I like hearing the stories of your life mate.

Male teachers are disappearing worldwide. If a male dislikes school, why would he ever want to stay in school and become a teacher- to become the rooster in the henhouse?

Many solutions have ben suggested- none of them work.

Home schooling is a fad promoted by the kind of anti-progressive, narrowly evangelical Christians who support Trump.
But kids need to be around a pile of other kids, to learn social awareness and the key skill of getting on with people.

Kids can still have interaction with others in home schooling groups.

Hi all,

I don't haunt forums all the time, so I've got a bit of catching up to do.

@ ALTRAV, Sunday, 30 December 2018 8:02:09 PM
"I bought my first plane, a Cessna 150 straight back..." Yes, a lovely little aeroplane. I like them. It's a good thing you don't have it now. I was told a few years back that CASA issued an AD on them requiring all fuselage skin be removed to inspect for internal corrosion on formers. That would cost an enormous amount of money. Probably made all old C150s hangar queens.

"C172 straight back (back to manual flaps) - Got bored with that..." Total agreement. I always preferred manual flaps too. You get much finer control at critical times. I can understand how you could get bored. I always thought that C172s were the most boring aircraft ever built. Hard to believe it's the world's most produced aircraft of all time - 44,000 and still in manufacture.

Rotorway helicopters - I'd never heard of them. I had to go Wikipedia for those. What was the problem? Wouldn't CASA give you certification? What were your plans for them? The only helicopter I've been in is ADF Army CH-47D Chinook. Fabulous aircraft. I even got to do the sit on the back ramp ride, with harness of course. If I'd been a younger man I would have enlisted immediately - loved it.

"Totally disgusted with this country..." That pretty much sums up my feelings too. Australia is so backward it's not funny. We don't even manufacture cars. Manufacturing of anything apart from basic box forms is non existent.

"World's best practice", is a euphemism for regressive left ideology. As soon as you hear those words, run for the hills.

@ Canem Malum, Monday, 31 December 2018 5:06:42 AM
"Historically Oz has had great innovators..." You're not wrong mate. In my own lifetime I've witnessed the disintegration of all that was great in Australia. All the stuff the pioneers built, mostly with hand tools, horses and oxen, and don't forget dynamite. They innovated everything. Now the modern idiots just play with toy telephones and think they're technological wizards.

If I was a younger man I wouldn't be staying here. Eastern Europe seems inviting to me. Poland or eastern Ukraine. At least they manufacture things there. A man could have a very good hard working life. And did I mention that the babes are simply gorgeous. The people take a very dim view of feminism and Marxism. They've had a gutful of communism and state slavery. Marx is a filthy four letter word in those places.

Boys will be getting a better STEM education over there. Give them time and these people are going to be world beaters - lead by schooling boys into men.

That's all I've got time for today, I'll catch up more tomorrow.

Home Schooling won't help boys who need active strong young men to test them out and play all kinds of games from chess to footy etc with them