. I have yet to meet a teacher who likes Lucy Caulkins which is a common reading/writing curriculum used in many schools. Schools really need to start listening to their teachers to find or adapt better curriculums.
That had to fairly recent. We were unified after the second world war, after Viet Nam, tho with different tracks, 9-11, and then we started to drift... wars elsewhere for allies that take our money while we seek geopolitical dominance... which is now gone.
Same. I left because of the admin allowing kids to hit and kick and steal from us. I’d say “F admins”, because a lot of teachers want to teach correctly but aren’t allowed to reign in on the classroom
Being a teacher is very hard these days....as most students nowadays want to be content creators 🤣😃. Back in my days they wanted to be football players, astronauts,doctors and lawyers.
As a former teacher myself (I stopped teaching this past year because I have a baby now) , I am not offended by her statement because I’m not the type of teacher she was talking about. There are a lot of good teachers out there. There are also a lot bad teachers out there. And there are plenty of teachers in the middle. But on social media you definitely see a lot of the bad teachers. This is where a lot of people form their opinions on teachers. Also, like I’ve seen a lot of others in the comments say, I’m definitely considering homeschooling my children in the future.
Unfortunately though, her statement wasn’t eff the bad ones, it was a blanket statement and she has given herself a platform. It will be commented on. I’m a former educator, and not one of the ones she was talking about either, hence former, and it still pissed me off. Just as teachers are expected to word everything they say extremely carefully, maybe she should’ve.
@@TheBaumcm then go attack the teachers who are advocating influencing your minor child behind your back and demonizing the parents! Go attack the teachers who are teaching sexual orientation to six year olds instead of real world skills! You get mad at this woman saying ONE small statement about teachers as her opinion but where is your outrage towards the teachers who are saying “FK” the parents and I’ll teach your kid what I want on a continual loop, daily, 24/7!? Why not tell THEM they should watch their mouths and what they teach and say!?!?
@@TheBaumcm who actually cares though? she said F teachers, so what? She's an adult and quite frankly if she is gonna homeschool her kids it's because of sensitive teachers like you.
Most of my family are teachers. And on a lot of occasions, they freely admit their peers are horrible at their jobs. And if you've been through education, you'll have worked out that a lot of teachers gave up decades earlier. Back in my day (and I'm technically a millennial), certain teachers were known for being physically violent with students. So the teachers' union, butthurt line about teachers being martyrs is false. I appreciate it as a profession. I've seen teachers who work themselves into the ground. But I've had teachers who abandon class to talk about their pet political issues. I've had teachers who didn't have the assertiveness for the job. We've all had situations where you've been given a grade and when you challenged the marking, it became glaringly apparent that the teacher hadn't read your essay. It's the nature of distribution. Some teachers are good. A lot are average. Some are poor. And the incentives are horrible. There's a tension between self interest and making work. Unless you're willing to work yourself to death, you take shortcuts. If you tell admin 'everything is fine', then you can continue. But EVERYTHING is extra work, so there's a profound incentive to ignore when you know little Susie copied that essay. If a student is getting Cs but could easily get A's, there's an incentive to let things be. There are incentives to shuffle students through with dubious maths and literacy skills. The incentive attached to some interventions is losing 10 hours of time to fill out paperwork (that admin doesn't want to know about) OR getting yelled at by parents. Some teachers are breaking their backs for their students. But the more common experience is people who know that their schooling failed them.
Why apologize for stating how she feels? It's that what woke is all about how they feel....as for teachers that actually do care it's not enough. They are standing by letting the bad one get away with the porn in the library of the school. As well as taking down the American flag and having the children pledge allegiance to the gay flag. The parents had to ban together to get her fired. No the teachers working beside her!!
As a special Education Teacher in middle schools I am constantly reminded of the challenges our society faces and I know how hard the teaching profession can be. As a person who was homeschooled k-12 by a mother who did not even go to college, but who cared enough to educate her children in the best way she could, I know and love the value of homeschooling. As the granddaughter of an elementary school teacher I know the system has constantly changed for the worst and the politics are killing our ability to give children the best chances they can have at life. I've talked with many parents who do not feel that they could ever homeschool and for them I will be that teacher their child needs. I will support the families that homeschool their kids because they have the time and space to make the best education for their kids in their homes. I wish we could start over with the American education system, but I worry that the political crap that is involved will never be able to be weeded out. Our kids deserve to be respected and given their best chance at life. I don't know if it is something you would address, but the schools up in alaska are having their libraries audited and certain books are being considered for banning. I don't agree with the whole list, but most of the books on the list that I have read have strait up sex scenes and I do not believe those are appropriate for our students to be reading. Kids should be kids. Innocence is good in children. Foster imagination and play in our children, not sexualization and political mind control.
Public education is merely created to educate just enough to work without building the ability to be creative. Public schools are not there to make someone exceptional, just another puppet in society...
All teachers promoting these sexually explicit gay, trans, and sex books to anyone under 18 should be put on a list, and looked at for making sexual content available to minors.
As a homeschooler I have first hand experience with the backlash of my parents choosing this. It was made even clearer to me that this was the right choice for my family when I was talking to a friend the other day and I told her why we were pulled out of school. The main reasons were that my 2nd grade teacher told my mom and I quote “your daughter is smart and we don’t need to help her because other students need us more” which is not altogether horrible but then a boy in my sisters class at the same school threw a chair at a teacher and flipped the teachers desk. When I said this my friend says oh that’s normal and happens all the time at my school (she’s in private school which makes that even worse) so no when 4th graders are throwing furniture and 2nd graders are being written off because they are “smart enough” I won’t trust the public education system and I’m grateful to my parents every day for getting me out of there before it was too late. Edit: I forgot to add that another teacher pretend to finger gun shoot kids during a code red drill after he had the kids hid under desks and stuff. The two worst parts of this story are that these were 1st grade kids and HE WASN’T FIRED. The only “punishment” he received was that he was only allowed to work with 5th grade and up🤦♀️ absolutely evil.
As a homeschooling mom, I have to say it was the best choice I ever made for my kids. I do also appreciate the homeschool co-ops, because there are some subjects I'm less proficient with, and our co-ops have teachers for those subjects that really know their stuff. I think there is a HUGE misconception about how people homeschool these days. I constantly get questions and comments about my kids not being socialized 🙄because they are homeschooled. There are the questions about competency to teach certain subjects, etc. Homeschooling is done completely differently from family to family, and my kids absolutely LOVE it. My boys are doing extremely well in their grades and my daughter is actually performing a grade ahead. I say don't knock it, until you have tried it.
I worked with a kid who was homeschooled (he was doing an internship where I worked). He played sports at the local high school. He was accepted to go to Duke due to his high performance in the tests homeschooled students gave and his SAT scores. I'm glad things are working out for you and your children. It sounds as if you've got your children in a great situation and it's much safer.
I want to homeschool my future kids soooo bad but I have a feeling I will never be able to do that unless I have some type of remote at home job. I really hope I will be able to do it!! Love that for your family !!
@@kianna270 I’m a homeschooling mom too and my husband is a high school teacher at the local public school (how ironic, right?). We don’t make a lot of money but we are doing our very best to make it work. One thing I want to “warn” you on though is having a full time job (even if you work from home) while raising children is very challenging. Not that it can’t be done but raising and homeschooling young children is in itself more than a full time job! 😅 I don’t say this to discourage you! I just remember thinking the same way before I had kids… and now I have 3 beautiful children (6, 3, & 3 mo) ❤ I do work part time but my husband and I definitely had to make the hard decision for me to step away from my “career” to take on this new role. It can be done 😊
@@stephaniezarrella4250 To me, raising my family IS my full time job. 😉 But you are right, it is hard to have a full time job outside of the home while homeschooling. Not impossible, but a challenge for sure. I also have 3 kiddos (11, 8, & 7) and they actually love homeschooling. I constantly ask if they want to go to public school and they are very adamant that they do not! 😂
My daughter was reading at a 3rd grade level before she ever met a teacher. She's so far beyond the other kids that learned how to read from teachers that she won't read in class because she doesn't want to make them feel bad.
@@artisticbeautybyhanako6801 I got yelled at a few times for that myself before I started drawing instead. As long as I had a pencil moving they didn't notice me.
A lot of people don't like homeschooling because they can't indoctrinate the kids. Everybody gets offended by something these days. Brett love your channel keep up the good work
I have been a college history professor for over 25 years. One thing I can tell you is some of my very best students were homeschooled! This does not mean we don't have excellent teachers out there, but at the same time the public education system is a mess in many places. I have been so impressed with my homeschools students I started to share all my lectures on my channel to help the homeschool community as a free resource.
As an Assistant lecturer, I can tell you that the situation of homeschooled students in the university phase is totally different from that at the preschool or primary school stages. Plus, there are many factors that have to be considered, like the type of studying that is performed in the school whether it's practical based like medicine or engineering or literature based like arts and languages.
I am in college right now, as well as my three brothers. Based on our personal experiences, the homeschooled kids are generally the smartest in the class. I think the concerns about parents not providing a quality education is based on ignorance because these kids know what they're talking about, and they're doing difficult majors like Aerospace Engineering or Computer Science.
As a person who is currently studying to be a teacher and is substitute teaching, I have a whole list of teachers indirectly that I have no issues saying “f em” to.
I call BS on "not enough money to homeschool". My husband and I did without in order to protect our children from abusive, bullying teachers by homeschooling. Both my kids are smart, thoughtful, independent thinkers who are not afraid to challenge their perceptions. If it is important, you make the time and sacrifice to make it happen.
One of the mothers in a comment reply section above is in a dilemma as she is widowed and really wants to home school her kids, any tips for her? It’s the top one
@@Bubblereeds I’m not a homeschool mom, but I have been homeschooled my whole life, and I would highly recommend getting involved in a homeschool community. Some of them charge money, but there are lots of smaller groups of moms, dads, and their kids that regularly get together to pool time and resources and offer each other support. There are also free online resources for various subjects, one that I used for a time was amblesideonline, it gives digital copies of classical literature sorted for all grades. Homeschooling is probably the best option for people struggling with money, because there’s just so much out there available for cheap or for free that as long as you put in the time, your kid is guaranteed a wonderful education.
I'm a teacher, and there are some teachers who suck. However, the biggest problems in schools is the behavior of the kids and the parents abdicating responsibility for their kids and their behavior. Parents and kids need to be held accountable.
I’m a 14 year old girl (British) and your channel has really helped me so much in understanding myself. Pretty much everyone around me (apart from my family) are woke so I’ve always felt a bit out of place. I found your channel a while ago and seeing this community which I can be a part of allows me to feel less isolated. You are making such a positive effect on people’s lives and I hope that your channel grows so that even more people can be educated with the truth. (The rest is kind of a rant so just skip it if you don’t want to read it lol) For as long as I can remember I have felt a lot more masculine, and I first heard about LGBTQ+ and transgenderism around 4 years ago and when I first heard it, I thought it was odd but it didn’t affect me so I just carried on with my life and education. It was my friend who had brought it up at the time and how she brought it up and the conversation went something along the lines of “are you bent?” “What do you mean?” “Like, are you part of the LGBTQIA+?” “What’s that?” “You don’t know what it is?!? You need to research it, you’re totally trans” A month or so later she cut her hair short, changed her name and pronouns, identified as non-binary and said she was aro/ace, despite her having being in 3 previous relationships (two with boys, and one with a girl). She later also claimed to have various conditions, which she had never even remotely shown signs of before, including Tourettes, which she would use that as an excuse to hit and insult any of her friends who used her birth name or she/her pronouns. None of us really tried to make a stand against her bc we didn’t want to get hit/insulted, and I was indifferent while (as far as I know) everyone else supported her transition. Fast forward 3 years (all of which with us getting more and more bombarded with her being woke as time went on) and we tried to talk to her about it saying that she shouldn’t use Tourettes as an excuse to hit people, or promote top surgery to us, more so me, when I had clearly stated that I was a girl, despite acting more masculine. I was the first one to confront her about this (about 6 months ago) so she stopped talking to me but our mutual friends still talked to her a bit for a while, but she tended to just stay with her LGBTQ friends in the year above so as far as I know she and our mutuals don’t talk anymore, although her friends in the year above will be leaving secondary school after the Summer holidays so I’m not too sure who shes gonna talk to after that. I go to one of the top rated secondary schools in the UK and from what I’ve seen and experienced going to it, it leans more left wing. (For context, every school in the UK including private schools are not supposed to have any political bias). However, this isn’t surprising to me because Britain as a whole is quite left wing, despite having a Tory (Conservative) government at the moment. The school supports socially transitioning (I’m not sure about medically transitioning but it doesn’t seem to oppose it) and if we ever read newspaper articles, we only ever get shown left wing newspapers. We aren’t allowed to ask questions about anything to do with transgenderism even if we are trying to understand things. While I was on a coach to a football match I heard one of my teammates ask the coach (pe teacher) “(boy) is dating (girl) but (girl) came out as a trans boy, so is (boy) still straight?” to which was answered with “you can’t ask that”. For the record, i think the PE department is the least politically bias department at my school. Teachers also disapprove if we decide to disagree with any of their individual ideologies. This is very noticeable in subjects such as PREP (Philosophy Religion Ethics Preparation) which is basically understanding different viewpoints. This year I am lucky enough to have a pretty chill teacher but the bias is still there to an extent. A noticeable mention is the 6 (I think) days worth of PSHE lessons we have per year, which is basically teaching us about (for years 7-9) BLM, basic sex ed, LGBTQ+, dangers of being online, knife crime, drugs, disability awareness, etc. while in years 10-11 it is more BLM, more dangers of being online, more LGBTQIA+, more advanced sex ed, pornography, abortion, cancer awareness, taxes/banking, possible career paths, etc. PHSE is basically a mix of useful life skills such as how to do taxes or clearing up misinformation around cancer and government propaganda, lessons I’ve had including “how to accommodate for non binary people”, and “deciding to have an abortion”. Overall, my school is very good, academically, as the teachers are fantastic at teaching, the lessons are engaging, and as a school, we get some of the top grades across the country, and I am grateful to be able to go there. I know that there is a lot more bias in the USA, and I’m grateful to go to school where I do, but I believe that all schools should have no political bias. Edit: I honestly didn’t think this would be seen by people but everyone has been so supportive so thank you so much.
glad you found the community. Feel free to rant as often as you need if it helps. My words of encouragement: if the world around you seems to be going mad or falling apart just focus on yourself, like a lone anime protagonist going through their training and development arc. Become a stronger person in order to better handle things as they get more difficult. Seek after Jesus for comfort when life gets dark. Lead by setting a better example for those around you instead of fighting others like the SJW's choose to do. Be a light for those that feel as lost as you. And come back to the community when you need more support. Cheers from the US, and God speed.
Broooo my friend asked me if I ever liked anyone and I said, I have had crushes but never really liked anyone. Then they said that I was ace, like what I didn't even address them because I was just baffled.
TBH iv never met anybody on the LGBTQ ext.. Except for LGB or Asexuals. I'm a sophmore in HS rn but when I was in middle school i'v never heard of ppl identifying as Non binary. The only time ppl clinged to the lgbtq was when a girl got rejected by a guy she would claim to be a lesbian to try and act like she wasn't attracted to them anyway. Also the guys wouldn't say there gay after they got rejected by a girl bcs the didnt want to be seen or told they acted gay. So the fact we went from fake lesbians (2018) to Non binaries (2023) is insane. I go to an all boys school rn so everybody acts gay so nobody cares but nobody is trying to be lgbtq to fit in or forcing it down ppls throats. But I'm from the deep South in the US so I'm sure in the northeast or west coast its prob way more liberal and woke from where I'm from. I still just can't beilive the non binaries in schools are real 🤣
@@sadaf186 I mean I can understand how they came to that conclusion. To me it seems you find certain ppl attractive but wouldn't want to date them. That's what I got from ur comment.
@ikey no I would but dating is so exhausting so I really wouldnt. Anywayssssss, the main point I'd them just labeling me like I'm it's pretty freaking rude and annoying to just tag a label on some cuz they seem check off what's in the box...yea
My Mom was a teacher for 35+ years. She would say teachers suck and I will continue to say the same. 90% of my public school teachers sucked and many were actually hateful and hated me/young boys. Also if you think sending your kid to school is sufficient for them to become well adjusted and competent people in society you are a fool. My parents were extremely involved in my upbringing and honestly I learned way more from my parents then any teacher ever.
Except for the part where you said your mom was a teacher, so of course you learned more from your parents. As far as learning I was on my own from grade 8. Neither of my parents could do grade 8 math or any other subject for that matter so they were no help, it was the teachers who actually taught me.
@@shaunp9592 the whole point of parents and the human family structure is that your parents are the ones raising you and showing you how to be a functioning member of society. You’re supposed to learn more from your parents than from your teachers, because teachers are only meant to instruct you in the sphere of academia. A huge issue that has led to a lot of the cultural rot we now see is the very fact that people expect teachers to do far too much of the parents’ job. This guy didn’t learn more from his parents because *one* of them is a teacher, but because they’re his parents. Parents who don’t involve themselves actively in every aspect of their children’s lives until maybe adolescence are failures, and set their kids up to be the same.
This is my first year teaching. I love the students and I find fulfillment in what I do. But it’s hard. It’s so hard sometimes. The hardest job I’ve never done. It’s not Megan’s comment specifically, but it’s the attitude of society and how openly she said what people are thinking. 99.9% of staff and fellow teachers I’ve met love and will do anything to help our students. That’s why it’s pissing off so many and teachers are done being picked on and put down. We are tired and need to be respected because we are trying dispute every obstacle out our way
If you want to get angry at anyone, try the woke agenda pushers. I would never let any child of mine anywhere near a school that would allow a rainbow flag or tranny into the school. The educational systems are piss poor and teach basic nonsense making students dumbed down workers to fill the workforce rather than create their own opportunities!
I went to uni to study teaching. Because of my homeschool education I earned myself a full ride. I ended up dropping out of the Ed program at my school because the teachers were very pro-public school and did not hesitate to speak out against homeschooling in their lectures. However, by the end of Covid, one of these program heads was homeschooling her kids herself. Today, I work as a homeschool curriculum developer to create lesson plans and workbooks so that parents can confidently educate their children at home if they choose. If you are considering homeschooling, but don’t know where to start, I highly encourage you to take a look at the many amazing curriculums published. They are truly step-by-step guide to make sure that your child is getting the best education possible. If this is right for your family, YOU CAN DO IT! :) Best of luck. It’s not easy, but boy is it worth it!
I had a teacher at one of my daughter’s parent-teacher conference wished that she could give me about 1/3 of her class because none of their parents were involved in their children’s education.
@@Maggie-eb1br I accidentally responded to your reply just prior to my response now, mistaking it for another. If you saw that prior to my deleting, I am so sorry (the response I thought I responded to was an unkind one, and wasn't yours). Thank goodness for your mom and others like her!!!
I’ve always been very in between in “woke” situations, so I really appreciate your channel because I can widen what I see on the internet. Ofc there are things I won’t always agree with, which makes watching even better because I get a different view point.
@qnibly As a former reach student from Indiana, I can say that it has one of the greatest educational disparities by township around. Families are either dealt the hand of IPS (direct state funded schooling), public subsidized districts (some are decent i.e. Carmel, Franklin TWSNSHP, Fishers) but alot are woefully underfunded, private subsidized, private religious and magnet (state funded and angel invested public advanced schools. All of these options can be available within a 10 miles radius of one another, but township borders/ entry criteria/ affordability and access limit the choices greatly. It's sad to see it in such a state, but there not much we can do about it at the present.
As a person who went to an advanced school, I can say that homeschooling is just as good. Almost all the kids who I went to school with were in advanced math in the advanced school. I do want to be a teacher, but I would never attack people for saying teachers are mean. Some are, some aren’t
Meh. Homeschooling is just like in-room schooling with chances of success in that it’s always possible that home schoolers could fail to pass tests and such. And? What does in-room schooling offer? Big classes and … kids who also fail to pass tests. Schools, teachers, homes: some are good, some aren’t. Thank you for being open minded. I hope you don’t get that beaten out of you over time. We need your style of open thinking refined with critical thought and awareness.
It's kind of sad, honestly. I was a very curious kid who wanted to learn anything I could. Public school after like 4th grade sapped that enthusiasm out of me. Mostly due to teachers teaching like they're reading from the same script every year and not actually wanting to teach you. Their were some good ones, just not enough to make a difference. Luckily, I got that spark back after high school. All that to say, I'd definitely home school!
As a teacher, I'm not too upset by Meghan's words because I myself have been taught by a bad teacher. And what a surprise I am now working with that teacher at the same foundation
Having had nearly a decade of teaching experience, I sympathize with teachers, but also think it is ironic to see the reaction against homeschooling. Most teachers I have worked with recognize that parental involvement at home is one of the consistent measurable factors that impact student success. We recognize that students often thrive when they have parents invested at home. To then turn around and say that parents teaching their kids will ruin the child is ironic, when we recognize that the best students are the ones who have parents at home putting in hard work on behalf of their kids. The math just doesn’t add up there.
I was homeschooled for a long time, and honestly it was one of the few things that my parents did right. They were not at all qualified, they pretty much had no idea what they were doing, they were not at all financially well off, and tbh my days were retry unstructured, but I grew so much more as a person. When I did start at a charter school in 7th grade the biggest difference between me and my classmates was that I was so excited to learn everything. I was thrilled to translate Latin text, talk about parabolas and graphing, write essays, and talk about scientific theories. But above all that, I didn't just take what people said for granted, and I still try not to. Tbh going through highschool dampened that ability a lot, because I had so many teachers who were just too exhausted to sit and debate with me and explain the why's of everything, plus some teachers who didn't want to accept that a teenager could point out something they had done wrong. By my senior year I was so tired too that I just did whatever I had to do to get good grades and pass. But those first few years of school, I challenged everything. I didn't accept anything until I knew that it was true and I could prove it, and it helped me actually understand and learn everything so much better. Of course public school have the capability of teaching their students critical thinking, but most schools are environments that physically, mentally and emotionally drain everyone until they have no fight left, and everyone is just so exhausted, teachers and students alike. Homeschooling gives more opportunity for kids to do their own research and come to their own conclusions, and when the parent is really connected with their child they can have really deep conversations too. I may not have learned to read until I was 8 years old, but I learned so many other valuable things along the way.
Lol. I’m saying this with kindness: you sound like you were a nightmare for your parents. Haha. All those excellent questions and debates. So much effort on your parents part. (Mine do the same to me but they’re in public school.) I’m glad yours took the time and I’m glad you got good value out of it. May you be able to provide the same for your kids. ☺️
@@nunyabusiness2945 That's not a nightmare. That's what kids do when they're not forced into fitting certain molds. They use their brains, think critically, and love learning. This person sounds like a champ as a kid. Most school children are ill-mannered, immature and dim-whitted.
I’m a student teacher and I’ve had the opposite experience with what teachers think about homeschooling. The number of teachers that have told me I should home school (and those who support my decision to do so with my future children) is staggering.
Listen to them, they are Correct. Homeschooling is nothing like, the majority think it is. I homeschooled my son in grade school, due to my illness, he went back to Public School for HS. We were part of Homeschooling Group, they had many Activities. All the Kids were well behaved, as well Socialized. I also taught him, real life skills cooking, laundry, banking etc. Public School wouldn't allow him to use Cursive and would mark him off, for using it.🤦♀️ He was actually 3 yrs ahead of where his peers were, with his schooling. He became bored very easily. I had school provide me, with same books he had for classes. I was able to help with his work, as well as teaching him more, then he was getting in the classroom. They started having all assignments done in Groups of 3-5 kids each. Ended up only 2 doing the work and rest receiving same grade, as the 2 who did the work. SMDH "Participation Grades" Wrong on so many levels. Not fair to the ones actually doing the work.😡 He went Career School Jr/Sr years. Graduated with all his Welding Certifications. He is now doing a job he loves and making more money then his classmates with College Degrees and has No Student Loan Debt. Most of the Kids in our Homeschooling Group, had No problems getting in to the College of their choice. In Fact, most were actively Recruited and Received Scholarships.
I wonder if opinions shifted a bit around the time COVID happened? I'm a former teacher and I always heard a lot of criticism from people towards homeschooling even other teachers. Maybe it was more of the people I encountered though, one teacher I worked with had her son is a private school and that seemed to bother a lot of fellow teachers as well.
@@kaylah4843 It may have. I know in my area, even Teachers recommend Homeschooling, this was 20 yrs ago. My son's kindergarten, as well as well as who would have been his 1st grade Teacher, agreed he would thrive in HS, but would be bored in classroom. Both Teachers, had Siblings who HS, as well. I was very lucky that our area, has large Homeschooling Group Co-Ops. So lots of Educational Activities and Social events for the kids. With more Parents having to be involved during 2020 forward, it woke some people up.
If you want to see success in home schooling then look no further than Brett Cooper, she graduated high school by the age of 16 and finished her college at UCLA by 19 why she was acting for 10 years. She would have never accomplished any of this spinning her entire childhood in public schools, she is amazing woman and a good role model for children. Keep up the good work Brett. 👍👍 Edit.. Damn it RUclips, stop changing my words after I post a comment.
@@Major003 More and more I keep seeing weird shit going on in the YT universe. Not just the easily visible things, but on other things like "Likes" being randomly being removed...or directly after getting notified of a Like. Comments being deleted and most recently hidden comments. I personally don't have proof of YT editing, however there have been a couple of times where I saw something "off" in something I posted. And there was a time I was certain I had edited a comment but the edit was "missing"...I marked that up to a code/system problem.
CRT IS NOT BEING TAUGHT IN K-12 SCHOOLS. Holy shit if you people would stop flipping out for one second and research some shit, you wouldn't be so bent out of shape all the time. Maybe you should try having more thoughts and ideas than LEFT BAD, RIGHT GOOD. And also it's not up to the teachers what they teach. Be mad at your local and state politicians for making curriculums. But noooo, everything boils down to "Biden bad, me no like, him ruin country" -_-
@@Bubba.mitchell4603So it's okay for kids to read pornography in school as long as it's "without prejudice"? Is it also okay for schools to give children hormone therapy without telling the parents as long as it's "without prejudice"?
I was a public school teacher for 1 year, and then I left the profession and never looked back. Not because of the kids. I loved them. It's the fellow teachers. Many teachers are amazing great people who are changing the world for the better, but the vast majority of teachers are horrible selfish self-absorbed people. COVID brought that into the spotlight.
I had a really good public school education, but I was schooled in the 90s and early 2000s. It seems like a lot of bad stuff has happened since then or something else is causing teachers to be more stressed and the quality of education to go down. I credit one of the best teachers I ever had in 5th grade for my love of art
"Parents aren't expert teachers." Teachers aren't expert teachers. I've had to correct teachers as a kid. I've pushed back against teachers in college.
I had teachers complain to my parents in parent teacher conferences about correcting them. Dad asked "did he interrupt you?" "nope, he raised his hand" "was he wrong?" "no he was correct" "yeah i don't see the problem here"
We are still not addressing/ignoring the fact that there are so many families, single moms, parents that work multiple jobs, uneducated parents (my parents were barely able to speak basic English when I was young) , disabilities, etc that cannot homeschool their child(ren) even if they really really wished to. My parents definitely were not qualified to teach me and my brother.
@V 3 for these families there are online homeschool programs that do the teaching for you but in a way that the parent can sit and listen and monitor what is being taught. Many are quite affordable and with proper school choice the tax money can pay for it and it is cheaper and has better quality control than public school.
I had a college teacher learning the material alongside the class...as he was teaching it. The electrical engineers that you want to hire are definitely the ones who were teaching him.
I recently made the decision to homeschool my kids, and all of my teacher friends and family have told me what a great decision it is and that they would do the same thing if they had kids/kids old enough for school. This is coming from both public school and private school teachers. They’re incredible at what they do, and I have gotten the best, most helpful advice from them. Not only do they agree with my decision, but they are actively supporting me in it.
right before she said f teachers she was talking about how there are really mean ones out there. which immediately brought me back to all the teachers that were just mean or would try and embarrass you. she was obviously referring to those teachers. not teachers as a whole. there are some wonderful amazing teachers but there are also a lot of teachers who would consider themselves amazing teachers that could be downright rude, have no respect for their students, and always played favorites. and that’s really not that uncommon in my experience of 12 years in public schools.
and to add to that: when people say parents aren’t equipped to teach their kids.. believe me there were plenty of teachers throughout my years at school that taught me barely anything. my high school english teacher (had her 3 years) never had me write an essay once. i think maybe twice in 3 years we wrote a 3 paragraph paper on something dumb. she would just stand at the podium and talk about her personal life. i mean really i went to the lowest paying high school in nh and we had some bad frikken teachers. i barely learned anything it was absurd and laughable.
To the second teacher: I taught my children how to read. Then, as their teachers continually failed to encourage any real advances in their reading skills or comprehension, I handled that part as well. I taught my children math, science, history, etc, while their teachers glossed over the subjects and then handed out assignments. I have been teaching my children the whole time. Less than 20% of their education has come from their teachers. The school provided text books and then Chromebooks. That's pretty much all. The rest has been up to me. I'm done with the myth of the noble, selfless teachers. They existed at one time but they're essentially extinct at this point. I don't care if they don't feel appreciated. I don't appreciate them. Two children in six different schools and it's been just more of the same. Do your job and you'll earn my appreciation. I never see TikToks of teachers talking about the good job they're doing. I see TikToks of teachers complaining about their jobs. Quit. We don't actually need you. You're not educating our children, so you're unnecessary.
I had some horrific teachers, absolutely appalling behavior and treatment I saw and experienced, it does attract a lot of people who mostly just want summers, Christmas and spring break off and they clearly resent or appear to even hate kids and are not good at what they do. Plenty of parents are just as qualified and educated to homeschool their kids and won’t abuse, humiliate or neglect them. There needs to be a massive overhaul of the school system.
As a teacher, I genuinely care about my students. I've had bad teachers too- but I go into work everyday- and try my hardest not to be like those bad teachers. A lot of teachers do this- we really aren't paid enough- the ones who are there for a paycheck usually leave. 🤷🏽♀️
I was homeschooled from 8th to graduation, and I loved it. Do not let people tell you it's expensive, it's not, we were lower middle class. All you need is the books, you can get them used offline, just choose your curriculum, then resell them (if you want) when your child and you are done! Or, there are various other methods you can choose now too, like online learning, Khan academy (completely free) or others I don't even know about. I used physical books that I still have. Good luck parents! ❤️
I'm curious since I would love to do the same for my kids how does the college/uni application go? If that's the path you wanted to pursue was it harder?
@@nerdycurls6253 I'm a highschooler that's been homeschooled my entire life and I'm very thankful for that. I haven't applied yet so I'm not aware of the entire process, but my mom has successfully gotten my two older sisters to college so it's definitely possible. Dual enrollment is a good option for homeschooling if your kids are looking to go to college. One thing you could do to help their college applications is send them to classes with other homeschoolers throughout the year. They're usually not every day and a good social outing for kids that stay home for most of the week. My family has done writing classes, art classes, science classes, and has also gone to a homeschool co-op nearly every year since I was young. Overall, homeschooling can be a bit of a learning process for the caretakers as well, figuring out what works best for their children. Best wishes and I hope my comment helped to some degree.
I was homeschooled from 8th grade to graduation as well. I was suffering from medical issues and the schools were to controlling and believed that I was “being dramatic” despite doctor notes. My Mom finally had enough of their bullshit, said it’s my kid not yours, she maintains As & Bs, what are you complaining about? So she homeschooled me. I managed to graduate high school within 3 years, rather than 4. I probably could’ve done it faster if I wasn’t distracted with medical issues. Schools need to remember their job and that’s give students an education, not raise them to think with your beliefs.
My mom was a teacher for over 30 years. The martyrdom of teachers as the most under appreciated and most under paid profession has to stop. Teachers aren't martyrs.
Maybe if they were paid more, they could attract better quality. Tell me what other profession is required to have the credentials teachers do but are allowed to be paid at or below the poverty line. Even a baseline daycare worker can be paid more, based on hourly pay and hours worked.
The average teacher starting salary for just elementary school is higher than 60 percent of the countries career fields for work just over 3/4 of the year no they are paid plenty, and don't buy into that oh there are all these thing we have to pay for out of their pocket that's b.s. as a parent I'm one of the many that are bringing or paying for any of that extra stuff in the class room.
@Samantha Armstrong My mom's insurance was great, and her retirement was also generous. The coinsurance she had from the teachers' retirement was excellent. Teachers get great benefits.
@@TheBaumcm It isn't that they aren't paid well. They aren't trained well. When my mom was doing student teaching, she was graded on how well she presented the lesson. Getting an education degree today is ridiculously easy. Better training, better teachers.
For real! Like I appreciate a good teacher and all but their average salary is around $45,000 per year, and they only work for 8 months out of the year! I cannot imagine complaining while sitting on my ass for 1/3 of the year!😂
Absolutely crazy that people want to ban homeschooling! I've been homeschooled my whole life and I wouldn't trade my experiences for anything. The fact that people believe that a child's parents should have no choice about what their children learn is mind boggling
I'm about to be a teacher when I graduate, and I was in no way insulted. Megan Trainor was showing understanding to Trisha by saying "f teachers". She obviously did not bash all teachers, just the teachers they were talking about in the CONTEXT of their conversation!
Good Luck teaching, I hope it meets all of your expectations. My mother and aunt were teachers. They enjoyed teaching and have nice pensions as a result of their long service.
@@thegamingkitchen8429 whenever im having a bad day, I’ll mutter some bullshit like “fuck everyone today” do I mean everyone should fuck off literally? No I’m just blowing steam 😂 that’s the way I see it
My parents are both teachers and when you grow up with teacher parents, you see how much they go through. However I think her apology hit the nail on the head by saying (good) teachers are insanely under-appreciated and underpaid
Public Teachers are not underpaid. They get paid in lavish pensions and insane benefits. Private schools can do what a public school can with a third of the money and more effectively.
@@dan-lr4zm Both my parents are private school teachers and sadly since the one my mom teaches at is incompetent, she ends up doing other peoples jobs because she wants to make sure stuff actually gets done. And you wouldn’t believe the insanity she puts up with, what most good teachers put up with, because if you know the crap they deal with, you’ll understand how they’re underpaid.
I was homeschooled growing up and now homeschool my three kids. We are super involved in community so no social worries here. It is a joy and privilege to teach them and learn with them. They’re getting a much better education home with a teacher who fully knows and loves them and their individual passions, interests, and learning styles! And our oldest tested for the first time this year and is about 2 grades above his “age level.” ;)
I was homeschooled and loved it! I have a lot of family members who are teachers and every chance they got they would comment on how stupid homeschooling is, ask me when my mom was going to put me in “real school” and try to quiz me in math during family functions. It was ridiculous! They even threatened to call social services on my mom a couple times. I don’t know why me learning at home was such a threat to them. I’ll definitely be homeschooling my kids.
They tried to quiz you 😂. I’m homeschooling my kids, and I’m sure my teacher family members will do the same. I’m sure my kids and I will roll our eyes haha.
As someone who was homeschooled from 1st grade 12th grade, I’m thankful for it. Although I was made fun of, it was the best thing for me and my future.
I can tell you right now, however much you were made fun of while being homeschooled, would have been nothing compared to how much you’d have been made fun of in Public school. You chose the right option. I’m glad you did well!
Every teenager I’ve worked with at my current job has been homeschooled. They have all been extremely smart, kind, and caring people and not only that but way more adjusted and confident to the outside world than most kids that are in actual school buildings. My kids aren’t even old enough to go to school yet, but I’ve been thinking about homeschooling since they were born. Nothing against teachers I just don’t trust the way the world is going- and I’m in the south. If I don’t trust a baby sitter or a daycare with my kids how can I trust a school with a classroom of 30+? Not only that but one of the local school just had a teacher arrested for “inappropriate acts with a minor student” and the known bullying at these schools is just outrageous.
I have a Master’s in Education and I’m homeschooling bc I’ve been in the system.. the coworkers make it twice as bad, not even the students half the time.
I’m a teacher in Australia. I get paid okay (I could use more but it’s not like I’m broke) and I’m at a very politically conservative private school where we win awards for having the best education in the state so…I kind of judge public schools too. I mean, personally I think public schools are in need of a major overhaul.
All but one home schooled kid I've interacted with were exceptional. They weren't "weird", they actually had an ability to think on their own, and were interesting to speak to because of that. They were extremely mature and thoughtful instead of most kids I've interacted with from public schools that show few of those characteristics on top of emotional issues.
I've been a teacher leading unit studies for 12 years now, respecting that a parent knows their child better than I do. People are responsible for their own kids and how their kids are educated.
10+ year teacher here. There are good and bad workers in every line of work. Most teachers want to help students succeed, but with all the bureaucracy and pushes for certain agendas (whether those agendas are political or not), most teachers that want to do well by their students are figuratively handcuffed by choices that are not our own, but we are stuck with all the blame. Teachers that push ideologies in their classrooms that have no place anywhere near children and administrations that forces teachers to teach like pre-programmed robots without realizing that we have advanced professional degrees, are really creating a lose-lose situation for truly good teachers and their students. The good ones are leaving as quickly as possible (we aren't used to being robots), unfortunately leaving more and more bad teachers spreading inappropriate nonsense to vulnerable children, only making this whole problem even worse. If I were a parent, I'd be homeschooling my children. Will every parent do well with homeschooling? No- there are good and bad workers in every line of work- including parenting. But we shouldn't throw out the entire idea just because a few might mess it up- this goes for homeschooling, regular teachers, cops, etc. We need to fix the broken systems and we need to fix our broken culture.
I’ve had good and bad teachers. I had one lock me in a closet for being autistic but there was also one that I really looked up to and considered a mentor. Two of my grandparents and one of my great grandparents taught. There are good teachers but we shouldn’t invalidate people’s negative experiences with the educational system. Homeschooling can work with parents that are disciplined and involved in their child’s learning.
I was homeschooled basically through kindergarten through Elementary, so grade 8... I went to the local high school down the road from where I lived and absolutely hated it. I hated how disorganized everything felt, the lession plans from the teacher I often felt taught me nothing at all, rushing from one class to another was unnecessarily stressful on all the students, classes also never felt long enough to really get my head into the subject, because just as I felt like I was getting there the bell would ring and I'd have to run to my next class. As for homeschooling, yeah my mom wasn't the best teacher, but she did her best and the books were awesome at explaining so she didn't have to be an expect for me to learn algebra or biology, chemistry, history or any other subjects. I know I wouldn't be half the confident, intelligent woman I am today without my mom's hard work as a parent and my teacher😁❤ Love you mom🙃
I’m sincerely glad it worked out for you. I like how you detailed a style of learning and that it worked for you while the ‘mainstream’ version wasn’t. That’s all I want is for people to understand there’s no one way and every method has a chance for failure. To the teachers who say they don’t trust parents? Great, we don’t trust you either - let’s stay away from each other. Soooo many options out there.
I am a second grade teacher. I agree with what you said, but I feel like you might have missed the point on teachers went from heroes to villains with Covid. Many teachers were 50/50 about going back at that time and most teachers are not a part of the unions anymore because they really don’t do anything for us. What that person meant was people finally respected us and realized how much we really do for their kids. For example, I had a student who would often misbehave, struggle In class and the mom would not believe me. She thought her son was perfect and perfectly capable of school work. I did my best for this kid and he did so well, but after the pandemic 😷 she apologized for not believing me about her sons behavior and capabilities of on level school work. After that, she finally worked with me for extra support. After parent involvement and respect, we worked together and he went from kindergarten reading level to 2nd grade level. Teachers finally got support from certain parents, again not all parents, but the difficult ones. It was really nice, but only lasted a little bit. I do think teachers were overly emotional with Meghan trainer. I hear people say f*** teachers all the time. I don’t really understand the crucifying of Meghan trainer. I work in a red school and district so maybe my perspectives are different than most? Have a great day! Thank you for using your platform to educate others and teach others it’s Okay to have different opinions than others. ❤
As someone who worked in a public school for 5 years. I have seen all kinds of teachers, some are in it for the students, other for paid vacations . I mean, it's like every job. Not everyone is passionate about it.
To be fair, there are exceptional teachers and those that shouldn't be let anywhere near school property. I'm talking about the ones that are more concerned about teaching IDEOLOGY than actual subject matter that will help them as adults in the real world.
I started homeschooling my children last year and I am amazed at the growth and their sudden ability to think rationally. They have my oldest is a freshman and then my son is in 7th grade and they have came to me about all of the things they've realized after having the time to reflect. If you're able to homeschool I wholeheartedly recommend it... My children have grown leaps and bounds. Theirs only education... No agenda, propaganda, etc. It's amazing to see them realize just how toxic the world is and it's honestly heartbreaking that they feel as though the public school system attempted to brainwash them. They feel betrayed but empowered by the insight.
as a student watching this while being evacuated for a bomb threat, being scared is valid. there are terrible teachers, and there are good teachers. like brett always says, there are bad people in every community so if you have a bad experience it is valid and is not addressing everyone in that community
Parents should be teaching their kids to read before the kids even go to school. Why are we waiting until a kid is 5 or 6 to teach them how to read? I had a 500 sight word vocabulary at 5, before the age that I would have started public school if I wasn't homeschooled. I was reading at 2. The Ivy League colleges consider homeschooling a better education, but public schools still try to stop it.
Going through the public school system in California in the 90's I was bullied by both my peers AND my teachers (from 2nd grade clear up to 8th grade) with a few notable exceptions that likely kept me from losing all hope. This was even before how nuts things have devolved and become today. There are great teachers out there but they are becoming fewer and further in-between, and it's sad.
My mom homeschooled myself and my 3 older brothers and I am so grateful to her that she did. The teachers that were in the school in our small town would just pass everyone and not care if the kids learned anything. I’m dyslexic and all the teacher did was treat me like I was stupid and that there was no point in trying to help me same with one of my older brothers, so my mom pulled us out of school. We all graduated with our high school diploma with high grades. One of my brothers and his wife are now homeschooling 4 out of their six children and the other two once they are old enough for school they will also be homeschooled. I think everybody has a right to their own opinion and people need to stop getting so offended and cancelling everything they don’t agree with.
In Canada the job of educating your child falls on the parent. Thus, many choose to send their children to public/private schools. We recognise the parent as the default educator...no expertise is required.
As a British person this is totally weird to me. My school life was a disaster and the bullying was allowed to continue because I have Asperger’s. Then my mum decided to home school me and it was amazing. I still did all my GCSEs and got 8s (A++). Then when I decided to go college I got an unconditional offer as I was already used to individual learning. Yes people here are weary of it but there are so many things you can do in the UK as a home educated child.
You can in the US as well. Many many teachers get personally offended by it (my belief) is two main things: 1) they’re fearful of their place of authority being unnecessary and 2) they spent a lot of time and money getting their degrees and are offended that anyone would think their way is anything other than the ONLY right way to do things. In my opinion it’s a consequence of the idea that credentialing (degrees, certs, etc) are the ONLY ways to get into and thrive in certain fields. Similar prejudice in medicine (a field I would argue minimum licensing is very important) is the whole MD vs DO schooling. I’ve personally seen and worked with plenty of MDs who openly have spoken resentfully about DOs being quack medicine educated. (Categorically not true.) Its weird, but it’s out there. Edit: sorry I also meant to say that I’m glad for your success and hope it continues. ☺️
I was homeschooled and I turned out very well. I went to high school for my final two years because we moved. I was automatically put into two AP classes because of my writing and history skills/knowledge and excelled above my classmates in those classes. I admit there are bad homeschool families out there but if done correctly homeschooling can help a child like me who was struggling in school because I wasn’t stimulated enough and slacking off due to boredom. I can also acknowledge how h big my final two years in brick and mortar school also helped me hold myself accountable in ways I wasn’t before because of deadlines. I suppose I got the best of both worlds.
Homeschool kid here, so pretty biased, but I loved being homeschooling and I think it helped me so much in my life. I also know many amazing teachers, and they know first handle the struggles that are happening in education right now. You're right, it is nuanced, not everyone can homeschool, but it should 100% be an option and not shunned especially if the parents are able and willing to teach at home :)
As a cop I appreciate the comparison because anyone who thinks their profession is unfairly hated on will never pale in comparison to what law Enforcment has gone through the past 3 years. Quite frankly law enforcement as a profession may never recover from what the media and left did to destroy it.
Teachers at the start of 2020 were heroes and became villains by the end of that year because parents got to see what was being taught at school. 50% of my childhood trauma stems from school peers. The other 50% stems from the teachers ignoring the bullying or encouraging it. Take it as you will.
Some teachers have their hands tied. The bullies are often rich kids whose parents donated money to the school so the principal wouldn;t let the teachers discipline them! The teachers WANT to, but they CAN'T!! There's a difference.
@@colleen4ever Perhaps in private, posh schools and in movies. Oh, and in America, where a 6yo can bring a gun to school and try to Minecraft his teacher with no consequences. It's far easier to punish the quiet kid who doesn't cause any problem when said kid finally gets fed up and defends him/herself. Bullies get a pass for everything because teachers either can't get arsed to sort things out, or they are these "flowers and rainbows" kind of adults who think violence can be huged out of any situation.
I taught as an assistant teacher during late 2019-summer 2021. The place I worked did not require a degree for that position, but I was the only one at that school who had not yet finished college. The horrors of working there would take me days to talk about. Granted, much of it was poor leadership, but a lot was just “how things are”. Having been homeschooled for all of my education (minus 2 years and some preschool) and having been surrounded by the extreme homeschoolers who were graduating 2 years early and doing advanced college courses in high school, and also not being very good at maths, I had always assumed I wasn’t very academically intelligent. So it was a huge surprise to me when I worked at this school and realised that I actually knew far more than my peers there, and even in some cases more than women who had been teachers for years. Several discussions and papers showed that I was better in grammar, spelling, vocabulary, geography, and critical thinking/logic. I was also more articulate in facts and political topics that arose, and I was definitively better in basic daily tasks such as organisation, cleanliness, and motivating the children to be excited to learn to read and write. I took some of the lowest scoring children in the class and I got them excited about their work to the point that several were highest scoring. My co-teacher repeatedly complimented me on these things and told me she had never worked with anyone better, and she would give me important emails to look over and re-word or edit to be more diplomatic when they were difficult subjects to raise to the management of the school. I no longer think I am bad at academia or question my ability to learn and apply information. I also do not care how poor my family might seem to others - I will be homeschooling my children. As well as running my own business and being a trad wife, by the way.
It’s like people are waiting in line for celebs to say the smallest little thing that COULD BE considered offensive to cancel them and they all fire at them. It’s unreal 😂😭
😂😂 that’s exactly what they are doing . They are the first to use their twitter fingers to say be kind because you never know what someone is going through.
When I was in college during the summer one coworker I had working at Cabelas was a public schoolteacher. We somehow came across the discussion of my education. I think it was her asking me if I was in college that got on the subject. So I told her that I was homeschooled before that and my siblings are very much doing the same. Her response shocked me and said good for you. She told me how overcrowded her classroom was and other teachers. And said she struggled with helping each individual student bc of the size. I love the fact I was homeschooled. Was able to learn how to focus and plan my study time that when I went to college I was able to manage my time well that I got As and Bs nearly every semester. My mom was an amazing teacher and still is teaching my siblings to this day. Love you mom and thank you so much
Finding you has honestly given me so much more confidence in having the opinions i have. Years ago I was still considered left-wing with my opinions, i still have some of the same ones from back then and now they're seen as right-wing opinions. it's crazy.
What's crazier is that EVERYone's opinions and feeling change over time. No one is truly fully left or fully right. But for some reason the media demonizes people who act like humans and change their way of thinking over time
@@cremonster very true, for a society that goes so hard for change it seems like we also go just as hard to reject it. It’s part of the reason why I don’t actively feel the need to identify myself with a political party when people ask my opinion
as a preschool teacher i've never wanted to homeschool my future child more
What troubles me is this: I'm a widow with two kids under 10...I desperately want to homeschool and help round them out and still be able to critically think the list goes on! But, how am I to do this when I've to work to support us? It seems unattainable and I find that pretty distressing at this point. Any suggestions? Serious ones. KIND ones?
@@ItsFreshItsAnne I just wrote a research paper for school about how children are more likely to be abused or neglected in childcare. Unfortunately there’s not much of a solution that I could find besides having a family member or trusted caretaker he responsible for a child. I wish there was a better solution for those who can’t homeschool.
@@ItsFreshItsAnne It takes a village to raise a child, find a good local community that you can trust (family is best). I know there are various Christian organizations that help single parent households with necessities so that would lift a ton of your shoulders
@ItsFreshItsAnne work at home jobs. You could even run a at home daycare. Find something to sale at farmers markets, or and craft fair. That is in high need. Find a job that is 12hr 3 days a week and Split some of the teaching and children care with someone you trust. You can always put up cameras for extra protection.
@@ItsFreshItsAnne I know a woman who worked full time and homeschooled 3 boys. I run a business, homeschool 2 kids, and chase a toddler while nursing a newborn. I'm not saying it's easy, but don't dismiss it completely. If you can make it work, it's worth it. Praying for you.
As a dental student who sees patients everyday and having a lot of them say to my face "I hate dentists, they suck" it is beyond me as to why people take one person's opinion so personally. Almost like people break down so quickly without that external validation.
I used to hate dentists, and I used to want to be one. How messed up is that. My reasoning was to get revenge....
I'm a dental tech, I say I hate dentists every day. :D Just joking, my dentist is great, I am just salty about having to work so much with crazy deadlines and such.
exactly who cares what people thinks
I had a horrible childhood dentist. I didn't go to one for years. My husband made me go, I bawled the whole time. My dental hygienist and dentist are the nicest people, but when I met them I just said "no offense to you at all. I am sure you ate great, but I hate what you do" They didn't take it personally, and Years later now we have a decent relationship. (I still hate going but I just sit down and let them do their jobs)
I love going to the dentist.
The problem is, is teachers are constantly berated, about everything, you never know what their actually going through unless you have teachers in your family. My mom use to love her job but hates it now. There’s a reason why there’s a national teacher shortage, because it’s not worth the crap they go through every day.
But people like Meagan aren’t actually talking about all teachers. I’m also in a heavy teacher family - we don’t take it personally. It’s very much the bad apples ruining it for everyone. It’s up to us to get them exposed and out. Example: look at the recent happenings at San Francisco school board. Some loonies were legitimately kicked out. The unions aren’t actually our friends btw…
Shouldn’t affect how they teach the kids tho
@Herping Hobbies and a majority of the time is doesn't but just like at any job, when you're treated like crap, it's going to affect your work. Good teachers will still do their job and do it well, but that doesn't mean sometimes inside their not struggling.
Everyone's experience is different.
it's the same with cops.
I'm a former teacher (quit right before COVID to be a SAHM) and I didn't get offended by her comment because it honestly sounded to me is they were talking about specific teachers they had. And if you are lucky enough to say you never had a bad teacher, good for you 🤷♀️ I think most of us can think of at least one that was terrible.
On the other hand, teachers are very much abused by the system at the moment. Kids get away with murder in schools. A kid sent my coworker to the hospital and he was back in her classroom 2 days later. So you don't want to exactly send a message to kids to disrespect teachers more than they already do. Majority of teachers mean well, but that doesn't mean as a parent you shouldn't be aware of their bias and what they are teaching.
Yessss 2 sides to every story , we gotta stop the 1 bad apple in a basket mentality
I wish more parents would get involved in their kids schools. It worked in the 80s and early 90s. My mom always seemed to be helping in some way or another, even when she worked. She was involved in what our teachers taught us and would have and did, discipline us if we acted up at school. Which wasn't often since you never knew when she'd suddenly show up. 😂
When I have went in for parent/teacher conferences, instead of focusing on their schoolwork, the teachers have raved about my children’s respect and manners. I couldn’t understand until I went to a program that was held in the classroom. The total disrespect that the majority of the children showed for their teacher and fellow classmates was appalling.
I had two teachers that bullied me badly. Sadly I had them in the same year. As you said, I don't say f-teachers because those are two bad apples in an overflowing barrel of good teachers. I'll be honest and say that my mother and aunt were teachers. That made me appreciate the good teachers more and hate the couple of bad teachers more. I did have another teacher who tried to bully me but I stood up for myself. I knew that my mother would back me if he didn't back down.
Based and naunce-pilled
When I taught public school, the looks I would get from other teachers when I said I wanted to homeschool my children were unbelievable. Brett is 100% spot on.
teachers think only they can teach, people who don't hold the job of a mechanic also fix their cars lol.
I'm a former teacher and at one school I worked at there was a former teacher who was homeschooling her kids, my co-workers who also lived in the town of the school would talk so poorly about this woman like her homeschooling was some personal vendetta against them. I never understood it and at the time I wasn't even thinking about homeschooling since I didn't even have kids. Now that I do have kids, they are homeschooled though. ;)
@@Fatemaforlife it reminds me of doctors and veterinarians. How they can seem to think that because they went to school it means they know better than everyone else, even the person inside the body they're treating.
I feel like my homeschooling really didnt prepare me for the world. 10 years later I'm still struggling socially.
@@lsour8546 skill issue
As a teacher, who grew up homeschooled, my takeaway is:
1) you shouldn’t say f-any career. You have every right to be wary based on your experiences, but f-(fill in career here) is immature
2) are there bad teachers and schools out there? 100% yes. Are there also good ones out there? Also yes. Is it possible the schools in her area are ones she doesn’t want to send her kids to? Sure.
3) she has a right as a parent to decide the best place for her children to be educated
4) homeschooling done right is a beautiful and healthy thing. It has things schools don’t, just like schools have things it doesn’t. Frankly there’s no universal fit, it’s really individually based
5) as Brett pointed out, not everyone has the personal circumstances that allow for homeschooling. It’s so important people respect that every parent is doing the best they can with the circumstances they’re given. Instead of bashing that, let’s support them and the various careers out there.
Thank you as always for being reasonable in your response Brett!
I am a teacher who quit the education system, and my kids are now home-schooled. America's education system is, in my opinion, unsalvageable; it needs to be completely dismantled and rebuilt under a more beneficial system.
Anything administered by the government seems to head that way. I was a teacher myself and went back to school for IT. One of my classmates said I should be a teacher and the prof and I immediately giggle snorted. I told her the problem is systemic and there is no quick fix because the people within it are perpetuating it.
exactly what republicans wants, and once republicans rebuilds the education system, we'll be teaching kids about christianity and not science, technology, and history
Dang I'm being a teacher
Same here. Teacher who is no longer working in education, and will be homeschooling.
Love your name!
We homeschooled our son from 2nd to 12th. We got a lot of flack for it from teachers, friends, our church, family, strangers and everyone in between. It was ridiculous. But our son, who is now 29, tells me that it was the best experience he had. He graduated High School at the age of 16 and immediately went into our local college, got a 2-year degree by the age of 18, and is a happy, well-adjusted, very social young man doing a job he loves. He told me that he plans on homeschooling his kids when he has them. So if you're thinking about homeschooling...DO IT! No one else's opinion matters.
Good on you! I was homeschooled from 1st-12th and don't regret any of it. I am thankful for parents who are willing and able to take charge of their children's educations!
We had one guy who was homeschool and finished high school locally. He graduated early like your son, and seemed so much more intelligent than the rest of us. Obviously that doesnt prove anything. But i feel like having one on one teaching really makes a difference
It's sad that you got flack from your church and family/friends even church of all places there fine with the public schools indoctrination methods. It's all bs am 25 and am all about school choice happy your kid is successful if you can do it DO IT.
The tings that are thought in public school until you are a senior coud be learned in 7 jears
As someone who was homeschooled from third to seventh grade and then went back for one year but hated it, homeschooling is AMAZINGG I got to learn on my own pace and be flexible! So 100% if you have the means to homeschool do it, its so worth it.
My mom was a teacher and I had a few amazing teachers growing up who changed my life. That said, a lot of teachers are people who failed to achieve their dream job and then turned to teaching as an acceptable backup. I really think there should be higher standards for teachers and higher compensation to make it a career people actually aspire to for reasons other than helping kids. Same with cops. When you give someone a job that is arguably extremely important for the betterment of society and stick them with an average-at-best salary and low expectations, little good can come of it.
Absolutely. “Those who can’t ‘do’ teach.” Really, many teachers aren’t brilliant or talented, or even caring. A few educators are great but most can’t really offer children anything of substance.
Like cops, you aren't going to find very intelligent people doing it. Intelligent people get easily bored and move on to something more intellectually challenging leaving the mediocre to do the work...
I had very... mixed experiences with teachers throughout my time in school. I won't go out of my way to insult them, but I refuse to worship the ground they walk on like many others do.
I’ve only ever had one teacher that genuinely gave a shit about me and helped me get my ged. Man was a long haired hippy but was a damn great teacher!
Same here, but I guess I was lucky because for every bad teacher I had, I had three good/great ones. I admire what they do, but just being a teacher doesn't mean you are a great educator or even an adult role model. Curriculum seems to be getting more and more politicized, too, which isn't great imo.
The martyr attitude towards teachers is pathetic. Most of them don't deserve it.
Most didn’t but I had 3 teachers that were extremely necessary for making me who I am today, they cared a lot, I think it’s still better than homeschool
Same. There's a lot of abuse of students by teachers that goes unchecked
It’s definitely a difficult subject to tackle. On one hand I see the horrendous things educators think is okay to teach children; and on the other I see teachers who bend over backwards to protect and enrich children. My judgement is quite literally in limbo.
As an Arizona resident, I couldn't be more proud of our state being one of the first to implement true school choice. I am seeing the first hand impact of every family having the freedom to make decisions for their children's education, and it's amazing. Funding follows the child, eliminating the expense that used to be associated with homeschooling and private schooling.
We gotta get katie hobbs out of office. She hates school choice
But you have to get rid of Katie Hobbs. She’s a fraud, Kari Lake proved it in court. I lived in Arizona for 6 years. It’s a wonderful state and I would hate to see that b!tch destroy it.
The schools suck, but when I was in school it was because the teachers had to work 3 jobs. So ofc the teachers who stay are bottom of the barrel and terrible at their jobs. You can’t do a good job on 4 hours of sleep.
@TheKlamminator which is disgusting and I think she has kids of her own why should every kid go to the same horrible school all in the name of equity or some bs. while the kids suffer we need to keep school choice alive here in AZ but everywhere they can't feed kids, teach them or protect them why would we get rid of something like this it's all about control.
That's awesome. We homeschool our 4 kids, and have no funding allowance. It'd be great if more states did that
As a homeschool kid who was homeschooled from K-12, I would say it was the best thing for me. The curriculum I used was top-notch and prepared me for the major in college I chose to study. People were absolutely disgusting to my and my family because we were homeschooled, and treated like we were inferior just because we did our school at home.
Fellow k-12 homeschooler here. Definitely a great thing for my siblings and I, we were able to excel in areas of our interests and strengths and our mother was able to give us the attention and time we needed to focus on our weaknesses.
Please, I took my child out this yr. Can you tell me which curriculum you used?
Funny how they look down on us for being homeschooled, yet all I and my brothers ever got were compliments from adults for how well-behaved and polite we were. It most certainly does *NOT* take a village. There isn't a better way to confuse a child than to have a whole village worth of people "raising" them.
@@vl8175 We used Seton Home Study, out of Front Royal, VA. Idk what it is like now, but it involved lots of reading and writing and challenging math when I did it from 2d grade up. But now I have a great six figure job by my 30's on a simple BA so I would say it def challenged my critical thinking and helped with intellectual growth.
@@LoneStarMillennial Thank you so much for the reply.
I watched a teacher throw a desk at a kid when I was in 5th grade. To this day it haunts me and I feel so bad for that kid.
Please tell me that teacher got fired!
Yeah some teachers are not mentally fit for their jobs. I hope that kid is ok now did the desk hit them? Were they injured? Hopefully that teacher was fired. At my high school a boy with ADHD was thrown at a locker and dragged by his ankles by a teacher for being "annoying". She was promoted not fired public school sucks.
I have to ask... what on earth was the child doing to elicit that response?!
Or was the teacher having a breakdown?
It's horrific regardless.
@@LadyPatienceKyeah
as someone who just applied for their first teaching position, what she said isn't a slap to all teachers. it's a slap to teachers who don't know how to properly do their job. they're upset bc they got called out.
Yup, for fucks sake. That and truama buttons got set off.
Not to piss you off but I am 51 and even when I was in school way back the. I could count the amount of good teachers I had o none hand. I also did not need all the fingers on that hand to do so.
You should find another line of work. Or seek a private school to teach at. Public school is a failed system.
@@andyman58 for their sake, yes, it is rough. But on the same token, students at public schools are just as deserving of love and support.
As someone who is working in the teaching system at the university,
I have something to tell you
RUN for your life .
Teachers are proving her point.
Fr shouldn't teachers understand how not everything applies to them not all teachers are bad but there's many 😅 she definitely didn't mean all of them it's not that deep anyways
Yep! They have been for well over a decade
*some
😂😂😂😂
Feel like they wouldn't have this energy if she'd said something similar about parents or another oft denigrated profession/vocation like priests or garbage collectors
My mother homeschooled us and taught us to read. It was absolutely beautiful to me. Now that I'm older, I see how great that time together is. A family really has impacted my life as well. While my friends were sitting in a classroom getting picked on by their classmates and steam rolled by their teachers, I was going on field trips with my 4-H group & with my family. I feel like I was more socialized when I was homeschooled than when I was in public school. I went back to public school in high school, a lot of my trauma came from that. Of my life and if I could go back in time I would ask my mom to continue homeschooling me. As far as my mother goes, she was not educated very far, she had a hard childhood, but thankfully we had Florida virtual school and i was able to learn everything I needed online or through academic books. I think a lot of people feel like they're not smart enough to home school their children, but they don't realize that there are homeschool groups, 4H groups, tutors, churches that have after school programs, etc. To help you out. A lot of places have homeschool discounts and you can go online to get different activities to do in your area for field trips that are educational.
Just watching Brett is proof homeschooling works.
Came here to say this. Brett’s mom did a wonderful job, and I only hope my 2 nephews and future niece (sister is due in October or November) turn out like her.
If teachers would quit telling the 10 yr olds what type of genitals they like we would have less hesitancy towards them
@@Josh.C88 yes if they just teached numeracy and literacy leave what they employed for leave the other stuff to parents. I hate bagging teachers
most are good underpaid but this new wave need to be sifted out.
As a private school educator in WA, I don't get why school choice isn't one of the most discussed topics right now. It's insane
My mom chose to homeschool my three younger siblings after the first month of covid because the teachers refused to teach the kids at all. Just assign homework and then didnt let them have their paremts help. ??? Yeah no. Homeschool is the only way to go.
as a person who has my kids in private school in WA, I couldn’t agree more
Absolutely. We live in WA and don’t have kids yet. We plan to either homeschool, private school if we can afford it or move to a different state
Well everything in our state is referred back to a “race problem” as soon as people on that side of the aisle aren’t getting what they want, exactly how they want it.
Because they have us focused on other sh** that doesn’t actually benefit anyone! If we had school choice, then it would actually motivate schools to do better. I just had a son and I have no idea how I’m going to handle schooling for him. I want to homeschool, but I work full time. I hope schools improve before he’s old enough to go..
Great episode, Brett. People losing their minds over this is ridiculous. I was homeschooled for the majority of my life. I can tell you none of my teachers from private school were good. They literally all sucked. And I definitely learned more and got a better education being homeschooled. I do know how amazing a lot of teachers are. But even the amazing ones are overworked and can’t possibly give the kids all they need. The education system is just so messed up. And I’m a daycare provider, so a lot like a preschool teacher in a lot of ways. I sacrifice my own time and money for these kids all the time. I thinking teaching kids can be one of the most selfless jobs out there. All that being said, my own kids will NEVER be in public school. They will either go to a good Christian school or be homeschooled. People who are losing it over what Meghan Trainor said need to get a grip.
Teachers work less than most other people. They have a three month vacation every year plus an extremely long Christmas vacation. Teachers are the most entitled brats I've ever met.
Yes agreed I'm a big Meghan trainor fan and I think this is messed up about them going insane
I was very much bullied by a teacher in elementary school. My older sister was treated so poorly by multiple elementary school teachers that she was in and out of homeschool before my mom decided to home-school all of us when I was in middle school. My grandmother was an elementary school teacher and she was an amazing teacher. My cousin is a preschool teacher and I'm sure she is a good teacher. My aunt is a school librarian and she is an amazing person. There are bad people in every industry. But even the best teacher can't teach well when the government has too much involvement (common core) I will be homeschooling my children and everyone in my family supports me.
I will say, as a teacher, it's nice to have set standards/expectations because if a child moves you know what education they've recieved. However, there are many ways to recieve that education and many literacy programs fall short. I have yet to meet a teacher who likes Lucy Caulkins which is a common reading/writing curriculum used in many schools. Schools really need to start listening to their teachers to find or adapt better curriculums.
I was a teacher. I left the profession mainly because my colleagues were all horrible people
That had to fairly recent. We were unified after the second world war, after Viet Nam, tho with different tracks, 9-11, and then we started to drift... wars elsewhere for allies that take our money while we seek geopolitical dominance... which is now gone.
Same. I left because of the admin allowing kids to hit and kick and steal from us. I’d say “F admins”, because a lot of teachers want to teach correctly but aren’t allowed to reign in on the classroom
Being a teacher is very hard these days....as most students nowadays want to be content creators 🤣😃.
Back in my days they wanted to be football players, astronauts,doctors and lawyers.
its like that everywhere
My fiance did the same. Taught 3rd grade special-ed. They (administration) were awful towards her when she would raise concerns about the kids.
As a former teacher myself (I stopped teaching this past year because I have a baby now) , I am not offended by her statement because I’m not the type of teacher she was talking about. There are a lot of good teachers out there. There are also a lot bad teachers out there. And there are plenty of teachers in the middle. But on social media you definitely see a lot of the bad teachers. This is where a lot of people form their opinions on teachers.
Also, like I’ve seen a lot of others in the comments say, I’m definitely considering homeschooling my children in the future.
Unfortunately though, her statement wasn’t eff the bad ones, it was a blanket statement and she has given herself a platform. It will be commented on. I’m a former educator, and not one of the ones she was talking about either, hence former, and it still pissed me off. Just as teachers are expected to word everything they say extremely carefully, maybe she should’ve.
@@TheBaumcm then go attack the teachers who are advocating influencing your minor child behind your back and demonizing the parents! Go attack the teachers who are teaching sexual orientation to six year olds instead of real world skills! You get mad at this woman saying ONE small statement about teachers as her opinion but where is your outrage towards the teachers who are saying “FK” the parents and I’ll teach your kid what I want on a continual loop, daily, 24/7!? Why not tell THEM they should watch their mouths and what they teach and say!?!?
@@TheBaumcm who actually cares though? she said F teachers, so what? She's an adult and quite frankly if she is gonna homeschool her kids it's because of sensitive teachers like you.
Most of my family are teachers. And on a lot of occasions, they freely admit their peers are horrible at their jobs. And if you've been through education, you'll have worked out that a lot of teachers gave up decades earlier. Back in my day (and I'm technically a millennial), certain teachers were known for being physically violent with students. So the teachers' union, butthurt line about teachers being martyrs is false.
I appreciate it as a profession. I've seen teachers who work themselves into the ground. But I've had teachers who abandon class to talk about their pet political issues. I've had teachers who didn't have the assertiveness for the job. We've all had situations where you've been given a grade and when you challenged the marking, it became glaringly apparent that the teacher hadn't read your essay. It's the nature of distribution. Some teachers are good. A lot are average. Some are poor. And the incentives are horrible. There's a tension between self interest and making work. Unless you're willing to work yourself to death, you take shortcuts. If you tell admin 'everything is fine', then you can continue. But EVERYTHING is extra work, so there's a profound incentive to ignore when you know little Susie copied that essay. If a student is getting Cs but could easily get A's, there's an incentive to let things be. There are incentives to shuffle students through with dubious maths and literacy skills. The incentive attached to some interventions is losing 10 hours of time to fill out paperwork (that admin doesn't want to know about) OR getting yelled at by parents.
Some teachers are breaking their backs for their students. But the more common experience is people who know that their schooling failed them.
Why apologize for stating how she feels? It's that what woke is all about how they feel....as for teachers that actually do care it's not enough. They are standing by letting the bad one get away with the porn in the library of the school. As well as taking down the American flag and having the children pledge allegiance to the gay flag. The parents had to ban together to get her fired. No the teachers working beside her!!
As a special Education Teacher in middle schools I am constantly reminded of the challenges our society faces and I know how hard the teaching profession can be. As a person who was homeschooled k-12 by a mother who did not even go to college, but who cared enough to educate her children in the best way she could, I know and love the value of homeschooling. As the granddaughter of an elementary school teacher I know the system has constantly changed for the worst and the politics are killing our ability to give children the best chances they can have at life. I've talked with many parents who do not feel that they could ever homeschool and for them I will be that teacher their child needs. I will support the families that homeschool their kids because they have the time and space to make the best education for their kids in their homes. I wish we could start over with the American education system, but I worry that the political crap that is involved will never be able to be weeded out. Our kids deserve to be respected and given their best chance at life.
I don't know if it is something you would address, but the schools up in alaska are having their libraries audited and certain books are being considered for banning. I don't agree with the whole list, but most of the books on the list that I have read have strait up sex scenes and I do not believe those are appropriate for our students to be reading. Kids should be kids. Innocence is good in children. Foster imagination and play in our children, not sexualization and political mind control.
Public education is merely created to educate just enough to work without building the ability to be creative. Public schools are not there to make someone exceptional, just another puppet in society...
All teachers promoting these sexually explicit gay, trans, and sex books to anyone under 18 should be put on a list, and looked at for making sexual content available to minors.
As a homeschooler I have first hand experience with the backlash of my parents choosing this. It was made even clearer to me that this was the right choice for my family when I was talking to a friend the other day and I told her why we were pulled out of school. The main reasons were that my 2nd grade teacher told my mom and I quote “your daughter is smart and we don’t need to help her because other students need us more” which is not altogether horrible but then a boy in my sisters class at the same school threw a chair at a teacher and flipped the teachers desk. When I said this my friend says oh that’s normal and happens all the time at my school (she’s in private school which makes that even worse) so no when 4th graders are throwing furniture and 2nd graders are being written off because they are “smart enough” I won’t trust the public education system and I’m grateful to my parents every day for getting me out of there before it was too late.
Edit: I forgot to add that another teacher pretend to finger gun shoot kids during a code red drill after he had the kids hid under desks and stuff. The two worst parts of this story are that these were 1st grade kids and HE WASN’T FIRED. The only “punishment” he received was that he was only allowed to work with 5th grade and up🤦♀️ absolutely evil.
Evil to use a finger gun. God forbid. Grow a fucking spine.
As a homeschooling mom, I have to say it was the best choice I ever made for my kids. I do also appreciate the homeschool co-ops, because there are some subjects I'm less proficient with, and our co-ops have teachers for those subjects that really know their stuff. I think there is a HUGE misconception about how people homeschool these days. I constantly get questions and comments about my kids not being socialized 🙄because they are homeschooled. There are the questions about competency to teach certain subjects, etc. Homeschooling is done completely differently from family to family, and my kids absolutely LOVE it. My boys are doing extremely well in their grades and my daughter is actually performing a grade ahead. I say don't knock it, until you have tried it.
I worked with a kid who was homeschooled (he was doing an internship where I worked). He played sports at the local high school. He was accepted to go to Duke due to his high performance in the tests homeschooled students gave and his SAT scores. I'm glad things are working out for you and your children. It sounds as if you've got your children in a great situation and it's much safer.
I want to homeschool my future kids soooo bad but I have a feeling I will never be able to do that unless I have some type of remote at home job. I really hope I will be able to do it!! Love that for your family !!
U had me at "Home schooling Mom". Immediately liked ur comment. Don't need to read whole comment.
@@kianna270 I’m a homeschooling mom too and my husband is a high school teacher at the local public school (how ironic, right?). We don’t make a lot of money but we are doing our very best to make it work. One thing I want to “warn” you on though is having a full time job (even if you work from home) while raising children is very challenging. Not that it can’t be done but raising and homeschooling young children is in itself more than a full time job! 😅 I don’t say this to discourage you! I just remember thinking the same way before I had kids… and now I have 3 beautiful children (6, 3, & 3 mo) ❤ I do work part time but my husband and I definitely had to make the hard decision for me to step away from my “career” to take on this new role. It can be done 😊
@@stephaniezarrella4250 To me, raising my family IS my full time job. 😉 But you are right, it is hard to have a full time job outside of the home while homeschooling. Not impossible, but a challenge for sure. I also have 3 kiddos (11, 8, & 7) and they actually love homeschooling. I constantly ask if they want to go to public school and they are very adamant that they do not! 😂
My daughter was reading at a 3rd grade level before she ever met a teacher. She's so far beyond the other kids that learned how to read from teachers that she won't read in class because she doesn't want to make them feel bad.
Omg that was literally me as a kid. I would have teachers get agitated when I finished work early and pulled out a book
@@artisticbeautybyhanako6801 I got yelled at a few times for that myself before I started drawing instead. As long as I had a pencil moving they didn't notice me.
A lot of people don't like homeschooling because they can't indoctrinate the kids. Everybody gets offended by something these days. Brett love your channel keep up the good work
I'm so offended that you say I'm offended lol. Jk. 😂
And people say homeschooled kids turn out weird, as if public school kids turn out so normal 😁
homeschooled kids are the most indoctrinated kids in society, it's why they get homeschooled, because of over religious parents
I have been a college history professor for over 25 years. One thing I can tell you is some of my very best students were homeschooled! This does not mean we don't have excellent teachers out there, but at the same time the public education system is a mess in many places. I have been so impressed with my homeschools students I started to share all my lectures on my channel to help the homeschool community as a free resource.
Thank you for helping homeschool families.
As an Assistant lecturer, I can tell you that the situation of homeschooled students in the university phase is totally different from that at the preschool or primary school stages.
Plus, there are many factors that have to be considered, like the type of studying that is performed in the school whether it's practical based like medicine or engineering or literature based like arts and languages.
I am in college right now, as well as my three brothers. Based on our personal experiences, the homeschooled kids are generally the smartest in the class. I think the concerns about parents not providing a quality education is based on ignorance because these kids know what they're talking about, and they're doing difficult majors like Aerospace Engineering or Computer Science.
@@abrahamhurt8077 exactly what I observe all the time.
So true. One of the smartest guys I know was homeschooled.
As a person who is currently studying to be a teacher and is substitute teaching, I have a whole list of teachers indirectly that I have no issues saying “f em” to.
Never apologize to people who have no intention of forgiving you in the first place
Never apologize for being correct. "Politically correct" never is.
I call BS on "not enough money to homeschool". My husband and I did without in order to protect our children from abusive, bullying teachers by homeschooling. Both my kids are smart, thoughtful, independent thinkers who are not afraid to challenge their perceptions. If it is important, you make the time and sacrifice to make it happen.
This is true ❤
One of the mothers in a comment reply section above is in a dilemma as she is widowed and really wants to home school her kids, any tips for her?
It’s the top one
@@Bubblereeds I’m not a homeschool mom, but I have been homeschooled my whole life, and I would highly recommend getting involved in a homeschool community. Some of them charge money, but there are lots of smaller groups of moms, dads, and their kids that regularly get together to pool time and resources and offer each other support. There are also free online resources for various subjects, one that I used for a time was amblesideonline, it gives digital copies of classical literature sorted for all grades. Homeschooling is probably the best option for people struggling with money, because there’s just so much out there available for cheap or for free that as long as you put in the time, your kid is guaranteed a wonderful education.
Sorry but it's not always possible. I'd love to homeschool but I'm a single mother 😔 how can I do it?
I personally just dropped out, way too late for me
I'm a teacher, and there are some teachers who suck. However, the biggest problems in schools is the behavior of the kids and the parents abdicating responsibility for their kids and their behavior. Parents and kids need to be held accountable.
I’m a 14 year old girl (British) and your channel has really helped me so much in understanding myself. Pretty much everyone around me (apart from my family) are woke so I’ve always felt a bit out of place. I found your channel a while ago and seeing this community which I can be a part of allows me to feel less isolated. You are making such a positive effect on people’s lives and I hope that your channel grows so that even more people can be educated with the truth.
(The rest is kind of a rant so just skip it if you don’t want to read it lol)
For as long as I can remember I have felt a lot more masculine, and I first heard about LGBTQ+ and transgenderism around 4 years ago and when I first heard it, I thought it was odd but it didn’t affect me so I just carried on with my life and education.
It was my friend who had brought it up at the time and how she brought it up and the conversation went something along the lines of “are you bent?” “What do you mean?” “Like, are you part of the LGBTQIA+?” “What’s that?” “You don’t know what it is?!? You need to research it, you’re totally trans” A month or so later she cut her hair short, changed her name and pronouns, identified as non-binary and said she was aro/ace, despite her having being in 3 previous relationships (two with boys, and one with a girl). She later also claimed to have various conditions, which she had never even remotely shown signs of before, including Tourettes, which she would use that as an excuse to hit and insult any of her friends who used her birth name or she/her pronouns. None of us really tried to make a stand against her bc we didn’t want to get hit/insulted, and I was indifferent while (as far as I know) everyone else supported her transition.
Fast forward 3 years (all of which with us getting more and more bombarded with her being woke as time went on) and we tried to talk to her about it saying that she shouldn’t use Tourettes as an excuse to hit people, or promote top surgery to us, more so me, when I had clearly stated that I was a girl, despite acting more masculine. I was the first one to confront her about this (about 6 months ago) so she stopped talking to me but our mutual friends still talked to her a bit for a while, but she tended to just stay with her LGBTQ friends in the year above so as far as I know she and our mutuals don’t talk anymore, although her friends in the year above will be leaving secondary school after the Summer holidays so I’m not too sure who shes gonna talk to after that.
I go to one of the top rated secondary schools in the UK and from what I’ve seen and experienced going to it, it leans more left wing. (For context, every school in the UK including private schools are not supposed to have any political bias). However, this isn’t surprising to me because Britain as a whole is quite left wing, despite having a Tory (Conservative) government at the moment. The school supports socially transitioning (I’m not sure about medically transitioning but it doesn’t seem to oppose it) and if we ever read newspaper articles, we only ever get shown left wing newspapers. We aren’t allowed to ask questions about anything to do with transgenderism even if we are trying to understand things. While I was on a coach to a football match I heard one of my teammates ask the coach (pe teacher) “(boy) is dating (girl) but (girl) came out as a trans boy, so is (boy) still straight?” to which was answered with “you can’t ask that”. For the record, i think the PE department is the least politically bias department at my school. Teachers also disapprove if we decide to disagree with any of their individual ideologies. This is very noticeable in subjects such as PREP (Philosophy Religion Ethics Preparation) which is basically understanding different viewpoints. This year I am lucky enough to have a pretty chill teacher but the bias is still there to an extent. A noticeable mention is the 6 (I think) days worth of PSHE lessons we have per year, which is basically teaching us about (for years 7-9) BLM, basic sex ed, LGBTQ+, dangers of being online, knife crime, drugs, disability awareness, etc. while in years 10-11 it is more BLM, more dangers of being online, more LGBTQIA+, more advanced sex ed, pornography, abortion, cancer awareness, taxes/banking, possible career paths, etc. PHSE is basically a mix of useful life skills such as how to do taxes or clearing up misinformation around cancer and government propaganda, lessons I’ve had including “how to accommodate for non binary people”, and “deciding to have an abortion”.
Overall, my school is very good, academically, as the teachers are fantastic at teaching, the lessons are engaging, and as a school, we get some of the top grades across the country, and I am grateful to be able to go there.
I know that there is a lot more bias in the USA, and I’m grateful to go to school where I do, but I believe that all schools should have no political bias.
Edit: I honestly didn’t think this would be seen by people but everyone has been so supportive so thank you so much.
glad you found the community. Feel free to rant as often as you need if it helps. My words of encouragement: if the world around you seems to be going mad or falling apart just focus on yourself, like a lone anime protagonist going through their training and development arc. Become a stronger person in order to better handle things as they get more difficult. Seek after Jesus for comfort when life gets dark. Lead by setting a better example for those around you instead of fighting others like the SJW's choose to do. Be a light for those that feel as lost as you. And come back to the community when you need more support. Cheers from the US, and God speed.
Broooo my friend asked me if I ever liked anyone and I said, I have had crushes but never really liked anyone. Then they said that I was ace, like what I didn't even address them because I was just baffled.
TBH iv never met anybody on the LGBTQ ext.. Except for LGB or Asexuals. I'm a sophmore in HS rn but when I was in middle school i'v never heard of ppl identifying as Non binary. The only time ppl clinged to the lgbtq was when a girl got rejected by a guy she would claim to be a lesbian to try and act like she wasn't attracted to them anyway. Also the guys wouldn't say there gay after they got rejected by a girl bcs the didnt want to be seen or told they acted gay. So the fact we went from fake lesbians (2018) to Non binaries (2023) is insane. I go to an all boys school rn so everybody acts gay so nobody cares but nobody is trying to be lgbtq to fit in or forcing it down ppls throats. But I'm from the deep South in the US so I'm sure in the northeast or west coast its prob way more liberal and woke from where I'm from. I still just can't beilive the non binaries in schools are real 🤣
@@sadaf186 I mean I can understand how they came to that conclusion. To me it seems you find certain ppl attractive but wouldn't want to date them. That's what I got from ur comment.
@ikey no I would but dating is so exhausting so I really wouldnt. Anywayssssss, the main point I'd them just labeling me like I'm it's pretty freaking rude and annoying to just tag a label on some cuz they seem check off what's in the box...yea
My Mom was a teacher for 35+ years. She would say teachers suck and I will continue to say the same. 90% of my public school teachers sucked and many were actually hateful and hated me/young boys.
Also if you think sending your kid to school is sufficient for them to become well adjusted and competent people in society you are a fool. My parents were extremely involved in my upbringing and honestly I learned way more from my parents then any teacher ever.
Except for the part where you said your mom was a teacher, so of course you learned more from your parents. As far as learning I was on my own from grade 8. Neither of my parents could do grade 8 math or any other subject for that matter so they were no help, it was the teachers who actually taught me.
@@shaunp9592 the whole point of parents and the human family structure is that your parents are the ones raising you and showing you how to be a functioning member of society. You’re supposed to learn more from your parents than from your teachers, because teachers are only meant to instruct you in the sphere of academia. A huge issue that has led to a lot of the cultural rot we now see is the very fact that people expect teachers to do far too much of the parents’ job. This guy didn’t learn more from his parents because *one* of them is a teacher, but because they’re his parents. Parents who don’t involve themselves actively in every aspect of their children’s lives until maybe adolescence are failures, and set their kids up to be the same.
This is my first year teaching. I love the students and I find fulfillment in what I do. But it’s hard. It’s so hard sometimes. The hardest job I’ve never done. It’s not Megan’s comment specifically, but it’s the attitude of society and how openly she said what people are thinking. 99.9% of staff and fellow teachers I’ve met love and will do anything to help our students. That’s why it’s pissing off so many and teachers are done being picked on and put down. We are tired and need to be respected because we are trying dispute every obstacle out our way
If you want to get angry at anyone, try the woke agenda pushers. I would never let any child of mine anywhere near a school that would allow a rainbow flag or tranny into the school. The educational systems are piss poor and teach basic nonsense making students dumbed down workers to fill the workforce rather than create their own opportunities!
Keep teaching and you’ll find yourself agreeing with her. Taught for 9 years and then became a SAHM. Now we homeschool, would never go back
I went to uni to study teaching. Because of my homeschool education I earned myself a full ride. I ended up dropping out of the Ed program at my school because the teachers were very pro-public school and did not hesitate to speak out against homeschooling in their lectures. However, by the end of Covid, one of these program heads was homeschooling her kids herself. Today, I work as a homeschool curriculum developer to create lesson plans and workbooks so that parents can confidently educate their children at home if they choose.
If you are considering homeschooling, but don’t know where to start, I highly encourage you to take a look at the many amazing curriculums published. They are truly step-by-step guide to make sure that your child is getting the best education possible. If this is right for your family, YOU CAN DO IT! :) Best of luck. It’s not easy, but boy is it worth it!
You are doing more good now than you ever could have as a public school teacher
To all the good teachers out there who are giving their all to their students, I salute you.
Absolutely. Those who do their job well are amazing need and deserve our support.
I had a teacher at one of my daughter’s parent-teacher conference wished that she could give me about 1/3 of her class because none of their parents were involved in their children’s education.
Yup she wasn't talkin about me but f her too directly lol
@@le9065 My mom works so hard in her class but she is constantly disregarded. Thank you
@@Maggie-eb1br I accidentally responded to your reply just prior to my response now, mistaking it for another. If you saw that prior to my deleting, I am so sorry (the response I thought I responded to was an unkind one, and wasn't yours). Thank goodness for your mom and others like her!!!
I’ve always been very in between in “woke” situations, so I really appreciate your channel because I can widen what I see on the internet. Ofc there are things I won’t always agree with, which makes watching even better because I get a different view point.
As a homeschool mom, I've never been happier about the choice my husband and I made! So grateful for Indiana's homeschooling laws!
Indiana is supposed to be one of the best for education all around...High test scores among all types of schooling too.
@qnibly As a former reach student from Indiana, I can say that it has one of the greatest educational disparities by township around. Families are either dealt the hand of IPS (direct state funded schooling), public subsidized districts (some are decent i.e. Carmel, Franklin TWSNSHP, Fishers) but alot are woefully underfunded, private subsidized, private religious and magnet (state funded and angel invested public advanced schools. All of these options can be available within a 10 miles radius of one another, but township borders/ entry criteria/ affordability and access limit the choices greatly. It's sad to see it in such a state, but there not much we can do about it at the present.
Me too!
@@UserName-pi1ml underfunded my eye.
As a person who went to an advanced school, I can say that homeschooling is just as good. Almost all the kids who I went to school with were in advanced math in the advanced school. I do want to be a teacher, but I would never attack people for saying teachers are mean. Some are, some aren’t
Meh. Homeschooling is just like in-room schooling with chances of success in that it’s always possible that home schoolers could fail to pass tests and such. And? What does in-room schooling offer? Big classes and … kids who also fail to pass tests. Schools, teachers, homes: some are good, some aren’t.
Thank you for being open minded. I hope you don’t get that beaten out of you over time. We need your style of open thinking refined with critical thought and awareness.
It's kind of sad, honestly. I was a very curious kid who wanted to learn anything I could. Public school after like 4th grade sapped that enthusiasm out of me. Mostly due to teachers teaching like they're reading from the same script every year and not actually wanting to teach you. Their were some good ones, just not enough to make a difference. Luckily, I got that spark back after high school.
All that to say, I'd definitely home school!
As a teacher, I'm not too upset by Meghan's words because I myself have been taught by a bad teacher. And what a surprise I am now working with that teacher at the same foundation
Having had nearly a decade of teaching experience, I sympathize with teachers, but also think it is ironic to see the reaction against homeschooling.
Most teachers I have worked with recognize that parental involvement at home is one of the consistent measurable factors that impact student success. We recognize that students often thrive when they have parents invested at home. To then turn around and say that parents teaching their kids will ruin the child is ironic, when we recognize that the best students are the ones who have parents at home putting in hard work on behalf of their kids.
The math just doesn’t add up there.
I was homeschooled for a long time, and honestly it was one of the few things that my parents did right. They were not at all qualified, they pretty much had no idea what they were doing, they were not at all financially well off, and tbh my days were retry unstructured, but I grew so much more as a person. When I did start at a charter school in 7th grade the biggest difference between me and my classmates was that I was so excited to learn everything. I was thrilled to translate Latin text, talk about parabolas and graphing, write essays, and talk about scientific theories. But above all that, I didn't just take what people said for granted, and I still try not to. Tbh going through highschool dampened that ability a lot, because I had so many teachers who were just too exhausted to sit and debate with me and explain the why's of everything, plus some teachers who didn't want to accept that a teenager could point out something they had done wrong. By my senior year I was so tired too that I just did whatever I had to do to get good grades and pass. But those first few years of school, I challenged everything. I didn't accept anything until I knew that it was true and I could prove it, and it helped me actually understand and learn everything so much better.
Of course public school have the capability of teaching their students critical thinking, but most schools are environments that physically, mentally and emotionally drain everyone until they have no fight left, and everyone is just so exhausted, teachers and students alike. Homeschooling gives more opportunity for kids to do their own research and come to their own conclusions, and when the parent is really connected with their child they can have really deep conversations too. I may not have learned to read until I was 8 years old, but I learned so many other valuable things along the way.
Lol. I’m saying this with kindness: you sound like you were a nightmare for your parents. Haha. All those excellent questions and debates. So much effort on your parents part. (Mine do the same to me but they’re in public school.) I’m glad yours took the time and I’m glad you got good value out of it. May you be able to provide the same for your kids. ☺️
@@nunyabusiness2945 That's not a nightmare. That's what kids do when they're not forced into fitting certain molds. They use their brains, think critically, and love learning. This person sounds like a champ as a kid.
Most school children are ill-mannered, immature and dim-whitted.
The KKK had an organised march there too... probably.
I’m a student teacher and I’ve had the opposite experience with what teachers think about homeschooling. The number of teachers that have told me I should home school (and those who support my decision to do so with my future children) is staggering.
Listen to them, they are Correct.
Homeschooling is nothing like, the majority think it is.
I homeschooled my son in grade school, due to my illness, he went back to Public School for HS. We were part of Homeschooling Group, they had many Activities. All the Kids were well behaved, as well Socialized. I also taught him, real life skills cooking, laundry, banking etc.
Public School wouldn't allow him to use Cursive and would mark him off, for using it.🤦♀️ He was actually 3 yrs ahead of where his peers were, with his schooling. He became bored very easily. I had school provide me, with same books he had for classes. I was able to help with his work, as well as teaching him more, then he was getting in the classroom.
They started having all assignments done in Groups of 3-5 kids each. Ended up only 2 doing the work and rest receiving same grade, as the 2 who did the work. SMDH "Participation Grades" Wrong on so many levels. Not fair to the ones actually doing the work.😡
He went Career School Jr/Sr years. Graduated with all his Welding Certifications.
He is now doing a job he loves and making more money then his classmates with College Degrees and has No Student Loan Debt.
Most of the Kids in our Homeschooling Group, had No problems getting in to the College of their choice. In Fact, most were actively Recruited and Received Scholarships.
Same! It speaks volumes to me too. I hope you have a good experience teaching. We do need teachers.
Heed their warning girl!!
I wonder if opinions shifted a bit around the time COVID happened? I'm a former teacher and I always heard a lot of criticism from people towards homeschooling even other teachers. Maybe it was more of the people I encountered though, one teacher I worked with had her son is a private school and that seemed to bother a lot of fellow teachers as well.
@@kaylah4843 It may have.
I know in my area, even Teachers recommend Homeschooling, this was 20 yrs ago.
My son's kindergarten, as well as well as who would have been his 1st grade Teacher, agreed he would thrive in HS, but would be bored in classroom. Both Teachers, had Siblings who HS, as well.
I was very lucky that our area, has large Homeschooling Group Co-Ops. So lots of Educational Activities and Social events for the kids.
With more Parents having to be involved during 2020 forward, it woke some people up.
If you want to see success in home schooling then look no further than Brett Cooper, she graduated high school by the age of 16 and finished her college at UCLA by 19 why she was acting for 10 years. She would have never accomplished any of this spinning her entire childhood in public schools, she is amazing woman and a good role model for children. Keep up the good work Brett. 👍👍
Edit.. Damn it RUclips, stop changing my words after I post a comment.
Wait what? RUclips is now _editing comments?_
Does RUclips edit comments now???
@@Major003 More and more I keep seeing weird shit going on in the YT universe. Not just the easily visible things, but on other things like "Likes" being randomly being removed...or directly after getting notified of a Like. Comments being deleted and most recently hidden comments. I personally don't have proof of YT editing, however there have been a couple of times where I saw something "off" in something I posted. And there was a time I was certain I had edited a comment but the edit was "missing"...I marked that up to a code/system problem.
Brett is proof that homeschooling works
maybe if they stopped teaching sexuality and CRT...I would support teachers
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
CRT IS NOT BEING TAUGHT IN K-12 SCHOOLS. Holy shit if you people would stop flipping out for one second and research some shit, you wouldn't be so bent out of shape all the time. Maybe you should try having more thoughts and ideas than LEFT BAD, RIGHT GOOD. And also it's not up to the teachers what they teach. Be mad at your local and state politicians for making curriculums. But noooo, everything boils down to "Biden bad, me no like, him ruin country" -_-
There’s nothing wrong with it as long as they teach without prejudice.
More than that, distorting history.
@@Bubba.mitchell4603So it's okay for kids to read pornography in school as long as it's "without prejudice"? Is it also okay for schools to give children hormone therapy without telling the parents as long as it's "without prejudice"?
I was a public school teacher for 1 year, and then I left the profession and never looked back. Not because of the kids. I loved them.
It's the fellow teachers.
Many teachers are amazing great people who are changing the world for the better, but the vast majority of teachers are horrible selfish self-absorbed people. COVID brought that into the spotlight.
So teach private school!!
That’s odd. Most I work with are self sacrificing. Just last year one had three black eyes trying to teach a student from trauma.
“Vast majority”? Really?
I had a really good public school education, but I was schooled in the 90s and early 2000s. It seems like a lot of bad stuff has happened since then or something else is causing teachers to be more stressed and the quality of education to go down. I credit one of the best teachers I ever had in 5th grade for my love of art
"Parents aren't expert teachers." Teachers aren't expert teachers. I've had to correct teachers as a kid. I've pushed back against teachers in college.
I was told not to correct teachers in front of the class since 1st grade, when I told my teacher she was wrong about the craters on the moon.
I had teachers complain to my parents in parent teacher conferences about correcting them. Dad asked "did he interrupt you?" "nope, he raised his hand" "was he wrong?" "no he was correct" "yeah i don't see the problem here"
We are still not addressing/ignoring the fact that there are so many families, single moms, parents that work multiple jobs, uneducated parents (my parents were barely able to speak basic English when I was young) , disabilities, etc that cannot homeschool their child(ren) even if they really really wished to. My parents definitely were not qualified to teach me and my brother.
@V 3 for these families there are online homeschool programs that do the teaching for you but in a way that the parent can sit and listen and monitor what is being taught. Many are quite affordable and with proper school choice the tax money can pay for it and it is cheaper and has better quality control than public school.
I had a college teacher learning the material alongside the class...as he was teaching it. The electrical engineers that you want to hire are definitely the ones who were teaching him.
I recently made the decision to homeschool my kids, and all of my teacher friends and family have told me what a great decision it is and that they would do the same thing if they had kids/kids old enough for school. This is coming from both public school and private school teachers. They’re incredible at what they do, and I have gotten the best, most helpful advice from them. Not only do they agree with my decision, but they are actively supporting me in it.
right before she said f teachers she was talking about how there are really mean ones out there. which immediately brought me back to all the teachers that were just mean or would try and embarrass you. she was obviously referring to those teachers. not teachers as a whole. there are some wonderful amazing teachers but there are also a lot of teachers who would consider themselves amazing teachers that could be downright rude, have no respect for their students, and always played favorites. and that’s really not that uncommon in my experience of 12 years in public schools.
and to add to that: when people say parents aren’t equipped to teach their kids.. believe me there were plenty of teachers throughout my years at school that taught me barely anything. my high school english teacher (had her 3 years) never had me write an essay once. i think maybe twice in 3 years we wrote a 3 paragraph paper on something dumb. she would just stand at the podium and talk about her personal life. i mean really i went to the lowest paying high school in nh and we had some bad frikken teachers. i barely learned anything it was absurd and laughable.
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To the second teacher: I taught my children how to read. Then, as their teachers continually failed to encourage any real advances in their reading skills or comprehension, I handled that part as well. I taught my children math, science, history, etc, while their teachers glossed over the subjects and then handed out assignments. I have been teaching my children the whole time. Less than 20% of their education has come from their teachers. The school provided text books and then Chromebooks. That's pretty much all. The rest has been up to me.
I'm done with the myth of the noble, selfless teachers. They existed at one time but they're essentially extinct at this point. I don't care if they don't feel appreciated. I don't appreciate them. Two children in six different schools and it's been just more of the same. Do your job and you'll earn my appreciation.
I never see TikToks of teachers talking about the good job they're doing. I see TikToks of teachers complaining about their jobs. Quit. We don't actually need you. You're not educating our children, so you're unnecessary.
You know the only thing keeping me sane is watching Brett.
Sane
@@Azrael_Tombs loll
Yo tambien
She's like a safe space from all the terrible places on the internet
Fax
I had some horrific teachers, absolutely appalling behavior and treatment I saw and experienced, it does attract a lot of people who mostly just want summers, Christmas and spring break off and they clearly resent or appear to even hate kids and are not good at what they do. Plenty of parents are just as qualified and educated to homeschool their kids and won’t abuse, humiliate or neglect them. There needs to be a massive overhaul of the school system.
As a teacher, I genuinely care about my students. I've had bad teachers too- but I go into work everyday- and try my hardest not to be like those bad teachers. A lot of teachers do this- we really aren't paid enough- the ones who are there for a paycheck usually leave. 🤷🏽♀️
I was homeschooled from 8th to graduation, and I loved it. Do not let people tell you it's expensive, it's not, we were lower middle class. All you need is the books, you can get them used offline, just choose your curriculum, then resell them (if you want) when your child and you are done! Or, there are various other methods you can choose now too, like online learning, Khan academy (completely free) or others I don't even know about. I used physical books that I still have. Good luck parents! ❤️
I'm curious since I would love to do the same for my kids how does the college/uni application go? If that's the path you wanted to pursue was it harder?
@@nerdycurls6253 I'm a highschooler that's been homeschooled my entire life and I'm very thankful for that. I haven't applied yet so I'm not aware of the entire process, but my mom has successfully gotten my two older sisters to college so it's definitely possible. Dual enrollment is a good option for homeschooling if your kids are looking to go to college. One thing you could do to help their college applications is send them to classes with other homeschoolers throughout the year. They're usually not every day and a good social outing for kids that stay home for most of the week. My family has done writing classes, art classes, science classes, and has also gone to a homeschool co-op nearly every year since I was young. Overall, homeschooling can be a bit of a learning process for the caretakers as well, figuring out what works best for their children. Best wishes and I hope my comment helped to some degree.
I was homeschooled from 8th grade to graduation as well. I was suffering from medical issues and the schools were to controlling and believed that I was “being dramatic” despite doctor notes. My Mom finally had enough of their bullshit, said it’s my kid not yours, she maintains As & Bs, what are you complaining about? So she homeschooled me. I managed to graduate high school within 3 years, rather than 4. I probably could’ve done it faster if I wasn’t distracted with medical issues. Schools need to remember their job and that’s give students an education, not raise them to think with your beliefs.
My mom was a teacher for over 30 years. The martyrdom of teachers as the most under appreciated and most under paid profession has to stop. Teachers aren't martyrs.
Maybe if they were paid more, they could attract better quality. Tell me what other profession is required to have the credentials teachers do but are allowed to be paid at or below the poverty line. Even a baseline daycare worker can be paid more, based on hourly pay and hours worked.
The average teacher starting salary for just elementary school is higher than 60 percent of the countries career fields for work just over 3/4 of the year no they are paid plenty, and don't buy into that oh there are all these thing we have to pay for out of their pocket that's b.s. as a parent I'm one of the many that are bringing or paying for any of that extra stuff in the class room.
@Samantha Armstrong My mom's insurance was great, and her retirement was also generous. The coinsurance she had from the teachers' retirement was excellent. Teachers get great benefits.
@@TheBaumcm It isn't that they aren't paid well. They aren't trained well. When my mom was doing student teaching, she was graded on how well she presented the lesson. Getting an education degree today is ridiculously easy. Better training, better teachers.
For real! Like I appreciate a good teacher and all but their average salary is around $45,000 per year, and they only work for 8 months out of the year! I cannot imagine complaining while sitting on my ass for 1/3 of the year!😂
Absolutely crazy that people want to ban homeschooling! I've been homeschooled my whole life and I wouldn't trade my experiences for anything. The fact that people believe that a child's parents should have no choice about what their children learn is mind boggling
I'm about to be a teacher when I graduate, and I was in no way insulted. Megan Trainor was showing understanding to Trisha by saying "f teachers". She obviously did not bash all teachers, just the teachers they were talking about in the CONTEXT of their conversation!
I'm curious...in what way is "fuck teachers" is taken out of context?
Good Luck teaching, I hope it meets all of your expectations. My mother and aunt were teachers. They enjoyed teaching and have nice pensions as a result of their long service.
@@thegamingkitchen8429 whenever im having a bad day, I’ll mutter some bullshit like “fuck everyone today” do I mean everyone should fuck off literally? No I’m just blowing steam 😂 that’s the way I see it
My parents are both teachers and when you grow up with teacher parents, you see how much they go through. However I think her apology hit the nail on the head by saying (good) teachers are insanely under-appreciated and underpaid
Public Teachers are not underpaid. They get paid in lavish pensions and insane benefits. Private schools can do what a public school can with a third of the money and more effectively.
@@dan-lr4zm which country is this?
@@dan-lr4zm Both my parents are private school teachers and sadly since the one my mom teaches at is incompetent, she ends up doing other peoples jobs because she wants to make sure stuff actually gets done. And you wouldn’t believe the insanity she puts up with, what most good teachers put up with, because if you know the crap they deal with, you’ll understand how they’re underpaid.
@@dan-lr4zm you’re kidding with this comment? Is this sarcasm or a joke…..public teachers are not underpaid??
*"hit the nail on the head"
I was homeschooled growing up and now homeschool my three kids. We are super involved in community so no social worries here. It is a joy and privilege to teach them and learn with them. They’re getting a much better education home with a teacher who fully knows and loves them and their individual passions, interests, and learning styles! And our oldest tested for the first time this year and is about 2 grades above his “age level.” ;)
It’s unfair for people to attack her, most people don’t like all teachers. Or everyone of any profession
If you look at some of MTs lyrics, it shows her as a giant sexist pos. She deserves this
I was homeschooled and loved it! I have a lot of family members who are teachers and every chance they got they would comment on how stupid homeschooling is, ask me when my mom was going to put me in “real school” and try to quiz me in math during family functions. It was ridiculous! They even threatened to call social services on my mom a couple times. I don’t know why me learning at home was such a threat to them. I’ll definitely be homeschooling my kids.
Not the math! It's a universal homeschooler experience.
They tried to quiz you 😂. I’m homeschooling my kids, and I’m sure my teacher family members will do the same. I’m sure my kids and I will roll our eyes haha.
As someone who was homeschooled from 1st grade 12th grade, I’m thankful for it. Although I was made fun of, it was the best thing for me and my future.
I can tell you right now, however much you were made fun of while being homeschooled, would have been nothing compared to how much you’d have been made fun of in Public school. You chose the right option. I’m glad you did well!
@@morningrosie3684 thank you for the encouragement!
Every teenager I’ve worked with at my current job has been homeschooled. They have all been extremely smart, kind, and caring people and not only that but way more adjusted and confident to the outside world than most kids that are in actual school buildings. My kids aren’t even old enough to go to school yet, but I’ve been thinking about homeschooling since they were born. Nothing against teachers I just don’t trust the way the world is going- and I’m in the south. If I don’t trust a baby sitter or a daycare with my kids how can I trust a school with a classroom of 30+? Not only that but one of the local school just had a teacher arrested for “inappropriate acts with a minor student” and the known bullying at these schools is just outrageous.
I have a Master’s in Education and I’m homeschooling bc I’ve been in the system.. the coworkers make it twice as bad, not even the students half the time.
I’m a teacher in Australia. I get paid okay (I could use more but it’s not like I’m broke) and I’m at a very politically conservative private school where we win awards for having the best education in the state so…I kind of judge public schools too. I mean, personally I think public schools are in need of a major overhaul.
All but one home schooled kid I've interacted with were exceptional. They weren't "weird", they actually had an ability to think on their own, and were interesting to speak to because of that. They were extremely mature and thoughtful instead of most kids I've interacted with from public schools that show few of those characteristics on top of emotional issues.
I've been a teacher leading unit studies for 12 years now, respecting that a parent knows their child better than I do. People are responsible for their own kids and how their kids are educated.
10+ year teacher here. There are good and bad workers in every line of work. Most teachers want to help students succeed, but with all the bureaucracy and pushes for certain agendas (whether those agendas are political or not), most teachers that want to do well by their students are figuratively handcuffed by choices that are not our own, but we are stuck with all the blame. Teachers that push ideologies in their classrooms that have no place anywhere near children and administrations that forces teachers to teach like pre-programmed robots without realizing that we have advanced professional degrees, are really creating a lose-lose situation for truly good teachers and their students. The good ones are leaving as quickly as possible (we aren't used to being robots), unfortunately leaving more and more bad teachers spreading inappropriate nonsense to vulnerable children, only making this whole problem even worse. If I were a parent, I'd be homeschooling my children. Will every parent do well with homeschooling? No- there are good and bad workers in every line of work- including parenting. But we shouldn't throw out the entire idea just because a few might mess it up- this goes for homeschooling, regular teachers, cops, etc. We need to fix the broken systems and we need to fix our broken culture.
I’ve had good and bad teachers. I had one lock me in a closet for being autistic but there was also one that I really looked up to and considered a mentor. Two of my grandparents and one of my great grandparents taught. There are good teachers but we shouldn’t invalidate people’s negative experiences with the educational system. Homeschooling can work with parents that are disciplined and involved in their child’s learning.
I was homeschooled basically through kindergarten through Elementary, so grade 8... I went to the local high school down the road from where I lived and absolutely hated it. I hated how disorganized everything felt, the lession plans from the teacher I often felt taught me nothing at all, rushing from one class to another was unnecessarily stressful on all the students, classes also never felt long enough to really get my head into the subject, because just as I felt like I was getting there the bell would ring and I'd have to run to my next class.
As for homeschooling, yeah my mom wasn't the best teacher, but she did her best and the books were awesome at explaining so she didn't have to be an expect for me to learn algebra or biology, chemistry, history or any other subjects. I know I wouldn't be half the confident, intelligent woman I am today without my mom's hard work as a parent and my teacher😁❤ Love you mom🙃
I’m sincerely glad it worked out for you. I like how you detailed a style of learning and that it worked for you while the ‘mainstream’ version wasn’t. That’s all I want is for people to understand there’s no one way and every method has a chance for failure. To the teachers who say they don’t trust parents? Great, we don’t trust you either - let’s stay away from each other. Soooo many options out there.
I am a second grade teacher. I agree with what you said, but I feel like you might have missed the point on teachers went from heroes to villains with Covid. Many teachers were 50/50 about going back at that time and most teachers are not a part of the unions anymore because they really don’t do anything for us. What that person meant was people finally respected us and realized how much we really do for their kids. For example, I had a student who would often misbehave, struggle In class and the mom would not believe me. She thought her son was perfect and perfectly capable of school work. I did my best for this kid and he did so well, but after the pandemic 😷 she apologized for not believing me about her sons behavior and capabilities of on level school work. After that, she finally worked with me for extra support. After parent involvement and respect, we worked together and he went from kindergarten reading level to 2nd grade level. Teachers finally got support from certain parents, again not all parents, but the difficult ones. It was really nice, but only lasted a little bit. I do think teachers were overly emotional with Meghan trainer. I hear people say f*** teachers all the time. I don’t really understand the crucifying of Meghan trainer. I work in a red school and district so maybe my perspectives are different than most? Have a great day! Thank you for using your platform to educate others and teach others it’s Okay to have different opinions than others. ❤
As someone who worked in a public school for 5 years. I have seen all kinds of teachers, some are in it for the students, other for paid vacations . I mean, it's like every job. Not everyone is passionate about it.
To be fair, there are exceptional teachers and those that shouldn't be let anywhere near school property. I'm talking about the ones that are more concerned about teaching IDEOLOGY than actual subject matter that will help them as adults in the real world.
I started homeschooling my children last year and I am amazed at the growth and their sudden ability to think rationally. They have my oldest is a freshman and then my son is in 7th grade and they have came to me about all of the things they've realized after having the time to reflect. If you're able to homeschool I wholeheartedly recommend it... My children have grown leaps and bounds. Theirs only education... No agenda, propaganda, etc. It's amazing to see them realize just how toxic the world is and it's honestly heartbreaking that they feel as though the public school system attempted to brainwash them. They feel betrayed but empowered by the insight.
as a student watching this while being evacuated for a bomb threat, being scared is valid. there are terrible teachers, and there are good teachers. like brett always says, there are bad people in every community so if you have a bad experience it is valid and is not addressing everyone in that community
Parents should be teaching their kids to read before the kids even go to school. Why are we waiting until a kid is 5 or 6 to teach them how to read? I had a 500 sight word vocabulary at 5, before the age that I would have started public school if I wasn't homeschooled. I was reading at 2.
The Ivy League colleges consider homeschooling a better education, but public schools still try to stop it.
One of the best "The Comments Section"! Excellent.
Going through the public school system in California in the 90's I was bullied by both my peers AND my teachers (from 2nd grade clear up to 8th grade) with a few notable exceptions that likely kept me from losing all hope. This was even before how nuts things have devolved and become today. There are great teachers out there but they are becoming fewer and further in-between, and it's sad.
My mom homeschooled myself and my 3 older brothers and I am so grateful to her that she did. The teachers that were in the school in our small town would just pass everyone and not care if the kids learned anything. I’m dyslexic and all the teacher did was treat me like I was stupid and that there was no point in trying to help me same with one of my older brothers, so my mom pulled us out of school. We all graduated with our high school diploma with high grades. One of my brothers and his wife are now homeschooling 4 out of their six children and the other two once they are old enough for school they will also be homeschooled. I think everybody has a right to their own opinion and people need to stop getting so offended and cancelling everything they don’t agree with.
In Canada the job of educating your child falls on the parent. Thus, many choose to send their children to public/private schools. We recognise the parent as the default educator...no expertise is required.
So basically they just proved her point!
As a British person this is totally weird to me. My school life was a disaster and the bullying was allowed to continue because I have Asperger’s. Then my mum decided to home school me and it was amazing. I still did all my GCSEs and got 8s (A++). Then when I decided to go college I got an unconditional offer as I was already used to individual learning. Yes people here are weary of it but there are so many things you can do in the UK as a home educated child.
You can in the US as well. Many many teachers get personally offended by it (my belief) is two main things: 1) they’re fearful of their place of authority being unnecessary and 2) they spent a lot of time and money getting their degrees and are offended that anyone would think their way is anything other than the ONLY right way to do things.
In my opinion it’s a consequence of the idea that credentialing (degrees, certs, etc) are the ONLY ways to get into and thrive in certain fields. Similar prejudice in medicine (a field I would argue minimum licensing is very important) is the whole MD vs DO schooling. I’ve personally seen and worked with plenty of MDs who openly have spoken resentfully about DOs being quack medicine educated. (Categorically not true.) Its weird, but it’s out there.
Edit: sorry I also meant to say that I’m glad for your success and hope it continues. ☺️
Teacher here....middle school, literally got my handbag stolen as a joke last week. Its horrid out there right now.
If i had teachers like this, even i wouldn't want to go to school
Actually someone who has their head screwed on
Agree with you 100%. Blown way out of proportion
I was homeschooled and I turned out very well. I went to high school for my final two years because we moved. I was automatically put into two AP classes because of my writing and history skills/knowledge and excelled above my classmates in those classes. I admit there are bad homeschool families out there but if done correctly homeschooling can help a child like me who was struggling in school because I wasn’t stimulated enough and slacking off due to boredom. I can also acknowledge how h big my final two years in brick and mortar school also helped me hold myself accountable in ways I wasn’t before because of deadlines. I suppose I got the best of both worlds.
Homeschool kid here, so pretty biased, but I loved being homeschooling and I think it helped me so much in my life. I also know many amazing teachers, and they know first handle the struggles that are happening in education right now. You're right, it is nuanced, not everyone can homeschool, but it should 100% be an option and not shunned especially if the parents are able and willing to teach at home :)
As a cop I appreciate the comparison because anyone who thinks their profession is unfairly hated on will never pale in comparison to what law Enforcment has gone through the past 3 years. Quite frankly law enforcement as a profession may never recover from what the media and left did to destroy it.
Teachers at the start of 2020 were heroes and became villains by the end of that year because parents got to see what was being taught at school.
50% of my childhood trauma stems from school peers. The other 50% stems from the teachers ignoring the bullying or encouraging it. Take it as you will.
Some teachers have their hands tied. The bullies are often rich kids whose parents donated money to the school so the principal wouldn;t let the teachers discipline them! The teachers WANT to, but they CAN'T!! There's a difference.
@@colleen4ever Perhaps in private, posh schools and in movies. Oh, and in America, where a 6yo can bring a gun to school and try to Minecraft his teacher with no consequences.
It's far easier to punish the quiet kid who doesn't cause any problem when said kid finally gets fed up and defends him/herself. Bullies get a pass for everything because teachers either can't get arsed to sort things out, or they are these "flowers and rainbows" kind of adults who think violence can be huged out of any situation.
As a teacher, not offended 😂 they overstep their boundaries. Homeschooling is best if possible ❤
Well said. That's thr main reason I started homeschooling; teachers over stepping their boundaries. I was apoplectic.
I taught as an assistant teacher during late 2019-summer 2021. The place I worked did not require a degree for that position, but I was the only one at that school who had not yet finished college. The horrors of working there would take me days to talk about. Granted, much of it was poor leadership, but a lot was just “how things are”. Having been homeschooled for all of my education (minus 2 years and some preschool) and having been surrounded by the extreme homeschoolers who were graduating 2 years early and doing advanced college courses in high school, and also not being very good at maths, I had always assumed I wasn’t very academically intelligent. So it was a huge surprise to me when I worked at this school and realised that I actually knew far more than my peers there, and even in some cases more than women who had been teachers for years. Several discussions and papers showed that I was better in grammar, spelling, vocabulary, geography, and critical thinking/logic. I was also more articulate in facts and political topics that arose, and I was definitively better in basic daily tasks such as organisation, cleanliness, and motivating the children to be excited to learn to read and write. I took some of the lowest scoring children in the class and I got them excited about their work to the point that several were highest scoring. My co-teacher repeatedly complimented me on these things and told me she had never worked with anyone better, and she would give me important emails to look over and re-word or edit to be more diplomatic when they were difficult subjects to raise to the management of the school.
I no longer think I am bad at academia or question my ability to learn and apply information.
I also do not care how poor my family might seem to others - I will be homeschooling my children. As well as running my own business and being a trad wife, by the way.
It’s like people are waiting in line for celebs to say the smallest little thing that COULD BE considered offensive to cancel them and they all fire at them. It’s unreal 😂😭
😂😂 that’s exactly what they are doing . They are the first to use their twitter fingers to say be kind because you never know what someone is going through.
Everybody gotta stop getting mad without context. It’s toxic.
@Matt the sarcasm is brewing
When I was in college during the summer one coworker I had working at Cabelas was a public schoolteacher. We somehow came across the discussion of my education. I think it was her asking me if I was in college that got on the subject. So I told her that I was homeschooled before that and my siblings are very much doing the same. Her response shocked me and said good for you. She told me how overcrowded her classroom was and other teachers. And said she struggled with helping each individual student bc of the size. I love the fact I was homeschooled. Was able to learn how to focus and plan my study time that when I went to college I was able to manage my time well that I got As and Bs nearly every semester. My mom was an amazing teacher and still is teaching my siblings to this day. Love you mom and thank you so much
Finding you has honestly given me so much more confidence in having the opinions i have. Years ago I was still considered left-wing with my opinions, i still have some of the same ones from back then and now they're seen as right-wing opinions. it's crazy.
What's crazier is that EVERYone's opinions and feeling change over time. No one is truly fully left or fully right. But for some reason the media demonizes people who act like humans and change their way of thinking over time
@@cremonster very true, for a society that goes so hard for change it seems like we also go just as hard to reject it. It’s part of the reason why I don’t actively feel the need to identify myself with a political party when people ask my opinion