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Kind of a cheap shot, but lots of data shows that kids are better off staying at home and learning there than actually going to a public school. 🤔

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Austen Allred

@Austen

· Feb 22, 2018

This tweet goes out to the education system in the United States for being so broken that it's not even difficult to create something that's a major improvement

Ben Reinhardt

@Ben_Reinhardt

Feb 22, 2018

Question I don't know the answer to: how do you make the homeschool model work for poor/uneducated parents?

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Not sure that would be good. Though homeschooling has benefits in some circumstances, my very shallow understanding is that many of those benefits seem to accrue from the same types of forces that make tutors 2-sigma better than 30:1 classes, plus strong selection bias pressures.

2:06 AM · Feb 23, 2018Twitter Web Client

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Agreed. In other words, people likely to homeschool are likely to be a biased sample for other factors that relate to student success (such as parental education level, relationship to their kids...) _and_ homeschooling has a great student:teacher ratio.

Bryn Jackson

@superbryntendo

Feb 23, 2018

In my experience (homeschooled k-5) and knowing other homeschooled kids... many of the materials were framed in terms of religion and taught by the less-educated parent. In combination with the low emphasis on socialization this was a negative experience. Anecdotal though.

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Importantly, income level isn’t necessarily part of it. More important is having parents who are emphatic about education and have some good idea of what it means to go through the activities required to succeed

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I worked at an unschooling center. Kids 12+ dropped off in morning, small staff works to find them mentors for whatever they want to learn. Great results after short deschooling period. Perhaps ideal is to mix this model w a dynamicland Montessori for elementary.

may-li khoe

@mayli

Feb 23, 2018

TBH I find myself having an urge to run away from trying to discuss this on Twitter at the moment; the problems and solutions are more complex, nuanced and longitudinal than fits in a tweet or even multiple ones. I have more questions than opinions and I’d assert that’s healthy!

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