Uptick in Homeschooling Sparks Debate About Regulations
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- Опубликовано: 13 апр 2024
- Homeschooling saw an uptick during the pandemic as children were forced to stay home. Years later, many families have chosen to continue at-home education instead of returning to the public school system. There is little to no regulation of homeschooling in the U.S. - with 11 states, including Michigan, not requiring homeschooled children to be counted or registered. Correspondent Dan Lieberman travels to Detroit where there is an ongoing debate over the need for more oversight for homeschool.
The reason people are homeschooling is because the state is proving itself untrustworthy of doing the job. Having state "oversight" in their homes is the exact thing these parents are trying to escape!
You know convicted child abusers can just take their kids out of school no questions asked? No checks to make sure they haven’t kept on abusing or even killed their kids. Hundreds of home school children are murdered every year. Recently a home school podcast had a mom talk how she is homeschooling her kids because she wants to raise them to be “good Nazis” and the public school system wouldn’t have been suitable. Christian focused and funded organisations have fought any and all attempts at regulation of home schooling - meaning that science books which teach humans and dinaours lived at the same time are allowed to be published and pushed on children.
The state needs to answer to the parents and taxpayers for the failing school systems!! It's not the parents who need to answer to the state for educating their kids!
If the kids are doing well on the SAT/ACT, doing well in college... Mind your own business.
I"m confused about what the young lady means "public school textbook ." For example , a Houghton Mifflin textbook is arranged in the same way that a homeschool math curriculum is arranged . I believe that a common issue with homeschool is not so much that the parents can't teach , it's that some aren't teaching . This is the minority of homeschool parents. Parents aren't removing their children from state schools to have them sitting uneneducated at home.
“Fix the system that you have in place first”… Yes! So many systems that are the results of abuse. Homeschooling are parents being parents raising their children and being apart of their learning journey in many different ways. For the sacrifice these parents make to give their children a fair chance at success and support, we need to consider other factors that contribute to concerns of abuse and neglect of children. Parental rights are so deeply crucial
To success of children.. especially marginalized children.
My mom quit teaching in the 90's to homeschool. Especially after she realized none of us were learning anything in public school, it took routinely staying up till 10pm to stay caught up, and an elementary teacher told my mom that one of my siblings "wasn't college material". They have a phd now, we all have great careers and families, and we're more knowledgeable in many things, like history, then our spouses.
The anti homeschooling lady seems to have a chip on her shoulder from her own poor experience. Let's get real public schools fail black children, especially black males. Kudos to that parent and the co-op for working together for their childrens mental health and educational well-being.
She's not even anti Homeschool - she's advocating for more oversight which I absolutely applaud.
Regulation makes things worse, not better. I have three nephews who were public-schooled, where there was abundant government regulation. One can't read, one dropped out in 8th grade, and one dropped out in 9th grade. Meanwhile, I homeschool my teen daughter in a state with almost no homeschool regulation, and she is close to finishing college. Regulations are just shackles to keep kids from soaring.
They made everyone stay home for year and are now concerned? Please…
only 2% of my kids assigned public school are working at grade level. Sure, if there needs to be more oversight in homeschoolers, have the same regulations in our public school as well.
I was homeschooled in a state with no oversight and I learned more during that time than I ever did in the public school system. Even when my mom let me self regulate my class load as a teen, I still was far ahead of my peers. Like homeschooled kids always are.
Good for you - that doesn’t make it any less terrible for everyone else. The school system is the number one way that child abuse is noticed and reported. How well do you think those kids are doing being home “schooled” but are actually being beaten and starved?
Abuse can happen in any home regardless of their school status or socioeconomic status.
There are good parenting and bad parenting
@@mazzy_vca lot more abused children IN public school than home or private so your supposed justification for govt oversight is moot
@@mazzy_vc who's being beaten and starved? Plus, I worked in the school system and whoa, they don't do a thing. There's a lot of abuse that happens in public schools but NOBODY does a thing. From my observations CPS turns on the good families and ignores the families that really need it. Such a corrupt system.
Regulations are potentially a slippery slope. It is one thing for someone outside of the home to determine from a respectable distance whether the child is being abused. It is entirely something else for someone outside of the home to determine whether X student is "achieving satisfactorily" on standardized tests and getting the "right" dose of curricula. The latter scenario is a major problem and the reason why so many schools, public and private, have unwilling learners. Homeschooling proponents have almost invariably set the mark to be: Ask the child! If he or she is learning better and more comfortable at home, then all other entities should step away. If the child wants to attend school, everyone should respect that child's right. The vast, vast majority of children who are homeschooled according to their wishes are thankful for it and suffer no loss in terms of "academic content."
Currently a convicted child abuser can home school their kid. They can use text books which are entirely inaccurate and based solely in religious propaganda. They can use their kids as live in servants. Etc…
“If the child wants to attend school….” So what about the children who hate public school, are bullied, behind academically etc? Can they opt out? Where are their rights?
@@elenarewd9299 Well, obviously. That's what I wrote: that they should be able to.
I like how they do it here in Florida. You have to show you're doing something and making progress it doesn't have specific rules about what level they have to be on or anything. Just progress.
As soon as they prove that a higher percentage of public school kids are meeting educational standards compared to homeschoolers, I'm fine with standardized testing being implemented acoss the board. But in my city, only 18% of public middle school kids are at their grade level for math, so I don't think homeschoolers are the problem.
I have homeschooled all three of my kids for several years. First in the state of California, which was surprisingly easy to homeschool there due to parents fighting for those rights, and now in Texas, which is even easier to homeschool. My oldest son is almost with his freshman school year and plays 2 instruments that he taught himself to play, my daughter is 13 and has finished the 9th grade and is now starting the 10th grade, and she plays 4 instruments. My youngest is 9 years old and is working on completing his 4th grade school year, and has written two songs, and is working on a third. Homeschooling overall is much better than public schooling systems. Just because the young woman in the video didn’t have a good experience being homeschooled doesn’t mean the government needs to step in and begin imposing regulations. It means her parents shouldn’t homeschool. There are plenty of kids who get abused in public schools by other kids and teachers, or they’re abused by their parents at home and it all goes unreported or isn’t stopped. There are also a ton of kids who attend public schools and are “graduating” high school and can’t even read above an elementary grade level. Regulations aren’t helping those kids.
the lady calling for more oversight were is this oversight for the public school systems that are failing to educate kids and protect kids from bullies, bad teachers, and woke ideologies that most parents don't want their kids exposed to, on a far greater scale than any home school one off rare abuse situation . And as a teen that lady could have continued her education without the help of her parent between the library, and the internet the access to knowledge is unlimited and if banned by parent do it at 18.Keep regulation and control out of our homes unless true abuse is happening.Homeschool you kids protect their future and do whats right for your family.
I'm a public school substitute teacher, and was also home schooled. Spending 5 days a week in the classroom, I don't see how these kids learn anything. The whole day is full of distractions, and the kids that really want to learn cannot because the rest of the class is goofing off, talking, being annoying. I feel so sorry for the kids in public school (or any school setting) in this era of hyperactive children.
I know my boyfriend & I re” set on homeschooling when we have kids of our own & married the school system did emotional mental, damage & had forced feederism on me. Special ed is worse). I have CPTSD & anxiety disorder.
HOMESCHOOLING YES YES YES!!!!
I love what the homeschool mom said to the guy interviewing her. The interviewer said: “You’re doing a good job homeschooling… but what about those parents who aren’t?” She replied: “who are those parents?” Essentially calling out the BS. Statistics provided the necessary data to support that homeschooling works.
Yes!
That girl Samantha- it’s her personal experience, but not every homeschoolers are like that. the fact her parents failed her that’s on them. She sounds bitter.
She's probably better off addressing her parents that trying to propose legislation to increase/add regulation to homeschooling families.
Shout out to Amy for taking control of her son's future. We don't have time to allow a broken system to teach our children. Big ups to Engaged Detroit for stepping up to the plate.
Can we talk more about why parents are homeschooling? It’s because the public schools are not doing well. My children’s local public school has 30% reading proficiency and 18% math proficiency. Why would I send them to that school???? There is no school choice! Maybe public schools need to start holding students and parents accountable. Children should be able to fail if they are not doing their work and be suspended or expelled for bad behavior. This will make schools safer for children who want to learn and allow teachers back into the classroom. Until this happens, maybe we should spend less time worrying about the 5% of homeschoolers and more about the majority of public schoolers. People are so concerned about homeschoolers when so many public schoolers graduate from high school barely able to read and do basic math. It sounds like school districts are upset that there are less bodies in the classroom which means less funding, than actually caring about whether these kids get an education.
As an academically rigorous secular homeschooler in a low-regulation state, I would be very much in favor of more oversight (like annual testing) to ensure that kids are actually being educated properly, instead of what sometimes happens, which is child neglect using homeschooling as a shield.
Exactly. If people actually support homeschooling, regulation shouldn't be a big deal.
Homeschool yes!our public School system is failing teaching our kids..
By homeschooling I learned some of my daughter's behavior was lack in consistency, so all the days off then going back to school threw her off, so now we homeschool year-round including "spring break". My daughter gets overwhelmed when it looks to hard, so I have been able to work with her 1 on 1 and explain math in a way she gets it, or hold off on cursive until she is ready. Anytime she gets frustrated with math I remind her, you have the teacher all to yourself, you don't have to share me. Because I saw that when she was in school she spent ½ of the class time raising her hand for help while the teacher had many other students she was helping. I saw WAY TOO much screen time playing at public school on school tablets and computers, too much screen time effects the brain.
I have people think my boyfriend & re” crazy about someday be a homeschooling family one day ): I don't trust special ed consider the abuse is going rambet, I ll not have my future kids in the school system ). My boyfriend I told special ed teachers aides re held by the teachers union). I plan on breaking the cycle of public school ). I ll do work after school hours when I have kids of my own ). My boyfriend is a professor of economics 📈 we have talked over the weekend through linkdink , about switching with the teaching, someone tries to force me into putting my future kids into the school system my boyfriend ll say no we have made a decision leave me alone ). My mom didn't have that.
Freedom is the greatest, most desired thing on earth. Some may use that freedom unwisely but that is not a reason to control the masses. We homeschool with zero oversight and our children are thriving. The statistics show that the majority of homeschool children surpass their peers academically. Control has led to great suffering in many parts of the world now and throughout history.
The private schools are now failing too because of government over-reach. Not all private schools... But a lot are no better than public schools.
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Special needs private schools no better than the public schools either. Some of my friends had to get their GED diplomas. 😢