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We homeschool and it was the best decision we’ve made. Common core is a child abuse for anyone smarter than a rock.
Nice report. Money and quality of teacher has nothing to do with education. It’s about DISCIPLINE.
“Students whose families reported spending $600 or more on them annually achieved test scores placing them in the 89th percentile of all students nationally; students from families who reported spending less than $600 annually scored in the 86th percentile. Traditional public schools in New York, where homeschooling is discouraged, spend an average of $21,489 per student only to achieve mediocre outcomes.”
That is just stunning. We waste so much money building schools & educating teachers (who then proceed to be incompetent). A few homeschooling moms around every block, teaching their own & their neighbor’s kids, could produce a much better educated populace.
We also have a Republican governor along with both houses of the legislature.
They don't advertise the fact...you pretty much have to Google it or otherwise stumble on to it.
Oddly, some of the bluest states, (CT, IL) have the lowest burden. I find that strange.
Very interesting. It’s surprising to see some deep “blue” states like New Jersey and Connecticut on that list.
Thank you for referencing that article ThethoughtsofGreg. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.
What the report overlooks about public schools versus homeschooling is the following. The unofficial main purpose of public schools is to “babysit” kids during the day while working parent(s) try to make ends meet imo.
Note that working parents are probably too tired at the end of the day to ask their children how they were indoctrinated by their socialist teachers as to why they need to be on federal entitlement programs when they grow up.
All I had to do to home school my kids was send a letter to the district stating that they would not be attending the following year. That’s it.
Utah is rated B on home school burden of regulation for that?
http://www.hillsdale.edu/outreach/charterschools/reading
Recommended reading:
Books by Hillsdale College faculty:
Liberty and Learning by Larry P. Arnn
•Climbing Parnassus by Tracy Lee Simmons
•The Great Tradition by Richard Gamble
•The Story-Killers: A Common-Sense Case Against the Common Core by Terrence O. Moore
Books by other authors:
•Cultural Literacy by E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
•Why Johnny Can’t Tell Right from Wrong by William Kilpatrick
•The Schools We Need and Why We Don’t Have Them by E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
•Teacher in America by Jacques Barzun
•The Devil Knows Latin by E. Christian Kopff
•The Making of Americans by E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
•Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America by Gene Edward Veith, Jr. and Andrew Kern
•Left Back by Diane Ravitch
•The Paideia Proposal by Mortimer J. Adler
•Begin Here by Jacques Barzun
•The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
•The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory
•The Art of Teaching by Gilbert Highet
I cannot say I agree with this. Maine is a low burden state.
Illinois regulates everything, but like myopic automatons they forgot to regulate home schooling.
I’ve lived and homeschooled in one state that they list as a low burden, and lived and homeschooled in another that they list as a high burden.
I disagree with both points and am wondering how they did their study.
Home school here... there is a group of us who get together and homeschool our kids together.
I don’t need to remind you of how bad Connecticut/CT
is on the RKBA/2nd. One blog writer I read once (I now
am not sure who) related how his family moved from
a lakeshore Great Lakes town to Texas bc Texas was strong
on both rights (home schooling and RKBA). For the current
attack on Texas (TX being a major initial target) consult
any news medium of your choice today.
Then there’s Virginia’s “religious exemption” that literally exempts those homeschooling under it’s umbrella from any regulation at all. Wonder why it wasn’t considered.