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0 pointspaulryanrogers3y ago0 comments

Schools provide some of the most critical parts: consistent access to peers and a parent free learning environment. Both helped me break out of a cult-like group that my parents were knee deep into for decades.

Home schooling can have an academic advantage where parents are intelligent, well educated, above average in patience, and value education for their own kids.

IME it's more likely one of the home schooling parents had some bad experience(s) in traditional schools and are overreacting.

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toomuchtodo3y ago· 2 in thread

What you mention isn’t a schooling problem though, it’s a parents problem. And all children are free of their parents eventually. You can’t outrun bad or apathetic parenting regardless of venue, ask a public school teacher to confirm.

https://health.ucdavis.edu/children/patient-education/Positi...

https://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/education/blog/parental-in...

paulryanrogersOP3y ago

If parents are a problem then homeschooling isn't going to help. Traditional school would, assuming the schools aren't complete garbage.

toomuchtodo3y ago

Sorry to hear you had a bad homeschooling experience and you disagree with the data with regards to success rates (there are roughly 3.7 million children being homeschooled currently in the US). It works for many, I’m sure there are folks it might not (you mentioned some sort of cult situation in your case; I don’t believe this is typical except perhaps if you consider religious reasons for homeschooling).

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