Re:For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the ...
by ryandrake on Saturday August 26, 2023 @02:19PM
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This being HN, a site full of mostly successful folks, we are likely to only hear the anecdotal success stories of homeschooling posted here, and not the failure stories. For every gushing "I was homeschooled and I now run my own $50M company!" story, how many are not getting posted that amount to "I was homeschooled and the only book I read was the bible. I don't know 4th grade math, am unemployable and trapped as someone's housewife." Are there even published statistics about this?
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Re:For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the ...
by voisin on Saturday August 26, 2023 @02:55PM
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The same could be said about regular public schools too, no? I know a number of people that went to a local religious school and they came out with excellent understanding of the bible and quickly married off and started having children rather than pursuing advanced education.
Re:For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the ...
by ecshafer on Saturday August 26, 2023 @07:44PM
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Would it be better if they had went to get an advanced education in the humanities and had excellent knowledge of Walden, anthropological studies of papua new guinea, and intersectional feminism? Most people are not studying mathematics, science or engineering in university. A good knowledge of the bible, outside of social signaling, is just as useful to most people's careers and lives as most of the things most people learn in advanced education.
Re:For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the ...
by BeetleB on Saturday August 26, 2023 @02:57PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling#Research
There is some good research, but be wary. A lot of the research is done by pro-homeschooling institutions.