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It's a huge topic - education. Not knowing where to start, I'd say one thing that I think could be improved is the level of one-on-one attention and interaction between teachers and students in the classroom.

It seems that there's little one-on-one attention anymore (if that ever existed). Students and teachers? Do they care about each other? How about parents/kids/teachers?

I am afraid that public education is a Gordian knot. I don't think it can be saved now. For fifty years thousands of people have tried to improve public education, and it has only gotten worse. By its very nature of being a government run institution the goals of the organization are often orthogonal or perpendicular to helping the students to learn.

Right now I think the best option is homeschooling.

Henry, even though homeschooling can have it's drawbacks (lack of interaction with other kids, for example) it's beginning to look like the best option for the purpose of those same kids actually learning.

"lack of interaction with other kids"

When homeschooling first got started teachers and others involved with public schools would attack the idea of homeschooling with the idea that the children would never get a decent education. After thirty years the results clearly show than in general homeschoolers are much, much better educated that the average child going through public schools.

More recently the attack has been that homeschooled children won't "be socialized." Some how the children live at home, in a barrel, and never interact with others? I don't know any family that does this. The typical child being homeschooled has more social interaction, with great variety than public schooled children. At a public school students are surrounded with children their own age. Homeschooled children hang out with younger children, children their same out, older children, and adults. They learn to relate to a greater variety of situations.

Maybe more important is children are taught socialization in a much better environment. They are not taught by the pack, but by parents who can explain how to show respect, how to listen, and healthy ways to get along with people.

Many parents homeschool to escape the many negative aspects of poor socialization in public schools.

"Homeschooled children hang out with younger children, children their same out, older children, and adults. They learn to relate to a greater variety of situations."

Evidently, Henry, that aspect either didn't cross my mind or crossed and left quickly. It would appear I must come to your blog to become better educated.

Carolyn, another option is you could find a local homeschool group and just go hang out with them on one of their gatherings. They often get together at a park or some other location with the expressed purpose of letting the children hang out together.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Oh, Henry, I have no children, simply an interest in the way kids are being educated. Kent's post intrigued me and it seemed like a good idea to pick up on the subject. His blog is more business oriented and I wanted to give him a larger audience for this one.

Regardless of whether one has children or not, we should all have at least a passing interest in their non-passing grades.