The Homeschoolers
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It's a bit too political at times, but a video from Vice on the current homeschooling movement.
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Seems like it can only scale so much. It’s too much work for most.
I got a taste of this in the spring of 2020.
I can see sending a kid to private school, but not this.@jon-nyc said in The Homeschoolers:
Seems like it can only scale so much. It’s too much work for most.
I got a taste of this in the spring of 2020.
I can see sending a kid to private school, but not this.Homeschooling isn’t really homeschooling anymore. At the HS level, a local Homeschool Co-op that costs $1200 have Physics Classes taught by a Lead Orbital Mechanics Engineer from Lockheed Martin. Biology taught by a researcher at NIH, and so on…
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It does vary. We have a local co-op that meets at a local Baptist church a couple of days a week. Those meetings are for parents to exchange ideas, to schedule music lessons, for the drama club and to schedule out the few athletics the association offers (soccer, basketball, softball and baseball).
The kids are schooled by parents at home or they are schooled in "clusters". Those clusters run the gamut from three or four kids pooled from a couple of different families with one teacher, to an almost one-room schoolhouse approach with 10 or 15 kids of varying ages.
For most people, it tends to work. I think the toughest way to go, is with one parent and their children, at home. Combining up with other families in the clusters, allows parents to hire a teacher or take turns teaching the subject matter they know best..
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it’s moving beyond where it was 20 years ago… I worked at a “Home School Convention” back in the mid-2000’s offering music lesson programs and such. All of the curriculum on display were of two types. One had books titled “Why do we have 2 eyes, 2 arms, and 2 legs? Because God loves the number 2!” and the other was kind of a weird mix between Earth Mothers and Conspiracy Theorists. Today there are legitimate opportunities.
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as the homeschooling community and private schools grow, funding gets cut for the public schools which then feeds into more people going to private schools or homeschooling…Sooner or later you build more momentum towards school choice.
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