(February 11, 2016 at 5:22 pm)Aroura Wrote:(February 11, 2016 at 5:04 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: My biggest problem isn't with home schooling. It's with the states not holding the "teachers" to the same standards as real teachers. If you want to home school, you should be required to provide the same level of education that can be received at the local public schools. Otherwise, you're handicapping your kids, likely for life.
Home schooling has very little oversight in most states. I know, because I home school. Not for religious reasons, obviously, lol.
My daughter has to pass a test at the end of 3rd, 5th and 8th grades. And by pass, i discovered it means she must score above 17%. I'm not even joking. Some states are much worse and do not even require minimum testing. some states are harsher, and require you to submit the cirriculum for approval, and even how many hours per day your child does schoolwork.
I can't understand why home schools aren't held to a decent standard. Is it because of religious fundamentalism in the local and state boards?
I just read so many awkward stories of unprepared, unsocialised home schoolers going out into the world unprepared and failing dismally.
And seriously: 17% to pass?
Dying to live, living to die.
