Better question: Why do many EDUCATED people choose to homeschool?

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Anonymous wrote:OP asked why many people with advanced degrees homeschool, not why all people who have advanced degrees and homeschool do it. There are just as many bad reasons why parents with advanced degrees think they should do it as parents who barely graduated HS.

Overconfidence is common to both groups. Blanket contempt for people with education degrees is another shared trait.

I think you'd be surprised by how many homeschoolers are former teachers with ed degrees.

Overestimating reading ability on DCUM is my kryptonite.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s obvious to me why so many want to or do homeschool kids who would otherwise be in public school. The question in the dmv is: if you can afford private and there are so many schools to choose from, why would you homeschool if not to accommodate a high level sport or parental travel?

I don't think there are actually that many options. There are super expensive, super exclusive private schools. Some religious schools. And then some mediocre secular private schools. I'm not aware of any high quality, affordable, secular options.

Maybe if all the people homeschooling got decent jobs your kids could attend the good private schools. I mean…just admit that you homeschool because you don’t have money.

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Anonymous wrote:More and more people are choosing to homeschool their children, many of whom have advanced degrees. Why?

BS

How many parents can teach AP Chem?

Troll somewhere else.

Most homeschools are rw religious nutbags.

How important is AP chemistry if you have zero interest?

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Anonymous[b wrote:]More and more people are choosing to homeschool their children, many of whom have advanced degrees. Why?

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are you really that stupid that you have to ask? Google it!

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Anonymous wrote:Many have realized they can provide a better education than their local public schools. Many elite universities look favorably upon homeschoolers (provided they’ve had a rigorous education, which can be done in many formats these days).

Every single home schooling family I know did it for the above reason, not for religion, and for the cases I know about the students ended up very well educated indeed with admits to Cambridge (UK), UVa Nursing, VT Engineering, and T20 US universities.

Why send your kids to college? Why not continue to homeschool?

My own traditionally-schooled kid may skip college because of multiple tech job offers with some of the hottest AI companies (including arguably the hottest right now).

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I know one highly-educated parent who homeschooled several kids to a high level of achievement. The father was military and they moved about a lot, so it made sense.

Then I know an Ivy-educated couple who "homeschooled" their kid because they were in denial of ADHD and dyslexia, and claimed the school system was the problem. The poor kid spent an entire childhood without formal diagnoses or treatment. The kid ended up requesting an evaluation as an adult, but the damage had been done - no learning stuck apart from very basic math and reading. I am persuaded that this person could have achieved so much more with early intervention. It's very sad.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many have realized they can provide a better education than their local public schools. Many elite universities look favorably upon homeschoolers (provided they’ve had a rigorous education, which can be done in many formats these days).

Every single home schooling family I know did it for the above reason, not for religion, and for the cases I know about the students ended up very well educated indeed with admits to Cambridge (UK), UVa Nursing, VT Engineering, and T20 US universities.

Why send your kids to college? Why not continue to homeschool?

My own traditionally-schooled kid may skip college because of multiple tech job offers with some of the hottest AI companies (including arguably the hottest right now).

Be careful with that. When there's an inevitable downturn, jobs will start asking for degrees, just because there will be too many candidates for the same post. I've seen this happen at every generation. This might happen when your child is 30, or 40, ie: an age where going back to school is less of an option (with a family to support). Just FYI.

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Anonymous wrote:I know one highly-educated parent who homeschooled several kids to a high level of achievement. The father was military and they moved about a lot, so it made sense.

Then I know an Ivy-educated couple who "homeschooled" their kid because they were in denial of ADHD and dyslexia, and claimed the school system was the problem. The poor kid spent an entire childhood without formal diagnoses or treatment. The kid ended up requesting an evaluation as an adult, but the damage had been done - no learning stuck apart from very basic math and reading. I am persuaded that this person could have achieved so much more with early intervention. It's very sad.

I used to work in a big 3 type school. One student clearly had ADHD, and I was her tutor. Mother told me she'll be okay, she doesn't have to know anything to succeed in life. I shrugged my shoulders and continued tutoring.

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Anonymous wrote:Bullying, learning differences, mental health

This.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many have realized they can provide a better education than their local public schools. Many elite universities look favorably upon homeschoolers (provided they’ve had a rigorous education, which can be done in many formats these days).

Every single home schooling family I know did it for the above reason, not for religion, and for the cases I know about the students ended up very well educated indeed with admits to Cambridge (UK), UVa Nursing, VT Engineering, and T20 US universities.

Why send your kids to college? Why not continue to homeschool?

My own traditionally-schooled kid may skip college because of multiple tech job offers with some of the hottest AI companies (including arguably the hottest right now).

Be careful with that. When there's an inevitable downturn, jobs will start asking for degrees, just because there will be too many candidates for the same post. I've seen this happen at every generation. This might happen when your child is 30, or 40, ie: an age where going back to school is less of an option (with a family to support). Just FYI.

Possible, but there is a somewhat fundamental shift happening in the workplace. The WSJ just ran a big article today about yet another company (Deloitte) looking for skills certifications vs college degrees. Unless college becomes much more affordable and/or more adaptive, more and more companies will move this way.

I mean, both companies trying to hire my kid have between 20% - 50% of employees without college degrees…yeah some are dropouts but many skipped entirely. My kid will take a Gap year from a Top 5 college to leave open the option.

One could say there is a tech downturn right now…so if you have the skills you have the skills.

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Anonymous wrote:More and more people are choosing to homeschool their children, many of whom have advanced degrees. Why?

1.Religious indoctrination
2. Mental health issues
3. Learning disabilities
4. Gifted abilities
5. Controlling parents
6. Hands on parenting
7. Fear of guns, drugs, sexual assaults
8. Child actors, musicians, athletes etc
9. Physical disabilities
10.Parents just trying to do what seems right to them.

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I was a physician before I had kids. I homeschool my oldest and will eventually homeschool my two youngest children. My oldest is only in kindergarten, but we will homeschool until 8th grade.

We are zoned for a poorly rated school in FCPS. My son reads well, is learning grammar, spelling, Latin, doing second grade math, etc. I doubt the local public school could do a better job of educating him.

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Anonymous wrote:More and more people are choosing to homeschool their children, many of whom have advanced degrees. Why?

1.Religious indoctrination
2. Mental health issues
3. Learning disabilities
4. Gifted abilities
5. Controlling parents
6. Hands on parenting
7. Fear of guns, drugs, sexual assaults
8. Child actors, musicians, athletes etc
9. Physical disabilities
10.Parents just trying to do what seems right to them.

Two comments:

1. You left out not having money for a decent private school; and

2. I know one family with a world class musician…while what they are doing might be considered homeschooling, they would never describe it as that. They educate how they have to educate to accommodate their kid’s schedule, but they do not call themselves nor identify with homeschoolers.

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Anonymous wrote:I was a physician before I had kids. I homeschool my oldest and will eventually homeschool my two youngest children. My oldest is only in kindergarten, but we will homeschool until 8th grade.

We are zoned for a poorly rated school in FCPS. My son reads well, is learning grammar, spelling, Latin, doing second grade math, etc. I doubt the local public school could do a better job of educating him.

Are you foreign? Why do you live in an area zoned for a poor school, especially as a former physician?

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All the homeschool moms I know truly did it because of control issues. Or they couldn’t get their sh*t together enough in the mornings to get their kids to school on time.