Loading ...Push for Expanded School Choice Gains Bipartisan Momentum in Florida
This is gaining Momentum in many Red States. The death knell for “public” Schools and the Woke Teachers Federations .
https://www.theflstandard.com/push-for-expanded-school-choice-gains-bipartisan-momentum/
The problem that needs to be solved is transportation, especially for families with multiple children of different ages, and for families with children in middle and high schools.
When I was a young child, I could walk to grade school. So could my kids if they needed to. But they only had one choice. Middle schools were farther and high school farther still. Car pools were not viable and traffic around the schools with parents driving kids was ridiculous.
But WHY is it even necessary to make schools as large as they are? Why not more of them scattered more broadly? Grade school is easy, with children largely attending class with one teacher the whole day. Middle school could be more like that, if each day were devoted to just two classes/disciplines not five or six. Morning session, afternoon session two subjects. Two teachers. AND THE TEACHERS could rotate between locations.
The only real hitch with that plan is sports and specialty offerings, and for that you can have school buses taking players to centralized facilities and home by bus routes as we know them today. Costs covered by participants instead of socialized.
My point is that a workable alternative regime (logistically) is needed before folks LEAVE the system we have now. Home schooling is great, but few families can manage that on one salary.