Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

[Clementine]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

 

[Moonglow]

I did homeschool for the youngest the only problem is science turned out to be Sunday school.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

Homeschooling is a great tool, but your testing stats are skewed. They are skewed by all of the homeschooled kids that do not take the SAT or ACT and all of the public school students who are required to take the test but have no intention of going to college. I find it bizarre that homeschoolers ignore that little factoid when touting their successes. Maybe homeschooling supporters aren't that smart.

 

[SweetSue92]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

I'm a public school teacher, a Christian conservative, and I used to be a vocal advocate for homeschooling. No more. The homeschool advocates burned me way too many times for me to vocally advocate for them anymore. They're on their own--I do not lie or run down homeschooling either, but I no longer go to bat for it when I hear my colleagues run it down, for all kinds of reasons.

But I digress.

Homeschooling is going to find that it has more problems than in the past. For one thing, homeschooling families will not acknowledge the dirty little secret in its ranks: parents who use "homeschooling" to hide abuse and neglect. It's a tiny fraction but you don't do yourselves any favors by pretending it doesn't exist.

Secondly, the proliferation of online schools. That's not so much homeschooling as it is mom and dad don't want to deal with problems at school, so they just pull their kids out and wash their hands of it altogether. Your stats are about to take a serious hit because of this....trust me.

 

[anynameyouwish]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

do you actually WANT "more tolerant" children?

they might "tolerate" gays, gay marriage, gay adoption, atheists, muslims, wiccans, feminists, democrats, liberals, rinos, rational people, people who are NOT nazis, people who are NOT KKK.....

do you really want your children tolerating the very people you hate and want to kill?

 

[RodISHI]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

I'm a public school teacher, a Christian conservative, and I used to be a vocal advocate for homeschooling. No more. The homeschool advocates burned me way too many times for me to vocally advocate for them anymore. They're on their own--I do not lie or run down homeschooling either, but I no longer go to bat for it when I hear my colleagues run it down, for all kinds of reasons.

But I digress.

Homeschooling is going to find that it has more problems than in the past. For one thing, homeschooling families will not acknowledge the dirty little secret in its ranks: parents who use "homeschooling" to hide abuse and neglect. It's a tiny fraction but you don't do yourselves any favors by pretending it doesn't exist.

Secondly, the proliferation of online schools. That's not so much homeschooling as it is mom and dad don't want to deal with problems at school, so they just pull their kids out and wash their hands of it altogether. Your stats are about to take a serious hit because of this....trust me.

I would not trust you with my dogs much less my children or grandchildren.

Most public schools are all about indoctrinating children to accept the views of whoever is in charge of those schools. I know many who do not abide in public education that are so much better equip in real life than the poor drones coming out of the public schools. With the information online there is nothing limiting what can be learned these days. Children and adults alike can expand their knowledge base like no other time in history.

 

[SweetSue92]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

I'm a public school teacher, a Christian conservative, and I used to be a vocal advocate for homeschooling. No more. The homeschool advocates burned me way too many times for me to vocally advocate for them anymore. They're on their own--I do not lie or run down homeschooling either, but I no longer go to bat for it when I hear my colleagues run it down, for all kinds of reasons.

But I digress.

Homeschooling is going to find that it has more problems than in the past. For one thing, homeschooling families will not acknowledge the dirty little secret in its ranks: parents who use "homeschooling" to hide abuse and neglect. It's a tiny fraction but you don't do yourselves any favors by pretending it doesn't exist.

Secondly, the proliferation of online schools. That's not so much homeschooling as it is mom and dad don't want to deal with problems at school, so they just pull their kids out and wash their hands of it altogether. Your stats are about to take a serious hit because of this....trust me.

I would not trust you with my dogs much less my children or grandchildren.

Most public schools are all about indoctrinating children to accept the views of whoever is in charge of those schools. I know many who do not abide in public education that are so much better equip in real life than the poor drones coming out of the public schools. With the information online there is nothing limiting what can be learned these days. Children and adults alike can expand their knowledge base like no other time in history.

Yes, we know. Vaccines = bad, homeschooling = great, public schools = atrocities.

We all know everything on the internet is true, too, such as "online". Yeppers

 

[SweetSue92]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

do you actually WANT "more tolerant" children?

they might "tolerate" gays, gay marriage, gay adoption, atheists, muslims, wiccans, feminists, democrats, liberals, rinos, rational people, people who are NOT nazis, people who are NOT KKK.....

do you really want your children tolerating the very people you hate and want to kill?

Stop projecting

 

[RodISHI]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

I'm a public school teacher, a Christian conservative, and I used to be a vocal advocate for homeschooling. No more. The homeschool advocates burned me way too many times for me to vocally advocate for them anymore. They're on their own--I do not lie or run down homeschooling either, but I no longer go to bat for it when I hear my colleagues run it down, for all kinds of reasons.

But I digress.

Homeschooling is going to find that it has more problems than in the past. For one thing, homeschooling families will not acknowledge the dirty little secret in its ranks: parents who use "homeschooling" to hide abuse and neglect. It's a tiny fraction but you don't do yourselves any favors by pretending it doesn't exist.

Secondly, the proliferation of online schools. That's not so much homeschooling as it is mom and dad don't want to deal with problems at school, so they just pull their kids out and wash their hands of it altogether. Your stats are about to take a serious hit because of this....trust me.

I would not trust you with my dogs much less my children or grandchildren.

Most public schools are all about indoctrinating children to accept the views of whoever is in charge of those schools. I know many who do not abide in public education that are so much better equip in real life than the poor drones coming out of the public schools. With the information online there is nothing limiting what can be learned these days. Children and adults alike can expand their knowledge base like no other time in history.

Yes, we know. Vaccines = bad, homeschooling = great, public schools = atrocities.

We all know everything on the internet is true, too, such as "online". Yeppers

The violent take it by force. Guess that leaves you and the other fascist like you out of the loop (spiritually blind and deaf).

 

[Clementine]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

do you actually WANT "more tolerant" children?

they might "tolerate" gays, gay marriage, gay adoption, atheists, muslims, wiccans, feminists, democrats, liberals, rinos, rational people, people who are NOT nazis, people who are NOT KKK.....

do you really want your children tolerating the very people you hate and want to kill?

Stop painting Republicans as mean. That is what public schools are teaching so you must be fully indoctrinated. Those educated by liberal teachers tend to be much less tolerant of those with different political views.

The article cites actual stats from tests and the attitude of homeschooled children toward those with differing political views. The results are the opposite of what we tend to see in public schools.

I've seen some of the newer text books for our little children. They falsely make the right out to be the bad guys. They attempt to instill a fear of all gun owners. They promote socialism as kind. They even go in depth to teach Islam while making Christians look bad. There is no balance or truth anymore. It's all agenda-driven. Schools are doing away with cursive and some want to ease up on math. English isn't important to them anymore and they welcome multiple languages in class rooms. They only teach them to be tolerant of other leftists but teach them to fear or hate the right.

No wonder that people from all walks of life are embracing homeschooling. A good portion of them are not religious or even Republicans. Just parents who are noticing how messed up the public schools are becoming.

Home school parents are more honest about history so their children know about the Holocaust and how socialism and communism destroy countries. That is why liberals hate them. When children are told the truth instead of propaganda, they learn to think for themselves.

 

[bodecea]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

Nothing wrong with homeschooling. More people should do it, IMO.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

I'm a public school teacher, a Christian conservative, and I used to be a vocal advocate for homeschooling. No more. The homeschool advocates burned me way too many times for me to vocally advocate for them anymore. They're on their own--I do not lie or run down homeschooling either, but I no longer go to bat for it when I hear my colleagues run it down, for all kinds of reasons.

But I digress.

Homeschooling is going to find that it has more problems than in the past. For one thing, homeschooling families will not acknowledge the dirty little secret in its ranks: parents who use "homeschooling" to hide abuse and neglect. It's a tiny fraction but you don't do yourselves any favors by pretending it doesn't exist.

Secondly, the proliferation of online schools. That's not so much homeschooling as it is mom and dad don't want to deal with problems at school, so they just pull their kids out and wash their hands of it altogether. Your stats are about to take a serious hit because of this....trust me.

I'm an advocate of home schooling. Its not something I'd choose but we didn't want our children attending public schools so we went the private school route and we've never regretted that choice.

Ive read about the abuse and such in homeschooling but I don't think it's as rampant as it's being touted by media.

The information about test scores in the OP is revealing and goes along with what I've witnessed in debates our children have where homeschool teams participate. Some of them are damn good.

As for online, our children's school combines online and in class/on campus. Parents love it.

 

[bodecea]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

I'm a public school teacher, a Christian conservative, and I used to be a vocal advocate for homeschooling. No more. The homeschool advocates burned me way too many times for me to vocally advocate for them anymore. They're on their own--I do not lie or run down homeschooling either, but I no longer go to bat for it when I hear my colleagues run it down, for all kinds of reasons.

But I digress.

Homeschooling is going to find that it has more problems than in the past. For one thing, homeschooling families will not acknowledge the dirty little secret in its ranks: parents who use "homeschooling" to hide abuse and neglect. It's a tiny fraction but you don't do yourselves any favors by pretending it doesn't exist.

Secondly, the proliferation of online schools. That's not so much homeschooling as it is mom and dad don't want to deal with problems at school, so they just pull their kids out and wash their hands of it altogether. Your stats are about to take a serious hit because of this....trust me.

I would not trust you with my dogs much less my children or grandchildren.

Most public schools are all about indoctrinating children to accept the views of whoever is in charge of those schools. I know many who do not abide in public education that are so much better equip in real life than the poor drones coming out of the public schools. With the information online there is nothing limiting what can be learned these days. Children and adults alike can expand their knowledge base like no other time in history.

Public schools are the default position and in a way have to be everything to everyone who wants a free education. It was never designed to be something to FORCE parents to send their children to. If you don't like the one-size-fits-all aspect of public education, then homeschooling or private schooling is for you.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

do you actually WANT "more tolerant" children?

they might "tolerate" gays, gay marriage, gay adoption, atheists, muslims, wiccans, feminists, democrats, liberals, rinos, rational people, people who are NOT nazis, people who are NOT KKK.....

do you really want your children tolerating the very people you hate and want to kill?

Stop painting Republicans as mean. That is what public schools are teaching so you must be fully indoctrinated. Those educated by liberal teachers tend to be much less tolerant of those with different political views.

The article cites actual stats from tests and the attitude of homeschooled children toward those with differing political views. The results are the opposite of what we tend to see in public schools.

I've seen some of the newer text books for our little children. They falsely make the right out to be the bad guys. They attempt to instill a fear of all gun owners. They promote socialism as kind. They even go in depth to teach Islam while making Christians look bad. There is no balance or truth anymore. It's all agenda-driven. Schools are doing away with cursive and some want to ease up on math. English isn't important to them anymore and they welcome multiple languages in class rooms. They only teach them to be tolerant of other leftists but teach them to fear or hate the right.

No wonder that people from all walks of life are embracing homeschooling. A good portion of them are not religious or even Republicans. Just parents who are noticing how messed up the public schools are becoming.

Home school parents are more honest about history so their children know about the Holocaust and how socialism and communism destroy countries. That is why liberals hate them. When children are told the truth instead of propaganda, they learn to think for themselves.

The real problem is that schools are different in different parts of the country. I recently retired after 21 years as a middle and high school teacher and administrator. I have three grandchildren in elementary and middle school. Want to know how much I have seen in your post as being true about public schools in my area? They do not teach cursive writing because it is a waste of time. Nothing else you claim is happening has ever been seen.

Public schools get bashed with "well, I have heard..." stories and the media covering isolated incidents in liberal dominated school districts and they paint all schools with a broad brush.

Homeschooling is great for some, private school for others, but the vast majority of America's children attend public schools. They are not as bad as the media pretends them to be, nor is homeschool or private schools the answer to everyone's problems.

 

[SweetSue92]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

do you actually WANT "more tolerant" children?

they might "tolerate" gays, gay marriage, gay adoption, atheists, muslims, wiccans, feminists, democrats, liberals, rinos, rational people, people who are NOT nazis, people who are NOT KKK.....

do you really want your children tolerating the very people you hate and want to kill?

Stop painting Republicans as mean. That is what public schools are teaching so you must be fully indoctrinated. Those educated by liberal teachers tend to be much less tolerant of those with different political views.

The article cites actual stats from tests and the attitude of homeschooled children toward those with differing political views. The results are the opposite of what we tend to see in public schools.

I've seen some of the newer text books for our little children. They falsely make the right out to be the bad guys. They attempt to instill a fear of all gun owners. They promote socialism as kind. They even go in depth to teach Islam while making Christians look bad. There is no balance or truth anymore. It's all agenda-driven. Schools are doing away with cursive and some want to ease up on math. English isn't important to them anymore and they welcome multiple languages in class rooms. They only teach them to be tolerant of other leftists but teach them to fear or hate the right.

No wonder that people from all walks of life are embracing homeschooling. A good portion of them are not religious or even Republicans. Just parents who are noticing how messed up the public schools are becoming.

Home school parents are more honest about history so their children know about the Holocaust and how socialism and communism destroy countries. That is why liberals hate them. When children are told the truth instead of propaganda, they learn to think for themselves.

The real problem is that schools are different in different parts of the country. I recently retired after 21 years as a middle and high school teacher and administrator. I have three grandchildren in elementary and middle school. Want to know how much I have seen in your post as being true about public schools in my area? They do not teach cursive writing because it is a waste of time. Nothing else you claim is happening has ever been seen.

Public schools get bashed with "well, I have heard..." stories and the media covering isolated incidents in liberal dominated school districts and they paint all schools with a broad brush.

Homeschooling is great for some, private school for others, but the vast majority of America's children attend public schools. They are not as bad as the media pretends them to be, nor is homeschool or private schools the answer to everyone's problems.

People are so hilarious about cursive handwriting. I swear our district put a three-week unit back in just to placate old-timers who creak and groan about "I had to do it, so should my kids!!!" allll righty then.

Not everything that you did in school should be continued just because. But this is the thinking, see. I did it, so should they. Whoop de doop.

 

[initforme]

It all depends where one lives. Our public schools here do very well. But we don't deal with all the problems that inner city kids deal with. Very few kids do anything but college and are well prepared for it.

 

[SweetSue92]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

I'm a public school teacher, a Christian conservative, and I used to be a vocal advocate for homeschooling. No more. The homeschool advocates burned me way too many times for me to vocally advocate for them anymore. They're on their own--I do not lie or run down homeschooling either, but I no longer go to bat for it when I hear my colleagues run it down, for all kinds of reasons.

But I digress.

Homeschooling is going to find that it has more problems than in the past. For one thing, homeschooling families will not acknowledge the dirty little secret in its ranks: parents who use "homeschooling" to hide abuse and neglect. It's a tiny fraction but you don't do yourselves any favors by pretending it doesn't exist.

Secondly, the proliferation of online schools. That's not so much homeschooling as it is mom and dad don't want to deal with problems at school, so they just pull their kids out and wash their hands of it altogether. Your stats are about to take a serious hit because of this....trust me.

I'm an advocate of home schooling. Its not something I'd choose but we didn't want our children attending public schools so we went the private school route and we've never regretted that choice.

Ive read about the abuse and such in homeschooling but I don't think it's as rampant as it's being touted by media.

The information about test scores in the OP is revealing and goes along with what I've witnessed in debates our children have where homeschool teams participate. Some of them are damn good.

As for online, our children's school combines online and in class/on campus. Parents love it.

As to the last point--yes, I'm sure online school works great for your population--I don't mean that in the least bit sarcastically. You are already a parent/student population invested enough in children's education that, if your children are enrolled in online classes, the parents will be PARENTS and make sure they follow through.

Some of these online schools--they will act as all kinds of babysitters for parents who are not you and your friends. Parents will pull their kids out of school and say they are "homeschooling", not do the job of homeschooling but just park their kids in front of a computer. It's sad, but oh yeah, it happens.

 

[Unkotare]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

I'm a public school teacher, a Christian conservative, and I used to be a vocal advocate for homeschooling. No more. The homeschool advocates burned me way too many times for me to vocally advocate for them anymore. They're on their own--I do not lie or run down homeschooling either, but I no longer go to bat for it when I hear my colleagues run it down, for all kinds of reasons.

But I digress.

Homeschooling is going to find that it has more problems than in the past. For one thing, homeschooling families will not acknowledge the dirty little secret in its ranks: parents who use "homeschooling" to hide abuse and neglect. It's a tiny fraction but you don't do yourselves any favors by pretending it doesn't exist.

Secondly, the proliferation of online schools. That's not so much homeschooling as it is mom and dad don't want to deal with problems at school, so they just pull their kids out and wash their hands of it altogether. Your stats are about to take a serious hit because of this....trust me.

....

Most public schools are all about indoctrinating children to accept the views of whoever is in charge of those schools. ....

You’re just parroting empty nonsense.

 

[RodISHI]

None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

I'm a public school teacher, a Christian conservative, and I used to be a vocal advocate for homeschooling. No more. The homeschool advocates burned me way too many times for me to vocally advocate for them anymore. They're on their own--I do not lie or run down homeschooling either, but I no longer go to bat for it when I hear my colleagues run it down, for all kinds of reasons.

But I digress.

Homeschooling is going to find that it has more problems than in the past. For one thing, homeschooling families will not acknowledge the dirty little secret in its ranks: parents who use "homeschooling" to hide abuse and neglect. It's a tiny fraction but you don't do yourselves any favors by pretending it doesn't exist.

Secondly, the proliferation of online schools. That's not so much homeschooling as it is mom and dad don't want to deal with problems at school, so they just pull their kids out and wash their hands of it altogether. Your stats are about to take a serious hit because of this....trust me.

....

Most public schools are all about indoctrinating children to accept the views of whoever is in charge of those schools. ....

You’re just parroting empty nonsense.

I lived it not only myself yet my children too already but think as you like because you will anyhow.

 

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None of this is surprising. Children are smarter when homeschooled because parents actually care about teaching their children real history and focus on life skills. Public schools are focused on social justice and less about math, writing, and other necessary subjects.

Children are also more tolerant when homeschooled because, again, parents teach facts. Public schools are brainwashing students into believing only the left's view on the world in hopes they will refuse to tolerate and other views. Considering the safe spaces at colleges so students can be "safe" from hearing dissenting views, it looks like the left's plan is working. They deliberately omit much of history, especially anything proving the failure of socialism and communism. Now, they don't teach cursive. More are failing at math, thanks to common core. All they know is socialism good, capitalism bad, even though none that have been interviewed during protests can begin to explain the difference, let along why they think one is better. Considering that these teens are carrying expensive phones and dressing in nice clothing certainly doesn't scream socialism. So clueless as to how the world works and about how their favorite things even exist.


"Let's look at traditional measures of academic achievement.

In 2014, SAT "test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year," according to NHERI.

"Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

By contrast public school kids "bombed the SAT" reports Bloomberg. Mixed, but generally disappointing results since then have education experts worry that many public school graduates are unprepared for either higher education or the workforce.

No wonder colleges not only welcome, but actively recruit, homeschooled applicants.

But what about the impact of DIY education on the larger world—say, the development of "parallel societies" that Germany cites as grounds for banning the practice? We should be so lucky—homeschoolers seem inclined to create better societies.

"Students with greater exposure to homeschooling tend to be more politically tolerant—a finding contrary to the claims of many political theorists," reports research published in the Journal of School Choice. Defined as "the willingness to extend civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees," this finding of greater political tolerance among the homeschooled has important ramifications in this factionalized and illiberal era.

"In other words," writes author Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform, "members of the very group for which public schooling is believed to be most essential for inculcating political tolerance (i.e., those who are more strongly committed to a particular worldview and value system) actually exhibit at least as much or more tolerance when they are exposed to less public schooling."

All of that is very promising if you're a parent trying to do the best by your kids. But government officials see threat where parents and children find promise."

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That

I'm a public school teacher, a Christian conservative, and I used to be a vocal advocate for homeschooling. No more. The homeschool advocates burned me way too many times for me to vocally advocate for them anymore. They're on their own--I do not lie or run down homeschooling either, but I no longer go to bat for it when I hear my colleagues run it down, for all kinds of reasons.

But I digress.

Homeschooling is going to find that it has more problems than in the past. For one thing, homeschooling families will not acknowledge the dirty little secret in its ranks: parents who use "homeschooling" to hide abuse and neglect. It's a tiny fraction but you don't do yourselves any favors by pretending it doesn't exist.

Secondly, the proliferation of online schools. That's not so much homeschooling as it is mom and dad don't want to deal with problems at school, so they just pull their kids out and wash their hands of it altogether. Your stats are about to take a serious hit because of this....trust me.

....

Most public schools are all about indoctrinating children to accept the views of whoever is in charge of those schools. ....

You’re just parroting empty nonsense.

I lived it not only myself yet my children too already but think as you like because you will anyhow.

I KNOW you’re just parroting nonsense because unlike you, I actually know what I’m talking about.