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Post by petraarkanian on Aug 7, 2013 5:42:53 GMT -5
So really, in terms of undermining public school funding, home schoolers hurt public schools much worse. Charter schools get the kid's funding but they also get the kid. A home schooled kid can access services but the school gets nothing. Wow.
I know this is not directly on "unschooling", but pertinent to the thread, I think. Students who have been tested and qualify for special education services can attend a private school but access the special education services through the public school - so again, no funding for the student (although there may be a small amount through federal funding for special education programs).
Elem spec ed, 29th year (also gen ed, g/t, college experience) Indiana & Texas
If a child is homeschooled, the school doesn't get the funding for that child (they also don't have that child...so they don't have that cost). However, the parents obviously still pay taxes that would go to public schools.
Now: in many areas, homeschoolers have access to many of the services provided by the public schools, so in that case the child is receiving services, but the state isn't awarding additional funding to the school as they would if they counted in per pupil.
Everyone should pay taxes to fund public schools. The argument that I've heard from retirees, private school parents, and homeschoolers is that they shouldn't have to pay taxes for a service they don't use. Well, I happily help pay for many roads I don't drive on and a fire department that I'd never use unless my house were on fire.
Do you mean the British School? I think it is a boarding school. That's quite another kettle of fish than unschooling, except for Neill's desire for happy streets weepers rather than neurotic scholars, and the notion that kids should just follow their own impulses academically.
Also, his concept was more a reaction to the teaching methods in Britain prevalent at the time rather than any modern school., IMO.
Post by annepritchett on Aug 18, 2013 20:15:08 GMT -5
I am opposed for the simple reason that when these unschooled kids grow up and are adults, they don't get to get up every day and decided what they want to do that day. That's not how life works.