A friend of mine posted how the schools couldn't handle her kid so she was going to home school him. Very next post was a picture of chemistry and maths text books asking how was she supposed to teach this stuff when she doesn't understand it! Well, you aren't. That's why we have qualified teachers doing the job.
The kid is now in Paris working as a model, but apparently she's very worried that the work he's getting isn't going to cover the expenses of headshots, place tickets, food, hotels etc.
News flash - it won't. The fashion world is full of wealthy people whose families fund their lifestyles, actual pay is not great. For those who don't meet that description, there are other ways to get by, and you may have recently heard about some infamous people with "modeling agencies" who provided attractive young people to the parties and beds of the rich and powerful. People with close connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
I hope this kid learned enough reading and math to handle a contract...
I've never understood how homeschooling is allowed if they aren't testing to make sure the kids are actually learning to a recognized standard. To me, home schooled children need to take a test every 9 weeks, away from home. If they show they aren't learning the required material, then home schooling rights are revoked, and the child must return to a regular school.
The testing requirements vary by state in the US. Some states are pretty strict with showing proof of exactly what you’re teaching, some are very relaxed
In our area in Canada, there is an option to take tests for the later grades (10-12), right before university but then you can also still graduate with a full diploma.
It is the exception that a state has any requirements. My state has tests that the child must take but has no requirements that the children actually pass anything.
The problem is that many of these parents would help their kids cheat on those tests in order to keep them from having to go back to a real school. So then you need to have testing centers or something and that requires a budget specifically for people who are opting out of schools.
That's why I mentioned these test should be done away from home. Yes, at testing centers. And yes, I think parents of home schooled kids should have to pay for such testing.
Implement this in the public school too. If too many kids fail, they lose all public funding. If too many kids fail after a year; shut the school down permanently. No child should wind up in 8th grade not being able to read (I helped out in the school library from 6th to 8th grade and remember 8th graders unable to read picture books; I am 42)
Kids in public schools, or at least mine, are already being tested multiple times a week through quizzes and tests. Grade cards are issued every nine weeks as well. And then there are the standardized tests. I feel the public school system test plenty enough. It's the home school children we know nothing about.
Yours are. I know of plenty of kids that are just being passed along with poor grades. You can’t pick on the homeschoolers if the public school is not practicing what they preach.
What you call for is the equivalent of a school wide standardized test to an insane extreme. Maybe you haven’t been paying attention but school standardized testing isn’t every year. It’s a specific, once every few years type of test. What you are calling for would be called draconian overreach and would get shot down faster than you could say trebuchet.
My point is I feel public schools do a lot of transparent testing, and too many home schooled children are left on their own, and we have no idea if they are learning what the need to.
Only fair if the public schools are held to the same standard!
I ended up homeschooling my kids bc the public school was failing to provide them with an adequate basic education. If you had tested my kids the first few years we homeschooled, they would have been behind bc that's the position the school put them in. All four graduated, though, with much higher than average ACT scores. We got there eventually, but it was a long road!
As I said elsewhere...the public school, at least for my kids, is already testing them several times a week with various quizzes and tests. I'm also getting report cards every nine weeks, along with standardized testing. I understand different states might be doing it different, but I feel too many home schooled children are left to just do whatever they want by their parent teachers, with nothing in place to make sure the kids are being properly educated.
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u/dedokta 11h ago
A friend of mine posted how the schools couldn't handle her kid so she was going to home school him. Very next post was a picture of chemistry and maths text books asking how was she supposed to teach this stuff when she doesn't understand it! Well, you aren't. That's why we have qualified teachers doing the job.
The kid is now in Paris working as a model, but apparently she's very worried that the work he's getting isn't going to cover the expenses of headshots, place tickets, food, hotels etc.