The declining reading proficiency among students, particularly in New York City where half of third to eighth graders, including 60% of Black and Latino students, cannot read at grade level, has sparked debate on education methods like unschooling and homeschooling. Critics question the effectiveness of unschooling, citing concerns about children's education without traditional subjects like math and social studies. The pandemic has led to a surge in homeschooling as parents reconsider traditional schooling methods.
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“After Covid, you saw large jumps in homeschooling. Parents got a glimpse into their child’s classrooms and there was sort of this feeling of, ‘Oh, I can do this.’” Unschooling Is the Parenting Trend That’s Pissing Everyone Off: https://t.co/YjvklS7njb https://t.co/PhMRLT4S9C
Unschooling has been around a long time in a tiny niche of high IQ nerd parents with high IQ kids with whom it worked out ok because the kids were intrinsically motivated and super-bright With the avg American post-literate families with extrinsic motivated kids = illiteracy https://t.co/Ud29WVSWgo
Unschooling Is the Parenting Trend That’s Pissing Everyone Off No math. No social studies. Kids set the curriculum. Is this trend in education helping or harming kids? More: https://t.co/YjvklS7njb https://t.co/NLQq7bnFBQ
Plummeting reading comprehension is a national problem, but it’s particularly acute in New York City. Half of its third to eighth graders—and 60 percent of those who are Black and Latino—cannot read at grade level.
Why should we keep the status quo and blindly fund such a failing system? Public Educators Defying Parents as 50% of Students Can't Read at Grade Level https://t.co/p70yEfBZcp