Posted on 04/29/2023 6:32:02 AM PDT by DoodleBob
We homeschool and none of our kids owns a phone or has social media. So far we have one graduate from Hillsdale College and we expect to have more!
I have been involved in homeschooling for over 30 years. People age out and families go away. Not making much of a dent if it went from 5% to 10% in 30 years.
I have a number of homeschooled kids. And know a number more. Most are doing very well.
They stand out. But they aren’t joining the organizations that provide change.
3 such families I know off the bat have kids who have or are studying for their PhD s one’s a military MD three are lawyers two are fighter pilots with the usaf
They all look me in the eye and talk to me. They have social skills unlike the kids who went to public school
They were considered weird. Most married well. And have nice kids that come to my house
Compared to past generations, they most certainly they are. We've been exposed to this for so long that for us, it's *normal* but in light of history, kids today are NOT normal.
Also co-ops. My wife belongs to one at our (very conservative) church. Concerned parents using their strengths to pool together resources.
...buuuuut were talking about a doubling in a year.
That’s big.
Yes, it’s off a small base, but victories shouldn’t be snuffed.
Fair enough, to want to see sustained growth AND not a watering down of parental rights if noobs want more State and oversight or are willing to surrender freedom so Mary can play public school softball.
Every generation of homeschoolers is different. This new group won’t be like ours. For me, what’s vital is sustained plenary parental rights, an independent mindset, children who think for themselves, and strong families...in greater numbers.
So far, so good.
It would be a huge cost saving approach - and then it will happen in other classes and more and more probably down as low as 4th grade.
Kids will have to go to a private school, or homeschooling, to get the experience that most of us had. In time, public schools will be for those who cant afford a private school or for those with disabilities that cant be accommodated in a private school.
Most of the kids in my neighborhood were Catholic, also. The Catholic kids came home from school in grade school, telling us that we were illegitimate bastardized because our parents weren’t married in the Catholic Church.
bttt
The same pressures that ruined the public schools will ruin the private schools. Most of the damage done to public schools was caused by litigation by parents: You are too hard on my Johnny. You give them too much homework. Woodworking machines are too dangerous. On and on...
It is hard enough to teach calculus online to 20 kids. You model simply won’t work.
” the hippies said they wanted to change the world, and they have, for the worse”
This is really good — about right and wrong and how things used to be.
“The Nuclear Family is Key to Democracy”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/04/the_nuclear_family_is_key_to_democracy.html
Dang, I never learned anything like that in school. That’s so wrong. Sorry that happened to you.
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