Well you DO need a school to learn to read and write. Atleast for a few years. Otherwise their won't be much learning on your own :)
And about declining school: there are does that decline them trough reasoning, and other due to being lazy...
The most important thing to teach a child, any child, and you need to get this one right: self-reflection/evaluation: what am I doing, what effect will this have?
Get that one right, and you won't need to do a lot of parenting at all after you got that one down. (Well for my parents at least.)
> There are kids who don't know reading/writing before school? o_0. I thought it's what parents are for.
There are children who don't know what books are, let alone how to read.
The UK (which starts school at a very young age) has several things in place to help. There's the charity BookTrust which gives books to parents. Early Years teaching (pre school) has lots of stuff around books and reading. There are charities and schemes aimed at improving parent literacy so that can be passed onto children; and at increasing the number of men reading to their children.
And about declining school: there are does that decline them trough reasoning, and other due to being lazy...
The most important thing to teach a child, any child, and you need to get this one right: self-reflection/evaluation: what am I doing, what effect will this have?
Get that one right, and you won't need to do a lot of parenting at all after you got that one down. (Well for my parents at least.)