re: Homeschooling and the New Administration

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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.

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No they will not and more options for home school students then ever are presenting themselves. In NC where I live once you are 16 you can attend the CC system for free until you graduate home school, which is whenever you deem it. So many homeschool students will attend local CC and get their associates degree. All the CCs in the state have articulation agreements with the UNC system. Meaning your child could transfer to UNC as a junior in college and never paid a dime for it to that point.

Universities, colleges, and community college could care less what route your child took to get to their campus. They get paid for butts in the seat and as long as your child meets the requirements to attend they will get in.

Yes, the universities will be forced to not recognize home schooled credits or lose federal funding. The flip side is COVID taught us that universities do not have a monopoly of higher learning. But if colleges rufuse to admit home schoolers, they will lose a lot of students, something they cannot afford to do.

More accurately, a response to not having legitimate education options for their child due to teacher’s unions and non-data-driven decisions with regards to Covid and the danger from and to children.

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Pandemic?

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It was exploding before the pandemic. It’s really a number of reasons why more so than just not liking what they teach in public schools. Efficiency, flexibility, one/one instruction to name a few.

The issue used to be “socialization” but many homeschool communities have filled that void in addition to extracurricular activities that all kids enjoy (sports, dancing, music, etc.)

Nobody is getting rid of homeschooling. Good lord

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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.

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Then all the donors to the large Southern state schools have to band together, create new colleges, and vet the faculty. No Diversity and Inclusion bullshite, No Critical Race Theory, No Critical Social Justice Theory, none of that. The resources are there to do this if the will is there.

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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.

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I find this unlikely, given about 85% of homeschooling parents cite religious reasons as one of their reasons for doing so and nearly all homeschool curriculum is designed by religious or politically conservative entities.

Parents should have every right to homeschool their kids, but it always has been and likely always will be an overwhelmingly conservative Christian movement.

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Parents should have every right to homeschool their kids, but it always has been and likely always will be an overwhelmingly conservative Christian movement.

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Every homeschooler I’ve met has been from a non-religious household. The super religious folk tend to put their kids in really small religious private schools, not homeschool.

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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).

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I think people are underestimating how much they’re going to go after private and Catholic schools as well. They’re not part of the teacher’s unions and I think they’ll emphasize that religion needs to be separated from science, history, and education.

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Every homeschooler I’ve met has been from a non-religious household.

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All I’m saying is the statistics make this extremely unlikely. It’s like saying you know a whole bunch of Muslims and they’re all Caucasian. It’s possible, but they represent such a statistical outlier that it’s just very unlikely. And even if your experience is accurate, it is an outlier that doesn’t change the baseline data.

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The super religious folk tend to put their kids in really small religious private schools, not homeschool.

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The overwhelming majority of “super religious” people can’t afford private school. Even Mormons, who have the highest average educational attainment and household income of any Christian demographic in the world, predominantly choose homeschool over private school. Private Christian schools in this country are largely populated by affluent families who are culturally religious at most. The truly devout tend to keep their kids at home if they don’t opt for public school.