Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?

COVID is another factor. Anecdotal of course, but I've only met two home schooled families since moving to our present city 3 years ago, and one of them started out of necessity during the pandemic and found that it worked well and so never went back -- but they're a one income family so one parent has the time (the only way it works, IMO, unless you co-op with another family or two, which can work if you're friends). I must say I was very impressed with their kids.

Math terms like "whole number" are not defined in terms of the behavior of computer programming languages.

In math, not only are 3.0 and 3 the same thing, but also, so is 2.9999999...

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> They weren't looking to see if you knew the arithmetic with that question, they wanted you to show you understood what they meant by "whole number" and understand you can't just leave arbitrary precision after rounding.

Can you show any math reference that supports this viewpoint? This goes against my college mathematics training.

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> You didn't give the right answer

According to mathematics, 3.0 and 3 are the same thing (and so is the Roman numeral III, and so on.) So is 6/2.

It is deeply and profoundly incorrect to treat an answer as incorrect because the mantissa was written out.

The teacher is simply incorrect, as are you.

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> Just acknowledge you didn't understand what they were looking for and do better next time.

If a teacher asks "what is the country north of Austria," in an English speaking school, and you write "Germany," and the teacher says "no, it's Allemande," they're just incorrect. It doesn't matter if the teacher is French. There are only two ways to look at this: either the correct answer is in the language of the school, or any international answer is acceptable.

A normal person would say "oh, ha ha, Germany and Allemande are the same place, let's just move forwards."

A person interested in defeating and winning, instead of teaching, might demand that the answer come in in some arbitrary incorrect format that they expected. That's a bad teacher who doesn't need to be listened to.

Yes, we know there's also some kid who is explaining to just do as teacher instructs, but no, we're there to learn information, not to learn to obey.

I got threatened with suspension on protest once. It was about the meaning of a word, but still.

Luckily, I'm a university brat, so I just waited a couple days until my dad was keeping me at his office, then I wandered down the hall, and I asked some professors for a detailed and referenced way to push back. I brought candy and tums, because that's what professors want from children who can't bring beer.

About a week later, I went in with a 30 page computer printed essay. As a nine year old. It had six phone numbers in the back, four to PhDs, which could be called for further detail if needed. It was addressed to both the teacher and the principal.

An opening note was "please look into how Marilyn vos Savant was treated when she explained the Monty Hall problem, when considering whether teachers are permitted to threaten students for disagreeing politely. Are you really so afraid of being incorrect?," written by an internationally renowned mathematician.

I was carrying an etymological breakdown that to this day I can barely read, stretching all the way back to the hypothetical proto-indo-european roots.

Professors don't like kids being threatened.

I did not hear about that teacher doing that again while I was in that school.

It’s also debatable how over diagnosed ADHD is. The diagnosis criteria has certainly changed, but current literature estimates about 6% adults are believed to some degree of ADHD [1]—though many are high functioning and find ways to cope with varying degrees of success and difficulty.

0. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjourn...

1. https://chadd.org/about-adhd/general-prevalence-adults/