Posted on 06/01/2021 10:37:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
Excellent...
I don’t think you can say that’s because parents suddenly became pro-homeschooling or were protesting the woke curriculum in as much as the public schools just STOPPED. I’ve heard from lots of parents that thought the Zoom classes were just stupid.
Although I’ll be happy to see the trend continue.
The different levels of education between homeschooled and public school-educated students will become increasingly obvious at colleges.
In fact, with access to the academic training over the internet, homeschooled students may well be able to continue their homeschooling into the first two years of college.
Homeschooling is one of the remedies for government indoctrination centers. It’s good to see the number rise. Hopefully this will lead to wide spread unemployment of teachers and reduce tax burdens.
Gee. I wonder what occurred to push those rates so high?
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17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda.
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Homeschooling is a great option, but not for everyone. We still need significant reforms as well as some sort of choice and competition.
Unionized public-sector government-school teachers have self-identified as non-essential.
Time to take them up on it.
Pay them to do it-vouchers. 3-4 hours in the morning. 2 hour recess in the afternoon on closed campuses. Then they watch educational movies while waiting for a ride home.
I agree here because a decent school with a normal curriculum (not the bat crazy methodology in use in some districts) should be demanding, something kids absolutely do need.
It also needs to be flexible, not all students will or should seek the same profession for many reasons.
It is unacceptable that homeschoolers pay for their kids education but are also asked to pay for the public schools other peoples children attend and theirs do not.
Covid is nothing new. Diseases like it have come and gone many times before. We are today merely able to see, test, and quantify the impact of a disease like Covid whereas in 1970 it would have been called a bad flu year. Likewise, child leukemia didn’t come about in the 1970s, we simple began seeing what has been going on all along.
That said, what Covid “should” teach us, is that packing kids into a confined space, with recirculating air, in a small lunchroom and cafeteria, might make sense industrially viewed (economy of scale, assembly line), but is a baaaaaaad idea if you’re talking about contagious diseases.
Maybe government that is of course in love with the idea of more government, and the teachers unions, should put an emphasis on homeschooling which has been delivering good results even when being sabotaged at times. You have two options, one is working well even with little help and delivering results, the other is plagued with issues and has a spotty record of success, and where does government put it’s money?
Reinforce success or reinforce failure?
Biden has a phone and a pen and a handler to tell him what to do. When he fails, he gets a timeout and no pudding.
Can we get a report on the number of school shootings in 2020?
I am not even joking. It would be interesting.
Some parents do nothing more than lie on the couch eating bonbons, drinking alcohol, shooting meth... whatever. Perhaps they have found that home schooling is easier for them. No more worries of having clean clothes for Johnny, No hair to brush at 6AM because the kids sleep till noon. Parking the kids in front of a computer and saying learn is the most effort needed. When the kids fail they can say “I really tried”.
Home schooling done well takes tremendous effort and time. I don’t have a lot of faith this is happening.
It depends on "how" you homeschool. I homeschooled my 2 younger kids from 6th/8th grade to graduation. Am now helping to homeschool 2 of my grandkids. If you do "Traditional" School at Home with timed tests, rote learning, set curriculum and dull textbooks it can be tough. But being imaginative, using all sorts of resources for learning, getting out in the real world and encouraging lots of reading, it just works! I let the kids discover their own paths to learning & it can be delightful. Yes, they need concrete math, language & science skills, but those fall into place easily.
I'm also thinking a lot of these parents are realizing just how much time is wasted in "typical" schools. 2 or maybe 3 hours a day is more than enough for elementary and Junior High... maybe add another hour for high school. Or send them to Community College early (they can test into some 1st term classes without an age requirement)
Many FREEPERS will be sadden by this. Just weeks ago they were demanding that the government indoctrination centers open immediately so their little munchkins could learn more about wokeness. If you missed the heavy demands that schools reopen, you would have been shocked. I certainly was stunned.
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