572 sats \ 2 replies \ @sorukumar 25 Feb \ on: Over 3 Million Americans are Homeschooled charts
As I am learning more about schools here in the USA. Thanks to Libs of TikTok and a couple of families in the neighborhood. We have also started considering home-schooling for our toddler. luckily we have a couple of years.
I find the rise of homeschooling sad. To me, it points to a decline in trust in public institutions.
I don't think homeschooling is sustainable. Simply cuz it is too much work.
Or, good chance that homeschoolers will join hands with families sharing similar values to educate kids. They will also hire professionals or utilize professional tools ( yet to be built) to educate kids. but at that time, do we call it homeschool or a 'new kind' of school?
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BTW, the 6% number seemed too high for me, and I didn't believe it. So far we may have met ~50 families in the park, and only 1 is home-schooling their kid. But, then I realized they had 6 kids. The higher the number of kids, the more sense it makes for parents to homeschool.
So it is 6% of kids, but my hunch is it would be not more than 2-3% of families who home-school.
You can mix and match.
Grades K-4 you can homeschool, then send them off to the prison complex after that (jk).
Really tho, I think homeschooling is more important during the formative years, to lay (a) a good foundation of problem solving, and read/write basics and (b) their formative years is when they are most susceptible to big-gov brainwashing...by the time they are grade 5 or 6 they have developed a pretty good "BS detector" and far less able to be influenced by outside sources.
As quick aside on the notion "sending your kids to school". Its fairly insane if you think about it....If I told you that to make sure your computer was operating normally our society had a plan to come around every morning at 8am and collect your computer where we brought it a warehouse and "tuned it" and return to you at 3pm....you would outright refuse and think it was an insane suggestion. Yet we do it with our kids....
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The reason for a decline in trust is a decline in quality.
Public schools have become too bureaucratic and political.
Public school teachers unions are the biggest donors to Democrats. Most teachers send their kids to private schools.
Where do senators send their children? Private schools since Washington DC public schools are terrible.
Why are public schools terrible? Are the teachers terrible? Are the students terrible? Blame the parents?
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