Smasharoo wrote:
You also have provided zero sources to back up a single thing you've said.
So true. Amazingly, I'm still correct...
Wow. Delusion much?
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States where there are no laws requiring home school children to take standarized tests:
California (you guessed wrong, sorry :( so sad )
Way to move the goalposts off the damn field there Smash. I said (quite clearly I thought) that California did not have any specific home school laws. In the absence of such laws, they must still be educated in an approved manner. Which, in California, means designating your home a "private school". Which places parents who home school in California under the same requirements as a private school. Which, given I'm sure you're somewhat familiar with private schools, means they take standardized tests. Just like kids attending the local Catholic schools do. WTF? Reading is really not your strong suit, is it?
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Wait, you know what, it's easier to list states that DO require it as there are so few.
And again you miss the forest for the trees. All states require children to receive an education via some list of approved methods. If homeschooling isn't on the list, that doesn't mean that you can homeschool and not have any educational requirements at all. It means that your "homeschool" is actually treated as some other form of education that already exists. So finding states that don't have specific homeschooling requirements doesn't mean what you seem to want to think it means.
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NONE of which you've mentioned yet, incidentally, you fucking moron.
Because you're moving the goalposts. I linked to a page which quoted the Virginia statue regarding
evaluation of home schooled students. You're playing word games (as usual). Why can't you just be honest here? You made a series of claims about home schooling. Those claims are false. Are we done yet? Or are you even going to attempt to support your claims?
All you've done is tap dance around the issue and play word games. The question is whether or not homeschooling provides a sufficient education to public school. The answer is "yes". Again, are we done now?
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Hey guess which states have the smallest percentage of home schooled kids! I'm just kidding you don't really have to guess. It's PA...NY...VT...
Blah blah blah. What the heck do you think any of that means? Want to know what it doesn't prove? This:
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Nah, there is plenty of research. It works amazingly poorly with a few exceptions. Parents who are former teachers or have a background in childhood education, legitimately gifted children, that sort of thing. For average kids, it generally turns out good spellers who fail catastrophically at the university level. Maybe his kids are gifted or he used to be a teacher, I don't really know much about it. If not, he's probably damaging them for life out of some sort of self righteous hubris, which is pretty much the opposite of good parenting.
That you'll work really hard to avoid actually supporting a claim you made? Yeah. I think we all do.
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There really isn't much of an "anti-homeschool" movement extant in the US.
And yet, you seem so sure it's a terrible way to education children. Why is that? You just made it up? You have some personal vendetta?
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I'm sure you've been informed that teachers unions, in their abundant spare time when they finish dealing with organized crime and hurting students are against the concept, but really they don't much care. They certainly aren't spending much money on it.
When even the teachers unions decide that it's not a cause worth attacking, one might wonder why you take every opportunity to do so. I mean, they actually have a vested interest in squelching the practice, given that it directly reduces their money and power. What's your interest in all of this?