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Homeschooling hits record numbers

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193 points bilsbie | 3 comments | 21 Nov 25 00:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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jayd16 ◴[21 Nov 25 19:37 UTC] No.46008078[source]▶
Covid showed me that on the average home schooling (or at least remote learning) leaves kids extremely under developed.

The stunted social and academic skills were pretty apparent in retrospect once the schools reopened.

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1. BJones12 ◴[21 Nov 25 19:48 UTC] No.46008175[source]▶
Remote learning. You didn't see homeschooling, which is a very different thing, you saw remote learning.

The homeschooling crowd has developed methods over the years to compensate. The COVID remote learning cohort did not, and suffered for it.

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2. lazyasciiart ◴[21 Nov 25 22:49 UTC] No.46009968[source]▶
Remote learning has also built many methods for success, and absolutely nobody even consulted them before implementing their ad hoc systems for Covid. There are entire online public schools and their staff were just ignored.
3. FireBeyond ◴[22 Nov 25 01:52 UTC] No.46011334[source]▶
Have they?

And what ensures they utilize those methods, exactly? Many states you, as a kid are 100% educationally off the grid the moments say "We're homeschooling".