And there we have it, the whole reason the left opposes home schooling.
It sticks in their craw that people are doing something they can’t control.
The most inept, dangerous, untruthful, overstated UNION in the country is the teacher’s union.
We’ve homeschooled six from K through high school and all are either in college or have graduated college. This article seems like it could’ve been written 25 years ago. The horse has definitely left the barn on this subject. Interesting how a poorly researched argument the author makes...from Harvard, too.
“Yet Elizabeth Bartholet, Wasserstein public interest professor of law and faculty director of (Harvard) Law School’s Child Advocacy Program”
Keep in mind that these are VERY DANGEROUS people and need to be treated as such. If she were from some state college in Kansas, what she says wouldn’t matter - but this is Harvard, and people in power essentially take MARCHING ORDERS from these types of people.
Lies, lies, and more lies.
We homeschooled 8. Tested them every year, all were consistently in top 5% of standardized national tests.
One brilliant son we saw needed better math & science than we could provide. Talked to our public school. In spite of his 99th percentile testing, they insisted on putting him back a year (in 10th) for his 11th grade year.
Sorry, you are idiots. Top private school took him - he was #1 in class, valedictorian. Went on to get 5 year full ride to top university and graduate Summa Cum Laude with FOUR simultaneous degrees: B.S. in Math, B.S. in Computer Science, B.A. in Physics, B.A. in Greek.
Other kids got 4 other degrees; 1 other Summa Cum Laude, 2 - Phi Beta Kappa’s, 1 - Tau Beta Pi (engineering), 2- engineers, 2 - pilots, and much more.
All 8 have done exceptionally well in whatever work field they are in.
But I have to add - all this was by the incredible grace of God. Wife & I both former public school teachers........
Harvard Law, indeed.
I was homeschooled in PA, the law is absurdly burdensome. The superintendent of the school district had the power to compel us all to submit to a personal appearance before him, which didn’t go well for him...
The law requires the parent to submit a portfolio, keep detailed records of what’s taught, the hours spent, work samples in specific subjects. You need a certified examiner (whom you pay out of your pocket) to interview and test the student. Medical records, vaccinations, eye exam, all the results to be submitted to local school district, medical privacy be damned. Resistance leads swiftly to child protective services getting involved.
This goes on until the student is of an age no longer required to attend school, but after that, if you don’t continue to “cooperate,” the school district records you as a high school dropout.
I should add that the school district I tangled with had proficiency scores around 60 percent for reading and math. We were in a region where a teenager presenting normal intelligence was automatically assumed to be homeschooled. (Other evidence being, proper hygiene and respect for elders.)
She forgets to mention home schoolers get into college way ahead of govt schoolers percentage wise.
The most normal, well adjusted, successful and healthy young adults I know were home schooled.
There is something to be said for not having your brains pumped full of social deviancy and sexual perversity at a young age.
So? LGBT's are about the same percentage, and the Establishment has turned the entire nation upside down and inside out on their behalf.
Suck it up, lady. Maybe now that more people are trying it, homeschooling will become a "thing."
“We Socialists and Cultural Marxists are very angry that we will not get the chance to indoctrinate some children. Yes, we get to indoctrinate most of them but we think we should have the power to indoctrinate ALL of them.”
Quick! Look At The Cover Artwork Of Her Book!
Arithmetic Is Spelled Wrong!
LOL!
Harvard - home to Timothy Leary and the Unabomber
Columbia is just as bad
This is EXACTLY when the homeschooling movement needs to ramp up members/participants. Bankrupt the government skool scam.
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”...to use their playbook.
It is the fear of the HS growth that is probably the genesis of these articles we’re seeing. They know that HS will grow because of these lockdowns and they fear the lost money from each child that is removed from the system. In other words, preventive propaganda