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    42 years ago

    I have brothers who went down the Facebook MAGA rabbit hole and never came back. They complain all day long about how schools are corrupting children and that everyone should home school. In my experience, religious and political intolerance is the basis for most people doing this.

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      2 years 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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        32 years ago

        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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        22 years 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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          22 years 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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            42 years ago

            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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              12 years ago

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