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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Evangelical families make up the homeschoolers in our area.[/quote]

Might be true someplace.

All the homeschool families we know in Fairfax County are non-religious and started homeschooling after seeing what a mess FCPS is. They use mainstream materials, teach evolution and science, and their kids are having no problems with obtaining good college admissions. So far, one has a BSN from UVa with an RN. Another is studying engineering. [/quote]

The common theme...they are all poor.

Nobody with $.02 homeschools unless they have an elite athlete/musician/actor or like some billionaire I know wanted to sail the world on his 200 foot yacht for a year and hired two teachers to tag along to teach his kids (and then promptly re-enrolled them in a private school when back on dry land).[/quote]

I started homeschooling because our school options were not great.  I could pick from either terrible public school (as in under 75% of the kids are not at grade level, and 80% low income) or mediocre privates.  I looked at all of the private options, including catholic and they were unimpressive and used a ton of Ed tech.  I would still end up having to spend the afternoons supplementing material to provide what I feel is necessary for a well-rounded education and challenge. I got tired of doing this. Now my child is getting an excellent education AND we have the afternoons to spend cooking, doing sports, music, and freely playing.  [/quote]

Which begs the question...why do you live in such a shitty area?  It's not because you are rich and just decided to "slum it", right?

Where I live, the public schools aren't great but aren't terrible either, but you have the choice of like 6 private schools within 3 miles, a number of which rank in the top 100 in the country.

What makes you think your child is getting an excellent education...because you teach it?[/quote]

Because anyone with a college degree in anything at all can teach 1-2 bright children so much more than any public or private elementary teacher teaching a classroom full of kids, who mostly will skew average or below average, with at least a handful with behavioral issues. It does take a lot of time and effort to plan and you have to be disciplined.  A dedicated parent with kids that want to learn, can accomplish a lot at home. We homeschooled our 3rd and 4th grader a year and a half full time through Covid. They are smart kids, but we had no idea how much they were capable of and how little they actually did at school all day. We continued to supplement when they went to back school.  They had completed math through high school geometry by the time they were done with 6th grade. [/quote]

Top private schools don’t have any discipline problems nor behavioral issues…literally kids are counseled out for this.

I see little to no value to a kid completing geometry by 6th grade unless they are testing at Einstein levels…meaning they are 1 in a million.[/quote]

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