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Everyday I think more and more about homeschooling my son and daughter. In business, you should never outsource your core competency. I wonder if I really should be outsourcing the raising of my kids,that I love most in the world (of course I love my husband too).
If they show any aptitude or creative spark in some area that won't be well-served in the industrial education system, do it.
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The American public school system is a veritable penal colony proxy. My experience with math was much the same. As someone on the tail end of the Bell curve and for whom such a monolithic system was a poor fit, I wasted over a dozen years of my life there, in unfortunately what were my most formative years. Luckily my siblings are correcting that with their children.
I know someone who got their first B in band because that teacher didn't think that anyone should get all As. Nevermind how hard she worked, nobody was allowed to get all As if that teacher could help it. She cried, and I am still pissed about it to this day. What an awful person.
Turns out in order to get an A in "Absolute Beginner's Crash Course In [Language]" you had to be fluent. :-\
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I wish we could. We have the possibility, but i have no idea where to start teaching school material. And of course I'm terrified of the social aspect.
Aren't there essentially School-Material-As-A-Service companies that provide all the stuff to you? I cannot imagine that every homeschooling parent starts building their own study plans and comes up with their own teaching concepts etc. Regarding the social aspect, do you mean your children not getting enough social interaction with other children of the same age, or how home schooling is viewed socially?
I laughed out loud! This is a great term! And yes, these absolutely exist and are more popular now than ever!
Everyday I think more and more about homeschooling my son and daughter. In business, you should never outsource your core competency. I wonder if I really should be outsourcing the raising of my kids,that I love most in the world (of course I love my husband too).
Teacher's core competency is teaching. They study it for years, practice it for years, in a system tuned over time. You have never done it before. You really think you can do better?
You're overstating most teachers' competency, not to mention, most of grade school is pretty damn basic... Most commentators on this site are more educated than the typical teacher.
Not to mention, the difference between teaching a class of 30 versus only 1-3 children.
> Researchers have the answer According to the article they don't "have the answer" at all - they have a couple of theories: > The study's authors say it's possible that, in reading, teachers unconsciously reward students exhibiting traditionally female behaviour, such as quietness and neatness, which make teaching easier for the teachers. Another theory is that inflated grades in mathematics are a way of trying to e…
> She adds that although other European countries also grade girls more generously than boys, the reasons for this could differ from place to place and won't necessarily mirror those in Italy.
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> D.Ed. is Director of High School Outreach at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education In 2017, FIRE was listed as one of the sponsors of the conservative campus group Turning Point USA's FIRE has received major funding from groups which primarily support conservative and libertarian causes ok... I can also find books from the other end of the spectrum saying the opposite If that's your only issue find a sc…
Your statement sums up the problem nicely.
Schools are places children go to get an unbiased education.
Politics have no place in schools.
Speculatively, even things as simple as boys being more likely to turn an assignment in late could contribute to results like this. How conceivable is it that this is just the effect of gender-aligned behavior differences?
The original title is misleading, as the paper doesn't answer "why". > The researchers then looked whether factors, such as the type of school and the size and gender make-up of classes, were driving the gender grade gap. > They also investigated whether characteristics of teachers themselves, such as how senior or experienced they were and whether they were male or female, helped explain girls' more generous grades.…
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I want my kids infused with my "deep biases," and not the deep biases of a corrupt public school system, thank you. Homeschooling is a feature, not a bug.
You're free to want what you want, it doesn't make it an objective positive thing > corrupt In what way ?
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/im-former-teac...
https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/feqtuo/te...
Parents send their kids to school to get an education, not be pushed propaganda.