Virginia Union University Prof Not Comfortable With Home-Schooling
Home-schooled students “typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public school students on standardized academic achievement tests.
The College Fix reports.
Despite high popularity and positive results, prof says ‘jury still out’ on homeschooling
Even though some 300,000 students have started homeschooling just since 2010 and studies showing that homeschooled children fare better academically than their public school counterparts, at least one education professor says we still need to know more about the practice.
“The jury is still out,” Virginia Union University’s Matthew Lynch says.
Lynch also would like to see homeschooling parents go through training like that which teachers receive.
“Without that type of rigorous training, I just wouldn’t feel comfortable allowing somebody to home-school their kids,” he says. “[T]here needs to be some type of quality control.”
Despite high popularity and positive results, prof says ‘jury still out’ on homeschooling (The College Fix)
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The whole point of homeschooling is to get students away from the training that ed majors (teachers) receive. How about improving what teachers learn in college so that schools are so competitive that homeschooling is less of an alternative?
It really doesn’t matter what that prof’s opinion is of homeschooling, since those students are not his children. Quality control is about getting the job done well and public schools are failing at that right now.
There are plenty of problems with the public ed system, but I don’t think is necessarily an indictment of pedagogy as much as it highlights the importance of educational focus.
Two main reasons:
1. A 1:1 student/teacher ratio in the classroom is always going to be a much better learning environment than the tens or twenties at most schools for a whole multitude of reasons.
2. Most of the time, the homeschoolers are taught by a parent. The parent knows their childs interests, needs, and thought processes better than anyone else with even the best training available. That is a huge advantage in making academic and professional progress.
Coming soon to a campus theater near you: “homeschool privilege”
Anyone surprised that someone dependent on people taking education courses would want to require education courses for home schooling?
It’s not about the students, it’s about the money.
Liberals hate it when they cannot “educate” everyone so that no one can oppose them. They just want to wreck havoc on the nation’s future and nothing more.
the next shoe to fall will be when someone in education demands that parents of homeschooled children will have to pay union dues to the Teacher’s Union.
It’s all about control and money.
They are missing a new revenue stream, which can then be given in support of progressive causes.
You are right, mochajava76, I did not even consider the possibility of such an event. Thank you for pointing it out. That is scary.
300,000 success stories is not enough for you?? They are not “your” kids moron.
“[T]here needs to be some type of quality control.”
The standardized academic achievement tests—the ones home-schooled students score so well on—are the quality control.
And of course the same tests show that the quality at public schools is not so hot.
The jury may be out for home schooling but for public schools the jury has returned and the verdict is FAILURE.