#Homeschool

Sihle Bolani

SihleBolani_

[HOMESCHOOLING]My daughter is 14 and in grade 9 and we’re about to finish Y1 of homeschool. I’m going to share what I’ve learned so far as well as how our

Robby Soave

robbysoave

If public schools insist on not re-opening until it's 100% perfectly safe (i.e. never) because they are beholden to teachers unions, we really should just defund them and give the

laura mckenna

laura11D

As a middle class suburban parent, let me tell you what's going on here. There are lots of reports of all of us organizing our own backyard schools with private

sarah m. albers ☠️

sarahmalbers

idk if we are ready to talk about this but the tendency to avoid having kids and pursue ever higher levels of education is just a weird internalization of deadening

Meaghan Porter

MeaghanEPorter

Hey, @joey_senator, have you thought through the economic consequences of this?My husband & I have health issues that put us at elevated risk for Covid complications. If businesses can't enforce

Jill Filipovic

JillFilipovic

One of the most controversial ideas in America is that children have rights. And the people who are most opposed, who keep us as one of just three nations that

enough is enough

EmilyGorcenski

It's way past my bedtime but I'm going to leave you all with this little lesson.A few years ago, after Unite the Right, I joined a group of activists from

David V. Stewart

DavidVStewart

1) Most people suck at something the first time they do it. First-year teachers are often bad - would you pull your kid from public school because his teacher just

Jill Filipovic

JillFilipovic

One of my hopes is that post-Covid, we can have a serious conversation about homeschooling and the need to better regulate it to ensure that kids are (a) safe, and

Jess Calarco

JessicaCalarco

Why is the Secretary of Education trying to force public schools to reopen, without giving them money to do it safely? My take: If schools are open but unsafe, wealthy

Elisabeth Vallet

Geopolitics2020

Yes but. 1. a test isn't foolproof, far from it. But yeah better than nothing.2. in Europe, that one guy was selling negative test certificates. So, this obstacle can be

Coalition for Responsible Home Education

ResponsibleHS

In our July 2020 study, we found that white students who were educated at home underperformed their white public school counterparts in reading. When we looked at non-white and low-income

Clare Wenham

clarewenham

Many people upset about @RishiSunak recognising disproportionate impact of school closures on mothers and not parents.I see it as progress. Recognising unequal household labour dynamics visibilises it and is 1st

Christina M. Kinane

thekinane

successful academics publish good papers and teach "good" classes - that requires *time* to read, think deeply, calculate, write, collect data (if necessary), concentrate on cleaning/analyzing said data, write, revise,

Victoria (Tori) Boucher

ToriBoucher12

I really find the need to throw in my two cents because this is something that has been bothering me for the past month. I have three school-aged children, and

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum

kslunstrum

V. controversial opinion here, I know, but as a teacher (13 yrs at the college-level and 7 yrs teaching 9th-12th), I'm not one bit worried about kids "falling behind" academically

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