The kids at school are not doing a full curriculum for 7/8 hours a day, a lot of it is "busy work", crowd control and other unnecessary stuff. Most "homeschoolers" (i.e. those who do "school" or at home) pull it off in about a couple of hours - 3 hours at the most.

Appreciate the positive experiences with homeschooling shared as counter arguments to my initial reply. I'm happy to hear it's not all black and white. I probably based my opinion on the extreme cases of American homeschooling portrayed in foreign media where parents insulate their kids from different ways of thinking based on extreme religious convictions or based on a dogmatic rejection of the scientific method of understanding the world. Even then i realise that this last statement is probably also too generalizing. In any event, it is interesting reading people with different perspectives of the world.

Do not underestimate the child's intrinsic motivation for learning. Ultimately, this is what matters. Adults' roleis to protect and encourage at this at all costs, but unfortunately the opposite happens in most schools. Based on my limited knowledge of the montessori system, teachers are only guides, and children do the "heavy lifting" on their own. Also, I am sure if there were no schools, children would still have plenty of opportunities to mingle and learn social skills.

Teachers can have 30+ kids to cater for with many other responsibilities and red tape that are part of their job but not actually related to teaching. It's a major complaint from teachers in many different countries right now. The testing and marking alone takes up so much of their time. Of those 30+ kids, all have different abilities, strengths, learning styles, personalities, academic levels, special education needs. That's before you even get into lesson plans, preparation, parent teacher evenings, social issues, socio-ecomonic issues, bullying and much much more that teachers have to deal with. The huge rise in autism spectrum disorder is a major challenge for many teachers right now. It's a hard job! I'm not saying home educating your kids isn't hard but it's a whole different beast. I have been told by 2 different fellow home ed parents, who are both ex-teachers, that the best home educating parents are not ex-teachers, as they are not basing the facilitation of their children's education on the bias of their training. They are coming at it from a completely different angle. Plus they have a vested interest in their own kids. A lot of public schooling is testing and crowd control.

What works in South Korea won’t work in USA because of ethnic and cultural homogeneity

it’s fascinating. and this is all happening despite the fact that everyone pays taxes to fund public education yet the homeschooling parents typically receive no compensation for their choice (I believe in Florida they do now).

i wonder what these numbers would be if every family had the option to simply not pay a portion of their taxes if they chose to homeschool their kids.

Tuttle Twins books are great, especially for govt and Econ.

Were you homeschooled grades k to 12?

interesting. what was the main benefit in your eyes/your parents eyes of homeschooling back when you were a kid?

is that still the main benefit you see today?

Few people understand this

It's the silver lining of the pandemic, as far as I'm concerned.

I totally agree, well said! 👏🏼👏🏼

I’m going to guess home schooling comes from one demographic.

I don’t see black and brown parents doing this

must be a big one, i’d say at least a couple miles long

I would politely but strongly disagree!!

Agree, and this is why I so much wish education would be more about transmitting values, real ones!

interesting, i wonder if there is a tipping point beyond which parents consider homeschooling a viable option because they know of other parents taking the same approach.

I thought public schools in Singapore were excellent?

You can mix and match.

Grades K-4 you can homeschool, then send them off to the prison complex after that (jk).

Really tho, I think homeschooling is more important during the formative years, to lay (a) a good foundation of problem solving, and read/write basics and (b) their formative years is when they are most susceptible to big-gov brainwashing...by the time they are grade 5 or 6 they have developed a pretty good "BS detector" and far less able to be influenced by outside sources.

As quick aside on the notion "sending your kids to school". Its fairly insane if you think about it....If I told you that to make sure your computer was operating normally our society had a plan to come around every morning at 8am and collect your computer where we brought it a warehouse and "tuned it" and return to you at 3pm....you would outright refuse and think it was an insane suggestion. Yet we do it with our kids....

The reason for a decline in trust is a decline in quality.

Public schools have become too bureaucratic and political.

Public school teachers unions are the biggest donors to Democrats. Most teachers send their kids to private schools.

Where do senators send their children? Private schools since Washington DC public schools are terrible.

Why are public schools terrible? Are the teachers terrible? Are the students terrible? Blame the parents?

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No

Private schools are not home schools.

Home school parents are almost always religious usually evangelical Christian or LDS.

this is active homeschooled students

The public schools in USA are awful especially in the cities

are you ok with sharing which country you’re from?

either way, i’d be curious to know why you think your homeschooling numbers are very low.

personally i don’t have any experience with homeschooling so i’m not in a position to say whether it’s a good or bad thing… but definitely a trend worth watching.

while I am a big homeschool proponent. I will give the annoying answer of “it depends”. It’s like if someone asked “should i buy bitcoin?” Well, it depends on what you want. The parents are taking on all the responsibility of their kids education. So good and bad, it’s all on you. But, you get to make your family life and your kids like what you want to make it to the best of your ability. And I think if you are an emotionally healthy person, that’s great for your kids!

I think it's generally speaking a global trend but you'll only get figures from countries where it is legal - even then you can't know the true figures. It's usually an estimate. Where it is illegal or a "grey area" there either won't be figures or they will be wildly inaccurate.