More parents are “dropping out” of public schools in the interests of better education for their kids, a new study reports.
And, there are more reasons parents are taking the home-school choice alternative – reasons that indicate public schools are not meeting student needs despite all the “noise” about how diverse our public school system has become.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Home-schooling on the Rise
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Too many home schoolers are simply using that loophole to put their children to work at a young age--to hell with them getting an education, is the attitude of too many home schoolers.
All home schooled children should have to take and pass standardized testing to see if they're getting the foundations of a good education to be able to compete in a growing, world-wide competitive economy.
There are some good home schooled programs out there, but just how many are getting that kind of education seems to be an elusive figure. That has to change.
Hempy, I don't think there are any credible numbers to support the supposed problem of parents abusing homeschooling (A problem may exist, but there simply hasn't been credible research. Mostly, this is a convenient excuse for people who don't like homeschooling).
Also, what "standardized test" would you use (Certainly not the CATS test, I hope)?
Returning to my first comment, let's consider the relative magnitude of the potential problem here. The last time I checked, the entire grade K to 12 homeschool population was about equal in size to the credibly calculated dropout figure from each class of public school graduates between 9th and 12th grade. Let's worry about the big problems first. With only about 1,000 homeschoolers per grade on average in Kentucky, the public school dropout problem is cleary a much larger issue.
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