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“Socio-economic factors may have a lot to do with why home schoolers do so much better. Virtually all have a mother and a father who are living together. Nearly two-thirds of fathers and 62 percent of mothers have a bachelor’s degree or higher.”
Furthermore, I suspect that most home schoolers are white, while the blacks and hispanics drag down the scores of the non home schoolers.
Don’t home-schooled kids always win the Spelling Bee nowadays?
Home schooling is the only way the average family has to fight back against the government indoctrination and low learning expectations of government schools. No wonder the government hates it and tries hard to repress home schooling.
But, we are winning. The next round of policy-makers will have a higher percentage of home schooled people and the round after that even more. This is the natural result of better preparation and intelligence.
Yea but, has the students need for mental health services been met, phyc care, family intervention, nutritional service like school breakfast lunch and dinner, after hour recreation programs, social service programs, food stamps social secuirty, disability welfare?
Any conservative who still allows their children to attend public schools, is essentially turning them over to Big Brother and his degraded minions.
Quite frankly, it’s child abuse, and an abdication of personal responsibility at this point.
Before anyone flames me for being insensitive to those parents who can’t afford private school for their kids, or who have to have both parents working to make ends meet, let me just say that it’s better to scale back on your lifestyle requirements so that one parent can stay home and devote themselves to the proper rearing and education of the kids.
That’s the path that my family chose more than a decade ago, and my kids are immeasurably better off because of it.
It's simply impossible for any government or private school teacher to know, love and serve a child, like a parent does, or to compete with a 24/7 tutor.
Nevertheless, there are many single parents, and some parents who are abusive, who can't homeschool, and should be provided with school vouchers. But there is absolutely no justification, under our Constitution, for our current school funding system.
Homeschoolers now represent 5% of the school-age population, the number having doubled in the last 15 years. In another ten years, the number will equal the private school population (10%). At that time, one out of five children will have escaped the schoolag archipelago. That's enough for a social revolution.
I think if you took any classroom, be it public or homeschool, and filled it with a one teacher per every couple of kids, there would be high tests scores.
Because of this homeschooling is elitist and racist.
A big part of the reason for the high scores is that home schooled kids have exceptionally knowledgeable and talented faculty.
I’ve traveled all over the United States over the course of the last thirty-five years, and generally, wherever I go, I can spot homeschooled kids in a crowd. They’re much better behaved. They interact much better with adults and other children. They’re a lot more attentive to what is going on around them. They act like the decent, individual, unique persons God made them to be.
Institutionalized kids on the other hand usually seem to be living in a completely different reality. You have to work at it to get their attention long enough to feel like they’re in contact with reality.
Just my opinion and observations.