Jordan Peterson on rogue schools: take your kids out

seems like there i a legit, emerging market for providing homeschool options. i bet with technology and e-learning, you could make this into a profitable endeavor (or hell, in LA, create a charter school option and use that sweet, sweet public money)

There's an outstanding Online Christian homeschool out of Mississippi called NorthStar Academy. Costs are reasonable and everything is decentralized so the teachers and students can be anywhere in the world. Testing is multiple choice online or scanned documents through PDFs. Projects can be submitted through PowerPoint, scanned pdf, MP3 audio or MP4 video. Teachers have office hours and are reachable through Skype. It is so advanced it blows away the best public schools, Technology has advanced to the point that there is absolutely no reason to build brick and mortar schools anymore.

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There's an outstanding Online Christian homeschool out of Mississippi called NorthStar Academy.

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Teachers have office hours and are reachable through Skype.

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This is interesting. My only concern would be the "virtual" presence of a teacher as opposed to the "actual" presence of a teacher. Just wondering - in a psychological sense - if there is a downside. Also, I think the lack of interaction with other kids would be a concern but may be overcome with a parental game plan outside of school hours.

Jordan Peterson is a STUD

you have 2 major selling points to non-leftists that don't involve religion

1. due to the progressive feminization of school, boys are literally being left behind. these schools would offer them the chance to keep up

2. so many schools are tools of indoctrination. these schools would offer sanctuary from this

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From what I hear even a lot of Catholic schools have gone full SJW.

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This. I'm not saying any specific religion, but liberals are legendary in the "creep" method of pushing their agenda. It's imperceptibly slow, but persistent. Read the fable about the Camel's nose under the tent. When your garden is left unchecked, weeds grow.

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seems like there i a legit, emerging market for providing homeschool options. i bet with technology and e-learning, you could make this into a profitable endeavor (or hell, in LA, create a charter school option and use that sweet, sweet public money)

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There are more and more options everyday. There are currently a few homeschool hybrid programs in NO metro area (1 or 2 days in a traditional classroom format).

If you and your spouse can handle it, it is definitely a worthwhile investment. A lot of traditional school especially for the younger ages is just day care for your children. This is even more evident due to the excessive amount of HW traditional school kids are assigned.

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This is interesting. My only concern would be the "virtual" presence of a teacher as opposed to the "actual" presence of a teacher. Just wondering - in a psychological sense - if there is a downside. Also, I think the lack of interaction with other kids would be a concern but may be overcome with a parental game plan outside of school hours.

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It works very well. One of the reasons is that as a public school teacher, you have no leverage to use to ensure that a child completes his or her work or behaves beyond the artificial disciplinary system of the public school. A parent teacher has no such limitations. Allowances can be curtailed, privileges can be revoked. The single learner environment reduces distractions and allows for coursework to be completed at a much faster pace because the retail teacher or tutor is not wasting the learner's time with questions from a dozen, two, or three other learners as the wholesale teacher would.

As far as socializing, the advent of social media has really made that a mute point. The school has a student council and online forums and chat rooms that are strictly moderated...and there are always the commercial social media outlets if the kids want to socialize. In person activities such as field trips organized by local home school coops, club sports not affiliated with schools if you are a talented athlete, and church youth groups take up the slack.

As far as I can tell, there are no downsides. As a public school grad myself, I wish something like this would have been an option when I was a kid.

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