Comments by "Charles Eye" (@TheCharleseye) on "" video.

  1. It's actually harder to homeschool your kids in California than in most of the Country. In order to do so, you either have to have a teaching credential for each grade you're teaching or you have to apply for private school status for your home. The latter is done in October, so you have to apply ten months before the school year in which you want to start and it's only a two week window in which you can apply. Then, of course, you have to wait and hope that you're approved. Then, you have to reapply every year. It is done this way on purpose, to keep as many kids in public school as possible. They are funded based on the number of students enrolled. The California teachers' union is pretty powerful, so they tend to get what they want. The sad thing is, with all that power, California primary education is mostly in the toilet. Kentucky, for example, is one of the poorest States in the union and they often rank better in K-12 education and graduation rates than California, which is the richest, by far. On the plus side, there are more and more charter schools opening up with remote learning programs. My oldest is enrolled in one and it has allowed him to get on the fast track for early graduation. He starts his college courses next semester and should graduate high school by the end of next year (a year early). He was a solid D student in public school. Taking him away from the distractions and mediocre-at-best teachers (his current teachers are terrific) has him bringing in nothing but A and B grades, while getting through his work at record pace. My younger son will be starting there next year. He's already an Honors-level student. Unfortunately, his public school has no Honors or GATE programs, so he spends a lot of time doodling and waiting for his teachers to come up with more work for him. He loves school work, so the ability to really cut loose and work at his own pace should have him nearly catching his older brother. Anyway, yeah. California is definitely not about the children.
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  3.  @terjeoseberg990  A) "They" is not universal. B) There are plenty of people in California who don't have the money to buy laptops for all of their kids and pay for Internet access. C) There's a difference between the half-baked distance learning programs a lot of schools are using and an actual, full, homeschool curriculum. D) Your response does not change the fact that there's no good reason to make it harder for parents to homeschool their kids. The bottom line is that it will let a whole lot of parents - who are unhappy with California's lackluster schools - take their kids out of public school, which reduces funding. The teachers' unions won't have it, so they make sure whichever politicians they buy support them in making it harder for parents to do so.
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  4. Big time. California doesn't view parents as parents. We are seen as babysitters for the State's growing resource. That's all.
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  6.  @bly2790  I've seen the PE classes and the cafeteria menu. They don't care about healthy students. Furthermore, all you have to do is go back a year to see what the teachers' unions were yelling about. Teacher health and teacher safety, teacher pay. They allowed kids to go from six feet social distancing to three feet, so that the teachers wouldn't have to split their classes and work a little harder...but they made sure all of those students were masked and sitting more than six feet from the teachers' desks. If they cared about the health of students, they wouldn't be packing them in at half the distance the CDC recommended. They don't care about the students. They want kids vaccinated to protect themselves from the kids who they now have sitting too close and spreading the disease. Why? SO they don't have to split their classes and work a little harder.
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  7. I was fortunate enough to have gotten my older son out of his public school and into a charter school with a robust distance learning program, right before the pandemic hit (a coincidence that felt like winning the lottery). I had gotten my younger son enrolled in another charter school for the next semester but couldn't get him in sooner. The difference between their next few months was like night and day. My younger son - who is a straight A student - spent weeks waiting for his school to figure out how to educate kids that all had school issued Chromebooks. Why? Because for some reason, using the same, exact tools they had been using in the classroom the whole time suddenly became a foreign concept to these "educators." Instead, they made us drive to the school every week, pick up a work packet, drop off the previous week's, lather, rinse, repeat. Of course, the packets were a joke and my son would finish them the first day. It wasn't even up to the already low standard of the education they were giving him in school. So many kids in my district fell behind, hard. Especially when the district announced that they wouldn't be grading the work. Simply giving students a pass or fail based on whether they turned it in. At this point, there is still a large segment of students who never caught back up. It doesn't matter, though. They'll graduate on time, with a significant hole in their education. That's all the public schools in most of California are, after all; meat processing plants that are just moving the cattle through. No Child Left Behind...because otherwise, people will see how bad we are at our jobs! Meanwhile, my older son went from being behind to blowing my mind with the work he was churning out. They told us about the fast track program they offer during orientation. The idea of early graduation was never something he considered attainable, before. So, free from social distractions (until after his schooling is done) and middling teachers (his current ones are great) he is now set to graduate a year early, with some college courses already under his belt. I've since gotten my younger son into another charter school that allowed him to catch up and bypass his previous level. They're pretty good but not as good as the other charter school. They still have certain limitations on how far the students can get. He will be enrolling in his brother's school in the Fall and is ecstatic about it. He wants to see if he can catch up to his older (by two years) brother before he graduates and at that school, he has the opportunity to do so. Public school? They can keep it. My boys are so much better off now than they were.
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