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Depends a lot on the parents, can be very good or not. Let's say homeschooling is high variance outcomes, public education seeks homogenized outcomes.
by dpoochieni 6y ago
Depends a lot on the parents, can be very good or not. Let's say homeschooling is high variance outcomes, public education seeks homogenized outcomes.
- ghaff 6y ago>public education seeks homogenized outcomes I'm not so sure it's actively seeking homogenized outcomes so much as prioritizing getting (most) students through at some fairly unambitious level over doing the most they can for top achievers even if that means lots of others get left behind.
- OJFord 6y agoThere is incentive to push pupils up the bell curve to the mean, and incentive to push (the big heavy) bulk of the curve to the right, but much less incentive to push them down the other side.
- potta_coffee 6y agoDo you know the variance in homeschool outcomes or public education outcomes? Or are you just guessing? I'm going to make my own guess that the the outcome for public or home education heavily depends on the family environment.
- dpoochieni 6y agoIt is quite evident in my experience. Has yours been different? If you want to read some eye opening stuff(it was for me), I suggest looking into the history of public education. Let's just say the American elites talked about this quite openly in the 18th century. Look into how Andrew Bell, impressed with the educational system in India, (particularly with it use in maintaining the caste system), went on to become a schoolteacher in America. His ideas do find plenty of expression up to this day. Unfortunately, of course.