The Public Orphanage: How Public Schools Are Making Parents Irrelevant...

Educators are working harder. Parents are demading more. Policymakers and administrators are churning out program after program. So why are America's public schools in such a mess?When others ask how schools can do a better job fulfillling their mission, Eric Buehrer asserts, "It's the wrong mission!" Parents, policymakers, and educators continue to push schools toward becoming one-stop social service centers. The unintended result strips parents of their rights and responsibilities to care for their children, in effect turning our educational institutions into part-time orphanages. In this landmark book, Eric Buehrer speakes with a powerful and sane voice warning us all that unless we rethink the mission of public schools, the tragic result will be a school system and a society that neither cares for its children effectively nor educates the sufficiently.