Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form...
by ethbr1 on Thursday November 02, 2023 @07:54AM
(#38112212)
It's probably not productive to make generalizations based on examples of excess... for either approach.
If an argument is based on a single specific case, then an extreme argument can be constructed about anything.
E.g. public school teachers duct taping students to desks
E.g. home schooling parents sexually abusing their children
These things happen at non-zero rates, but neither are representative of the general population.
Yesterday, there was a teach complaining that they weren't allowed to flunk students who did not show up for class. For middle school. They weren't allowed to flunk students who scored 0% on tests, because they would sit at the back of class and play on smartphones the entire time, or disruptively talk to other students.
When they would demand from administration some kind of answer, they'd be told they weren't doing enough to engage the students.
You claim there are minimum standards, and technically that's true... any of us could look those standards up on the internet in only a moment, those standards are ignored for some incredibly large fraction of public schools.
> If homeschools had surprise inspections and biannual state-run testing, I'd be fine with it.
The great thing is, I don't have to put up with you being fine with how my wife and I teach our children. We don't have to answer to you.
I'm not just a contrarian here. You are fine with what the public schools are doing, right now. Your oversight, such as it is, doesn't seem to be effective at doing any of the things that I could want. It does lead me to be suspicious about what it is that you want.