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People with money homeschool, with much better results. There's even small homeschooling groups that pool resources to hire the best tutors money can buy. Home
by 0xy 3y ago
People with money homeschool, with much better results. There's even small homeschooling groups that pool resources to hire the best tutors money can buy.
Homeschooling is exploding exponentially, doubling from 2012 to 2023 and a large portion of the parents who pulled kids from schools during COVID simply aren't going back.
Understandable, because the quality of education is extremely poor. Unqualified parents homeschooling literally produce better outcomes.
Not to mention the violence in public schools (which is escalating), and the abuse from teachers that the major US teaching unions ritually cover up (the teacher's unions vehemently defend predator teachers).
Teachers unions are in the business of protecting predators, financially and with predator-friendly policy like union-decided arbitration venues. [1]
[1] https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/campbell-brown-teachers-unions-going-msna36251 https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/campbell-brown-teachers-un...
- astrange 3y ago> Homeschooling is exploding exponentially, doubling from 2012 to 2023 Two data points can't show something is exponential! Also, it can't possibly be exponential because the US population is not growing exponentially.
- logicchains 3y ago>Also, it can't possibly be exponential because the US population is not growing exponentially This is completely wrong. The fraction of home-schooled students could e.g have been increasing from 0.02% to 0.04% to 0.08% to 0.16% even if the overall population wasn't growing at all, and that's considered exponential growth. Clearly there are indeed problems with US maths education.
- astrange 3y agoAnd then after another 6 doubling periods it'd get to 10%, will it? Exponential till it's not isn't exponential, it's logistic.
- denton-scratch 3y agoI had to look up "logistic" in that context. Almost anything that is described as "exponential" isn't really exponential, if the curve is describing a real-world quantity. Real-world quantities tend to be subject to limits. I'm an annoying pedant regarding the word "exponential", which is commonly used (especially by journalists) simply to mean "grows fast". I think it's fair to call a curve "exponential" if the relevant part of the curve approximates to exponential.
- astrange 3y agoIt's odd to say you're a pedant about "exponential" when you don't know what a logistic curve is!
- 0xy 3y agoI agree, but the number was ~13,000 in the 1970s. It's now in the millions. So homeschooling has increased over 100x, while the number of students in any education in the US has grown by around 10-20%.