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Homeschooling hits record numbers

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193 points bilsbie | 2 comments | 21 Nov 25 00:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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ec2y ◴[21 Nov 25 03:03 UTC] No.46000762[source]▶
Lemme just question how home schooling is at all possible without one parent (statically more likely to be a woman) staying home to supervise the learning. I don’t think we’re talking about remote ranch situations where you either do online school or have to send them to boarding school.

So I’m genuinely wondering if there’s a corresponding exit from the workplace or other demographic trends allowing/pushing this boom in home schooling to happen?

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JKCalhoun ◴[21 Nov 25 19:38 UTC] No.46008092[source]▶
Interesting point. I know of one home-schooling family—and the wife quit her career to homeschool.

Is this family well off financially? Of course they are. I suspect the data on homeschoolers is going to reflect a generally affluent slant.

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1. gred ◴[21 Nov 25 19:49 UTC] No.46008184[source]▶
Anecdotally, I know of one child who was homeschooled recently. The mother is a single mother, of modest middle-class means. There was a homeschooling group nearby with a few volunteer mothers handling most of the logistics and teaching. This particular mother did not have to give up her job. It does stretch the definition of "homeschooling" a bit when it's a neighbor teaching in a neighbor's home, but they made it work.
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2. ryandrake ◴[21 Nov 25 22:36 UTC] No.46009852[source]▶
Yea, that does stretch it. At some point, it becomes less "homeschooling" and more "an unlicensed private school." Uber for Schools?