They’re all crooked.
Children don’t have rights independent of their parents’ rights?
How many more?
A coworker of mine (homeschooled til college masters in statistics) actually likes to talk about this stat, as a homeschooled stats person. Within the homeschool subset, it’s very widely known that number is correlated so strongly because of the high level of involvement it takes to adequately homeschool your child. The vast majority of people know they’re quite literally not up for the task, and correctly make the decision not to, as it sounds terrifying to fuck up your kids education.
Basically, how difficult the process is at face value weeds out most people who aren’t going to put in enough work to avoid failure. Inherently learning from your parents doesn’t correlate that strongly to test scores.
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Statistics for those home schooled need to be taken in context. Most kids with learning disabilities, low IQ’s, and shitty home lives are not home schooled, so comparing that demographic against public schools isn’t apples to apples.
Also, take into consideration that those that are home schooled now longer count in their public schools performance, thus lowering that school’s statistics.
I am not against home schooling at all, though I do think it needs to be balanced with other means of socializing kids. I just don’t think comparing home school, or private school, or charter school scores to public school scores is valid.
My district spends $35K per year per pupil, and the vast majority of that expense is Special Ed accommodations, something non-public schools don’t have to deal with.
And, I know, that is an ungodly amount of money, #LongIslandCrazy.
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So you’re saying that in order to home school your kids you have to first give a damn about your kids and try hard? Absolutely.
I was just free-form ranting about the government getting between parents and children. Like when they try to restrict homeschooling.
Never meant to imply that homeschooling was right for everyone. As a matter of fact if I had to re-learn calculus or physics to teach it to my kid… there’s just no way I’d have the inclanation or patience.
All of them, clearly…
So you’re implying this “mandate” is for the child’s rights?
Oh no, the dreaded question that begins with “so you’re.”
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I’m saying it’s laughably ignorant to think homeschooling is a viable option for all but a small segment of the population. For a slew of reasons.
This is actually a factor we see with the huge dropoff in homeschooling around HS ages. It’s another thing that leads to the test scores for homeschools which are absolutely not reflective of what the average citizen would achieve.
What subjects are these test scores reflecting? I don’t think physics and calculus are part of government standardized tests.
Well, is that what you’re implying or are you going to deflect some more?
I was asking a question.
That legislation and progressivism in general is just dripping with toxic femininity.
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It’s been hit by others but the statistic is pretty flawed. It’s like when people want to have merit pay for teachers based on test scores. I can suck as a teacher but give me affluent kids with involved parents and they will do just fine without me. I can be a rockstar teacher in an impoverished community and not touch them. It’s like football coaching in a sense. A good coach can improve a poor team and win some games but isn’t going to win the super bowl.
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She’s 29 - stop cat calling her you creep-o
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That ingrained toxic masculinity is at it again!
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These products better not be made by corporations.
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Don’t worry, she wasn’t product placementy (not a word).
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She still turns me on.
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