Science And Data Say School Reopening Is Safe, So Why Do Democrats Oppose It?

It’s tough for most parents to teach Calculus and physics, even if they had the time—25% of parents are single moms. Everyone is working, and if not, probably not capable of teaching at the high school level.

I do not want to sound argumentative, but finding a way doesn't necessarily require parents to do the teaching of physics and calc. It is a problem to be solved ... perhaps with other parents that have the knowledge or using pre-canned curriculum with videos.

Our focus in homeschooling was to create self-learners. It is amazing what kids can do if they learn the basics and simply learn how to learn. My daughters basically went through high-school on their own. There are free resources all over the internet. For instance, both of my girls took linear algebra from MIT using MIT's OpenCourseWare (now EdX). They did that in what would have been 10th grade going onto 11th. We didn't keep schedules, as in, once a topic/course was mastered, they moved on to something more advanced that requiring what they have already learned. (Use it or lose it mentality) Government schools lose kids in STEM for the following reasons: Mindless and boring repetition, teaching to the lowest denominator, teachers who do not know how to teach, not teaching kids how to learn, lack of challenge, lack of expectation and busy work that that takes away from learning more difficult subjects or just having fun as a kid. My opinion of teachers and how education works is very low because despite all the busy work teachers do and all the extra mandatory master's level education they receive they have not raised the bar in education in America.

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