The proportion of American families home schooling at least 1 child grew from 5.4% to 11%

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about CA buy many states have very lax tules about homeschooling. I just got a new student last week who was “homeschooled.” He is in 2nd grade and after assessing him, he knows 3 letters names and 2 sounds. He can’t recognize his name in print. He can rote count up to about 15 and doesn’t have consistent one-to-one correspondence when counting objects. He’s below the BOY kindergarten expectations. Homeschooling can just mean that the kids aren’t enrolled in a school.

Highly unlikely in the DMV.

This is in Baltimore County, MD.

Umm...this sounds like plenty of 2nd graders this year. These kids were forced into virtual learning in Kindergarten! Nothing surprising here.

If there are plenty of 2nd graders who don't know letters or sounds and can't count to 20, blame their parents. Come on! That's what 3-4 yr olds know.

Why would you bosom the parents for public schools not providing the education they are supposed to?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh good more idiots raising idiots

Most of them went to public school so….

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about CA buy many states have very lax tules about homeschooling. I just got a new student last week who was “homeschooled.” He is in 2nd grade and after assessing him, he knows 3 letters names and 2 sounds. He can’t recognize his name in print. He can rote count up to about 15 and doesn’t have consistent one-to-one correspondence when counting objects. He’s below the BOY kindergarten expectations. Homeschooling can just mean that the kids aren’t enrolled in a school.

I know plenty of "public schooled" 4th graders who can't correctly spell Kindergarten sight words and don't know the difference between a noun and a verb. According to fcps standards, those 4th gaders would be on grade level! Just because homeschoolers may choose to focus on skills and abilities in a different order than some public school curriculums, doesn't mean the homeshooled child isn't learning. Finland doesn't even start academic learning until age 7! More than likely the skills that the homeschooled child learned from being homeschooled will pay off much greater in time than whatever benefit comes from forcing 4 and 5 years olds to learn to read and perform symbolic math in K.

“Played and watched stuff on their tablets” does not equal “may choose to focus on skills and abilities in a different order than the public school curriculum,” but good try.

P.S. We’re not in Finland.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about CA buy many states have very lax tules about homeschooling. I just got a new student last week who was “homeschooled.” He is in 2nd grade and after assessing him, he knows 3 letters names and 2 sounds. He can’t recognize his name in print. He can rote count up to about 15 and doesn’t have consistent one-to-one correspondence when counting objects. He’s below the BOY kindergarten expectations. Homeschooling can just mean that the kids aren’t enrolled in a school.

Highly unlikely in the DMV.

This is in Baltimore County, MD.

Umm...this sounds like plenty of 2nd graders this year. These kids were forced into virtual learning in Kindergarten! Nothing surprising here.

If there are plenty of 2nd graders who don't know letters or sounds and can't count to 20, blame their parents. Come on! That's what 3-4 yr olds know.

Why would you bosom the parents for public schools not providing the education they are supposed to?

You sound like the parents who have asked myself and my colleagues to potty train our students.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about CA buy many states have very lax tules about homeschooling. I just got a new student last week who was “homeschooled.” He is in 2nd grade and after assessing him, he knows 3 letters names and 2 sounds. He can’t recognize his name in print. He can rote count up to about 15 and doesn’t have consistent one-to-one correspondence when counting objects. He’s below the BOY kindergarten expectations. Homeschooling can just mean that the kids aren’t enrolled in a school.

Highly unlikely in the DMV.

This is in Baltimore County, MD.

Umm...this sounds like plenty of 2nd graders this year. These kids were forced into virtual learning in Kindergarten! Nothing surprising here.

If there are plenty of 2nd graders who don't know letters or sounds and can't count to 20, blame their parents. Come on! That's what 3-4 yr olds know.

Why would you bosom the parents for public schools not providing the education they are supposed to?

You sound like the parents who have asked myself and my colleagues to potty train our students.

*Asked my colleagues and me.

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Yeah I can’t wait to see where this goes. Not many homeschooled kids are properly homeschooled. Not to mention they fall behind socially and mentally and come across as a big weird. There have been too many instances already of parents dropping the ball with their homeschooling and kids falling behind on reading and learning in general. Plus they aren’t interacting with society on a daily basis as a normal kid.

Homeschooling should be reserved on,y for kids with health issues, learning differences, or if they are in the middle of a cornfield or the Pacific Ocean far, far away.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah I can’t wait to see where this goes. Not many homeschooled kids are properly homeschooled. Not to mention they fall behind socially and mentally and come across as a big weird. There have been too many instances already of parents dropping the ball with their homeschooling and kids falling behind on reading and learning in general. Plus they aren’t interacting with society on a daily basis as a normal kid.

Homeschooling should be reserved on,y for kids with health issues, learning differences, or if they are in the middle of a cornfield or the Pacific Ocean far, far away.

Because public schools have such a great rep!

The blatant failures and malfeasance of the public school system these past two years fueled this explosive growth.

People who sell curriculum and educational supplies could not have paid a pr/marketing firm to get this large an increase in business.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah I can’t wait to see where this goes. Not many homeschooled kids are properly homeschooled. Not to mention they fall behind socially and mentally and come across as a big weird. There have been too many instances already of parents dropping the ball with their homeschooling and kids falling behind on reading and learning in general. Plus they aren’t interacting with society on a daily basis as a normal kid.

Homeschooling should be reserved on,y for kids with health issues, learning differences, or if they are in the middle of a cornfield or the Pacific Ocean far, far away.

This analysis, contributed by someone who starts sentences with the word, "yeah", doesn't carry much weight with me.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about CA buy many states have very lax tules about homeschooling. I just got a new student last week who was “homeschooled.” He is in 2nd grade and after assessing him, he knows 3 letters names and 2 sounds. He can’t recognize his name in print. He can rote count up to about 15 and doesn’t have consistent one-to-one correspondence when counting objects. He’s below the BOY kindergarten expectations. Homeschooling can just mean that the kids aren’t enrolled in a school.

Highly unlikely in the DMV.

This is in Baltimore County, MD.

Umm...this sounds like plenty of 2nd graders this year. These kids were forced into virtual learning in Kindergarten! Nothing surprising here.

If there are plenty of 2nd graders who don't know letters or sounds and can't count to 20, blame their parents. Come on! That's what 3-4 yr olds know.

Why would you bosom the parents for public schools not providing the education they are supposed to?

You sound like the parents who have asked myself and my colleagues to potty train our students.

Same. I have parents tell me that their kids need help wiping their bottoms and that I will need to help them. Um, no.

[Anonymous]

Ha.

I hope you tell them so with a smile.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about CA buy many states have very lax tules about homeschooling. I just got a new student last week who was “homeschooled.” He is in 2nd grade and after assessing him, he knows 3 letters names and 2 sounds. He can’t recognize his name in print. He can rote count up to about 15 and doesn’t have consistent one-to-one correspondence when counting objects. He’s below the BOY kindergarten expectations. Homeschooling can just mean that the kids aren’t enrolled in a school.

Highly unlikely in the DMV.

This is in Baltimore County, MD.

Umm...this sounds like plenty of 2nd graders this year. These kids were forced into virtual learning in Kindergarten! Nothing surprising here.

If there are plenty of 2nd graders who don't know letters or sounds and can't count to 20, blame their parents. Come on! That's what 3-4 yr olds know.

You must have missed the memo. We are allowed to blame parents for poor parenting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about CA buy many states have very lax tules about homeschooling. I just got a new student last week who was “homeschooled.” He is in 2nd grade and after assessing him, he knows 3 letters names and 2 sounds. He can’t recognize his name in print. He can rote count up to about 15 and doesn’t have consistent one-to-one correspondence when counting objects. He’s below the BOY kindergarten expectations. Homeschooling can just mean that the kids aren’t enrolled in a school.

Highly unlikely in the DMV.

This is in Baltimore County, MD.

Umm...this sounds like plenty of 2nd graders this year. These kids were forced into virtual learning in Kindergarten! Nothing surprising here.

If there are plenty of 2nd graders who don't know letters or sounds and can't count to 20, blame their parents. Come on! That's what 3-4 yr olds know.

My kid is 6 and speaks and writes 3 languages.

[Anonymous]

I am much more open to the idea of homeschooling, as well as micro schools, after the pandemic, but I know one particular person who homeschools and her kids do very little academic work (she regularly admits this and laughs about it). And her kids are older elementary and middle school grades. It seems there should be some basic metrics and standards.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about CA buy many states have very lax tules about homeschooling. I just got a new student last week who was “homeschooled.” He is in 2nd grade and after assessing him, he knows 3 letters names and 2 sounds. He can’t recognize his name in print. He can rote count up to about 15 and doesn’t have consistent one-to-one correspondence when counting objects. He’s below the BOY kindergarten expectations. Homeschooling can just mean that the kids aren’t enrolled in a school.

Highly unlikely in the DMV.

This is in Baltimore County, MD.

Now do 2nd graders in Baltimore Public Schools.

[Anonymous]

I can always tell if a family are Trump supporters: they homeschool!