A $750 million a year market for homeschooling materials divided by 2 million students equals 375 bucks per year per student -- for a better student too. What do the public schools get? $10,000 per student and they are screaming for more?
Good sign, and I hope it continues!
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Homeschooling--striking fear in the hearts of the federal bureaucrats who will be unable to indoctinate the young heads full of mush in the government schools. May this movement continue to grow exponentially.
My girls are not yet school aged but I've given home-schooling quite a bit of thought. However, the only people I know that do it (friends with a couple in college but we've since grown very far apart) are now very liberal whacks! They've left their Baptist/Catholic upbringings to become Unitarians, volunteer for subversive "charities", and are openly hostile to anyone who may have a mainstream or right-minded orientation. I'd love to ask them why in the world they are home-schooling because they can get all that in the public school system but I just don't want to talk to them any more... For socialization, they took one of their boys to karate class but he couldn't (wouldn't?) follow any of the instructions, face the right way, etc, etc. These people aren't exactly what I'm hoping for. However, I find these FR discussions very encouraging.
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This terrifies the dems and the teacher's union. Their slaves are escaping from the plantation.
Count us in on this trend too.
All schools should be private. The government should get out of the education business at all levels, K-12, college, graduate schools. No Federal, state or local taxes for education, no government employed teachers, no government owned schools. This would reverse the drift toward socialism.
I resent that sentence. Ugh!
I believe we will see the end of government schools before the middle of the century. As home schooling continues to grow, it will become more and more difficult for anyone to justify pouring hundreds of billions of tax dollars into a failed dinosaur system of the past. This is why liberals are so threatened by this phenomenon.
I had to homeschool myself in spite of a decade of forced attendance at traditional schools where I never learned anything but inhuman patience. I was in sixth grade when I promised myself my kids would never go through that kind of hell.
I did let them get a taste of it and choose freely. They chose homeschooling. Results---kids age 12 who could pass a high school equivalency test with ease.
Incidentally I don't consider them geniuses, or myself a gifted teacher. Though I could be wrong. :)
I think homeschooling is good but sadly it contributes to increased financial strength for public schools. Schools still get the tax dollars but don't spend money on the missing student.
At some point, this will reach a tipping point though. I think it is close.
Gee, a shocking revelation considering that the alternative to this is public education which in these days, totes a tunnel vision towards education worth scrutiny via concern by all.