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Hopefully this trend continues!
« on: May 20, 2015, 07:35:11 AM »
NUMBER OF HOMESCHOOLED CHILDREN SOARS IN AMERICA:
UP 61.8% OVER 10 YEARS

by DR. SUSAN BERRY

19 May 2015

Newly released data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that between 2003-2012, the number of American children between ages 5 to 17 who are homeschooled has risen 61.8 percent, and that the percentage homeschooled in that age range has increased from 2.2 to 3.4 percent.

According to data published on May 7 by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in 2003 1,096,000 school-aged children were homeschooled in the U.S., representing 2.2 percent of the total number of students in that age range that year. In 2012, the number homeschooled was 1,773,000, or 3.4 percent of elementary and secondary school-aged children that year.

The increase in the number of children homeschooled between 2003 and 2012 is 677,000, or 61.8 percent.

As CNS News.com observes, "The 677,000 increase in homeschooled students from 2003 to 2012 is more than the populations of Memphis (653,450), Seattle (652,405), Boston (645,966) and Washington, D.C. (646,449)."

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/19/number-of-homeschooled-children-soars-in-america-up-61-8-over-10-years/
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« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2015, 08:50:36 AM »
This is hardly a good thing.

Not all, and probably not most, parents are capable of educating their children.
Is is a good idea to have thiusands of citizens who think that Jesus is coming next Tuesday and who think that the world is 4000 years old and that modern science is false and a fraud?

Because that is where home schooling gets you if the parents are fundamentalists. Ignorant hicks we have too many of already.
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« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2015, 10:50:17 AM »
Where as public school gets you propagandized drones, supportive of leftist causes & Government control.  Oh wait, that's a good thing, right?
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« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2015, 11:51:22 AM »
I see no evidence of this.

I have seen some really ignorant HS graduates, but most of them are utterly clueless about any sort of politics. If they are drones of anyone, it would be Drones of Eminem or Kanye West
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« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2015, 03:55:56 PM »
I see no evidence of this.

Of course not.  Your blinders are faithfully afixed.  Alas some students do manage to develop their own sense of right and wrong outside of the Public school systems and teachers' unions attempt to accomplish
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« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2015, 08:14:30 PM »
I have taught in unionized high schools in WA, MD and FL, and NEVER have I seen anything from any union group telling any teacher what to teach.

There are some parents who are qualified to teach their own kids. There are a lot of them who are not.
It is one thing to know stuff and quite another to be able to get children interested in learning it.

Charter school are also a mixed bag. Some are better than the public schools, others are just a ruse for a bunch of people who know NOTHING about education rip off the public.  Read about the sad fate of the Liberty City Charter School that Jebbie Bush helped to start. It closed down after three years or so.

In Florida, the state does not have any requirements for who can run a charter school. Ex cons, convicted flimflam men, unschooled preachers all have started these and many have failed. The one thing that all the charter schools I know about have in common is that the adminostratoirs are paid three or four times as much as in the public schools, and the teachers are lucky to earn even half.

 
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« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2015, 08:28:32 PM »
I have taught in unionized high schools in WA, MD and FL, and NEVER have I seen anything from any union group telling any teacher what to teach.

It's implied...which can be validated by the ongoing examples I've seen by students who secretly videotape some teacher going onto some anti-Republican rant, Anti-Bush rant, Pro-Global warming rant, etc.  And if the students don't comply...so much for your GPA

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« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2015, 11:17:32 PM »
You are an ignorant asshole. Nothing like this ever happens.
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« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2015, 12:26:32 AM »
Blinders still firmly affixed
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« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2015, 09:23:03 AM »
There is nothing to see. You make up imaginary shit and blame me for not seeing it.
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« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2015, 01:36:49 PM »
Again, not every parent is a fit teacher, and some of them are just awful.

The schools in the prosperous school districts are very good, those in poor neighborhoods are generally worse.
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« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2015, 01:46:02 PM »
So much for the idea that "nothing like this ever happens"
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« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2015, 08:23:43 PM »
  Parents who are able should not be prevented from teaching their children.

   There are probably many more than 5% of us able to teach our own children.

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« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2015, 11:08:12 PM »
The percentage that can do a decent job is not the issue. The issue is whether all the parents who are homeschooling are capable, and that is less probable.
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