<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Not necessarily. The additional personal attention that homeschooling provides may compensate for a lot of inexperience/inability. And parents have the flexibility to choose better materials than public schools.</div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></font></span>One - As a long time teacher I can tell you that teaching something and knowing a lot about it are two different things. (several pages omitted on my views of teaching) Many adults are not familiar with the way math, for one, is taught nowadays, and learning along with the student is not an efficient use of time.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Two- I suspect that the below average family has no one available several hours of the day to teach a child and no money for daycare.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 2:36 PM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 3:18 PM Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br></div><div dir="auto">I doubt there are, if the central tenet is the promotion of homeschooling instead of public education. That requires all parents to be above average educators, which most are not by definition.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Not necessarily. The additional personal attention that homeschooling provides may compensate for a lot of inexperience/inability. And parents have the flexibility to choose better materials than public schools.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div><div><br></div></font></span></div></div>
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