is private school like giving your kid organic fruit?
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Anonymous
Given what we know about how accommodating anxiety reinforces anxiety this is a really good example of private schools doing something that seems nice on the surface but actually is hurting the child. I would be so angry if a school prioritized my kid’s spelling test score over their mental health and provided special education accommodations without any kind of process to protect my rights. I say this as a parent who has kids in private school. |
Anonymous
I had the same reaction. Homeschool is Spirit Airlines. Many parents doing it didn't even go to college. |
Anonymous
I’ve attended many homeschool groups, summer camps, etc and one of my favorite parts is the family presentation. Each week a family takes 5 minutes to talk about their family, work, family interests, a recent vacation, etc. Most of the kid’s parents I’ve met are doctors, lawyers, business owners, feds, or otherwise introduced their job as classified. More often than not at least 1 parent attended college, usually it was both parents. I recognize this is anecdotal data, but IME the families that choose homeschool are not the uneducated lowlife people you seem to think they are. |
Anonymous
I don't know where you live, but where I live many of the parents who homeschool did not go to college. I would be interested in seeing a statistic. I never called them " lowlifes"...you did. Many simply aren't adequately educated to be teaching. |
Anonymous
So he was in FCPS/LCPS, or APS until high school and is starting private in 9th, but he has to retake Algebra 1? That seems odd. Did he take Algebra 1 in 7th or 8th in public? |
Anonymous
+1 This has been my experience as well. Those that I know personally who homeschool do it either for religious reasons, they live in a terrible school district or a combination of the two. The influencer types who homeschool that have made it through my algorithm live in LA, TX, and AL. |
Anonymous
While that might be true of many families who homeschool, it’s irrelevant to an individual family’s decision to homeschool. When deciding whether or not to homeschool, I didn’t need to look at statistics to figure out the likelihood that my kids would have a college educated teacher. I knew they would. Similarly, while I knew that many homeschoolers have Evangelical beliefs, I didn’t need to worry about whether my kids’ teacher would. |
Anonymous
| "Approximately 27% of parents who homeschool their children hold a bachelor's degree or higher. A further 33% have some college education, while 29% have a high school diploma or GED, and 11% have less than a high school education, according to Education Next. This educational profile is similar to that of public-school parents, where around 29% hold a bachelor's degree and 9% didn't finish high school, according to the same study." |
Anonymous
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It's not a bad analogy.
We have one kid in private and in one in public. They're different kids with different needs. Our DC in private would do okay in public, but we want better than "okay" and we can afford it. I went to private, my sister went to public. I have done much better—she did better academically, but has been far less prepared for the world. I was more ambitious, analytical and self-reliant—I had good peers, who have all done well, and an expectation I'd excel. I would have done "fine" like my sister, but I'm glad I went to private and I'm glad we can afford to send our older to private, and if our younger needs it, we'll go to. |
Anonymous
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Analogy sounds about right. There are kids who will do better in private, some who will do better in public, and then some who will do well regardless of where they go.
Similarly, organic food will benefit some more than others, the genetic makeup and many other factors come into play in the whole equation. |
Anonymous
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Nope. For my family private school was like giving my children the key to finally open the door they were never able to access due to learning challenges.
The translation is that I would’ve never chosen a private school education for my children if they were able to be served properly in our local public schools. So, yes, private school is giving my children. Something better… But not better because it is more expensive, better because it made the education accessible. |
Anonymous
This trope is so tired and facile, especially in our area. Many homeschooled kids take advanced classes online or at a coop and homeschool for various reasons, including to accommodate travel and sports training. One of my daughters is a rising junior and is taking AP and college classes online, and spent all summer reading Tolstoy novels independently. No one is sitting at a table wearing a bonnet and learning how to submit. |
Anonymous
No one but you mentioned bonnets. The question is did you graduate from college? |
Anonymous
Are they the majority of the homeschooled population? |
Anonymous
DP You sound unhinged. |