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That’s an interesting topic. In most states, homeschooling is almost meaningless because there are no required assessments to demonstrate student proficiency in any subject. And 11 states don’t even require a parent to simply notify the state that they’ve pulled their kid out of school.

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seneca|4 months ago

And yet home-schooled students widely outperform government-schooled students, both during homeschooling and in college GPAs.

brohee|4 months ago

Yeah, but it's not that simple, they certainly don't seem to outperform students of comparable socioeconomic background attending a more c https://gaither.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/new-ray-study-of-ho...

insane_dreamer|4 months ago

That's because there are roughly two types of home schoolers, and they're at opposite ends of the achievement spectrum. The high achiever cohort are the ones you see who outperform students in their GPAs, SATs, and get into highly selective colleges. The others don't even finish HS much less apply to college so you don't hear about them.

ethbr1|4 months ago

> And yet home-schooled students widely outperform government-schooled students, both during homeschooling and in college GPAs.

I'd love to see your citations on that.

Because my impression is that, precisely because of the lack of regulation in many states, homeschooling has bimodal outcomes.

Some children turn out better (read: those of wealthy, educated parents with extra time to spend on educating) while some children turn out much worse than even the worst public schools (read: kids of religious/political-indoctrination parents and/or ones of limited socioeconomic means/time).

At minimum, it seems pretty reasonable to have homeschooled kids take the same milestone tests as public school kids, in order to objectively measure if their teachers are doing the job well.

You know, considering (a) it's a decision children aren't empowered to make for themselves, (b) there are a lot of crazy-as-fuck parents out there, and (c) it's something that will define the rest of kids' lives.

"Oops, my bad" in the event of poor outcomes won't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

Ref to start: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsZP9o7SlI