Yep. Homeschooled kids can do all that stuff and still get the personalized attention and first rate schooling they need. Yeehaw!
In Minnesota, the funding per pupil is on the order of $11,000 a year. Give HS parents half that amount to school their own children and watch the revolution. As it is, homeschoolers are burying the publik skools on a shoestring.
Yep. Homeschooled kids can do all that stuff and still get the personalized attention and first rate schooling they need. Yeehaw!
In Minnesota, the funding per pupil is on the order of $11,000 a year. Give HS parents half that amount to school their own children and watch the revolution. As it is, homeschoolers are burying the publik skools on a shoestring.
Boy I wish we got even close to that here. I do respect homeschoolers a bit as I do see some parents put forth a good effort. I see a lot too that don't, and some that use it as a free babysitting service. I do think that it should be a viable option for parents, though.
It won't work. It would be wonderful for people like you, but look at the history of our country and the history of public education.
In the early years of our country, most educated people began by being homeschooled, either by their parents or by tutors their parents or a group of parents hired. If the parents were too poor to pay for a tutor and too ignorant to teach them, the children were unlikely to be educated.
If we declared that all students should be homeschooled, some parents now would be too ignorant or too irresponsible or too substance-addicted to teach their children.
If we paid parents to teach their children, some would do so, and some would spend the money on other things. If we just rebated property taxes, some parents would get back enough to educate their children very well, and some parents would get nothing because they don't own property (althought their rent might go down).
Homeschooling works well on the whole because the parents who choose to do it are very motivated and interested in doing it. Not all parents would be.