The only thing a school is doing is sending home a free curriculum for the parents and child to follow. I contend that very little actually learning happens in the school.
I have no direct involvement in home schooling (unless we take your definition of it). But when I examined the issue, I saw that if PS education is of any value its graduates would be qualified to teach a child up at least to high school without breaking a sweat. Therefore the issue seemed to boil down exactly to the question of what happens when a parent without academic qualifications decides to homeschool? And I decided that if anyone was unqualified to teach elementary school and tried to homeschool, at a minimum that parent at least would learn a lot. So education would happen even in the worst case - and there was no guarantee that the child of such parent would actually learn in a public school, either.Now when this study comes out, the worst case turns out not to be even that bad. Good to see. Bookmark.
at a minimum that parent at least would learn a lot.
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Good point!
I learned a lot as a homeschooling mom, and I have a doctorate.