[kevingadd]

Liberal is great, as long as we don't completely fail the children. Going too far in the other direction and failing the children worse is a pretty shameful response.

I can understand the desire to do the complete opposite of the public school system if you believe it is the source of all your woes, but it kind of defies rational logic to abandon things like objective measurements, professional training, etc.

[dllthomas]

In many areas, you're also abandoning drug dealers and metal detectors. I'm not convinced that - for some schools - simply keeping children out of those schools mightn't do more good than harm even before you start trying to educate. At which point, professional training is kind of irrelevant. Of course, for most of the children in those schools, their parents aren't very able to home-school either. Regarding objective measurements, measure away - I've no objection to measurement.