The home-schooling boom is getting a new push due to opposition to Common Core, the controversial national education standard that some parents claim is using their children’s public school lessons to push a political agenda, according to critics of the Washington-backed curriculum.
North Carolina, already a home-schooling hotbed, saw a 14 percent rise last year in the number of students being educated at home, according to a report fromHeartlander Magazine. Similar increases have been seen in Virginia, California and New York, according to education activists.
“If you look at national, and even state polls, you can see that the more familiar people become with Common Core, the more they dislike it,” Bob Lubke, a senior policy analyst for the North Carolina-based Civitas Institute, told FoxNews.com. “They feel like they are losing control of what their kids are learning.”
An official for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, which oversees the state's public schools, says that the uptick in home-school enrollment has had no negative effect. In fact they say it is the opposite.
“We have experienced a statewide increase in enrollment over the past few years,” Vanessa Jeter, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, told FoxNews.com. “Since 2012-13, our statewide enrollment has increased by 27,512 students.”
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4 comments:
Homeschooling = brainwashing
If we don't have Common Core to indoctrinate our upcoming generation then this will hinder the group think agenda.
LMAO 2:19. IF you really believe your comment; without a doubt, you are clueless.
Homeschooling was the ONLY schooling since the beginning of time. Public/Government Schools are VERY new. Read McGuffey Readers (if you can read) to see how educated children were before we started en mass Public/Government schooling. Believe me, they were far and away more educated than the students today.
I'm sure you were Public/Government School educated by your comment. Such a shame your school years were wasted and you, now, have to live with that.
I urge EVERYONE to escape this failing system asap.
If certain groups of students don't do any better with Common Core than they've done with everything that came before it, CC will be trashed. They are the ones who determine education for everyone else. The expense is staggering for almost no gain.
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