Approximately 3 percent of the school-age population was homeschooled in the 2011?12 school year.
No sensible person would...
Factual.
Wow.
And you're at the lower end of it:
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Real spending per pupil ranges from a low of nearly $12,000 in the Phoenix area schools to a high of nearly $27,000 in the New York metro area. The gap between real and reported per-pupil spending ranges from a low of 23 percent in the Chicago area to a high of 90 percent in the Los Angeles metro region.
And the Ed School class goat mistakes their inability to handle math to be universal. Sheesh, the ignorance of the University "educated" is astonishing. Which explains to some extent their fear of the home schooled: that deep seated knowledge that there are those who are better than they are.
Gunner Asch on Tue, 06 May 2014 12:08:01 -0700 typed in misc.survivalism the following:
The other element is that Home Schoolers start out as self-selecting for those who care about getting an education. Then they are able to adapt teaching methods and subjects to the student, rather than the one size fits all of the public factory schools. Those two things alone explain a lot of differences in outcome.
Nice to know the percentage of home schooled. I just figured it must be low because I don't personally know any.
I'm not sure what the exact current cost is but Delaware is probably near the top 5.
I read that Washington DC is the highest at $29,000. Numbers appear to have come from the 2010 census.
Private Catholic boys high school I graduated from over 50 years ago now has tuition of $13,700 per year. When I went, it was $80/year which was about a weeks pay for my father. University of Delaware was $255/year which I paid for from summer jobs. You can't do these things today and educational debt is huge.
As I recall, when I was a teenager, a gallon of gasoline, a loaf of bread or a pack or cigarettes were each about 25 cents. If ratios stayed the same, my high school would be charging about $1,300.
The president of the University of Delaware said educational costs track the jobs that people get. Had that been the case my starting salary today as a BS chemist would be about $285,000.
I comprehend that costs are highest for occupations that require mostly people contact like education and medicine yet I wince when I see the University president makes nearly $1 million/year. My class wanted to give this guy a gift of $200,000 at our 50th reunion. He got it but I refused to give one cent. I figured at today's cost of tuition fees and living expenses I spent far more than that to educate my three sons there.
And your pay check in that time only went from $5,000 to $50,000
Cost of the education increased 162 times and yet the return for that is only 10 times....
Surprising that no one taught these students enough to know they were getting hosed in this deal.
And I pointed out just the other day that kids pay $100,000-200,000 for an education and then when they're done they can't find a way to pay the money they owe. That makes you wonder whether the kids are worth an education or if it's just that the education is so bad that they didn't learn enough to survive. And so now they end up on government subsidized health care because the Socialist education system has failed so badly by either selecting the wrong kids and/or providing a totally worthless education, either way the entire Socialist endeavor has now done what the mortgage market did, it has rendered the entire market stagnant and unworkable. The kids are being sold another sub-prime mortgage on their education that they can't pay for and will be upside down in for most if NOT all their lives.
It's only another failed Liberal policy, nothing to see here move along.... this is NOT the droid we want.
"According to a report published by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) and funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, homeschool student achievement test scores were exceptionally high. The median scores for every subtest at every grade were well above those of public and Catholic/private-school students. On average, homeschool students in grades one to four performed one grade level above their age-level public/private school peers on achievement tests. Students who had been homeschooled their entire academic life had higher scholastic achievement test scores than students who had also attended other educational programs."
If it's done right, it's exactly like having your own private tutor, but one extraordinarily committed to giving you their best because you're their own child or family member, with a curriculum custom-tailored to fit your learning and communication styles, and your natural talents and interests. Also, essentially all your school time is real learning time, with none of the lining up, waiting around, and other distractions that consume much of a typical day in public schools.
Like most symposia, I would assume it's a pleasant way to spend a few mid- winter days in Phoenix or Las Vegas at your employer's expense. It has the added attraction of playing a few rounds of 'my theoretical dick is bigger than your theoretical dick.'
So, what have all these breathtaking breakthroughs in calculus done for the human race lately? Would you care to enumerate them?
In today's market, someone who is $100,000 in debt for their university 'education' has a deep psychological need to feel they got something for their hundred large. It's May, I'm interviewing new graduates for programming positions, and it's damn depressing.
So what have you done in the decades since you've been out of school? Eat Fritos and watch Simpsons reruns? Collect your (faux) sheepskin and immediately suffer retrograde amnesia? Do you think math teachers, to pick one example, in primary and secondary education spend their evenings reading the Journal of the American Mathematical Society? Nope, they're regurgitating the same crap they've been putting forth for the last 10 or 20 or 30 years. Perhaps they've figured out how to teach their subject but for the most part they are not current in that subject.
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