Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: Public schools are a joke and beyond the social aspect provide little value.
This is false.
you bet...
Public schools are better than parochial schools and both are way better than home schooling.
for learning?
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.
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.
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.
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 come back after not having any work to show when investigators come to check in the portfolio. Homeschooling has become an easy way to drop out now that kids cannot do it until age 18 in Maryland.
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.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: Public schools are a joke and beyond the social aspect provide little value.
This is false.
you bet...
Public schools are better than parochial schools and both are way better than home schooling.
for learning?
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.
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.
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.
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 come back after not having any work to show when investigators come to check in the portfolio. Homeschooling has become an easy way to drop out now that kids cannot do it until age 18 in Maryland.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yes, time for school choice in all 50 states.
Oh sure honey. Take your 10k and apply it to our private school.
Of course our private will just raise tuition another 10k…
I’m sure private schools would love it if families who might apply for financial aid already had 10k covered by an alternate source. While $10,000 in vouchers wouldn’t allow everyone to apply, it would certainly increase the pool of qualified applicants, including qualified applicants who are diverse in various ways. I don’t see why they would raise tuition, especially if voucher money replaced some of their financial aid budget.
Umm, because private schools are private businesses whose primarily goal is maximizing profits? Put another way, I don't see why they wouldn't raise tuition in that scenario. Maybe not by the full $10k, and maybe not as a 1-year step, but a couple grand a year for a few years straight? No doubt.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I would homeschool. I work very part time, have two degrees and taught for years. But there are two things holding me back.
1) My child is an only child. I think he needs the socialization and structure of school. Co-ops and local homeschool options are all VERY religious.
2) I don't want people to assume that we are weird and extremely religious. There's absolutely a stigma with homeschooling, even though it has become more popular.
This is increasingly less true. You have to look for them, but non religious (and even anti-religious) homeschool groups are growing.
The US school system is enabling this by promising every child will be educated to the same level. Many PPs have compared the US to other countries. Well, in other countries kids are sorted and tracked based on their demonstrated ability. It forces their parents to be involved.Anonymous wrote:The parents are the problem. There seem to be very many who are ignorant and entitled who expect schools to do the child rearing for them. They also don't seem to grasp the basics of how to get their kids ahead in school but they fully expect that it will happen by other people's hands. Often it's their lifestyle and parenting that has caused their kids to drain public resources.
+1000000
Anonymous wrote:I would homeschool. I work very part time, have two degrees and taught for years. But there are two things holding me back.
1) My child is an only child. I think he needs the socialization and structure of school. Co-ops and local homeschool options are all VERY religious.
2) I don't want people to assume that we are weird and extremely religious. There's absolutely a stigma with homeschooling, even though it has become more popular.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: Public schools are a joke and beyond the social aspect provide little value.
This is false.
you bet...
Public schools are better than parochial schools and both are way better than home schooling.
for learning?
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.
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.
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.
Anonymous wrote:They were getting bad before Covid. Covid made it way worse. The state of the country and politics don’t help. The USA has become a free for all, whatever you can get away with. Being a decent human isn’t rewarded.
Anonymous wrote:Do other countries deal with the same issues or is it an American thing?