What Makes People Think They Are Qualified To Teach Their Own Kids?

[saras]

203. There is more than one good answer, and then there's my sig line

If you SURVIVE with less than high school, presumably you live a lifestyle where that's practical, rather than being one in a million. Sucky though it is, America has always had that "good enough for us" standard as part of its heritage. And then there's that homeless woman who went to prison for trying to get her kid into a good school...

There are people who don't finish high school because they see through it and can't stomach the bullshit. Some are stronger that way than others, and people with allergic reactions to bullshit aren't necessarily dumb. That's what GEDs are for - to acknowledge the competence without the social training. My stepdaughter got into primo law school and attorney jobs that way, so I'm biased.

Once you're out of high school, the main reason for successful people not going further is success. If you're successful out of high school, and you know or can learn all you need to stay successful, college is a bad financial and social decision. It's more about belonging than learning, unless you're doing hard science, and even that's changing.

And anyone who's been exposed to the military's older programs for kids in parts of the world where good education wasn't available knows how easy it is, and what a high level of results can be reasonably expected.

Now on top of this, add people with similar ideas about education but radically different ideas about society.

Now add to this a whole bunch of people who don't quite understand it but imitate successful people.

Now add to this a whole bunch of people who don't quite understand success but imitate the people around them.

Oh, and then there's the real wack jobs who know that Everything YOU Know Is Wrong, and have complete alternative explanations of the entire universe, from creation to present science and law. Who ELSE is qualified to teach their theories?

But before you throw too many people into that last category, consider this:

You know how dumb the average person is? Half of them are even dumber than that.
If moving towards the average looks good to you, that shows which half you're in.