@jennifercrossl5 @KelemenCari Interesting we are seeing the opposite in my area. People are leaving homeschool in droves for charters.
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Jarin Schiavolin
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@KelemenCari I will say that a decent percentage are parents taking their kids out. We started homeschooling along with many other new families in the FW-Aledo areas. Homeschooling is spreading like wildfire and it will continue.
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Based on 2024–2025 data, Texas spends approximately $13,189 per public school student.
Last year, Texas public schools lost 76,000 students—likely due to remigration. That's a savings of more than a BILLION dollars a year!
So when do Texans get lower school/property taxes?
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Austin Mayor and Bill Bunch clashed yesterday over a very weird $5 million bond payment tied to an un-named developer
Bunch challenged council to explain what this was all about, cause the staff explanation makes no sense
Later, the Mayor came back to say Bunch is right. Total Bill Bunch Victory!
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Ideology aside, mixed-ability classrooms don't work because they place an undue burden on teachers to "differentiate instruction." A lovely idea but almost impossible to do effectively. Someone's time gets wasted, goes unchallenged, or left further behind.
Jennifer Thetford-Kay@JenKteach
Another progressive education myth has been demolished - The evidence is now overwhelming: selecting children by academic ability works. Nick Gibb As a qualified teacher with years in the classroom, this has been obvious for decades. The EEF study confirms what we saw daily: setting by prior attainment works. High-attainers make 2 months more progress, disadvantaged pupils are not harmed, and mixed-ability classes often pitch lessons to the bottom; limiting stretch for everyone. Time to move on from the old mixed-ability ideology.
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@Principal_Jon I would absolutely say it’s the norm for high school, for people in classical liberal arts homeschool circles. Maybe it’s not the norm in other styles of HS. These parents tend to have college bound kids needing accredited coursework.
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Interesting fact:
Most homeschool parents aren't the teacher in every subject.
Parents tend to teach their younger kids, but as children get older, they outsource to a la carte classes, sometimes in the local public school.
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@0riettaRose People outside of homeschooling have no idea how it actually works.
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Something coming up in comments lately about homeschooling:
"What about calculus?!?"
Well, some public high schools don't even offer calculus. The kids get As & Bs in math, but take remedial once they're in college. (Often leading to drop out, btw.)
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@lukeburgis My view is that it’s the failure of education over the last century. There’s no grounding in tradition. Culture can flourish only when it’s tied to the cult.
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People also sometimes ask why there aren't more Christians at the highest levels of Silicon Valley, or building some of the most important technologies.
The reason, I assure you, has nothing to do with discrimination.
It's worth reflecting on the real differences between the arts and start-up/silicon valley success. Because they are real. But it's also worth asking what psychological, spiritual, and social structures might be in place that prevent serious building and scaling among Christians. I don't think it's a good thing.
My fear is that the general language of the "New Evangelization" led to more energy being devoted to rosary and saint merchandise—and and Matt Fradd podcasts producing theological hand-wringing—than solving real problems in the world.
Even discussions about AI in the Church tend to start from abstract ethical and moral principles, and not from concrete problems. That has to stop.
Matthew Schmitz@matthewschmitz
People sometimes ask why there aren’t more Christians in the arts. One reason is that they face intense discrimination, often in the name of inclusion and diversity. x.com/matthewschmitz…
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@rayengroves It’s ok not to bring small children to mass. I know that scandalizes people, but it’s the traditional way.
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People out here acting like 80s and 90s kids regularly watched movies from the 50s and 60s.
John Attridge@John_Attridge
Film literacy among young people is at an all time low. My gen z students are shockingly unfamiliar with many key landmarks of modern cinema that were released in the 1990s
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@0Beanie05923291 We also went through pointless property tax increases to give teachers raises that got wiped out by the tax increases.
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I know teachers who went through the motions and got pointless graduate degrees just for the pay raise. Most will tell you that those degrees didn’t make them better teachers but it was the only way to make more money. There needs to be another (better) way.
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@wrowclif My issue is golf tournaments. We have 7 masses at my parish alone, but what about the Protestants? They just skip and are cool with that?
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Saw a new one over on the Facebook today:
"So excited to celebrate JimmyBob's First Communion today! Dad and the siblings couldn't make it, they had wrestling."
The state of cradle Catholicism.
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23 of these are books that no educated person would have read a generation ago because they are exclusively aimed at the post 1990s homeschool Christian market. Particularly, meta-books (Pearcey, Wilson etc) are not indicators of having a good education but of trying to catch up
Robert Bortins@TheRobertBshow
A generation ago: every educated person read these books. Today: the average graduate has never finished one. Homeschool families are restoring what was lost. Augustine called it "rightly ordered love." We call it Tuesday.
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@lukeburgis Lamb prices have skyrocketed. No one is talking about it.
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Something is deeply wrong. I picked out these three things from my local DC farmers market this morning. I handed him my card, day dreaming about something else, and continued on my way. About halfway down the block, I remembered what I heard him casually say: $99
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@davidpdeavel The state of RE makes me weep. Even in good places, it's a train wreck. If not the bureaucracy, it's pedagogy/curriculum, well-meaning catechists with no formation, etc.
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I agree. My wife and I taught the Baptism class at our parish for about fifteen years. Since I led the first half and she led the second half, we would take turns watching kids that were brought so the parents could participate.
☀️🌷Catholic Charm ✞ 🌷☀️@CatholicCharm
If the Catholic Church wants you to baptize your baby then parishes should probably be more welcoming to those babies. Filling out a baptism form and this is so rude 💀 we don’t have to take a class bc this isn’t our first rodeo but what do they expect first-time parents to do if they can’t bring their baby along with them especially if the child is still young and breast-fed? Absolutely crazy to me
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Be brutally honest. What is your opinion on this design?
The White House@WhiteHouse
The United States Triumphal Arch – Celebrating 250 Years of America 🇺🇸
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@CatholicCharm Oh believe me, this is one of my hills to die on. The way moms of big families are treated by parishes is inexcusable.
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If the Catholic Church wants you to baptize your baby then parishes should probably be more welcoming to those babies. Filling out a baptism form and this is so rude 💀 we don’t have to take a class bc this isn’t our first rodeo but what do they expect first-time parents to do if they can’t bring their baby along with them especially if the child is still young and breast-fed? Absolutely crazy to me
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Homeschool today.
(Dad does the math but he’s traveling).
Son: Since Dad is not here, can you help me with 1.63?
Me (with both a screaming baby and toddler hanging off my leg): No.
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Fun fact: In 1976, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła visited Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA, where he gave a fascinating lecture in English at the University of Wisconsin on Catholic education in Poland. Just two years later, he became Pope John Paul II.
Here's rare footage of the entire lecture:
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