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тут пришёл интересный ответ. От мамы-анскулера, которая принимает русских школьников по обмену и может сравнивать две системы.
"First, you need to know that Russian public school standards are incredibly higher than U.S public schools. It is not at all common for American students to complete High School at age 16 or to face comprehensive semester or annual exams in order to proceed to the next level. In fact, many states fudge their reports of the average high school graduation. They do not begin drop out head counting until high school (quite a few stop attending school in junior high) and they extend diplomas as far into adulthood as 35!! In this way, many state governments present a dismal but exaggerated high school graduation rate of 80% or so.
Every Russian college student I've met started college by age 15 or 16 and they tell me 15 to 16 is considered an adult. We retard our youth emotionally to the extent that it takes the typical student 12 years to complete K-1 through K-12 school. In the span of 12 years, our students have been taught less and less over the past 45 years. Many of our High School's general student millieu is more under student control and influence than adult control & influence. Hall ways, lunch rooms, gyms, & the office where the principal has his\her office are barely under control. Typically, they are very noisy places. An incredible number of our High Schools are wild places where students make fun and even bully students who take text books home and regularly turn in their homework. National Unions weld much more power over our schools than do either parents or students who wish to seriously learn. Far too many teachers reject the idea that they are public servants and blame everyone from administrators to parents for the unbelievable ignorance and lack of discipline of America's dismal average high school graduate.
Consider the insane performance of many ladder climbing Russian bureaucrats & you have some idea of how our public school staffs conduct themselves, especially teachers who want into administration.
Teachers forever claim they are professionals who deserve much more in pay and benefits and less work, yet they act like rebellious unionized factory workers or worse like a typical middleclass 1960s adolescent.
I try to paint for you here a rough, small picture of our public school system so you can visualize why homeschooling is an ever growing movement in America. We are voting with our feet, by fleeing the public miseducation system.
From the beginning of enactment of our mandatory school attendance laws (the 1880s), There was homeschooling, but it was a small movement until the 1990s. The overwhelming majority of home school families were members of particular Christian religious groups who objected to their children attending public schools for religious reasons. One such group was the Meninites. Many Quakers also home schooled. Our Amish communities have schools but they operate like group home schools. Some fundamentalist church groups also operate group home schools.
Americans had to organize and wage state by state fights before citizens of every state won the right to home school. Something that may interest you is the more socialistic states such as California, Colorado, Michigan opposed home school groups the hardest. If you know anything about American socialists or neo-marxists, they strike you as very odd and hard to consider Marxist. Unlike other Marxists world wide, ours only give the poor and the working class lip service. The serve themselves, the college degreed, middle class salaried people. What real Marxists call the petty middle class. And most of them actually despise the proletariat! True Marxists & neo-Marxists possessing a decent grasp of Marx's doctrine & Lenin's real politic contributions to Marxism would find our neo-Marxists fascinating fodder for Marxian analysis.
So, the motivation behind Russian motivation to home school and that of Americans is much different. I hosted a few Russian exchange students. I am very impressed with Russian public school standards.
Correct me if I am wrong here but I believe your public schools, like most Western school systems, do not allow a student's teachers to test or grade them.
You follow a French model of education, whereas, America still follows the old Prussian German model in which public school and university teachers possess tremendous power over students in that they test and grade them, something that also gives our teachers ultimate control over school standards & denies parents means for controlling the public servants who staff our schools. Repeatedly our courts reject student attempts to get justice against teachers who graded them arbitrarily. Before our Feudal type teachers, students have no academic due process rights. Americans have no due process rights before the Internal Revenue Service, or the classroom assessments of them by tenured teachers.
This will shock you perhaps. Most Americans today are not aware of this one. When mandatory school attendance began, most families resisted and most children were gathered & escorted to public schools at gun point. For America's first 100 years, Americans were known as the most literate population on earth and their schooling was homeschooling! The Horace Mann mandatory school attendance crusaders were concerned about the flood of illiterate immigrates showing up in US cities and they wanted to prepare rural America youth for factory work. Thus, public schools stressed training students to obey the school bell (factory whistle), to obey authority (shop foremen), & to regiment their lives by the clock & watch.
Our Home school rules could control a Russian student or a student schooled in a French model system, which is centralized. To you, our system would seem chaotic and perhaps it is just that, chaos.
Some states more tightly regulate home schooling and some are loose about it. Some states appear much more controlling on paper than they actually are.
Also feeding the US homeschool movement is the fact that many teachers are only qualified to teach our children & youth on paper. In reality, most are not competent enough in science or math to be teaching students. Far too many of them preach an odd ideology more than teach our students the skills they need to go on effectively and productively with their lives as adults.
If our parents knew the average science and math requirements for a Russian student to progress to high school, I think they would have retaken their local schools by now. My 15 year-old Russian High School seniors were shocked to learn that our non-science, non-technology college graduates rarely possess the level of science knowledge or math competence that Russian students must possess to graduate from the 8th grade."
У неё, имхо, немножко нереальное представление о нас. Всё-таки, в Штаты по обмену ездят нетипичные дети - из хороших школ и состоятельных семей, которые могут себе позволить дать ребёнку реальное образование (большинство школьников не такие).