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Posted on 11/05/2025 4:34:05 AM PST by MtnClimber
There are good reasons why homeschooling is on the rise.
I am an enthusiastic supporter of homeschooling. When parents are in a position to prioritize their children’s education, young minds learn more information more quickly. A young person who excels in mathematics, for instance, is not forced to follow the regimented schedule of the state’s curricula, in which geometry belongs to a certain grade level, an introduction to calculus must be kept secret until the final years of high school, and summer vacations interrupt the accumulation and application of new knowledge. Those who show promise in mathematics — especially those who enjoy working with numbers — should not have their educations slowed down merely because a state education board has decided that everyone should learn the same things at the same age.
This is particularly true today because public schools are “dumbing down” lesson plans, eliminating advanced classes for bright students, and replacing academic competition with generic passing grades. A half-century ago, students who failed classes were forced to attend summer school or repeat the same grade level in September. Now everybody passes, and in certain Democrat-controlled cities, it has become entirely too common for entire “graduating” classes to be incapable of demonstrating proficiency in concepts that should have been mastered years earlier. In some Democrat-controlled school districts, sizable percentages of “graduating” high school seniors read at an elementary school level.
Such failures should shock people. What is the point of putting a young person in a classroom for twelve or more years if nothing is learned? If teachers’ unions and school superintendents believed that their primary responsibility is to educate young minds, then they would hang their heads in shame and desperately seek solutions. But it seems clear that modern-day school administrators have no interest in helping the youngest
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Why would parents want the government marxists to indoctrinate their children in transgenderism?
I see School Choice as a solid position for Republicans. You’re not going to lose the votes of the public school teachers, because you never had them to begin with. Many parents want to have an alternative but feel that they cannot afford one. Sending property tax money back to families can allow private, parochial or home schooling options. Perhaps even a return to a single income family.
Retired urban high school teacher here. I don’t know about suburban or rural schools, but city schools are broken. They are past the point of no return.
That’s why I support charter schools.
The trick is to take government funding without letting the government dictate the rules.
“In some Democrat-controlled school districts, sizable percentages of “graduating” high school seniors read at an elementary school level”
And you think that the parents (parent ?) of those kids are in a position to improve their reading level?
The vast majority of kids who are substantially behind grade level almost certainly have parents (who may or may not be present in their lives) who are similarly educationally challenged.
The best thing anyone can do to improve education in America is to eliminate public schools AND compulsory education laws.
The ‘media’ and the NEA have failed the public and US students
They are just going to try and outlaw it. Even if they have to do it like California did years ago. It was legal, but they required the home instructor to have a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree to legally teach homeschool. And they had to use State mandated material. They will overregulate it right out of existence.
Homeschooled my kids after school.
Taught them algebra when they were in 3rd grade with “Hands On Algebra” and now one is an M.D. and the other a PhD in A.I.
Parents have to step up to the plate.
Your kids wasted the best hours of the day.
my brother is an engineer, his daughter had a love of math, he said after about 3rd grade she was past him. She spent summer at math camps, now 23 and working for the Federal Reserve Bank.
Hang their heads in shame? Desperately seek solutions? C'mon, J.B., committed socialists celebrate their power with dance.
When I was in college (electrical engineering) one of my jobs was being a math tutor for the Veterans Administration working with veterans going to college on the GI Bill. Mostly it was algebra for students that had to take remedial math. Most of the veterans had been out of high school for a looong time.
Private schools are the way to go.
Younger kids can be home schooled,
but once you start into Mathematics
from Arithmetic many parents will
be uncertain.
eg. 2+4 = 4 is easy, ab+c = d isn’t
quite so easy nor is an integration
from 0 to 1000 over a Function of X.
I was a math major and drove my daughter nuts
when she did her homework. I was doing mine
at the same table. So I was certainly
up to teaching her, through high school level.
I didn’t earn a BS degree till age 34.
Life slowed me down. I did the Job,
marriage, and kid thing before getting
a BS degree.
Ping
Stuff like this is why Shurk is one of my favorite writers.
But I can teach math all the way up to calculus and also teach statistics (though admittedly I'll have to brush up on that if it comes to it). Most families don't have someone who can do that. So school vouchers / private schools are the way to go.
Babysitting. So you can enjoy 2 incomes and the house you mortgaged to be close to that job you "prioritize" over your children.
Yeah, I agree! Things were more balanced during the Middle Ages.
By the way, they learn plenty. Just not a lot of reading, writing, or arithmetic.
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