[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:24:26PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
The people truly capable of home schooling are probably capable of
the extra level of work required to get that certification.
Um, home schooling stats blow the pants off public school stats. Why
do we need do add more bureaucracy to a successful system?
The difference between accountability and bureaucracy is simply
when it applies to you, huh? Hypocritical, much?
And, you are right, homeschooled students perform some better (I'm going
to challenge "beat the pants off" though).
However, as always, the differences fold directly from socioeconomics:
http://www.conservativefront.com/2004/12/03/homeschool-vs-public-school/
Parents who homeschool do have some notable differences from the
mainstream population though. In a study by L. M. Rudner homeschool
parents had more formal education than parents in the general
population; 88% continued their education beyond high school compared
to 50% for the nation as a whole. The median income for home school
families ($52,000) was significantly higher than that of all families
with children ($36,000) in the United States. Almost all home school
students (98%) were in married couple families. Most home school
mothers (77%)did not participate in the labor force; almost all home
school fathers (98%) did work (Rudner).
Homeschool students did quite well in 1998 on the ACT college
entrance examination. They had an average ACT composite score of
22.8, which is .38 standard deviations above the national ACT average
of 21.0. This places the average home school student in the 65th
percentile of all ACT test takers. And the average homeschooler
scored in the 75th percentile on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills; the
50th percentile marked the national average (Rudner). The average SAT
score for homeschoolers in 2000 was 1100, compared with 1019 for the
general population (Cloud).
Sorry, but I personally agree with the certification requirement. It's
not that hard for someone who already has a Bachelor's degree to get one
nor is it that terribly expensive. And it will serve as a nice buffer
against letting the idiots run amok.
Why do you oppose it? It actually strengthens your position, not
weakens it as it will quickly clean out the morons who shouldn't be
homeschooling. I thought homeschoolers were all about accountability.
-a
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