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Homeschooling hits record numbers

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193 points bilsbie | 4 comments | 21 Nov 25 00:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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csense ◴[21 Nov 25 02:04 UTC] No.46000402[source]▶
Anecdotally, two factors at work here:

- Schools have stopped educating in favor of test metrics, making sure the worst students pass, and pushing borderline indoctrination of controversial, left-ish values.

- With remote education during the pandemic, people have more visibility into their school's day-to-day teaching.

It's hard to fix the US education system by political means. If you have the ability to do so, it's comparatively much easier to pull your kids out and homeschool them.

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mcphage ◴[21 Nov 25 02:18 UTC] No.46000489[source]▶
> pushing borderline indoctrination of controversial, left-ish values

I wonder what sort of values they’re indoctrinating their kids with instead.

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1. jimmygrapes ◴[21 Nov 25 03:11 UTC] No.46000806[source]▶
I expected this comment coming into the thread. I would just like to point out that there is a huge range of options between those two extremes!

If is entirely possible to teach up a child to be curious AND well rounded in the basics (see also concepts of Trivarium and Quadrivium, sorry can't link the references atm).

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2. mcphage ◴[21 Nov 25 03:27 UTC] No.46000916[source]▶
> there is a huge range of options between those two extremes!

Which two extremes would those be?

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3. echelon_musk ◴[21 Nov 25 19:03 UTC] No.46007701[source]▶
Presumably the extremes of left and right?
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4. jen20 ◴[21 Nov 25 19:41 UTC] No.46008120{3}[source]▶
(Which are, of course, far more similar than people that identify with either extreme would ever admit).