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Homeschooling hits record numbers

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191 points bilsbie | 4 comments | 21 Nov 25 00:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.838s | source
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jmathai ◴[21 Nov 25 01:56 UTC] No.46000348[source]▶
I do think Covid forced people to ask questions they hadn’t before.

We have sent our kids to private, poor quality and top rated schools.

We saw a stark difference between the poor quality and higher cost options. No surprise.

But the reason we are considering home schooling our younger kids was surprising. It says something about a system dedicated to teaching children when parents think they can do as well or better.

That’s just education. The social situation in schools is ludicrous. Phones, social media, etc. what a terrible environment we adults have created for kids to learn both educationally and socially.

Home schooling has answers for ALL of that.

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mcphage ◴[21 Nov 25 02:15 UTC] No.46000478[source]▶
> It says something about a system dedicated to teaching children when parents think they can do as well or better.

6% of American think they can beat a grizzly bear in a fight. That says absolutely nothing about the bear, and says a lot about how misinformed people are.

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Brendinooo ◴[21 Nov 25 18:52 UTC] No.46007576[source]▶
This is why it's useful to look up stats when we have them.

For example, homeschooled students do better on the ACT than public school kids.

https://www.act.org/content/dam/act/unsecured/documents/Info...

Obviously the schooling venue itself isn't the only factor here, but if you think homeschooling a kid is worth an analogy to fighting grizzlies, might be worth a reframe.

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1. buellerbueller ◴[21 Nov 25 19:27 UTC] No.46007977[source]▶
I suspect there is a lot of selection bias in that data. My hypothesis is that the homeschooled folks who take the ACT are more likely to do well on the ACT than the homeschooled folks who don't.
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2. Brendinooo ◴[21 Nov 25 19:37 UTC] No.46008083[source]▶
Isn't that true of public school kids who do/don't take the ACT as well?
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3. brewdad ◴[21 Nov 25 20:02 UTC] No.46008328[source]▶
My Title 1 school made the ACT available to all students for free (on one specific date). A lot of kids who were unprepared for the ACT took it because, why not?
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4. SauntSolaire ◴[21 Nov 25 20:17 UTC] No.46008487{3}[source]▶
We didn't have that at my school. Unless it's super widespread, it's probably not what's behind the different test results.