Parents are giving up on public schools to home-school their kids

[rangerrebew]

 
Parents are giving up on public schools to home-school their kids

By Eric Spitznagel

October 12, 2018 | 3:47pm | Updated
 

Taty Sena of Park Slope only recently felt comfortable admitting that she home-schools her 6-year-old daughter. “I was a closeted home-schooler for a while,” she says. “I needed to fully justify it to myself before I was made to explain my decision to others.”

It hasn’t been an especially good PR year for home-schooling, thanks to high-profile arrests in California — like the Turpin family, who home-schooled (and shackled) their 13 children in Perris, and Ina Rogers and Jonathan Allen, who home-schooled their 10 children in a feces-covered home in Fairfield, a North Bay town near San Francisco. In both cases, the children were taken from their parents and put into protective custody. But there’s not much about Sena that adheres to the cultural clichés of home-schoolers; she has only one kid, she’s not especially religious and she’s not, like the home-schooling parents in the recent bestselling memoir “Educated,” a survivalist prepping for the end of the world.

https://nypost.com/2018/10/12/parents-are-abandoning-public-schools-in-droves-to-homeschool-their-kids/

[Fishrrman]

Parochial schools remain an acceptable alternative.

Also private Christian academies that teach from a viewpoint of "traditional Western civilization", if they can be found...

[roamer_1]

Parochial schools remain an acceptable alternative.

That is no longer a given. Choose very wisely, or school them yourself.

[RoosGirl]

Parochial schools remain an acceptable alternative.

Also private Christian academies that teach from a viewpoint of "traditional Western civilization", if they can be found...

Nonsense, 30 years ago the local parochial school did such a piss poor job of teaching that remedial classes were required before taking junior college level algebra classes, as just one example.  That parochial schools remain an acceptable alternative is correct as a blanket statement just is not the case.  As @roamer_1 says, every school must be individually vetted.

[goodwithagun]

Our kids go to our parochial school. The school is amazing and we are so fortunate to have them. Better yet, Ohio has what boils down to special ed school choice. All $27K that the public school would get for my son, our private school gets for him. I don’t have to fight for an aide, pt, ot, st, etc. The school follows the law to the letter.

[RoosGirl]

Semi-related; I recently did an auto title transfer here and up to 6% of the 6.5% sales tax I had to pay on the purchase price I was able to allocate to a special grant program the state has set up for bullied kids to be pulled from the school they're being bullied at and pay for them to go to a different school.  I did an evil laugh in my head when I said no and the DMV bitch looked at me like I just told her I use puppies for target practice.

[goodwithagun]

Semi-related; I recently did an auto title transfer here and up to 6% of the 6.5% sales tax I had to pay on the purchase price I was able to allocate to a special grant program the state has set up for bullied kids to be pulled from the school they're being bullied at and pay for them to go to a different school.  I did an evil laugh in my head when I said no and the DMV bitch looked at me like I just told her I use puppies for target practice.

I don’t think Florida state gov needs to do any more bullying intervention. Look how well it worked in parkland 

[Smokin Joe]

Nonsense, 30 years ago the local parochial school did such a piss poor job of teaching that remedial classes were required before taking junior college level algebra classes, as just one example.  That parochial schools remain an acceptable alternative is correct as a blanket statement just is not the case.  As @roamer_1 says, every school must be individually vetted.

Sad but true. We pulled ours from parochial school when we found out Social Serpents were 'interviewing' (read: "interrogating") our kids without the knowledge of the parents, either before or after the 'interview'. When confronted about it, the principal said "it is legal" to which I replied "So is late term abortion". That was the last year any of ours attended that school.  Educational quality always suffers when the statists move in, too, and at that point the only difference between the private and public schools is tuition--they're running on the same basic rulebook, and the teachers are little better.

Gone are the days of the track-mounted nun...