The Homeschooling Advantage

Interesting article on the boom in homeschooling from Breitbart.


Some of the main points:

• Homeschooled students consistently do better on standardized tests:

those who are independently educated generally score between the 65th and 89th percentile on these measures, while those in traditional academic settings average at around the 50th percentile.

• Homeschooled students do better in university.

• Homeschooling comes at only a small fraction the cost of public schooling:

the average expenditure for the education of a homeschooled child, per year, is $500 to $600, compared to an average expenditure of $10,000 per child, per year, for public school students

• There seems to be no “socialization problem”with homeschooled students. Schools do not, after all, socialize in any natural way.

Now, what would we say about any other profession that produced consistently worse results, at a vastly higher cost, than can ordinary laypeople? Isn't it simply urgent to get rid of it as swiftly as possible?

The words "quack" or "mountebank" don't begin to do it justice. More like "conspiracy against the public interest."