Anonymous wrote:Well that's terrifying. We're going to have a nation of illiterate morons.

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What % are freedom/religious nutters? They will have another generation of brainwashed extremists.

I homeschooled last year because I had a first grader who I knew wouldn’t be served well by remote or hybrid learning. As a working parent, I also wanted flexibility in my schedule. He learned a ton - much more than he would have learned even if he was fully in person. His days He’s now back in person and way ahead of his peers.

These statistics are obviously about last school year.

Most homeschoolers are fine, but....it is just too darn easy for parents who abuse their kids to "home school" them. Remember this case? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/house-horrors-case-turpin-parents-sentenced-life-prison-torturing-children-n996326 The father set up a "school" and filed the necessary paperwork. One kid was allowed to go to community college classes, but his mother always went with him.

Now, I KNOW this is an outlier. But when kids go to school, teachers and others can see signs of abuse and report them. Of course, child protective services doesn't always do a great job either. Still, a lot of those who abuse their children do claim to "homeschool" them.

I suspect a lot of the "new" homeschoolers are kids whose parents want to protect them from covid. I have serious doubts that all of them are going to be adequately taught. Parents just think "I'm not going to risk my child's life" or "I cannot risk that my children bring something home to grandma and I need grandma to watch them while I work, so they can't go to school." Then, they register to "homeschool" them, but the amount of instruction time they get is negligible. That's especially true if grandparents are watching the kids during the day while mom is at work.

I don't think the parents are negligent--far from it. They love their kids. They just don't want them in school right now.

I’m a fed in DC and at my office I have one coworker and one supervisor who homeschool their children. They both have college degrees, as do their wives, and grew up in the DC area. Their college-aged children are all in college and the older ones have graduate degrees and good jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:Well that's terrifying. We're going to have a nation of illiterate morons.

The majority of homeschooling families that I know are very thoughtful and intentional in the schooling of their children. Yes, I’ve seen a bad homeschooling result too, but the majority of the time I’ve seen it, it’s been done well.

Exactly. Homeschoolers that go to college do well on entrance exams and have a higher graduation rate.

Those that go to college. Many don't

And MOST kids who attend public school don’t go to college…

Anonymous wrote:Well that's terrifying. We're going to have a nation of illiterate morons.

Given how well our schools teach reading - the outcomes for the new homeschoolers are almost guaranteed to be better. Did you watch any K-2 classes last year?

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Anonymous wrote:Well that's terrifying. We're going to have a nation of illiterate morons.

The majority of homeschooling families that I know are very thoughtful and intentional in the schooling of their children. Yes, I’ve seen a bad homeschooling result too, but the majority of the time I’ve seen it, it’s been done well.

Exactly. Homeschoolers that go to college do well on entrance exams and have a higher graduation rate.

Those that go to college. Many don't

Quick google search:

https://www.communitycollegereview.com/blog/is-community-college-the-best-option-for-homeschoolers
You may be surprised to learn that homeschoolers actually have a higher rate of attending college than any other group of children. Homeschooled children attend college at a rate of 66.7% while traditional public-school children only attend college at 57.5%. In fact, some of the country’s best colleges like Dartmouth, Yale, and UC Berkeley are recruiting and accepting homeschoolers at a high rate.

That's because they're are far fewer of them. so it doesnt take many of them going to college move the percentage up

11% of all our children is not that small a number.

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Anonymous wrote:Well that's terrifying. We're going to have a nation of illiterate morons.

The majority of homeschooling families that I know are very thoughtful and intentional in the schooling of their children. Yes, I’ve seen a bad homeschooling result too, but the majority of the time I’ve seen it, it’s been done well.

Exactly. Homeschoolers that go to college do well on entrance exams and have a higher graduation rate.

Those that go to college. Many don't

Quick google search:

https://www.communitycollegereview.com/blog/is-community-college-the-best-option-for-homeschoolers
You may be surprised to learn that homeschoolers actually have a higher rate of attending college than any other group of children. Homeschooled children attend college at a rate of 66.7% while traditional public-school children only attend college at 57.5%. In fact, some of the country’s best colleges like Dartmouth, Yale, and UC Berkeley are recruiting and accepting homeschoolers at a high rate.

That's because they're are far fewer of them. so it doesn't take many of them going to college move the percentage up

It also includes all the nutty religious communities like the Amish or Mennonites who home-school their kids and never ever expect them to go to college. Male or female its just not in their community ethic. Instead they give them a year at 18 to 'see the world' and let them realize how much their own community failed to integrate them so they go running back to the farms at absurdly high rates.

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Anonymous wrote:Well that's terrifying. We're going to have a nation of illiterate morons.

The majority of homeschooling families that I know are very thoughtful and intentional in the schooling of their children. Yes, I’ve seen a bad homeschooling result too, but the majority of the time I’ve seen it, it’s been done well.

Exactly. Homeschoolers that go to college do well on entrance exams and have a higher graduation rate.

Those that go to college. Many don't

Quick google search:

https://www.communitycollegereview.com/blog/is-community-college-the-best-option-for-homeschoolers
You may be surprised to learn that homeschoolers actually have a higher rate of attending college than any other group of children. Homeschooled children attend college at a rate of 66.7% while traditional public-school children only attend college at 57.5%. In fact, some of the country’s best colleges like Dartmouth, Yale, and UC Berkeley are recruiting and accepting homeschoolers at a high rate.

That's because they're are far fewer of them. so it doesnt take many of them going to college move the percentage up

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Anonymous wrote:Well that's terrifying. We're going to have a nation of illiterate morons.

The majority of homeschooling families that I know are very thoughtful and intentional in the schooling of their children. Yes, I’ve seen a bad homeschooling result too, but the majority of the time I’ve seen it, it’s been done well.

Exactly. Homeschoolers that go to college do well on entrance exams and have a higher graduation rate.

Those that go to college. Many don't

Quick google search:

https://www.communitycollegereview.com/blog/is-community-college-the-best-option-for-homeschoolers
You may be surprised to learn that homeschoolers actually have a higher rate of attending college than any other group of children. Homeschooled children attend college at a rate of 66.7% while traditional public-school children only attend college at 57.5%. In fact, some of the country’s best colleges like Dartmouth, Yale, and UC Berkeley are recruiting and accepting homeschoolers at a high rate.

Anonymous wrote:I think this is very interesting and wonder if it will hold up. I believe that many families, including POC, found that school outside of school buildings eliminated problems like bullying and gave them a level of control that they did not want to give up. They feel more comfortable being in charge of their kids learning and safety and are distrustful of the public school system's ability to keep their kids safe.

In addition, families of all races, when faced with the burden of working and attending to their kids' schooling during the day, realized that they would prefer to have their time structured in a way that works for their family, rather than as dictated by the public school day and calendar. Families who have the ability to homeschool appreciate being able to start the school day later, to eat lunch at reasonable times, and to incorporate more movement into the day to help kids maintain focus.

Don't forget how many parents got a chance to listen in on their kids classrooms for a full year and see how the teachers interacted with students and students interacted with each other.

I personally excelled as a kid but 30% of my teachers were just there for a paycheck (I had one teacher pregnant the whole year who did nothing during my 10th grade), 30% were stars and extremely dedicated, and another 30% should have retired 10 years ago but need the benefits.

I believe teacher value is tied to higher-value school systems and consequently better resources and salaries however I also think that no matter what with a student-to-teacher ratio of 18:1 (in the best districts) students who could excel are getting left behind.

And I wouldn't want it to be my child.

Anonymous wrote:POC families with greatest %!

MCPS has a high percentage in their VA. This isn't a surprise with COIVD.

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Anonymous wrote:Well that's terrifying. We're going to have a nation of illiterate morons.

That may balance out the bitter hateful bigoted bullies.

Nice use of alliteration.

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Anonymous wrote:Well that's terrifying. We're going to have a nation of illiterate morons.

The majority of homeschooling families that I know are very thoughtful and intentional in the schooling of their children. Yes, I’ve seen a bad homeschooling result too, but the majority of the time I’ve seen it, it’s been done well.

Exactly. Homeschoolers that go to college do well on entrance exams and have a higher graduation rate.

Those that go to college. Many don't