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Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning by Polylactic_acid on Thursday October 01, 2020 @12:33AM (#24647364)
There is probably a bias of people who choose to home school. The home schooled person I know was home schooled because their parents were deeply religious and didn't want a school teaching their child unapproved content but they also didn't have the skill or time to properly educate on things like math so they ended up far behind others.

How many people that homeschool are actually knowledgeable enough and have the free time to replace full time teachers.

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Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning by imtringued on Thursday October 01, 2020 @03:57AM (#24648521)
I'm thinking that even if you are a competent "home teacher" you would still fall behind in areas that are outside your expertise. You'd need a collective of home teachers at which point all the perceived benefits of homeschooling disappear because you're handing your child to those weird teachers who aren't you.
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Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning by surge on Thursday October 01, 2020 @10:37AM (#24651303)
At the elementary level, most people don't need child development courses to understand their own kids, its only needed to manage classrooms. So its not hard. But two college educated parents can run circles around professional teachers when you factor in the individualized focus given.
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