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Or, the teachers will thank you for keeping the teacher:child ratio lower so that they can focus on kids needing more attention.
If there are too few kids the schools will let teachers go. Funding is provided based on enrollment.
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There is a huge spectrum, but back when we homeschooled (my wife wasn't yet comfortable sending the kids back to the classroom in 2021) we did a few events where local homeschool kids got together for various activities. Tree identification/nature trail at the park, visits to historic sites, stuff like that. Of the parents I met there was some variety, but 9 times out of 10 it seemed like they were mostly doing it be…
// other aspects of homeschooling were just a fig leaf over a whole lot of religious indoctrination I was raised totally secular but I now understand that religion is about fundamentally aligning yourself to the highest aspirations ("what kind of man does G-d want me to be?") and even w/o actual faith, I am starting to think that's preferable to the current mode of "anything goes, you can be whatever you feel like an…
Can you provide any specific examples?
What I see is that in a modern secular society there is plenty of judgement against anti-social behavior. I.e. people are largely allowed to do as they please as long as it doesn't cause direct harm to others. Our laws largely reflect that.
An example would be our societies' increasing tolerance for homosexuality. It harms nobody, and yet it experienced massive stigma for centuries, at least in areas where the majority followed Abrahamic religiona.
People talk about homeschooling as if it's one single concept, but it's actually a whole bunch of very dissimilar things. There are people who homeschool because they don't agree with the government's viewpoints, people who homeschool because the public school system has failed their kids, people who homeschool because it just happens to fit their lifestyle. Those are all very different motivations. Likewise, there a…
There is a single opinion that is valid of all those different forms together: it (home schooling) will increase inequality in society in terms of amplitude, spread and flavors.
When something on the fringe gets a bit more popular it will easily have a phenomenal growth rate.
Let's say I started making computers (somehow). I sell 10 the first year, 10 the next year, but I make to the front page of HN one day and I sell 1000 computers that year.
My growth rate, would outpace every large computer maker in the US (probably) with a good margin (probably).
Yet, nearly everyone in the world would still be using and buying computers from the big vendors (probably). and few people will never know my computer exists.
Since nearly everyone attends public school growth can only come from an increased population, or a return from private school. (or a return from homeschooling)
It would be nice if they included the absolute numbers of people in each category.
Plus their own data seem to indicate that the trend may already have peaked since 2023 numbers are down.
I think a lot of parents will soon find out how much work it takes to properly homeschool their children (child).
This is sensationalist and ridicules. When something on the fringe gets a bit more popular it will easily have a phenomenal growth rate. Let's say I started making computers (somehow). I sell 10 the first year, 10 the next year, but I make to the front page of HN one day and I sell 1000 computers that year. My growth rate, would outpace every large computer maker in the US (probably) with a good margin (probably). Ye…
Homeschooling has been around a long time. A sudden and radical departure from that growth rate is notable. However, it does appear to have been more of a covid spike that has only partially subsided.
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You didn’t provide “the data” - and I doubt it backs up your specific claim here.
The data has been posted elsewhere in this post but here is some more below [0]. Why do you assume religious homeschoolers would perform worse than non-religious homeschoolers? Thanks for downvote :) [0] 78% of peer-reviewed studies on academic achievement show homeschool students perform statistically significantly better than those in institutional schools (Ray, 2017). Source and lots of other good tidbits: https:/…
People talk about homeschooling as if it's one single concept, but it's actually a whole bunch of very dissimilar things. There are people who homeschool because they don't agree with the government's viewpoints, people who homeschool because the public school system has failed their kids, people who homeschool because it just happens to fit their lifestyle. Those are all very different motivations. Likewise, there a…
>Thirteen Baltimore City high schools don't have a single student who has achieved grade-level proficiency in math. A recent news headline. The system is failing those students in such complete ways that I can't see any way in which homeschooling could be worse than that. Those kids could probably learn better math by sleeping with a textbook under their pillow and relying on osmosis. A kid could probably get better…