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Home schooling is dangerous
MikeDamone
Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,781
Kids will need to go to gulags later in life if they don't go to the leftist indoctrination centers earlier.
https://harvardmagazine.com/2020/05/right-now-risks-homeschooling
All the smart Jane Jacobs readers say so.
https://harvardmagazine.com/2020/05/right-now-risks-homeschooling
All the smart Jane Jacobs readers say so.
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"Children should “grow up exposed to...democratic values, ideas about nondiscrimination and tolerance of other people's viewpoints.”
That statement is so ironic. They don't like the fact that others have different world views and need to squash those ASAP. But are concerned kids won't be exposed to others view points.
Why not both?
https://www.city-journal.org/harvard-conference-purported-dangers-of-homeschooling
She presents one study to support her concern about academic outcomes, noting that “methodologically sound studies of the more successful subsets of homeschoolers also reveal problems. One found that while overall the homeschoolers who took standardized tests did slightly better than public schoolers, there was a huge divergence between homeschoolers receiving structured as versus unstructured home education. Those receiving unstructured education, as many homeschoolers do, scored significantly lower than public schoolers.”
Bartholet is distorting the study’s conclusions, to put it politely. The researchers found that the two-thirds of homeschooled students in their sample who received a structured curriculum did dramatically better than public school students. Unstructured homeschool student performance was either slightly below or statistically indistinguishable from that of public school students, depending on the analytic methodology employed. Most policy analysts would see these findings as demonstrating the remarkable success of homeschooling. It would require extraordinary confirmation bias to read these findings as evidence that homeschooling should be banned.
Bartholet’s article does point out that the lack of regulation of homeschooling enables some terrible parents to hide their child abuse from authorities. How many? She has no clue. And given that safety is a motivating factor for about 80 percent of homeschooling parents, she has no way of knowing whether a ban would decrease or increase the sum total of child suffering.