Homeschooling Offers Hope

The New American ^ | Tuesday, 08 December 2015 | John Larabell

[cornelis]

Now if we could just get to step two and get tax monies redirected! Another great innovative idea, csivils!

[EternalVigilance]

Bump.

[Sopater]

Now if we could just get to step two and get tax monies redirected! Another great innovative idea, csivils!

Tax reimbursements would be a great idea. Getting gov't monies out of education would be even better, IMHO.

[cornelis]

simply is not needed

FYI, that idea in that phrase has nourished socialist politics for a long time already!

[csivils]

Funny, you could say the same thing about leaving it to those who “know” and govt institutions are best.

[TalonDJ]

“But precollegiate schooling via the parents is terribly inefficient.”

Only if you set the value of ‘time spent by an adult’ as constant and are willing to take less overall outcome in return for saving a lot of hours of adult time. If you weight the outcomes more highly then public school shows up as such a massive waste of time it isn’t funny. I am raising a supercar, not a hatchback. my goal is Maximum performance and morals. Efficiency only comes into play when points of diminishing returns are reached.

[csivils]

Studies have shown that success of a homeschool student is not correlated with the education level of the parents, the socioeconomic level of the family, or the race of the family. The same is not true for public schools. It is a system where the thing that matters the most is the effort and care of the parents, sounds like capitalism to me

[cornelis]

Yes. I’m glad you see it.

As any close reading of Plato would teach, it’s not an issue between homeschooling and public school.

The real issue is between good and bad public schooling, or good and bad homeschooling.

[Sopater]

The real issue is between good and bad public schooling, or good and bad homeschooling.

And due to the unique relationship that exists between a parent and a child, "good homeschooling" and even "bad government schooling" is much more likely to occur than "bad homeschooling".

[cornelis]

But you hardly need to argue that. The other arguments are much more difficult.

[SaraJohnson]

There are few to no “master teachers” in public schools.

[SaraJohnson]

My son had tutors from Harvard in the sixth and seventh grades for math and science. Parents don’t have to be everything in homeschool.

[cornelis]

My argument is about schooling in general, not home or public. If there are no master teachers, we are not competitive.

[Sopater]

The other arguments are much more difficult.

... I think that the other arguments are unnecessary.

[Sopater]

If there are no master teachers, we are not competitive.

Have you seen how "competitive" gov't schools are lately? That could be about the truest statement you have made thus far.

[cornelis]

You don’t care for division of labor?

[cornelis]

Two great writers promoted the division of labor: Adam Smith and St. Paul.

[Sopater]

You don’t care for division of labor?

It has value, but is not high on my priority list.

[Sopater]

Two great writers promoted the division of labor: Adam Smith and St. Paul.

For the education of children?

[cornelis]

... I think that the other arguments are unnecessary.

Arguments regarding what is good or bad about anything are the stuff of politics. It aims to the more fundamental questions of who we are and we should be. I would persuade anyone to make them preeminently necessary.