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Asking as an non-US person: Is there mandatory education for children in the US? I guess homeschooling fits well with extreme individualistic American culture,
by bgnn 11mo ago
Asking as an non-US person: Is there mandatory education for children in the US?
I guess homeschooling fits well with extreme individualistic American culture, no surprises there.
- lconnell962 11mo agoThere are 13 years required (K-12) in the US. The way non-compliance is peanlized varies depending on the state. Education in the US is a complicated subject given the "extreme individualistic American culture" as you say. That will be present in the teachers and school districts, and the lesson plans can/will differ greatly between teachers and school districts for getting students to the general standard.
- nightshift1 11mo agoAs a Canadian, all I can say after reading all of this is: WTF? I can't understand why anyone would want to keep their children at home instead of sending them to school, and how the government could fail so badly that so many people want to avoid public schools. We are so similar and yet so different
- programjames 11mo agoThe short answer is people stopped caring about metrics measuring learning, and instead how easy they were to game to support their politics, or make them look like a better teacher or superintendent.
- bgnn 11mo agoYeah Canada is so weird in that sense. It's so North American in infrastructure but more European in culture.