I get flak every time I say this, so I figured I should clarify. Universally, 100% of the time, homeschooling is the worst option for every single child. Without exception. I'm not being hyperbolic. Let me explain. 1/11
Knowing Better @KnowingBetterYT
Jan 13
Homeschool kids do not perform better than public school kids. Your data suffers from selection-bias. Hope that helps. Homeschooling is the worst choice for every child, 100% of the time.
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No person on earth is qualified to teach every subject at every grade level. Having a textbook isn't enough. Teachers are supposed to know more than what is in the book so they can answer questions about the book. Even then, you need to know when to teach what concepts. 2/
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Teachers are basically experts in child development. Kids physically can't understand negative numbers until a certain age. The abstract thinking parts of their brain aren't done cooking yet. Do you know what age that is? But let's say you decide to do it anyway, because... 3/

Jan 13, 2025 · 10:37 PM UTC

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...You want your child to have a religious education. Your child needs to be exposed to different ideas and people who don't look like them. It's going to happen eventually, better for it to happen now while you're able to explain why you believe what you do. 4/
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...Your child is a genius. They may be ahead of the class, but they won't learn how to work with others and help them catch up. That isn't your child's job, of course, but it will be an invaluable skill going forward. Want them to be a leader some day? 5/
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You know those prodigies who end up in college at 16? What kind of experience do you think they're having? Absolutely zero college kids - sorry, adults - will want to hang around a 16 year old for reasons that I hope are obvious. Let your kid grow up like everyone else. 6/
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...Your child has been bullied. I'm sure it's safer at home. Is that your plan for the rest of their childhood? Getting the school to fix the situation, or switching schools, or hell, paying the popular kids to protect your child, is still better than keeping them at home. 7/
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As a parent, it is not your job to curate your child's entire existence and decide what ideas they hear or who they socialize with. They will grow up and resent you for it. Your job is to guide them and provide context to what they're experiencing outside of your presence. 8/
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When it comes to stats like "homeschooled kids perform better on tests," there's a selection bias problem. Every public school kid takes tests like the SAT or ACT. Only the college-bound homeschool kids do. Parents decide the curriculum. There is no homeschool diploma. 9/
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The idea of a tradwife teaching her 8 blonde kids in a farmhouse is the EXCEPTION when it comes to homeschool. More often than not, homeschool is a dumping ground for kids who have failed out of or been expelled from everywhere else. It's a dead end to their education. 10/
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For every successful homeschool story, there are 99 kids who fell through the cracks and will struggle as an adult. And that successful kid would have been much better off in a public school, surrounded by diverse peers, learning things you can't teach them. 11/fin
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Lol no they're aren't what the fuck are you talking about
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"Teachers are basically experts in child development." LOL everything past that is ignored.
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Is this what your parents told you when your placement tests came back and you scored poorly on them? This is false and misleading.
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Teachers are just random dumb chicks who couldn't think of anything better to do with their lives. I have never met a teacher that I would consider an "expert" in anything.
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I am easily more knowledgeable about all of these topics than all of my public school teachers.
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ORLY? "Experts"?
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Haha Teachers know how to develop a child better than God given mother instincts. NO
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anyone who has ever interacted with more than 5 teachers, especially as an adult, knows this is wrong.
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Yeah... When is the last time you sat in a class? Teachers have been relegated to controlling a classroom and regurgitating curriculum I sit in lectures, they're horrifically bad. I get asked to lecture, and have to bite my tongue because official curriculum is often out of date
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You are a total mor0n and an indictment on the US educational system.
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What is the age?
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I taught a 14yo negative numbers in one session.
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That's why they r helping get your kids transitioned huh?
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Well, that tweet took off, so: Where is the science showing that negative numbers are abstract? Is zero also an abstract number? Are fractions, like "one half?"
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Many teachers are not experts in child development. You put far too much faith in teachers.
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Teachers are /not/ "basically experts in child development" lol
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I agree with the larger point, but in no way, shape or form were the majority of my teachers in k-12 experts in anything, including child development.
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Most teachers are basically experts in *nothing*. They don't come anywhere close to expertise in anything. Takings 2-3 classes in something doesn't make you an "expert". Even taking 8 classes doesn't make you an "expert" in something. Hell, even getting a book published doesn't necessarily do it. There's a lot of crap books out there.
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> Kids physically can't understand negative numbers until a certain age. If you believe there's an exact age where children suddenly gain the neurological capacity for negative numbers, you definitely need to go to a state school. One that transports students on a short bus
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It's super weird that, with these "experts in child development" in charge of public education that 21% of adults (28.4% in California) are functionally illiterate and 54% have literacy levels below the 6th grade level. Another bang-up job by the "experts".
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Have you met a teacher?
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That's a bold statement. What is your evidence/results that point to this expertise? Dead Poets Society?
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What age is that? I recall there being this mystique around negative numbers as a child. Like they were some deep, mysterious thing only the Elect were allowed to know. When I learned what they were, I said "This is just 'in the hole'", which we'd been using to keep score on the playground since second grade. Some mystery.
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Did you actually say "Teachers are basically experts in child development"? Considering the newest crops of teachers, I have no words for how silly that is. And you also mentioned that you have no kids. Never raised a single one. You should not be condescending to parents, young man, as if you have some gnostic wisdom. You also realize that government schools are the (failed) experiment, not homeschooling, yes? No one should give you credence on these issues. The whole thread is full of unreasonable opinions. The thread actually makes the case for homeschooling.
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teachers are basically people who could get that major and do that job, they’re not experts in sh*t and 90% of the psychology upon which teaching relies is unrepeatable
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Teachers are probably the least intelligent professionals you and your children encounter.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA IMAGINE BEING THIS FUCKING DUMB My cousin was an elementary school teacher there is no way she would claim that her education made her "an expert in child development"
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