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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Public schools are a joke and beyond the social aspect provide little value.[/quote]

This is false. [/quote]

you bet...[/quote]

Public schools are better than parochial schools and both are way better than home schooling. [/quote]

for learning?[/quote]

Yeah. Home school is so poorly regulated in a lot of places that parents can teach kids nothing or even transparently false superstitious nonsense and not be breaking any laws or suffer any consequences. Bill Gothard's "Advance Training Institute" curriculum ("wisdom booklets") used by a lot of homeschoolers for decades, for example, is a joke.  [/quote]

Homeschoolers typically score better than both public and private school students on standardized tests and there are plenty of public school students being taught false superstitious nonsense.[/quote]

This. Home-schooling has always out performed public education, and even private education most of the time.

The average home-schooled child at 18 is academically equivalent to most graduating College Graduates now.

That's why home-schooling has skyrocketed in the last decade.[/quote]

As a teacher, half of the home school students that have left me are clearly being pulled for mental health issues on the parent’s side or because parents are tired of the kid constantly getting trouble at school and doing little work.   Often times the kids [b]come back after not having any work to show when investigators come to check in the portfolio[/b].   Homeschooling has become an easy way to drop out now that kids cannot do it until age 18 in Maryland.[/quote]
You are either lying or are ignorant. In Montgomery County, homeschoolers are reviewed by either a private umbrella group or by MCPS reviewers twice a school year. If a student's course of education is found deficient, the parent has a period of time to correct the issue. A parent has to show the child is receiving " regular and thorough" instruction in 8 subjects.[/quote]

The point is that many “home schoolers” are not doing this.  They are abusing the home school system to pull their kids out of school for bad reasons.  Last spring one of kids was pulled for homeschooling after the parent went crazy in the office demanding her son only be in AP classes.  The kid was barely literate kid, did no work in class and hadn’t been in school for over a year.  He and the family member taking care of him were homeless yet they were allowed to “homeschool”.   I have seen this happen many times in my career.  Kids drop out and sign up for some BS online high school program or nothing at all.[/quote]

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