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

Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by whatshisface on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:43PM (#38091816)

I don't think it's ever going to be possible to separate the outcomes of homeschooling from the selection of parents who desire to homeschool, but this overall neutral study (I'm not really arguing that homeschooling is a great thing just that it is okay) doesn't find evidence of the three out of four thing that you encountered extending to the whole population. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580227/

My honest sympathies to your friends.

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by escapedmoose on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @08:15AM (#38097240)

From your link, homeschooling is…

> negatively associated with college degree attainment (RR = 0.77, 95% CI: 0.67, 0.88) and possibly with greater risk of posttraumatic stress disorder.

I’m sure I’m just unlucky and that the 3/4 abuse ratio doesn’t hold for the broader population. Higher rate of PTSD is suspect though.

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