MATT BEAUDREAU | The Clear Path to Alternative Education

[@emilyblaisdell2073]

Excellent information/content! Mom of 24 yo, 22yo, and 19yo sons, and former 1st grade teacher in a Maine private school here. The masses need to know this! Keep speaking!!

[@alphadadconsulting]

Powerful conversation, really appreciate what you both do! I first heard Matt speak at the Man Uncaged event back in May. Phenomenal speaker and mission brother. My oldest turns 4 next month and we’re starting him on the Home Based Education path. Was able to work towards getting me into a position where I’m making good money to support my family. So wife is a stay at home and I work from home, so I’m able to contribute. For anyone that thinks it’s not possible, if someone like me could do it, then you can too. It’s just about acquiring the skills that can get you paid more and allow you that freedom. You don’t need school for that, you just need education and application of that knowledge.

[@PrimallegionTV]

I Hear and I Forget, I See and I Remember, I Do and I Understand.

[@guayabita27able]

Thanks gents for this great conversation. I am a teacher transitioning from public school to private practice. I will take the “good” I learned from public school, there are many great things in there. Unfortunately, our lack of independence to decide what is best for our class, and the bureaucracy makes the system ineffective. Admins tasks should be executed by other people while we devote our time to the students. I am going to fill up the large list of quitting teachers soon and explore new options like the one you described in this video. J

[@unclealai]

My suggestion fight for the vocational school focus on working in the related industry. Todays parents and kids are just focusing too much in sending kids to an office. Get them to learn plumbing, wiring, automotive, building, carpenting..esp the boys! Where we know its where boys will excel. Then fight for institutions that take these vocational students and get them to the next level. U know those things that give them the professional certification to consult, audit, license.. so when they graduate, they can work with all that intact and only need to gain experience..and hey we can do that even before graduating, 2 semesters of internship can help them get spots to work after graduation esp if its done 2 sems before they finish.

[@jakedoster313]

I never comment on KZbin or really anything - please run this back! Two young girls (under 4) - education is a big topic.

[@MissChievousRN]

We already DO pay for public schools. I'd love to know exactly how much. What makes me mad is that I would still be required to pay for public schools even if MY children are going to private school or homeschooled. If every parent got to keep the money spent on schooling and spend it on whatever school they chose for their kids, then $1000/ month would be perfectly reasonable.

[@heatheranderson3879]

Home learning is legal in Canada. There are programs that can be done alongside government schools, or completely with government schools from home, or completely outside of government schools.

[@yaokomeco7550]

Im Yaokomeco, and I'm not running for a damn thing And i approved this message

[@sarahozonline]

Homeschooling is not illegal in Australia. I was, and planning on doing so with my boys.

[@viper071]

The Cali state court ruled it is acceptable to base admission on race to obtain a specific goal per race and sex… which is why an Asian kid needs to have a far better background then a black applicant

[@lifeofbeautyk]

A parent with three children enrolled in elementary and middle school could face education expenses of $250,000 to $500,000 if they choose to send their children to Acton School.

[@25yearsnow]

It's always the uneducated who rail against formal education. Yes, elitism is a problem in the U.S. and in any developed country. Yes, some students get special privileges. Yes, you can be very very successful without a college degree -- or even a high school degree -- but you're going to face many many more obstacles. Yes, college tuition is out of control and exploitative, which is a product of it unfortunately succumbing to capitalist, profit-driven frameworks. Yes, you can learn on your own. Libraries are indeed free. But what is peculiar is the myopic perspective guys like these have on education. The left guy says studying "liberal arts" and "Chinese ideology in the 1800's" are "superfluous garbage".. This is such an ignorant comment. There are so many purposes to studying things that have no material value in the capitalist economy. Should we replace German studies with excel courses? Should we replace political theory with plumbing? Should we no longer learn about theoretical, abstract math? None of these have material value in our economy, but there are reasons, going back to the Greeks, on why citizens ought to learn them. The trades are indeed important, and trade schools are fantastic. But, universities and trade schools are not mutually exclusive. We could do away with any and all education that is "valueless" in a capitalist economy, but then we'd have a society run by ignoramuses who know nothing beyond how to make money.. although it's eerily like that as it is. It's just sad to live in America and hear such vitriol against higher education. But I guess philistines always existed, even in ancient Greece. But who cares about ancient Greece, right?

[@josephmcandrew7937]

The fact is that America's economy is failing becuase we no longer export physical items of value and schools are a large part of the blame. The school systems need to make a shift or we won't have the privilege of schools anymore. It is really that simple, and in the next 20 years we will see how it plays out.

[@jarrodrobertson7607]

It is sad that was your takeaway from this video. I can guarantee you my child has 100% thrived in a pod in which we deviated from the traditional "box" school. The six kids were at least year or more ahead of their cohorts once they went back to a normal school. There are not saying there is no need, but there is a lot of wasted time in school.

[@TheSultan1470]

This comment started off reasonable, but veered off into wank. You're just saying that cause you have a liberal degree, lol. And you want everyone to sit through the same lame ass classes.

[@25yearsnow]

@@jarrodrobertson7607 I'm sure your kids did great in pod environments. Every child learns better in a smaller "pod" environment for obvious reasons: more 1:1 attention from the teacher, more interaction between students, more peer-to-peer learning, etc. etc. etc. That's not the issue. You can have pod learning in public schools, and many in wealthy neighborhoods with good funding provide such micro-learning environments. But pod learning is resource-dependent. The problem is that this podcast shouts down at "government schools" as such, as if in principal they are flawed, poor, and dysfunctional. This is ignorant. The problem isn't that schools are public, but that the far majority of public schools -- those in poorer neighborhoods with low tax revenue -- are underfunded, teachers are underpaid, and kids are in crowded classrooms. It's a public policy problem! Look at Japan or Germany -- excellent public schools, well-funded, and the overwhelmingly dominant way kids are educated. But, again, their cultures actually respect education. The problem isn't public schools or "government schools" as this guy says; it's a lack of respect for public education crystallized in poor funding and a lack of resources. I have no issue with home-schoolers, but they need to pay taxes for public institutions. That is meaning of living in a "society". You pay taxes whether you use the services or not.

[@604achilles]

Sounds like you have a collage degree where you can't make any money and are bitter and jelous about it.