• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    In my experience it isn’t. I guess till either of us find studies we’re at an impass.

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    In addition, parents of homeschooled students were asked to identify the single most important reason to homeschool their child in 2019. The most common was a concern about school environment, such as safety, drugs, or negative peer pressure (25 percent). Fifteen percent of homeschooled students had parents who reported that the most important reason was a dissatisfaction with the academic instruction at other schools. Thirteen percent had parents who reported that the most important reason was a desire to provide religious instruction.

    https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/tgk/homeschooled-children#:~:text=The most common was a,academic instruction at other schools.

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      I wonder how much of the 15% who were dissatisfied with the academic instruction were dissatisfied due to it not having religious instruction, but didn’t want to indicate it outright by choosing the specific choice for that.

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      1 year ago

      You gave yourself as an example affirming what I said but suddenly we’re at an impasse? This isn’t adding up.

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        1 year ago

        Found it after writing the comment originally.

        Do you count safety drugs and negative peer pressure as religious? I was counting that and academic rigor as the schools being bad. And religious reasons I was counting as religious.

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          Problems with schools really come down to a choice by the middle class. That choice was that they wanted to keep their money rather than live in a good society. Schools have suffered as a result. This is by choice, not by design.

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            1 year ago

            Sure. But that doesn’t change that people homeschool because the schools are bad. I absolutely agree that schools should be better.