NP. I cannot believe that some people on this thread are complaining about homeschoolers.

In Baltimore City, only 13% of 4th and 8th grade students are considered proficient in reading. In 4th grade math, 14% are proficient, and in 8th grade math, only 11% are proficient.

Let those numbers sink in and then tell me what homeschooling has to do with anything. Obviously people can go through school and learn exactly nothing for 12 years.

Every homeschooler I know makes sure their kids are advanced in reading, even when there are disabilities. And homeschoolers objectively academically outperform traditionally schooled children on every study that's ever been done.

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Anonymous wrote:This is my issue with homeschooling. If a school bus failing, there's enough transparency to know that information.

Homeschooling familes often have little to no accountability to properly teach their children

Two things...

1) we know lots of public schools fail, but nothing is done.

2) homeschoolers have a lot more invested in the success of their child than an institution does.

Depends on the family and why they're homeschooling. Some do it for the academics but many do it for different reasons.

No matter their reasons, parents want their children to grow up to be self supporting. So yes, they are more invested.

And yet if you have parents arguing that their child doesn't need to learn how to read or doesn't need to learn science or math or other subjects because the parent has no idea how to actually teach those things, they're not sitting their child up for success and then they're just justifying that success doesn't have to include learning how to do (math/science/reading)

My point is that I don't think what you are suggesting happens very much. Homeschoolers do want their kids to learn all of those things. There are some niche philosophies about how to best learn them, just like there are in private schools. I don't think many homeschooled kids grow up without learning to read.

Anonymous wrote:Lol imo third grade is where you need to be able read well for comprehension, otherwise you fall behind.

This, and it is extremely difficult to catch up.

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Anonymous wrote:This is my issue with homeschooling. If a school bus failing, there's enough transparency to know that information.

Homeschooling familes often have little to no accountability to properly teach their children

Two things...

1) we know lots of public schools fail, but nothing is done.

2) homeschoolers have a lot more invested in the success of their child than an institution does.

Depends on the family and why they're homeschooling. Some do it for the academics but many do it for different reasons.

No matter their reasons, parents want their children to grow up to be self supporting. So yes, they are more invested.

And yet if you have parents arguing that their child doesn't need to learn how to read or doesn't need to learn science or math or other subjects because the parent has no idea how to actually teach those things, they're not sitting their child up for success and then they're just justifying that success doesn't have to include learning how to do (math/science/reading)

Dying older children of literacy is practically abusive.

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Anonymous wrote:This is my issue with homeschooling. If a school bus failing, there's enough transparency to know that information.

Homeschooling familes often have little to no accountability to properly teach their children

Two things...

1) we know lots of public schools fail, but nothing is done.

2) homeschoolers have a lot more invested in the success of their child than an institution does.

Depends on the family and why they're homeschooling. Some do it for the academics but many do it for different reasons.

No matter their reasons, parents want their children to grow up to be self supporting. So yes, they are more invested.