https://old.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1613ahw/why_is_homeschooling_villanized/?sort=controversial
Generally speaking I don't think the average American is qualified to teach their children education. The issues with the American education system are systematic issues usually due to poor state funding (the south) and banning books for no reason (Florida). Also home schooling doesn't do a kid any favors in terms of learning social skills. Not saying kids should be bullied but going to public school teaches you to deal with butthole and work with people of different backgrounds than yourself which is a useful skill that you literally cannot get at home.
!chuds they literally admit parents aren't fit to raise their own children without a degree.
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Any "teacher" who says with a straight face that the problems with the US education system are anything other than Common Core, No Child Left Behind, and pretending that it's a good idea to try to make lunchtime rowdies and kids that want to learn and grow up to be citizens sit together in the same classroom should be stood up against a wall and shot.
I have a family friend who teaches in Chicago who told me he has had students who've skipped 80-90% of the year's school days. Every 2 weeks he was told he had to personally call the students' home to inform the parents their kid was skipping, even though they knew and didn't give a shit (assuming they even aswered the phone). After 3 years of any given student doing this, the teacher was instructed to PASS that student so the kid would move up to high school and out of their system, because they were impacting the middle school's pass/fail percentages. It's fricking ridiculous.
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You forgot that other thing, what's the term for itβ¦ where they teach kids to read by saying βok so now pretend you can read'
I'm gonna come back with the right term
This article calls it βthree-cueing'. I think I've heard it called other things but I don't care enough to find out rn
https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
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Whole language is what it's called I think. I saw a comment from one person who said they found out about this when their kid was reciting nonsens with a book open because they were taught that pretending to read is the same as actually reading. Kids are told to just guess what words are based on context which might work if you already know how to read but these are kids who don't even know how to sound out words for the first time.
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The funding issue isn't even maybe correct, California spends some of the most money per student to get some of the worst outcomes nationwide.
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You WILL subject your children to mostly peaceful BIPOCy.
You WILL be happy.
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There's also the school
to prison 
pipeline issue. The pipeline gets clogged up by moral busybodies and the rowdy who choked out his teacher 
can't get to prison 
so instead he goes on to choke out another teacher 
and then shoot 
her.
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It's always Chicago, isn't it?
I think your anecdote is complete bullshit.
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I honestly don't give shit 1 if you think it's bullshit, that's word for word what he told me.
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The part about them being just pushed up past middle school is all too common post-no child left behind. but the reasoning is probably half the story.
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