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Old 06-18-2008, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Technocratic_Utilitarian View Post
And that's piss poor home schooling standards. If you can teach "creationism" in the science curriculum and virtually ignore evolution, the standard is a joke, period. The state standards are crap then, which proves my point for me. It's too lenient. It gets worse though. Here's an example of just how crappy home schooling quality standards are:

"According to the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), an advocacy group for home schooling that has been instrumental in getting more permissive home school legislation passed in many states, 25 of the 50 states have no regulations governing home schooling except a requirement that parents notify a local public authority that they have set up a home school." Moreover, "of these 25 states, (ten) do not even require parental notification."

Essentially, the home school system is a free for all in 25 of the 50 stages, given there are virtually no regulations governing quality in a half of them. Of that half, 10 don't even need to notify a public school nearby that they are going to use home schooling. At best, all the parentso do is go "lolz, I am gonna home school!" and create Jesus Camp. That's poor, just as I said it is.

There aren't even good statistics on the quality of instruction. This should be no surprise, given 10 states don't even require anyone to be notified of homeschooling.

Another interesting fact is that many of the statistics that show home schoolers do well...are unreliable and biased. For example, some studies indicate that home schoolers did better than public schoolers on the Iowa Scholastic Achievement test. What the home school associations didn't bother to say is that not everyone takes this test, often, the test is in an uncontrolled home environment..given by the parents, and almost 10,000 volunteers opted out. This is absurd.

http://www.stanford.edu/~reich/other...ing%202005.pdf
Now, here's a link where you can find state-by-state information on the curriculum standards: State Core Curriculum Standards

Here are some relatively recent changes made in New York State:

2/14/05 - Home Instruction Field Memo from JAK & JDP
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