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Section I: Statement of the Problem and Review of the Literature

Clint (1990) reports that a considerable segment of American society is extremely dissatisfied with the modern educational system. Indeed, the dissatisfaction is sufficiently strong that over one million parents have chosen to home school and millions more have elected to pull their children out of the public schools and put them in private schools (Schmidt, 1989).

Several reasons have been offered to explain this dissatisfaction. In this regard, U.S. News & World Report (December 9, 1991) states:

A steady stream of reports from the nation's classrooms about drugs, violence, bureaucratic bloat and ill-educated students is eroding public confidence in the American tradition of common schooling. . .(p.66)

Also, Marshner (1984) has listed several reasons parents are sufficiently disillusioned with public education so as to consider private school or home school. These include: (1) failure of the school to support parental rights in schooling and the elimination of majority

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e family/community members are providers of learning that are of benefit to the educational system, there needs to be a coordination of social agencies, child advocacy groups and educational organizations if the child is to be maximally nurtured. These premises will be used to arrive at the conclusion that the American system of education can no longer view its role as isolated form the rest of the community; rather, the role must be seen as one in which maximal education results from participation of educators, children, parents, and relevant community members. Argument The first premise states that family and community members have essential teachers for children which can be conveyed through the educational system. This premise may be considered valid for several reasons. First, the notion that children learn form their parents and communities has been documented in a wide variety of research (see: Papalia & Olds, 1992). Second, the notion that what parents and community members have to teach can be delivered in an educational setting has also been documented through diverse programs which included parents and community members. For example, Lindle (1994) reviewed the efforts of the Kentucky school system to increase f
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