I recently read this Reason article about how homeschooling as increased since the pandemic. Some quotes from people who are apparently against homeschooling blew my mind. I had the need to share some comments about them.
“Policymakers should think, ‘Wow — this is a lot of kids,'” Elizabeth Bartholet, an emeritus professor at Harvard Law School told the Post “We should worry about whether they’re learning anything.”
Are these people worried about parents teaching their own kids, rather than the innumerable number of kids in public schools who get socially promoted and graduate without being able to read? To say nothing of the 50+ years of data that show that learning in schools is flatlined.
“I can tell you right now: Many of these parents don’t have any understanding of education,” added one school board member. “The price will be very big to us, and to society. But that won’t show up for a few years.”
Ha ha! Many certified teachers don’t have any understanding of how to teach kids to read! And the price is already humongous.
Homeschools are judged by the worst possible outcomes.
Government schools are judged on their aspirations.
When will these people take their heads out of their butts and see what’s actually going on? What a crazy world we live in.
