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Trumper926 1 point ago +4 / -3

Homeschool your Fuckin kids you dumb bastards!

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bukkake 1 point ago +2 / -1

Some of us have to earn a living. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to stay at home all day with their kids. This isn't the 50s.

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Deplora 1 point ago +1 / -0

We need to stop pushing the idea of parents homeschooling their own children as a viable alternative to the massive public school system -- it's not, for the vast majority of families. But what is viable is a few families banding together and paying one parent to school 8-10 children in one of the families' homes. Then add vouchers in the amount that public schools have been spending per student, to enable such homeschools to have decent budgets, and there would be more than enoughqualified parents eager to make a new career out of homeschooling a few families' children.

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pede-o-saurus 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's called a homeschooling club and it's how most homeschooling works

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Deplora 1 point ago +1 / -0

Not from what I've heard. Virtually all homeschool families I know, and have read about, have one parent who stays home and teaches their own children, and then they get together with other families who are doing the same thing, for special activities. That is very different from having all but one parent in the "club" pursuing full-time employment outside the home, and have just one parent from one family doing all the regular day-to-day teaching.

The key benefit to having only one parent take primary teaching responsibility for several families' children, while all the other parents have their time freed up for jobs, is that it would make homeschooling a financially viable option for a lot of families who are currently barely making ends meet with both parents working full-time. If all the parents who continue working full-time at paying jobs pitch in a little to pay the one parent who serves as the primary teacher, then all the families in the group still have two incomes. And none of the children are spending their days being indoctrinated at government-run schools.

In some states, homeschooling laws have been specifically crafted to prevent this, since the anti-homeschooling forces know that this is the model that would destroy the current public school system. These states generally require that anyone other than a parent, who is teaching children in a home setting, must hold a state teaching certification. Obviously most parents interested in homeschooling options are not interested in investing the time and money to go through the required indoctrination programs to obtain state teaching certification.

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Trumper926 -2 points ago +1 / -3

Some of us do both. If I can. Anyone can.