In the 2024-2025 school year, homeschooling continued to grow across the United States, increasing at an average rate of 5.4%. This is nearly three times the pre-pandemic homeschooling growth rate of around 2%. Notably, 36% of reporting states recorded their highest homeschool enrollment numbers ever — exceeding even the peaks reached during the pandemic.
I’m in a dilemma. My kid is nearing school age. My wife already stays at home with the kid. I live in a fairly rural, conservative area. My wife is a former science teacher and we both have masters degrees. I look at the people we live around and wonder, is it going to be a good idea to send my kid to school? Especially because they are already showing advanced capabilities.
I was homeschooled. Its the best! “they need social interaction” yeah, but not necessarily with the retarded kids in public school, sorry… I got plenty enough social interactions. I had friends that went to public school. I played soccer, made friends there. I went to church, had friends there. My parents had friends who had kids I was friends with. I also surfed and liked other sports well enough. There were the neighborhood kids I was friends with, and I lived rural too. I had brother too. Enough about friends.
But yeah, if yall give homeschooling a good try and be committed I believe it is 1000% better than public school. And I think that is both because of education and social education. Some public school kids that I see -especially these days-… its just sad and pitiful… like cant read a clock or read or write cursive? There are so many bad influences too, I know that sounds cliche even, but its true. The wrong friends are worse than the wrong education, sometimes… Oh also both my older brothers are very successful, im a little less successful but still awesome, I make enough and live well. Im also the only one of my brothers that had a drug phase too though. But… im clean now and got shit back together.
Hey my mom also was a science teacher before she became a mom and started homeschooling!
Simple solution. Go ahead and home school. But when the time comes for them to hit voting age, if they can’t pass a GED science test or a civics test, they don’t get to.
Live in your fundamentalist bubble. It’s your right and I don’t give a shit. But your right to swing your fist ends where the rest of our noses begin. Your fundamentalist bubble should have no say over the functioning of a country that is supposed to be built on reason and science.
It’s not just fundies who are homeschooling. A very well-loved (and very liberal) family friend of mine started a home-school co-op for her kids and their neighbors because they were seriously unimpressed with the district test scores in science and social studies. Her kids are intelligent, independent, well-adjusted, and well-read.
She did it because she lived in a red-state and wanted a modern, coherent, first-class education for her kids instead of theocratic indoctrination.
This is the first intelligent comment in this entire thread. Public schools in the US don’t teach critical thinking, you’re lucky if you get a teacher that does. There’s a reason the rich don’t send their kids to public school.
