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Book Name : RICH KID SMART KID 

Author : Robert T.Kiyosaki

Source Place : Chapter Six
       How  Many Winning Formulas Will  Your Child Need? 

 Content :

 Before the below articles, the author describe the news/scandal relevant to a school's principle misguide the children to cheat during tests in mid-May and give further discussion.

Why Private Schools and Home Schooling Are Increasing

     Kids aren't the only ones who realize they're being cheated out of an important phase of education. For years home schooling was considered a fringe group of radical parents. Today more and more parents are taking their kids out of school and educating them at home. It has been reported that the home schooling movement increased by 15 percent per year. Many people said that children could not get a good education at home. Yet this year, the first year of the new millennium, home schoolers won the national spelling contest. Charter schools are boldly rapidly gaining in numbers. In other words, parents are taking back from the government the responsibility of educating their children.

    A great resource for these parents is the Web site www.homeschool.com. Established by Rebecca Kochenderfer, this site has a wealth of information for all parents. Rebecca shares our mission to help parents better prepare their children for the world they face.  

 My Smart Dad's Concerns

     Years ago my schoolteacher dad tried to change the system. He was aware that different children had different geniuses. He was also aware that the system was a "one size fits all" type of system, which was good for about 30 percent of the kids and horrible for all the others. He often said, "The system is worse than a dinosaur. At least dinosaurs became extinct...But the school system will not die. That is why it is worse than a dinosaur. The educational system is more like an alligator, a reptile that survived even after the dinosaurs died off." He went on to say, "The reason the school system doesn't change is that it is not a system that is designed to change. It is a system that is designed to survive."

    Most of us know that the teachers are doing the best they can to educate children. Then the problems is, the teachers are working withing a system that is designed not to change. It is a system designed for survival. It is a system that will drug kids to slow them down rather change by speeding up. Then, after giving the drugs to the active kids, they go on to say to the same kids,"Don't do drugs." To me, that is one tough system. It is the only business I know that fails to give its customers what they want and then blames them for its failures. Instead of saying we as a system are boring, they say, "Your child has a learning deficiency." As I said, it is the only business that blames the customers for its own failures.

To be continued...