Homeschooling and the New Administration

Agree. While covid spurred it somewhat, the totalitarians will say that virtual is the answer. Some schools have gone so far as to say parents cannot watch/oversee the virtual lessons.

So glad we have finished our homeschooling journey under president Trump.

The truth of the matter is that there are many, many liberals homeschooling these days. They blame the very school system they insisted on creating.

Perhaps they will react when they are forced to put their darlings back in state schools. Perhaps it will finally dawn on them what they have voted for. And they will have no one to blame but themselves and the America-haters they voted into office.

Keep doing what you're doing. Give your kids that solid, essential foundation.

Homeschooling doesn't help to support the cancer on our education system that is the teachers' unions so enjoy it while you can.

This is great but I imagine universities are going to create a larger barrier to entry for homeschooled students. They're going to use every tool at their disposal to stamp out any wrong think.

Where is Harvey Updyke when you need him?



This is one tree I’d like to see poisoned at the roots:

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Plus parents can set the curriculum from a good assortment of already created curriculums available through various channels

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Check those channels if you're worried. Thats one way for it to still be subverted

I have a gut feeling homeschooling will be throttled under the new administration.

They'll claim it is evidence of privilege and use that as justification to put up massive barriers to entry, e.g. they'll "mark" homeschoolers so that participating in society will be difficult (they'll take away credentials, or only offer certain credentials needed to get jobs to those that come from the government-sanctioned public schooling system).

Nobody is getting rid of homeschooling. Good lord

The Democrats are certainly coming for homeschooling.

I believe it was a Harvard professor who compared it to child abuse last year?Universities are where they get most of their ideas.

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Homeschooling is exploding over the country and for good reason.

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I'm a relatively competent user of the internet but can't find much data to support this. The COVID impact will make current numbers irrelevant for analysis - and it makes sense to me that quite a few people may decide to go full homeschooling after doing some form of it during the pandemic. Seems it'd take a year or two to have them level back out to see where we are.

Some slightly recent data:
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The number of children being homeschooled grew 28.9% between 1999 and 2003, 37.6% between 2003 and 2007, and 17.4% between 2007 and 2011-2012. Between 2011-2012 and 2015-2016, the number of children being homeschooled deceased by 4.5%. The highest rate of homeschool growth occurred between 2003 and 2007.

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Also see that you don't necessarily have to report that you're homeschooling, so any numbers will have a margin of error.

I read the reason.com article about this, and there's a bit of data but it skews into an opinion piece.

I think homeschooling is fine as long as there's a way to measure children are being prepared to a reasonable educational level. I also think quality public education is critical. Many people in single head-of-household or families that need to work two jobs need public school options.

And challenges to homeschooling would most likely be at the state level and not federal, no? There's no record I can find of Cardona saying anything hostile towards home schooling.