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Home Schooling in the United States: Trends and Characteristics
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| May 16, 2002
| Kurt J. Bauman
Posted on 05/18/2002 12:28:22 PM PDT by Mensch
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05/18/2002 12:28:23 PM PDT
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Mensch
To: Mensch
It finds home-schooled children more likely to be middle income, white, from larger families, and from two-parent families with one parent not working. I read an article from Home School Legal Defense Assoc. newsletter on blacks homeschooling. Really interesting, but sad. I don't know how many of you are aware but blacks take a great deal of flack from their own race if they choose to homeschool their children. They feel that they went through a great deal of suffering to be allowed to educate their children along white folks and that blacks who choose to teach at home are letting all the black people down that fought so hard for those rights.
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posted on
05/18/2002 12:39:34 PM PDT
by
Boxsford
To: Mensch
bump for later
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posted on
05/18/2002 12:44:52 PM PDT
by
tutstar
To: Mensch
as home schooling grows, calls will continue for existing public schools to provide services that cannot be provided easily by home-school families themselvessuch as advanced courses and extracurricular activities. They're delusional! Homeschool families have already figured this out and are doing nicely indeed without the public schools assistance. They just don't get it at all. Parents pull their kids out because public schooling can't teach the basics and they think we will need them to teach them advanced courses! har!
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posted on
05/18/2002 12:51:38 PM PDT
by
Boxsford
To: Mensch
We have just begun to see the emergence of home schooling as an important national phenomenon. Unless the needs of parents are met in different ways,
it is likely that home schooling will have a large impact on the school as an institution in coming decades. *********************************************************************
Another gem! Let's hope that large impact will be the end of government schools.
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posted on
05/18/2002 12:57:36 PM PDT
by
Boxsford
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To: Boxsford
They're delusional!
Yep! HSers already are putting their 13/14 year olds into the community colleges for the advanced stuff.
To: Domestic Church
HSers already are putting their 13/14 year olds into the community colleges for the advanced stuff. Seems like a good solution, assuming the community colleges (higher level government schools) are prevented from accepting "underage" students. Let's hope this doesn't happen.
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posted on
05/18/2002 1:09:26 PM PDT
by
toddst
To: toddst
Correction:
Seems like a good solution, assuming the community colleges (higher level government schools) are NOT prevented from accepting "underage" students. Let's hope this doesn't happen.
That's what I meant to say.
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posted on
05/18/2002 1:12:40 PM PDT
by
toddst
To: Mensch
'A group that is especially likely to be home schooled consists of two-adult families with one not working (as will be shown below). In this group, 60 percent of non-enrolled children are home schooled. The regression of non-enrollment on years shows an equally large and significant coefficient for this group as it does for all school-aged children.
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To: Mensch
I'm not familiar with this outfit; is this a friendly or hostile organization? I know it says scholarly and peer-reviewed, but, well, we all know how little that matters.
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posted on
05/18/2002 2:58:29 PM PDT
by
lainie
To: Mensch
I've got a trend worth pondering. The standard number of home-schooled kids in this country is said to be anywhere from 1 to 2 million. That statistic was being used eight years ago when I started home-schooling. I now know personally at least a dozen new homeschooling families that were not teaching their children at home eight years ago. If every family home-schooling eight years ago could say today that they know at least a dozen new home-schooling families with at least three kids in each family, what does that say about the true number of home-schooled kids in this country?
For those of you who were taught fuzzy math, let me figure it for ya.
That's at least 1 million home-schooled kids in each state in the union.
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05/18/2002 3:05:52 PM PDT
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Slyfox
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posted on
05/19/2002 8:18:09 AM PDT
by
madfly
To: madfly
bttt
To: superdestroyer
"The real question will be: how public schools will allow home schooling parents to use the local public school as a "buffet" of services such as foreign languague, sports, advanced math and science, music, etc? This will definitely become the issue in districts with budget problems or have magnet programs." Why would they be needed?? A wife of a friend is involved as a tutor in the "home schooling network", and the way the "advanced topics" are covered is with assistance (either one-on-one or small groups) by specialized tutors. The parent oversees the daily lessons and drill, and the tutor covers advanced topics and "explains as needed" for the things the student appears to be having trouble with (typically one or two hours a week). In most instances, the tutors are FAR BETTER QUALIFIED in their particular area of expertise than the "education majors" teaching in public schools.
Who is better qualified to teach chemistry?? A retired chemist, or an "education major" who had two or three courses in chemistry??
To: Boxsford
Really interesting, but sad. I don't know how many of you are aware but blacks take a great deal of flack from their own race if they choose to homeschool their children. They feel that they went through a great deal of suffering to be allowed to educate their children along white folks and that blacks who choose to teach at home are letting all the black people down that fought so hard for those rights.Some rights.....if any group ought to ditch the system and take charge of their kids' education, it's the black people. The current school system keeps them in the four D's: Dumb, Depressed, Dependent, and Democrat.**
** Credited to the that lady who spoke at the Rally for America in D.C. several years ago; cannot remember her name...Joyce something?
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