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

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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.

Can you illuminate us with your exposure to homeschooled children, or a few empirical studies to back up your stereotypes?

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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.

I know we're not in Finland. Finland ranks 1st and 2nd in math and reading scores. The US ranks 33rd. Maybe there's something to be learned from them anyway.

I believe our scores for Whites and Asians are comparable to the Scandinavian countries. (At least before Common Core.) Statistics measuring demographic difference and requires other solutions (not copying Finland.)

[Anonymous]

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.

boy do I have the news for you about public schooled kids.

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I think that with the exception of a few people who are really super rara about homeschooling a lot of times the decision to homeschool is when you take year by year or even kid by kid.

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One of my good friends was home schooling during the pandemic for health reasons. She said she is sending one if her kids back to school asap and the other kids back next year. She was concerned that she was holding her kids back and didn't want to be the reason they were struggling

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If she’s a screw up then that’s understandable.

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Anonymous wrote:I was homeschooling my kids before it was cool. Maybe now it will be more accepted and less stereotyped?

Depends on why you do it.

Religious/political reasons?