Families of gifted, talented students are leaving traditional school: Professor | NewsNation Live

[@ginac-u4s]

As a teacher, the good kids who want to learn get pushed aside and their needs don't get met because of trouble makers. Parents not parenting is the larger issue.

[@KK-pm7ud]

And politicians allowing this to happen is just as bad.

[@NiaLaLa_V]

@@KK-pm7ud It's the lobbying and subsidies. We need more than vegans telling politicians we are fed up with that corruption, or it will NEVER stop. Stop ignoring us, fight with us damn it.

[@divinedianec3170]

@@KK-pm7ud The agenda is for A.I. Robots to replace teachers and its beginning in many school, also robots taking over the world.

[@FindfreedomInChrist-yb7ns]

Yup.

[@user-or1xx2oo6j]

Parents not parenting 👆👆👆 giving children devices to entertain them so they don’t have to interact -> cognitive/executing function goes down

[@rogerm3708]

As a father of a gifted child, I began to notice teachers actively holding her back beginning in 3rd grade. We had the option of moving her up a grade but knew that would cause her more harm than good emotionally. She requested to be home schooled beginning in 7th grade. She went back for a semester in 9th grade, for the high school experience but went back to homeschooling after teachers were actively trying to hold her back. In 11th grade she began taking college courses and graduated a year early with honors. She began working on her doctorate today and for the first time, said she is intimidated by her fellow graduate students who are 4+ years older than her

[@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059]

That is not new. In the district I went to school in (1980s), they got rid of the accelerated program when I was in the 4th grade. And that is what the "no child left behind" does. In any subject, you can't leave the kids who are struggling in it behind, so the kids who excel in that subject have to wait (bored too) because they also won't put kids a grade ahead. They do this to avoid kids in 4th grade math feeling bad/bullied because another kid is "smarter" than them because they're in 5th grade math (example) already. There are tons of things wrong with that cookie cutter program, and it is nothing but a participation trophy education and not a real one.

[@BORN-to-Run]

I don't believe that teachers INTENTIONALLY held your daughter back! Sorry, I don't buy it! They probably just didn't have time to support her advanced learning needs that requires teachers to go FAR ABOVE and WAY BEYOND what they would have to do for other students. NO TEACHER would "INTENTIONALLY" hold a student down, unless they were RACIST and full of HATE, and I don't sense that in your post. This is why students with Special Needs (slow at learning for whatever reason) are placed in separate classes so that their needs can be met without holding back the other students who have no special needs. FIFTY years ago, gifted students were also placed in special classes to avoid this frustration. They required a MUCH MORE intellectually stimulating learning environment, which required AN INSTRUCTOR WHO HAD TIME (and the smarts) TO CREATE IT! Teachers nowadays have SO MUCH ON THEIR PLATE. Student's have been pushed through the school system in 13 years for the past 150 years, but the CURRICULUM has all but TRIPLED(!) but they're STILL PUSHING THEM THROUGH in 13 years!. They don't have "TIME" to deal with someone like your daughter! You should have placed her in a PRIVATE SCHOOL.

[@rogerm3708]

@@BORN-to-Run One of the teachers admitted that she made other students feel bad. Intentional also means the curriculum the teacher is assigned. A teacher can't assign an individual curriculum. Each grade is assigned a range. Any student outside of that range cannot be accommodated. My daughter's other option was to be moved up a grade but her maturity was not at that level and we believed it would do more harm than good. It was only after age 16 she was ready to work with students 1+ year older than her

[@rogerm3708]

@@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059 I'm probably about your age. From about 3rd or 4th grade, I was always one of the top 3 students in a class of up to 32. I usually felt like I was waiting for the rest of my class to catch up. I even helped a few of my friends with their work in 6th grade so I wouldn't feel alone but the teacher soon discovered that they couldn't do more advanced work after finding out I was helping them. I was asked to stop

[@gshepherd6141]

how are they actively holding her back? I'm just curious.

[@aquinastozelie6459]

We looked at enrolling our firstborn for Kindergarten and when we let them know he had been reading since age 2 we were told he would not be allowed to work ahead and “don’t worry - they all level out by 3rd grade.” We homeschooled him and he did not “level out.” Instead, we let him continue excelling and working ahead and is thriving 11 years later. Schools have done this to themselves, so they really can’t complain 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@WilliamsPinch]

Who wants their child to “level-out” instead of excel! Good on you guys for making a wise decision.

[@bettygrable6440]

Why teach him to read at 2…? Curious. Homeschooling mom of 5 and I take a much more relaxed approach.

[@stubbycheese9555]

@@bettygrable6440 ....................

[@Daniel-yl5jl1bi6q]

​@@bettygrable6440 If the child is able, why not?

[@NiaLaLa_V]

I remember every teacher making me do her job because I was ahead of the rest of the class. Public school is hell.

[@Taureanfitness]

During COVID, parents for the first time started to notice and see the crazy things that their children were being taught or should I say brainwashed with.

[@laughalotitsgoodforyourbod7627]

I tried warning them back in 2010 when my son first entered the school system. No one listened.

[@JFlower7]

I do not understand why anyone would put their kids in public school. This lady says she does not know why people are choosing to homeschool----really?

[@Lava1964]

I've been a private tutor since 1994. For the past 15 years I've been actively advising parents to pull their kids from public schools and homeschool them if at all possible. There are ample reasons why this is a good idea. For me, though, it has become obvious that public schools are now openly indoctrination centers disguised as schools.

[@peachykeen7634]

She works for John Hopkins. If she tells why your parents are choosing, homeschool on the interview, she could lose her job. She knows exactly why.

[@rwoodey68]

@@Lava1964 oh so true, you are

[@everythingisfine9988]

Money. Most people don't earn enough and require a double income

[@Leticia-ti7vg]

Duhhh, are they forgetting bullying, some crazy teachers, gender agenda, etc, etc, etc.

[@christophergraves6725]

I remember how I hated going to school with a passion and how I loved college from the first day. I have several advanced degrees to show for it. The big advantage of home schooling is not being kooked up in a prison all day. The freedom of college was exhilarating and stimulated me to want to study more as well as the subjects being more interesting to me. Students who are homeschooled are usually able to go through the same or more material in a fraction of the time and then have more free time. Also, the coercive element is removed that is so revolting in public and some private schools.

[@drewg7036]

I went to online school for the tail end of high school. I lived in a disorganized, and frankly "hood" school district. The schools were focused on discipline and didn't offer any advice on post-secondary education. I left that horrible learning environment where there were fights, dice games, and drug deals every day, and went to an online school. There, I was met with opportunities to take advanced placement courses, a flexible schedule so I could get a job. The online school also had clubs and meet-up events to where we could meet with other students. My life drastically improved going to online school and I even earned college credits in English Comp and Psychology at my states community college system. I am 1000% for school choice, because plenty of well funded schools have student bodies who are not there to learn, and end up causing chaos for everyone else. My old public schools got iPads for the students, and some students were arrested for pawning the iPads. We had modern facilities, and lunch and breakfast were free, but students still acted crazy and teachers were quitting left and right. Students should have the right to leave that toxic culture and there should be more choices aside from a private religious school, which I didn't want to attend.

[@SL-lz9jr]

I don’t blame the school district. It’s really the home environment and community that needs to step up and discipline their children. Of course, how can they when they (the adults) are running around like hooligans? I went to a low ranking high school. Typical inner city youth stuff. When I went things were not quite as bad as they were even a decade before. My high school almost got shut down. They instead fired all the staff and hired all new staff. My freshman year was filled with security guards coming into classrooms to discipline the students because they wouldn’t listen to the teachers. Those poor teachers did not know how to communicate with students from a disadvantaged background. The ones who did had been there many years. They were not jaded teachers either. The ones who lasted years were actually really competent teachers but often we got clueless teachers who had no business working in the hood. I am by far the least hood person out there, but it’s where my family could afford to live. I wish I had known my options back then. Of course, homeschooling was out of the question because my parents didn’t speak English. And up until then they were not involved in my education. I had to advocate for myself. I got by because I had some good teachers who put in the extra mile to help me succeed and thankfully I was in a school district that had resources to help with post secondary education awareness. By being in the poorer school, I got free college tour trips including an east coast college tour. My sister did a SoCal college tour. I also got my college admissions fees covered and exam fees covered too. We also had lots of volunteers to go over our college applications and essays. My friends in the better schools didn’t have those same resources and if they didn’t come from a well to do family they were on their own. I was also lucky that in middle school one of my dad’s rich clients took an interest in me and told me all that I needed to do to prepare for college. She told me everything while I was in middle school, so when I entered high school I already had a plan in place for what to do. Making sure I took the advanced sources, joined a variety of clubs and extracurriculars, volunteered during my summers, etc. Basically how to stand out on my college applications. I had a head start. If it weren’t for her I wouldn’t have known what to do because my high school didn’t even start talking about college preparation until junior year. By then it’s too late. Makes you wonder how well kids do when they grow up in the right home environment with parents who can guide them through the process or hire education consultants. I truly feel bad for those without a choice and without a mentor to guide them. Teachers are overburdened with having to fill all the gaps in their students’ lives. One of my teachers even became a foster mom to one of her students!

[@drewg7036]

@@SL-lz9jr similar story at my school, many of the teachers were only there on Teach for America contracts. I also wasn't able to get any help through programs because my dad, who I had no relationship with and lived out of state, made too much money, so I lost my scholarship that low income students with a certain GPA are eligible for in my state, and wasn't allowed to attend any workshops or anything. However, the teachers just read off a slide there. Most students in my school never went to college.

[@Ajg97]

My brother was in highschool during the pandemic. They were literally giving him the answers. When I was in elementary school my third grade teacher cared more about activism than teaching. I decided to take a job at an after school program and saw what elementary schoolers were being taught. I will definitely be homeschooling if given the chance.

[@user-uo5zr6jc5b]

What did you see at your job?

[@kens7746]

Teacher unions, politics, people who think they know best and parents are the public school down fall.

[@voulathomacos-lagonas8445]

School is a place of LEARNING..... NOT for politics GO BACK TO THE BASICS .....

[@orion6372]

Everything is politics. Get used to it.

[@Daniel-yl5jl1bi6q]

​@@orion6372 That is a recent trend, and "we the people" can choose to change it if we wish. Judging by the numbers of kids leaving school, that's exactly what's happening.

[@nunyabusiness7602]

18 year high school technology teacher here. State mandated testing has screwed schools. Teaching to the test is quietly mandated at all levels to keep that sweet funding money rolling in. I left after 18 years, couldn't stomach it any longer. "No child left behind" was a horrible initiative. And let's not forget this is not a blue/red situation, Obama doubled down on it.

[@hiddenhand6973]

Handshake club members, transcends party lines, higher loyalty

[@snowps1]

Yes, that's the sole focus of public schools today. Get kids ready to take standardized tests.

[@drewg7036]

I was not yet even in Kindergarten when No Child Left Behind was enacted, and my teacher frankly told my mom that she was worried about this law, because she knew some students were just not teachable

[@RoseNZieg]

I'm confused as to how could standardized tests hold students back. if anything it would separate the studious ones from the non studious ones. if the materials tested are not up to "standards" then that is another thing.

[@nunyabusiness7602]

@@RoseNZieg All students *MUST* pass these tests to get the state funding. Do whatever must be done to get the money which includes (quietly of course) teaching to the test. Rote memorization fades quickly, real teaching does not. Unless you are or have been a teacher in the past 25 years you'll never understand just how much government meddling has undermined the education system.

[@teriscott685]

No way would I send my kids to public school

[@SaaralAmitan]

And you teach your kids climate change is a lie and that Jesus is just hugging earth closer in his arms?

[@aubreypassey6086]

No way would I home school my kids

[@natslawrence]

I know why It's because of the Pie! Pie! Pie!

[@wildcatblue13]

@@aubreypassey6086because that would require you to spend time with them ?

[@CatalinaFOIA]

As they should. Gifted and talented student's need an advanced curriculum model to continue in an accelerated model. If gifted/talented students are left in a regular classroom they will suffer and not advance how they should. Extension activities are not enough.

[@consciouscrypto3090]

It's really a shame that it's come to this. Used to be that children could exceed the educational level of their parents by simply working hard enough at school. Now in so many places a child can only get as good an education as their parents can provide to them.

[@peachykeen7634]

Homeschooling is the best thing we ever decided to do. My sons were reading two grades behind for the first three years of other traditional education, so we just focused on exposure to Contant, building a knowledge base in nontraditional ways, and working on other learning skills. Then something clicked and they shot a head and now they’re both two grades beyond where they would be in public school. There’s no way that scenario would’ve ever been possible for my sons in the traditional schools, and I have no idea how many nights of frustration over homework we’ve missed because of the flexibility that home school has given us.

[@Lava1964]

I could read at age three. My parents tried to get me enrolled in kindergarten a year early, but where I lived there was no provision under the law to allow this. In 1969 I was the only kid in my kindergarten class who could read. In Grade One I was bored to death learning things I already knew, so after two months I was put into a split grade 1/2 class so I could do second-grade work. All through school I used to get my seatwork done in a fraction of the time the rest of my class took. I used to bring books to kill the time while I waited for the rest of the class; I read Gone With the Wind (more than 1,000 pages) in Grade Seven in less than two weeks while I waited. I truly wish there had been some sort of system in place where I could have learned at my own speed instead of waiting for the rest of the pack. Yes, I wish I had been homeschooled!

[@benjaminperez1149]

Poor curriculum and dangerous environment are two motivators to get out of public school.

[@harmonyfamilylifetk]

My daughter started taking college courses at age 14. I have another child that is dyslexic audhd. I am able to cater to both of their educational needs.

[@nicoleweewoo123]

How do you home school a child and work a full time job?

[@christinet6336]

The entire U.S. school system is poor in every way and it encompasses private, parochial, and public schools. The private and parochial schools are far below the standards of Generation X when we were growing up, and the public schools are a complete disaster unless you're fortunate enough to get into a gifted high school program. The bullying that goes on is terrible, and the administrators are more keen on hiding it than solving it. Imagine a building full of educators who cannot teach kids coping skills or an anti-bullying curriculum. How Generation Z and Alpha are going to fare in the world will be an interesting future site to see. American Millenials are shallow and not very bright so I guess we're already there.

[@Christian80806]

Why is no one talking about the trans and lgbtq agenda in our schools as a factor???

[@nerobaal6655]

I’m a supporter of vaccines and education especially public education.

[@nerobaal6655]

I’ve seen what they teach in private schools. I’ve seen what religious parents teach their children in their homes.

[@nerobaal6655]

Sexual orientation isn’t all that important in a first world country. Get consent , keep it legal. Everyone should have medical care and be free to choose their own beliefs. Not be shamed into believing in others religions.

[@Christian80806]

@@nerobaal6655 ??? Many people are taking their kids out because of the sexual orientation teachings and placating to students without parent consent or knowledge. I’m not sure what ever else your talking about

[@nerobaal6655]

@@Christian80806 You have to learn to accept people and their differences. Anyone can say the same about the knowledge that you believe should be taught.

[@XXLSSBBW]

Parents send their gifted child to a public school and the teachers complain how far ahead that one child is. So instead of skipping him/her ahead to a higher grade they send the child into special-ed where the child is just playing (un-educational) games and watch movies everyday. They child's talent is wasted. Parents complain, but school officials argue that it's for the greater good.

[@Smarty2able]

I'm a teacher and tbh I wonder how some of my colleagues has a Master's degree and can't teach. They don't know what they're doing but will take good ideas from some of us that do teach passionately.

[@bettygrable6440]

Would love to have my enormous amount of state and local taxes that go to fund public babysitting, I mean public schools, back to me so I can afford the $2000-ish a year my co-op and curriculum costs to homeschool my kids. If not, maybe I can send my kids to school for PE/Art/music/etc classes one class period a week…I mean, I pay for them! Thanks for nothing, Texas

[@sjmom5119]

i would like to take my tax monies and use it towards a homeschool co-op or learning center instead of sending it to the horrific government "education" system

[@nouvarae]

“Don’t know why”? Really? 😂 what parent wants to send their kids to schools with its current situation

[@nerobaal6655]

Everyone should but they grew up playing games like GTA and still do. While they drink alcohol and ignore their kids.

[@hiddenhand6973]

Typical narcissist move to pretend like they don’t know the reason. Selective amnesia. Cluster b society.

[@commonsenseconservative3226]

Our 10 year old does algebra and reads at a 12th grade level. He would be bored in 5th grade public school. We do a home school co op where most kids are in the same boat. Or they are in 5th grade but read at a second grade level but can do algebra. They would fail at a public school because the way public school curriculum is.

[@laurenclairechristmas]

Our kids have thrived learning at home since Covid. Our daughter was reading since she was two, in her private pre k class her teacher would pull reading material from 1-2nd grade. We took her to a public school for K and had to pull her out after 3 months. She was quite literally bullied by her teacher because we had requested the administration to skip her from K to 1st grade. She was excluded from learning activities because her teacher was annoyed that she was always the one lifting her hand to answer questions. She got so stressed her asthma kept flaring and she ended up being hospitalized. I called the school to notify them she would be missing school because she was sick and in the hospital. About 3 hrs later her school counselor called me to berate me because she was missing a lot of school! Finally they told us they would consider skipping her if we took her for a test with a psychologist the next town over. We took her, paid out of pocket. The psychologist said with her results she should have no problems at all getting into any gifted program. We took the results to her school and after an almost month long run around they said they still would not do it! We switched both her and her brother out of that school and into the private school where she attended PreK. She just turned 11 and is in 8th grade. This past summer she started some enrichment college classes. Not from my urging, she found them herself and asked if I could take her.

[@laurenclairechristmas]

Since Covid started both of them have remained in the online learning program through their school. They love that they can learn at their own pace. And I am happy that they don’t have to experience the interruptions in attendance caused by random Covid outbreaks in their school. More electives are also offered online. My son is taking robotics and programming, and my daughter is taking constitutional and criminal law. Programming is also offered in person at school but none of the other 3 are.

[@kko1405]

theres a lot of "teachers" are being hired that aren't exactly well, real teachers. Of course brainwashing the wrong ideas is one of the reasons, pretty much why a lot of my co-workers are homeschooling their kids, they don't trust the system heavily especially the unneccessary topics that shouldn't be taught. Use to be a sub teacher, its sad to see the office would also manipulate grades in order for them to have more money towards the schools from the governments as well, heard it when someone from the office teaching a teacher to manipulate grades.

[@SL-lz9jr]

The traditional school structure can’t possibly accommodate all styles or speeds of learning. Oh, I’m sure some schools do it very well and manage, but traditional schools aren’t really intended to accommodate such varied levels of competence. A lot of schools are poorly funded, poorly staffed, and probably very mismanaged with the resources they do have. The only time I ever felt challenged or intimidated by my peers were in middle school honors class and when I attended a top tier university. I briefly struggled in first grade because my parents didn’t speak English and it was the first year I had homework assignments. I hadn’t yet learned to read so obviously somebody needed to tell me how to do my homework. I didn’t even know we had a weekly spelling test. I just sat in class confused during the weekly spelling test. How does a first grade teacher not notice a student in need? First grade! Class sizes aren’t even large at that point. By second grade I was placed in bilingual classes with a teacher who spoke Cantonese and I soared to the top of the class until I graduated. My 4th and 5th grade teacher signed me up to be tested for being gifted. I didn’t pass the test but it was in my file and I suspect that had a hand in my being placed in middle school honors. In middle school I was at the bottom but being surrounded by brainy ambitious kids forced me to do better and catch up. In no time I became a straight A student. But I also recognized a lot of the non-honors kids who were smarter than me. They should have been in honors too but I’ll bet they were overlooked because their teacher failed to recognize their intelligence. High school was too easy. I couldn’t get in to the better schools so I was stuck with a lowe ranking high school. I took naps. The teachers didn’t wake me because they knew I was acting it. I tutored my classmates during class time. Nothing was too hard. Even the Spanish class was too easy and I am not a language genius. Far from it. I simply needed less time to review the material or lesson than my peers. Some of my high school teachers tried to give me individual work but they had an impossible task. How can they tailor their lessons for individual learning styles or speeds for the few students who need extra time and the few students who don’t? What ends up happening is they tailor their lessons to the average or median student in class. The kids who need more help don’t receive it and the kids who need a bigger challenge are under stimulated. I am now facing the same issue at work. Gifted kids need to be stimulated and challenged.

[@gemmeldrakes2758]

It is an impossible task, unless schools implement ability streaming - separating children by intellectual ability is always a controversial and unpopular idea, but there seems to be other few ways to tackle the reality of individual intellectual needs while keeping everyone in the same school or grade.

[@amandam.3784]

Some of us saw the exit and never turned back!!!❤😊

[@catrinag.9262]

I have been advocating for my special needs son for years all through elementary and building an IEP for him. He's an eloper as well. That means sometimes autistic children will run and has no fear of danger when they're overwhelmed. This year he began 6th grade, and he has sensory issues, and no teachers read his IEP, and they had ONE person for all the disabled / special needs/ behavioral children. With one person his needs are not being met and he was constantly being put in in school suspension and I was told they don't know what to do with him. Also, when they put him in ISS I told them that is not a punishment for an autistic child. No distractions from other students? A class all to his self with one teacher overseeing him? He'll love it! Nope they said he'll understand it's punishment. I picked him up and he loved it and wished he could do that every day. The teachers are not prepared or trained to deal with disabled children that aren't severe and can learn but has social issues and to follow an IEP (individualized education plan). I pulled him to homeschool and using an online program and he is thriving with one-on-one support from myself and happier. He doesn't want to go back to public school now. He was constrained by someone at the school and still traumatized by it. Not to mention the school shootings are rampant now. I could no longer worry about my son's safety at school not taking him seriously when he elopes or being constrained because they threw his IEP out the window and also stress triggered to have a seizure. I was also a very involved parent with the school and worked with them. It didn't help. Involved parenting still does not help most of the time. The schools are going to do what they want to do.

[@sep1364-l3d]

As a parent of an autistic toddler your story helps when I'm told he would do better with other children in the classroom but fear he would be punished for something he has no control now. That doesn't mean he is not smart at all on the contrary he is very smart for his age but the sensory needs are what holds him up a bit. And he may also model other behaviors from more severely autistic children and instead of being challanged he would probably be held behind.

[@crazyazmommy]

So glad we pulled our last 2 children out of the public school indoctrination system, big difference than we were asleep and let the system have our other children. The list grows everyday why it was a good idea ….. insurmountable reasons

[@sh8nn0n92]

Daughter graduated w Ap’s at 16 (Cali)- had to keep her home from uni because of the tr8ns cu1t😰! Know kids phones- she is well now, 3rd yr engineering at 19- and a proud female. It’s not an insult to another to be female, or smart, or being your best! 1 body. 🗣️

[@FlowerPower-r8h]

I feel for the parents that have to work.

[@arkyboy14]

It has a lot to do with poor parenting at home and the resultant over the top bad behavior that takes place in the classroom. Schools along with the input from administrators, teachers and parents should be able to issue expected behavior guidelines to all the parents at the beginning of the school year which they must read, agree to and sign at the beginning of each school year.

[@robroy6158]

Schools work for the taxpayers that fund them. Teachers should be expected to educate students. Is this too radical for you to understand?

[@avi8terrfwg317]

They seriously can't figure that out? Are you kidding me?

[@sethhersch]

For us it was the demystifying of pedagogy that made us homeschool. In 2020 the curtain was pulled back and we saw that what even an outstanding teacher (she is and we’ve known her for many years) could do was more accessible than we realized. It became very obvious personal attention had a larger weight in the “education optimization function” than the teacher’s understanding of pedagogy. In fact, the latter can be a huge liability. It wasn’t for us - again, great teacher - but for many who only know what their undergrad in education taught them (at the expense of some domain knowledge outside of education), it can be downright dangerous and dogmatic. Homeschooling allows us to select the topics we think are most practical and present them in the curricula that best fit the kid. Those are *wildly* different for my daughter and son. They’re just not wired the same way so why would I expect the same array of curricula and pedagogical approaches to work for both? But the public education apparatus assumes just that: effect sizes should be uniform across the preponderance of students. Nothing can justify an assumption that brazen. For the teachers who fought like hell to keep schools closed: this is just beginning. Should have been careful what you ask for. For the truly gifted teachers who dip into their own pocketbook at the Lakeshore because they care that much about the environment they create for young minds: I see you and I’m so sorry the bureaucrats are even more of an impediment for you than they are for families, but keep pushing!

[@shannonsollman3509]

We stayed on remote learning after the Covid-19 shutdowns! Our kids loves it!

[@ruthgallagher9584]

In Iowa we cut special ed funding by 10 percent to give wealthy families $7500 to help pay for their children attend private high school. ...

[@marywiggins7411]

Yes, you do know the reason. Parents discovered the quality of public education was horrible and especially with pushing 'social emotional activist' education instead of solid education.

[@dagmar9019]

When your child is at home, you can better gage their abilities. The parent can move a child up in grade or use a more difficult curriculum. My mom could tell when I wasn’t trying verses struggling with material… A lot of schools just give “busy work” instead of challenging a child.

[@christiethomas6905]

This increase in homeschooling is even more of a reason to join HSLDA you can look into a group discount as well.

[@xmanrgil6]

Can we get the money the parents get the money now

[@nerobaal6655]

Absolutely not.

[@xxxytheguy1296]

Tons of school threats that shut down many schools in my area in Colorado and I have this feeling parents can care less about their kids' safety cause they send them back.

[@emilyl6746]

Catholic school has always been the only option.

[@acetorres8787]

These school are too woke

[@nerobaal6655]

That terminology is only used by the brainwashed.

[@Leo82870]

Lol, what schools do you refer to and what districts? Your suggestion is ridiculous.

[@hiddenhand6973]

Go woke go broke

[@Leo82870]

@@hiddenhand6973 what are you talking about? What school district is "woke"? Secondly, what school district is now fiscally affected by this miniscule home schooling movement?🙄

[@hiddenhand6973]

@@Leo82870 any of the ones taking free lunch for lgbtq lessons. The ones using restorative justice practices. Keep head firmly in the sand, k? How many kids are you putting through the system?

[@sarayusarayu832]

If you can afford it…

[@carmellam.8703]

Traditional equates to outdate teaching, bulling, favoritism, not being able compete with other childern internationally or having apprenticeship programs to help figure out what they are good at or would like to be when they grow up.

[@xmanrgil6]

Play homeschool my kids for better eye on them ensure more the truth

[@Cointelpronoun]

While I don't exactly blame the parents for doing this the impact of this is that well off gifted and talented students will be served while a significantly smaller number of gifted and talented students will be left in the public schools because they didn't have the resources to leave and schools will neglect them even more. The public schools will become a school of last resort for troubled students that can't get into some other place. The average test score will fall and be used to justify stripping the school of resources even more. They will blame the teacher for the average going down.

[@allesasmart]

only 1% of a gifted class is truly gifted the rest are just from healthy families with strong work ethics.

[@redjetsen1002]

being smart does not fit their definition of equity. Factory schools want compliance. Dumb it down be compliant get an "A" ...who needs a school like that?

[@alexandru5369]

Almost like trash like no child left behind ( didn't realize students were in the military ) or Common Core ( Of what of an apple?) was a big FU too smart/kids who wanted too learn

[@lensofgrace3976]

Parents are realizing the root of the problem! Yey

[@nerobaal6655]

The root of the problem are the parents and their beliefs.

[@BobDeGuerre]

So many so-called supporters here cannot even form a coherent sentence, much less express a coherent thought. I guess critical thinking skills, forming complete sentences, & learning to express one's ideas & opinions clearly so that others may understand isn't trendy anymore. Pity.

[@European-Man-88]

Wanna be more specific? The irony of your comment is beautiful

[@C25-150]

How you are blind to issues in the school system?

[@jaymudd2817]

It's beyond the purview of my cognition!

[@nancyroberts8749]

Speaking of coherent sentences, did you mean supporters of homeschooling?

[@Glendatheagoodwitch]

We are concerned about reverse racism. And bullying 🎉

[@mindF8]

Reverse… racism..? So just racism?

[@zemao2111]

So, that's why T was campaigning in RI.😂

[@michaelstone7488]

People have lost faith in our institutions.

[@michaelkoch6863]

"Home schooling" will always only be possible at a low level. No "home school" program will be able to replace an elite professor. It is all just a gimmick to generate money for those who profit from this genre. Only sophisticated books and top professors can intelligently develop the individual.

[@sep1364-l3d]

🤔 mmmm not from the comments of parents that actually homeschool their children. Seems like you don't know how teaching works.

[@lisatirkot7210]

Smart children did well with remote learning. Since most children in the USA are not very smart they had problems.

[@pep590]

But we diversified. That means everything, right?