Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education

Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by pjc50 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:22AM (#38086218)

So .. I was homeschooled for a couple of years, in the UK, and had a relatively normal if solitary experience. But that was because my mother was a qualified teacher who'd stopped working, and I was a smart kid. This left me naturally favourable to the idea.

Since then it's become clear that there are basically two categories of homeschoolers: those that want to bring in extra education beyond what the public school system can deliver, and those that want to bring in less education than the public system. Usually in the name of "protecting" them from some information for religious reasons. That's where all the attention and concern is. Because children can't advocate for themselves, especially against their parents.

(The UK had a recent scandal with illegal schools: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/apr/12/ofsted-unc... ; running a school for money - heck, even offering a childminding service for money - without registering with OFSTED is definitely illegal, while homeschooling is legal by default https://www.gov.uk/home-education )

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by pixl97 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:54AM (#38086808)

This too is my experience.

I grew up in a place with a large number of religious organizations and outcome of this is what I would consider abuse in a huge number of cases. Would the children themselves think so at the time, kinda hard when you're taught "spare the rod, spoil the child" and "Of course the Earth is only 6000 years old" daily.

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by WoodEye on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @10:45PM (#38094026)

I guarantee you (and the data backs this up) that the home schooled religious kids that are taught the earth is 6,000 years old and were spanked can run circles academically around the average public school kid.

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by LeonB on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:00PM (#38094130)

You didn’t provide “the data” - and I doubt it backs up your specific claim here.

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by WoodEye on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:13AM (#38095124)

The data has been posted elsewhere in this post but here is some more below [0]. Why do you assume religious homeschoolers would perform worse than non-religious homeschoolers? Thanks for downvote :)

[0] 78% of peer-reviewed studies on academic achievement show homeschool students perform statistically significantly better than those in institutional schools (Ray, 2017). Source and lots of other good tidbits: https://www.nheri.org/research-facts-on-homeschooling/#:~:te....)

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by LeonB on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @08:26AM (#38097318)

You did provide some “data” and it doesn’t mention your specific claim.

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by WoodEye on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:35AM (#38109716)

I’m not sure why you would even distinguish religious home schoolers from non religious. Some quick googling shows that 90% of home school parents are religious which would back up my claim. I’m sorry you hate religious people?

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by LeonB on Friday November 03, 2023 @06:57AM (#38126875)

Your specific claim was not about religious versus non religious students. It was about a very narrow subset of students.

Your continual assumptions about me are both wrong and offensive.

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