Would love to see homeschooling becoming a trend.
I’m Danish, and homeschooling is imcredibly rare in Denmark, and I frankly can’t see the appeal.
What is it that makes it so compelling?
Certainly homeschooling isn't the only answer, but I also think most people are handwaving how terrible the school system can be for kids here.
Can you list a few "other answers"? This is a serious question. The public schools around here are terrible and the private schools (which are by no means guaranteed to be much better,) are absolute highway robbery.
With the educational resources that are available to everybody at the push of a button, homeschooling seems compelling, to me. I'd even spring for private tutors. What other options are there?
Good thing life outside of school isn't like that.
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Although having grown up in the south and from having neighbors who home school, it is more about, "they teach evolution in school and not 6,000 year old earth."
Why is school the only place to establish a personality or develop socialization? There are plenty of communities outside of school where kids and adults can engage and grow.
If you have enough resources I don't see why homeschooling would be an invalid option. The public school system is terrible for a multitude of reasons.
Yet here you are.
There seem to be quite a few assumptions in your thinking.
Nothing ever always' anything. Thinking in terms of always or never is pointless.
So with that in mind, rereading the post I responded to:
> Why would you have that happen? Serious question. Isn’t that putting kids in an echo chamber and restricting their access to friends?
The answer is obvious.
In seriousness, and without snark, I would like homeschooling to become more common explicitly because I think the US is failing so many kids (from a social perspective). Bullying is crazy, and social-political nonsense is making its way into textbooks. Not to mention the school shootings.
I think for many kids school is fine. But, speaking as a person whose schooling experience was specifically _not fine_, I would like it to be more normal to have other options.
An issue with most criticisms of home-schooling is they are (sometimes) true, and it depends a lot on the parents.
However, parents home-schooling are often well aware of these pit-falls and compensate, do after-school sports for e.g. So common characterizations of home-schooling often highlight all the possible down-sides and overlook many of the possible up-sides.
While not being wrong exactly, it's an incomplete picture - people talking about something they have not experienced.