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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More and more people are choosing to homeschool their children, many of whom have advanced degrees. Why? [/quote]

They believe, sometimes accurately, that they are better equipped to educate their children than schools are. I think people see things like a watered down American history curriculum or high schoolers in advanced biology who have no hands-on lab experience and think, "I can do better than that." Sometimes, they are right about that.

I was homeschooled for a year because my parents lost confidence in the school system where we lived. For me, the difference was that instead of attending 5th grade in a school that taught evolution as "one theory about where humans came from" and learning basic biology from someone with a degree in biology who wasn't teaching anyone other than me and reading books with someone who in the rest of his professional life was a literature professor. The main arguments I had against that arrangement (then and now) was that neither one of them had any actual training in elementary education, which is important when teaching elementary students, but it worked well for the year it took them to move to a district they felt better about.

I did not want to homeschool and my experience of the pandemic reinforced that that's not a kind of parenting I enjoy at all. I *can* do it, but it wasn't any fun for me and I'm sure my kids could tell. I'd rather them be educated by someone who wants to be there.[/quote]

All teachers LOVE their jobs. And all students report being happy going to school.[/quote]

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