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And regionally, parents are wildly wrong about what to teach. Evolution, religion and its role in government, carbon dioxide, fundamentals of medicine, basic ci

• sickofparadox 3y ago
  That's an interesting assertation to make out of hand, but I don't think the data backs it up.[1][2] [1]https://www.act.org/content/dam/act/unsecured/documents/Info-Brief-2015-2.pdf https://www.act.org/content/dam/act/unsecured/documents/Info... [2]https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1005657.pdf https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1005657.pdf
  • vkou 3y ago
    That data doesn't actually counter-indicate what I'm saying, for a myriad reasons. I'll name one obvious one: Homeschool parents are, at minimum, present in their child's education. Compare their numbers to public school parents who are also present in theirs. Here's another obvious one: Most parents who are wildly deluded about those subjects don't homeschool, they just complain (and regionally, vote in representatives who will apply those delusions to the curriculum).