@carmel_dotson @0riettaRose So no real standards then. It’s just what you like or think is important.
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Jonny TwoHands
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It seems that people don't realize homeschoolers use curriculum, too.
Parents aren't, generally, blindly picking random things & throwing them in front of their kids.
They also have the freedom to make sure their children actually understand before moving forward.
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@Rebeccamom @0riettaRose Aah… how to compare then? College entrance exams? ACT scores?
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@j2_hands @0riettaRose I do not want to be limited to any state standard. We never chose public school materials anyway. They were the most inferior learning materials.
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Five diseases. One chart. 50 years.
Obesity up 1,000%.
Diabetes up 637%.
Alzheimer's up 500%.
Cancer up 216%.
Heart disease up 100%.
All rising. All together. All since 1975.
These are not five separate diseases. They are five symptoms of one disease.
A foodborne illness.
The food changed. The guidelines changed. Fat was replaced with sugar. Butter was replaced with seed oils. Real food was replaced with 10,000 chemicals your grandmother would not recognize.
And every one of these lines followed.
Your doctor treats them as five separate problems. Five specialists. Five prescriptions. Nobody connects the dots.
The root cause is metabolic. The science is clear. And the solution starts with what you eat, what you test, and what you stop believing.
healthtruth.ai/neo
The truth heals
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High school sports, prom, events should ALWAYS supersede club and travel events.
Steven Montoya@steven_montoya
I am getting really tired of out-of-season coaches and clubs pressuring student athletes to participate in weekday practices or weekend tournaments while they are competing in in-season sports. Let kids compete and be all-in during their season.
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Bob Seger is better than Bruce Springsteen. I don’t know how many of you are joining me on this island but I feel like it will be 50% geniuses and 50% guys who make women instinctively lock their car doors.
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New homeschool moms often wonder if they are "doing enough." They get this idea from the fact that government schools keep kids for 7-8 hours and spend $10-15,000 per child per year. But these moms are forgetting about all of the wasted time, education funding spent on layers of administration, and the dismal results in basics like reading and math.
More hours and more money do not result in better-educated kids.
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Two Arkansas boys found mangled on the railroad tracks in 1987.
Joe Rogan broke down the wild story about Kevin Ives and Don Henry. The two teens went night hunting, stumbled onto a CIA cocaine drop and never made it home.
Stabbed. Skulls crushed. Bodies laid across the rails like trash. Ruled an “accident” — until the families forced a second autopsy. Then the files vanished and the medical examiner flipped his story.
Allegedly it was part of the Mena operation: tons of coke flown in on Agency planes, guns flown out to the Contras. All protected by Governor Bill Clinton while Bush ran it from D.C.
Pilot Barry Seal got caught red-handed, scored a get-out-of-jail-free card. Then they put six bullets in him in Baton Rouge with Bush Sr.’s private phone number in his trunk.
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@LadyGravemaster Stop gaslighting people. No system is perfect for everyone. Find the one that fits your kid and move forward. Crazy talk.
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I'm a teacher.
I know of public schools who are failing to teach kids beyond a 1st-grade level in reading, writing, & math.
Forget algebraic equations, these public school kids can't multiply, & the few that can are skip counting.
Homeschool your kids or research private schools.
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗@shagbark_hick
Look, pro-homeschooling people are piling on this guy but he's not wrong at all. I know of families who are straight-up failing to teach their children beyond a 2nd-grade education. Like 16-year-old kids who don't know what the Capital of the US is, have never heard of Toronto, and could not perform a basic algebra problem. While it's true that there are many excellent homeschooling families whose instruction far exceeds that of any public school, the fact is that the American system of "school your kids however you want" does also yield a lot of severely stunted kids who get stuck playing "catch-up" for the rest of their lives. My wife was homeschooled, we might homeschool, I'm not averse to the practice per se, but it's a fact that there's a whole world of multi-generational homeschoolers who are not and will not rise above a 2nd or 3rd grade education level by their own volition. Should the state intervene in these cases? I dunno, the answer to the question is not as "easy" as many make it out to be. The idea of barely getting through 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' at the age of 16 should be appalling, and it IS happening in some American homeschooler families.
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@j2_hands 2013:
Marc Anthony
Dion Jordan
Markus Wheaton
2015:
Brett Hundley
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FAST FACT: Hamilton has had 4 of its alums get selected in the last 3 NFL Drafts with Genesis Smith (LAC) joining Brenden Rice, Jawhar Jordan, and Tyler Shough.
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@j2_hands Chandler HS had 4 in a 3-year span from 2013-15.
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I’m gonna piss off a lot of people saying this again but If a man pays child support, and later find out that the child isn't even his, the mother should have to pay all of it back
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@Gambo987 This issue will fester and be the reason for a change in leadership. At the end of the day, players need to perform better.
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Starting pitching a major problem no one says it’s not - they don’t throw enough strikes. These are veteran pitchers they need to figure it out.
Goldschmidt Happened@GoldyHappens
The front office is doing whatever it can to push away from the pitching staff being DEAD LAST IN TEAM ERA. Full court press getting the media to blame the offense. Carroll has .890 OPS (.883 last year) Perdomo is hitting .309 in his last 15 games!
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How about check on those public school teachers and administrators first.
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic
Right, if homeschooling is actually super high quality, then homeschooling families should not object to being evaluated, tested, and checked-in-on to make sure their kids are actually learning.
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@bossofme7 @j2_hands @0riettaRose The general theme I've gathered from home-schooling parents is that every single one of them have the greatest kid that's ever walked the planet lol
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Homeschool mom tackles the, "What about the real world?" question.
She says her kids are living in the real world & the ones who aren't are the kids spending 13 years in classrooms.
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@0riettaRose Data is a great place to start. ACT/SAT scores for example. Show how it’s better than public school.
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All the arguments really boil down to personal problems on the part of the person who is anti-homeschool.
I've found that many doomsayers grew up with serious home issues & can't see beyond their past. Nothing you can say to them & they won't acknowledge great results.
Hannah Ward 👩🏻🏫 Mom (x3) | Learning Designer@HannahWardEdu
I wish I could get some anti-homeschooling arguments that weren't doofus tier so I could at least be entertained. YAWN.
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@grok @TOhio77 @JeremyTate41 @BexStreams 81 homeschoolers across Iowa? Age, grade level, gender, IEP/504…. Context matters.
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**Yes, the core claim is supported by a 2015 study.** Brian D. Ray (NHERI) found Black homeschool students scored 23–42 percentile points higher than Black public school peers on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (reading ~42 pts, language ~26, math ~23), reaching or exceeding the national 50th percentile even after controlling for gender and SES.
Source: Ray, B.D. (2015). *Journal of School Choice*. It's an exploratory study of 81 homeschoolers vs. 1,299 public school students—not the only data point, but widely cited. Newer large-scale research is limited.
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When I worked in public schools they constantly talked about “closing the achievement gap.”
They forgot to mention that Black homeschool students score 23-42% above Black public school students across all standardized tests. In fact, the gap between Black public school students and Black home school students is the greatest achievement gap in America education. I wonder why they never talk about it.
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Homeschooling is super high quality exactly *because* we object to being evaluated, tested, and checked in on by the state
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic
Right, if homeschooling is actually super high quality, then homeschooling families should not object to being evaluated, tested, and checked-in-on to make sure their kids are actually learning.
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