re: Home schooling has become America’s fastest-growing form of education

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I’m amazed that there’s THAT many women that are willing to be traditional mothers. Makes me happy, honestly

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Most parents split duties. I set the curriculum, my wife helps our son during the day, then I work with him in the evenings.

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Most of the people I know who homeschooled through one of many programs, ended up staying with it.

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One of the great things about homeschooling is the near-endless options. You can mimic a typical 20-21st century public curriculum. You can use one of the pre-baked systems like A-Beka. You can go the more traditional routes like the Trivium or Quadrivium. You can mix and match . You can customize. And then there’s the Unschooling movement, which is very popular with your free spirit types.

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They sure arent teaching kids that. The average reading level in this country is 7th/8th grade, average math proficiency is 38% Your precious public schools have already failed.

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What an asinine and blanket statement to make. Both of my kids are above their grade level in nearly every subject. Their schools are not woke.

Please tell us your experience in this subject matter. How old are your kids? Are they below proficiency levels? Where do they live? Have you personally had to deal with wokeness?

ETA. Given what I said, please tell me how the public schools have failed my kids.

Parents are free to do whatever they want but home schooling leaves out one of the most important things a child learns growing up and that's independence from mom and dad. When mom is your teacher too even if you're in a homeschooling club and rotate between different moms theres still not that degree of freedom and probably one of the reasons home schooled kids always seemed to be weird and "off" to me.

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Depending on how you view that data it also the fastest shrinking.

Looks like it has fallen 15% in 3 years.

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Go back to Intro to Calc and try to learn math again.

What you are trying to say is that the change in the rate of growth is shrinking the fastest. Actual growth is demonstrated in the chart, and even if you are retarded, 51% is more than 7% and -4%>

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deliberately expose them to that? What is the value?

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to teach them how NOT to be and how to avoid certain cretins and how to handle situations involving the cretins

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John Oliver had a good segment on this. It’s super unregulated and you can basically make your children do chores and call it schoolwork like it’s 1623. It also masks children who are abused at home as school is a major place things like that are uncovered.

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Well if John Oliver says it then it must be true. What a complete BS statement with no proof and no real foundation in reality.

We homeschool our 4 kids. If mom is halfway competent and the parents are not strange then the kids will thrive in a homeschooled environment. My wife has two lucrative medical degrees but we sacrifice her salary so we can do it. It has been a huge sacrifice financially but a no-brainer as far as the kids it is producing. On my deathbed, I think it will be one of the things I am most proud of.

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RogerTheShrubber

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Cmon Shrub. I called you out. Answer my questions.

It may be the fastest growing, but a large part of a stat like that is because if 1 more kid is home schooled, that 1 kid represents a larger % increase in the # of home schooled kids than another kid going to public or private school

If there are 100 kids in public, 50 kids private, and 20 kids home schooled, 1 additional kid going to public is a a 1% increase, 1 kid going to private is a 2% increase, and 1 kid home schooled is a 5% increase. But in all three instances it's just 1 additional kid.