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Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education

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Post by The_Colonel »

umvi wrote: post #659
pkulak wrote: post #611

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> anything goes, you can be whatever you feel like and there's no judgement of any of your actions Wow, what a terrible take. If anyone needs religion to live a moral life, I'm glad they have found it and hope they never lose it. I'm judged by my peers, my family, my community, and my country. But even if I wasn't, I would know what's right and what's wrong. Moreover, I guess it's good that amoral people can find eth…

> But even if I wasn't, I would know what's right and what's wrong. Is it right or wrong to act on homosexual urges? Is it right or wrong to use abortion as a form of birth control? Have your answers to those questions remained consistent your entire life or did they change at exactly the same time they changed for the rest of western society ~20 years ago? If your moral stance has been unwavering, kudos. Otherwise,…

All of these (apart from abortion as birth control which is IMHO complicated) are very black & white issues.

But I don't see a problem when people change their opinions during their lifetime, with new experiences and better understanding. Much better than blindly following some specific dogma.

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Post by snvzz »

The alternative is to have your kid waste time in a classroom where classes are optimized to target either the stupidest or least interested in learning kid, whichever performs lowest.

They call it "No child left behind", i.e. every child left behind.

I doubt even John Taylor Gatto expected mass education to get this bad.

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Post by n3storm »

watwut wrote: post #339
chasd00 wrote: post #250

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Montessori was invented specifically for bottom income special needs kids.

Yes, but that is not how it is used today. Today it is used primary by wealthy heavily invested families.

and vaccine negationists families from my experience.

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Post by qwerty456127 »

Hopefully the process will ultimately lead to education becoming a pure free market with no admission requitrements: just choose your provider, pay the competitive price they charge and get the knowledge remotely through whatever tech they chose to build on, wherever in the world you are.

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Post by phreeza »

The headline makes no sense, comparing the absolute size ("fringe") to a rate of change ("fastest-growing"). This is particularly egregious when you look at the actual article because it is talking about relative growth over time, so being small/at the fringes actually makes it easier to achieve fast growth.

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Post by tomrod »

kulahan wrote: post #525
kelnos wrote: post #515

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I was raised very Catholic (and decided by my early teens that I didn't believe in any of it), and I completely disagree with your conclusion. Organized religion (at least Christianity) absolutely is about deep fear. "Do this or you'll go to hell!" "Believe this or you'll go to hell!" Repeat ad infinitum. I won't deny that some churches (as in, specific people, not the system as a whole) can do good in the world; one…

You've misunderstood Catholicism. The entire reason Christianity is so radical is because it's the first major religion of purely love. There is no need to sacrifice anyone, you get infinite forgiveness, so long as you truly repent, and nearly every facet of Catholicism is based around the idea of love. A fine example is the incredibly important Corinthians 13:13: And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But…

Introspection can be hard. It's worthwhile to spend time understanding and even incorporating external critique for improvement of self and community.

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Post by michaelhoney »

The thing that worries me about this is that it will further polarise the US. A public education can bring kids from different parts of society together. If homeschooling continues, you’ll further stratify your society. You’ll have a bunch of kids actualising themselves, sure: but you’ll also get a bunch of kids being deliberately kept ignorant.

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Post by draw_down »

dmurray wrote: post #287
brightball wrote: post #7

When I moved into my current house about 10 years ago, the family next door home schooled. I'd never known any home schoolers before and definitely had some notions about how terrible it must be until I learned about it. This family was part of a home school group with other families. The kids went to different houses every day and had an instructor focus on 1 subject for half of the day, mixed in with free time, dep…

At what point does this become not "homeschool", but "school, with different licensing requirements for the teachers"? It doesn't seem right to discuss this setup in the same breath as children schooled by their own parent.

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Post by alistairSH »

dheerajvs wrote: post #747
alistairSH wrote: post #219

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I love that when a parent tells a kid that Jesus rode a velociraptor it's "teaching" but when a school tells a kid the universe probably started with a big bang, it's "indoctrination".

India is facing a different kind of indoctrination by state education — masquerading mythology as science: https://www.deccanherald.com/india/scientists-flag-ncerts-mi... I definitely wouldn't want this kind of "regulated" education for children.

Not sure worse… that, or Florida’s “slavery was good for blacks” crap.
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