question about the history of homeschooling

[OakLakeNC]

When you throw in private schools, GPA becomes an even worse measure of a student. With some schools not giving the option to catch up before moving on it becomes basically useless. I got one D and one F in high school (Geometry and Spanish). The school's response is basically 'ok failing is not the end of the world, take it again next semester '. But it is still calculated into my GPA. In the end, didn't matter anyway to me. My SAT served as my placement test into community college. Even if I had bombed the SAT, the cc has Compass testing. If you bomb that, the cc has remedial classes. Really Ds and Fs aren't the end of world. I'm not overly critical of homeschooling. The holistic picture is full of pros and cons. The active learning approach (there is a DSST Foundations of Education term ) is wonderful. But quality homeschooling and opportunities flat line when unmotivated parents led. And I've seen (blogs) where homeschoolers call public schoolers robots. I will be critical of that just as I would somone who insults all homeschoolers. Some people need to check themselves. Ultimately homeschooling is one of many choices and families must decide for themselves what is best in their situation. Going through the DSST Foundations of Education now actually. The history of American education is interesting. It is mostly court cases. (It actually took Topeka, Kansas until 1998 to completely fulfill Brown v Board of Education-Topeka Kansas) Then you also have parents who want to to avoid being "helicopter parents." A picture starts to emerge when you look at the history of American education. You can maybe see why homeschooling might have been looked at skeptically in the beginning.

Re: California. I have a friend actively homeschooling in California. She has the exact opposite opinion. I'll remain neutral on whether CA is strict or not, since it there doesn't seem to be an agreement.