[Serious] Huzzah for homeschooling!

[Pat Mustard]

Homeschooling is illegal here in the Faroes, and private schools are frowned upon, culturally speaking. It's mainly public schooling. PISA examinations have yielded low scores, with a lot of people getting flunking grades. Public schooling isn't a safeguard against illiteracy, but neither is homeschooling IMO. Competence is, and our teachers suck.

I wouldn't worry about PISA scores. Shanghai is measured so highly simply because in order to be placed there the PISA people agreed with the Chinese to show the tests to teachers ahead of time, and by allowing the Shanghai authorities to select who took the tests.. And then they compounded that major fuck up by benchmarking everybody else against Shanghai.