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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (63225)	3/28/2018 8:21:48 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362686

You right wingers can't even wrap your mind around evolution, so how good is your culture educating your kids?/

To: i-node who wrote (63225)	3/29/2018 10:15:58 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362686

LOL- please note the extraordinary cherry picking in the article- "other" 2 parent households? Well, that's interesting- given that 22% of kids are living with only 1 parent, usually a struggling mom, and of those 22%, a high proportion are going to be poor, with an uneducated mother. "Johnna Burns of Northeastern State University made the demographic case in a 1999 study called "The Correlational Relationship between Homeschooling Demographics and High Test Scores." 1 According to Burns, homeschoolers are more likely to come from homes with educated parents and higher incomes. Homeschooling parents are less likely to divorce (which is true of higher income couples in general). Homeschooled kids watch less television. All of this results in higher academic achievement. As a result, Burns says that there is "inconclusive evidence of the actual quality of homeschool instruction." A U.S. Department of Education study found that homeschooling parents are about twice as likely to have advanced degrees. But the percentages with Bachelors degrees or some college is similar to the population overall. Blacks and Hispanics are underrepresented among homeschoolers. 2" It's weird your article uses contests to prove the value of homeschooling. Do you know why more public ed students aren't in those? Because they often use rote memorization, and they take a horrendous amount of time and public school students are in sports, they are cheerleaders, they are in leadership (organizing blood drives and student activities) and they're taking honors and AP classes- as well as having social lives and working. There are few homeschooled students in athletics- so all of your "scholar athletes" are probably public school kids. We have kids playing sports (different ones) all year round, taking AP classes and balancing that with an active social life. Sadly, homeschool kids don't really have those opportunities. I know, because I interacted with the home school community for a period of time. I actually home schooled my daughter for a year- because I made the mistake of starting her too early in kindergarten. She was mentally ready but not emotionally ready. I met the biggest bunch of freaks I've ever met in home school. One family was so weird I told my daughter they moved away, once we left home school and put her back in regular ed, so my daughter wouldn't ask to see the little girl. The mother in that family believed there were secret messages in Disney movies and that UPC bar codes had something to do with the mark of the beast... I'm sure some people in home school are relatively normal, but they skew to the tin foil hat brigade- which is why so much weird child abuse emerges from the home school community. It's a great way to hide from social services and teachers (who are mandated to report child abuse- bruising, burns, etc- if it looks like child abuse. It's a legal duty teachers have.) ................... Of the 11 million families with children under age 18, and no spouse present, the majority are single mothers (8.5 million). Single fathers comprise the remaining 2.5 million single parent families. Married couples make up 68 percent of all families with children under age 18, compared to 93 percent in 1950. Nov 17, 2016 "Homeschoolers’ median family income ($75,000–79,999) closely spanned the nationwide median (about $79,000) for families headed by a married couple and with one or more related children under 18." "