Can you imagine your kids having to deal with this?
Posted on 08/25/2021 9:39:13 PM PDT by DoodleBob
The pandemic exposed the warts of the public-school system. Students suffered academically, and the recent emergence of critical race theory has concerned many parents. While there have been high-profile cases of parents standing up to school boards against school closings and critical race theory, a record number of parents are turning to homeschooling. While the desire to personally shepherd one’s child should be commended, homeschooling en masse cannot be the answer to our educational crisis.
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...A new report from the Associated Press found that the number of homeschooled children doubled over just six months. One family described their decision this way: “I didn’t want my kids to become a statistic and not meet their full potential,” said Robert Brown, a former teacher who now does consulting. “And we wanted them to have very solid understanding of their faith.”
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...However, a mass exodus of conservative children from the public-school system is not a workable solution on a national scale.
For one, there are many people who cannot afford to homeschool their children. Poorer families may be unable to live on just one income. More affluent families may not want to dramatically decrease their standard of living by cutting off an income stream....
Yet, even if a critical mass of conservative parents were willing to leave the public-school system, most of the population would still be educated in a traditional setting. A full 91 percent of students attend some form of public school, be it a charter school or an assigned public school. Furthermore, between 30 and 40 percent of Americans identify as conservatives. Thus, even if every conservative household homeschooled or sent their children to a private school, this would still leave the “woke” curriculum as the dominant educational force.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
With this wind at the HSing movement's back, leave it to the NR to publish a piece that reads like it came from NPR. Only conservatives like this can find a way to fritter away any advantage they have over statism.
Ping...sadly.
FTA....
...However, a mass exodus of conservative children from the public-school system is not a workable solution on a national scale.
For one, there are many people who cannot afford to homeschool their children. Poorer families may be unable to live on just one income. More affluent families may not want to dramatically decrease their standard of living by cutting off an income stream....
Call for a Whaaaaaambulance, NR!
Their BS isn't selling!
I just read today that one out of five families in the United States homeschooled last year. I was one of them—I pulled my senior from public and homeschooled him, and issued him a diploma and final transcript, and he’s away at college now. I moved my other teen to private.
Homeschooling is on the rise and will reach a tipping point. National Review is wrong. Many parents don’t know how to withdraw from public schools (paperwork) or file homeschooling affidavits with their states or choose curriculum. We are learning from each other and encouraging each other (yes through social media).
When one out of five become comfortable with non-public school options, soon one our of four will be, and then it will be maybe not the “norm,” but a more excellent option. And not so “weird.” Things are changing fast.
They are not even Normal Americans.
They are a group of bubble boys who want desperately to be petted and loved by their idols the liberals.
I’m guessing that in the very near future, judges will forbid parents from teaching their own kids IF the parents are trump supporters or they attended Trump rallies-
Already one prosecutor made the argument that an 18 year old kid who went to the capitol could not go home because ‘that is where the kid learned their violent radical agendas because of homeschooling’- (paraphrased of course)- the judge denied the kid bail-
Parents need to step up and form small independent schools at their local churches. 10 sets of parents can hire a few teachers and out of 20 parents, some can volunteer to be there and help maintain school discipline. Yes, it’s hard work.
Congratulations. You and your Son achieved his HS Graduation by working together. It can be done. I guess one just has to refresh their memory on the academics, algebra and other topics.
As for the rest of this article, it is pure barf. Homeschooling can't be the choice? Are you kidding me? Homeschooling is expensive, uh No. It's only for "Conservatives" or "Faith" based families, ah, No.
What's happening here is that the writer is panicking as they rightly fear that it might become Pandemic.
Oh, May it ever be so!
If you got a kid who is lazy in school....he’ll be lazy in homeschool.
But one has to admit there’s tons of material now existing (compared to thirty years ago), and in the right situation...a kid doing homeschool for three hours...probably achieves the same level of comprehension as a kid spending six hours in regular school.
Yes, and there are lots of online options too with homeschooling high schoolers now. So after a disastrous attempt at “remote learning” (his public school in CA went remote the entire 2020-21 school year), my senior son withdrew from the district, accepted two paid P/T coding internships, self-studied programming, ragtime piano, and chess, and completed online classes in English and precalculus. He’s loving college so far (Computer Science major); I hope and pray his college classes remain in person as he did NOT do well with “remote learning.”
Homeschooling was great for him. “Remote learning” was not.
Public education has been a breading ground for illnesses since its inception. Nothing new, just the realization of this obvious fact by the cheerleaders for this system.
It’s based on a cohort system, influenced by unions, activists, lawyers, politicians and publishing companies. The wishes of the customer, i.e. parents and children are damn near irrelevant.
Performance measures are arbitrary, success is not rewarded, nor is failure punished, and every side bar issue is more important than the actual task, from football to Covid, LGBTQIA and whatever else...
Pull away the advertisement for how great it all is, and all you have is kids on par with third world nations in math, lagging behind most of our European partners, SAT and ACT scores that have been dropping were it not for them recomputing how the score is generated... Kids graduating that are barely literate.
Stop the lie. Folks don’t support public schools because of their awesomeness. They support them because they need an all day M-F day care paid for by a tax base (i.e. everyone) vs. the service consumer. People like “free” shit. Free meaning others pay for it.
A lot of people are finally realizing how useless and dangerous public schools really are.
“Parents need to step up and form small independent schools at their local churches. 10 sets of parents can hire a few teachers and out of 20 parents, some can volunteer to be there and help maintain school discipline. Yes, it’s hard work.”
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That’s EXACTLY how you described my nephew’s grade school. The church is also a registered school. It is probably the most SOUGHT AFTER school in the area with A WAITING LIST of at least 5 years.
Regarding “participation”, one of the conditions to have your kid enrolled (to also lower costs) is that the parent/s HAVE to either clean, maintain the church and esp. MANDATORY staff Saturday night bingo for the school. NO EXCEPTIONS. You dont clean the church, mow the lawn, maintain the garden and man the bingo booths so ALL parents “suffer” on Saturday nights when bingo night arrives.
and there is NO woke subjects on the curriculoum either meaning they dont teach critical theory nor fag-homo stuff.
Eh.... maybe. Some kids are lazy because they are bored but some are lazy because they find the material confusing.
As a kid I was was reduced to tears because they were teaching me long division using some awful convoluted process that made absolutely no sense.
My dad sat down with me and in the course of one evening taught me how to do long division. It was simple and it made sense!
So I breezed thorough the problems the next day and got a zero. Because I had the right answers but had not followed the ridiculous process.
So dad went to the school the next day to have a talk with the principle. And that was the last time I attended an American Public School.
Your kid matters to you. The Paycheck is what matters to the teacher.
All my kids were homeschooled K-12, and every week, we got together with large groups of other homeschool families. The vast majority of our families were not high income. Our groups included two-parent families with mom (or dad) at home; two working parent families; single, widowed, and divorced parents; parents who were terminally ill; grandparents raising grandchildren; and on and on.
There's only one reason that most families don't homeschool: They just don't want to. They don't understand what it's all about, and they don't want to know. They just want to keep doing things the same way.
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