Could another reason for the growth be not wanting a teacher to seduce your kid? Or the school subject your kids to gay rights propaganda? If I didn't have to work I'd love to home school mine.
It's a good thing.
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I firmly believe it is. I also believe the post-secondary institutions will change drastically too over the next 10 or 15 years. The advent of PCs, videoconferencing, testing, etc. will pave the way for much. Once they nail down verification for people taking exams, that'll seal it.
Pubic schools will always be around b/c collecting school taxes is too big a "business." I imagine that they'll begin catering more and more to immigrants and the like.
I also think that educational or academic credentials are going to be far more linked to actual topical knowledge and much less on nonsense liberal arts filler courses that anyone can garner an understanding of in the typical course of web surfing over a few months casually.
Should be interesting. Look for a fight against homeschooling however. They'll pull out all the stops IMO.
Lets see, do I want to send my kids to schools with teachers getting sex changes, raping students, America hating, NEA leftwing propoganda with gang violence included.
Or have them learn something, I'll choose the latter and noone who cares about their kids should be sending their kids to public school, it's child abuse.
"Let's hope this is the beginning of the end of government education as we know it."
It has occurred to me that the need to home school is a response to the public school but larger than that, it is an underground school, if you will, not unlike something you would expect in China.
Homeschooling is still in its early phases, so it's too soon to evaluate its results. But it has the potential to bring educational excellence to the United States, something that the public schools have never done in their 100-plus year history.