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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am much more open to the idea of homeschooling, as well as micro schools, after the pandemic, but I know one particular person who homeschools and her kids do very little academic work (she regularly admits this and laughs about it). And her kids are older elementary and middle school grades. It seems there should be some basic metrics and standards.[/quote]

It's possible that she thinks this is okay because this tracks with a lot of ideas about how schooling should be. In elementary in public elementary, the big thing right now is "learning how to think, not what to think." So that means very little content and some BS "skills" ideas like find the main idea, because hey, who needs to learn facts when you can google everything?

In most states there are basic metrics. In Virginia homeschooled kids have to get over I think the 24th percentile on a standardized test. (Which means that unless a homeschooler is cheating (very possible), all the kids who are scoring at or below the 24th percentile are in public school.)[/quote]

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