The goal to have a baseline of knowledge when a kid finishes high school, and every grade for that matter, is a decent goal. The problem is what they are teaching and how they insist it be done.
CC has put more kids into homeschooling than anything else. It’s a shame too because public school is where kids learn to socialize, get into sports and other team building activities, etc. etc.
CC has ruined it all.
“CC has put more kids into homeschooling than anything else. It’s a shame too because public school is where kids learn to socialize”
Sorry to ‘lower the boom on you, Boomer,
The fact is clear and unambiguous: Home schooled students are better socialized that the sad, sorry, students stuck in the Pooblik Skrewl Collective’s hives.
Facts just are.
I've spent a decade teaching topics in multiple methods because a) there usually are multiple methods, and b) when stressing problem solving, recognizing that the task can be broken down and completed and checked is more important than doing it the One True Way we said to.
And now they're doing crazy crap. The kids know the math; they just can't figure this stuff out.
You opine: “CC has put more kids into homeschooling than anything else. It’s a shame too because public school is where kids learn to socialize, get into sports and other team building activities, etc. etc.”
Still swallowing that old canard?
Bulletin: Home schooled kids are not raised/schooled in a bubble. They ‘socialize” with people of all ages - a much more normal situation. they get more schooling in MUCH less time per day, leaving much more time for other pursuits - including time OUTDOORS - and they are legally allowed to play the sports at public schools, if they choose. And the parents and kids that are home schooled aren’t isolated - they have great local associations - gatherings, trips, projects. ,
They DO miss out on public school ‘socializing’ such as “sex” ed. taught by Planned Parenthood personnel, on gay/lesbian indoctrination, on classrooms with teachers espousing that historic hero, “Che”, and such - and upcoming ‘White Privilege” classes.
And homeschoolers aren’t as likely to get bullied without protection, or be surrounded by drugs, or have to start sharing bathrooms with members of the opposite sex who think they aren’t who they are...
I’ve know many homeschoolers - well adjusted, bright, accomplished, EDUCATED, etc.
The old saw of needing public school for ‘socializing’ hasn’t been true for decades...not the kind of ‘socializing’ experienced in public - aka Government Indoctrination Camps - schools today.
People - you need to EDUCATE yourselves on CC
look at these short clips - and others on the YouTube site
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZEGijN_8R0
The problem is that it’s anti american and anti white (european american)and anti anything upper level academics. It punishes those students who are average and especially those students who excel.