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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by ReallyOldLurker on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:29PM (#38093179)
I'm not surprised at the rise in homeschooling.

When you have anti-education groups like the Oregon Department of Education [1] running the public school system, any parent that cares and can make the effort should remove their child from public schooling.

This semester they switched my son from high-school chemistry to "environmental science". I asked him, "is oxygen flammable?" He couldn't answer. I looked at the content of the so called environmental science. Its really just a repeat of some basic biology material that he covered last year and lots of politics on pollution and climate change.

[1] https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2023/10/oregon-again-sa...

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by unsubstantiated on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @09:51PM (#38093716)
Running away from the problem will only make it worse.
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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by bequanna on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @10:02PM (#38093767)
If you can’t kill the beast you can at least try to starve it.
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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by plussed_reader on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @10:55PM (#38094097)
Always disappointing to see grover norquist represented in chat.
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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by ninkendo on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @07:52AM (#38097068)
Yeah fuck all those kids whose parents can’t take the time off work to home school their kids, or who can’t afford private school. Let’s just keep starving them of resources until the problem goes away somehow. Just leave them all behind. Unrelated question, why is our voting population so uneducated and why do they continue to elect such anti-science politicians? Are these problems maybe related?
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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by RuleOfBirds on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:20PM (#38094269)
Implying "instead of path B, which is good for your child, do path A, which is bad for your child, to prevent A from becoming an even worse option?"
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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by cooper_ganglia on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:58AM (#38098248)
“Sacrifice your child for the greater good of society!”
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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by anon291 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:05AM (#38099184)
Will it though? The pilgrims ran away from Britain with unashamed success. Running away turned them from oppressed minority group to the founding members of the richest, most prosperous, strongest society on the face of the earth
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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by stevedewald on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:15PM (#38094234)
Is oxygen flammable? I’m pretty well-educated and that question gave me pause. I know oxygen is involved in the combustion process, so I think the answer is yes, oxygen is flammable. That feels like a trick question though.
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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by nearbuy on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:55PM (#38094460)
It is a tricky question, especially if you don't remember the precise definition of combustible/flammable. I believe only the fuel (the thing getting oxidized) in the reaction is considered combustible/flammable, not the oxidizing agent. So oxygen isn't flammable.
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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by ndriscoll on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:50PM (#38105007)
I imagine GGP would accept "what we call combustion is an exothermic (hence, fire is hot) redox reaction. Oxygen is a common oxidizing agent (hence, 'oxidation')" as an answer, and the point being made wasn't about the trivia around exact word usage.
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