Ron Paul Launches Homeschool Curriculum

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I think that is great that you would consider homeschooling in the future.

Minorities do often get less attention in the public schools. In the research I posted above, minority and white homeschooled students have equal reading standardized test scores (87%) while minority students in the public schools (49%) score 12 points behind white students in the public schools (61%). This research proves that this gap doesn't have to exist.

I think this has a lot to do with parental involvement, though. I can compare myself and my sister to our peers of the same race. We had similar income levels (we were actually poorer) and attended the same schools, but many of our peers did poorly in school while we did well. Our mother emphasized the importance of education and would expect nothing less than As from us. I can't say the same thing for our peers. If a parent is choosing to homeschool, then the chances are greater that the parent is raising his or her child to value education and is taking the time to stay on top of the student's progress. This is independent of race. Homeschooling, however, is not an option for many black parents. Most black children are born out of wedlock, so they are most often growing up in a single parent home.

When I went to an inner-city school with a large percentage of economically disadvantaged students, I often felt sorry for the teachers. At least half of the students did not care about learning at all, and the teachers couldn't make them care. They would talk while the teacher was lecturing disturbing the students who wanted to learn. The discipline was obviously lacking at home. It shouldn't be the teacher's job to teach someone else's children to have manners.