Did too many parents
get a look at the public schools' typical offerings via ZOOM?
We asked 626 registered voters, “Are you more or less likely to enroll your son or daughter in a home school, neighborhood home school co-op, or virtual school once the lockdowns are over?” In response, 40.8% said they were more likely to choose one of the alternative schooling methods, while 31.1% said they were less likely to do so.
While home schooling is often associated with conservative or religious families, surprisingly, there seems to be no significant difference here with respect to party affiliation. In fact, Democrats were slightly more likely (45.7%) to express increased interest in home schooling, compared to Republicans (42.3%).
The data gets even more interesting when you look at the breakdown by ethnicity. Only 36.3% of whites said they were more likely to choose home schooling, and just 38.2% of Hispanics. That number was much higher for blacks (50.4%) and Asian Americans (53.8%).
I wonder if some groups had not really looked at home schooling as more than "something strange people/Jesus freaks/rich people do." Having seen some of the options, and possibly looked at the many curricula available on-line, and the support groups available, parents who wouldn't have considered home schooling are more interested. Even just as a way to fill in the gaps that have become so sadly obvious.
ReplyDeleteLittleRed1
[Disclaimer: I work at a private religious school and strongly support home schooling in my area.]
The online stuff that's available even without an official package these days is just amazing, on any subject you can imagine. I really like the Khan Academy.
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine, who (whom?) I've mentioned before, didn't do home schooling; she didn't have that much time as a single mother with two kids and barely adequate public schools. But she did demand three months of summer school out of them. She had better control over the subject matter with summer school, if only because she had better control over the summer schools she used.
ReplyDeleteThey've turned out pretty well.
Eric Hines
Lots of online tutor jobs too. I think I mentioned that before.
ReplyDeleteI am happy that humanity is changing to the new way of learning. Maybe conservatives will stop telling me to go back to school because they can't understand me.
The reason why people can't understand me is not due to a lack of degrees on my part, but because I am "unindoctrinated". Un conditioned, so to speak, by the public indoctrination system that still controls people, Left or right.
ReplyDelete@ ymarsakar - no that's not the reason. You are habitually defensive about people not agreeing with you, finding reasons why it's their fault and not yours.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you bring up the topic of agreement. My comment was about comprehension. The logical mind can comprehend and entertain ideas without belief or disbelief.
DeleteWhere is your logic?
People are habitually defensive about my viewpoints being either incomprehensible or not agreeable to them.
ReplyDeleteThat is because people who actually know me, already know i act the same way or more intense towards people who agree with me too many times.
I have to wonder where avi gets his data set for that judgment, as it is a judgment that condemns the user not the subject.
A son of god or child of god has nothing to defend and nothing to attack in truth. That is because this is an impulsive decision based on feeling unsafe or powerless.
I do not know you or remember you avi. Why do you believe i am defending? There is nothing you or anyone else here that can do that would harm me. Any more than you could harm yeshua of nazareth if he called upon the divine hosts.
A son of god is not in need of defense or attackers.
But i do agree that the world indoctrination always finds fault with these divine messengers. The people of nazareth knew yeshua but not as a guru or messenger. Just a carpenter, mary s son, not royalty. Your view is isolated based on your experience and sense of vulnerability.
What ia it you are afraid of and defending?
If you refuse to respond, i will take that to mean you admit to finding fault for reasons not mine.