Homeschooling hits record numbers

When a social failure happens at a public school - a child fails a class, drugs are found, a teenager gets pregnant, there’s a fight - most people don't question the public school system itself. But when a social failure happens to a homeschooler, we wonder if the system of _homeschooling_ is broken.

In reality, stories of homeschooling failure are probably no more common than stories of failure in public high school, they're simply more attention-grabbing.

The adults I know who are most against homeschooling today are the ones who were homeschooled themselves. Maybe it's just a pendulum.

I was homeschooled. I'm doing the same with my children.

The person who you are replying to is stating a different implication: hates homeschooling -> was homeschooled

You are saying: was homeschooled -> likes it and will do the same with his/her kids

The adults I know who are most against public school went to public schools themselves.

The adults I know most against college went to college themselves.

The adults I know most against private high schools went to private high schools themselves.

Being really negative about your own education is an American tradition!

I think this is likely because people (accurately, in my opinion) attribute behavioral problems with kids to the level and quality of involvement of the parents at home, so it would be bizarre to attribute a child getting caught with drugs at school to the public school system itself.

The problem is that homeschooling is extremely bimodal (and the split at least used to be pretty even). It tends to be either very good or very bad.

In particular, the "unschooling" approach (not always named such) is almost universally terrible.

But most of the homeschooled kids I know now are in healthy co-ops with defined curricula and socialization.

I think that’s right…

I wish there was another word other than homeschooling for “the parents who are trying to hide the fact that their teenager can’t read.”

Because it’s a real group but yea we are in a co-op that’s a wonderful balance between being in a classroom and being at home more than he would be with public school.