According to USA Today per a study conducted by the Dept. of Education:
Homeschooling has doubled in the a decade.
What else has shifted?
It is the percentage of girls to boys. In 1999, it was 49% boys to 51% girls.
Now 42% are boys and 58% are girls.
2 days ago
3 comments:
they got bored of staying at home and doing workbooks
boys need something more engaging
the fathers are absent, and the boys sense that,
that's what I think
You're right, VC, as long as homeschooling is a mother's movement. Mom's give up and think they can't do it, not without a lot of support from Dad.
Boys need men. They are not designed to be under just Mom, especially as teenagers. They do well having physical challanges.
The first poster has it right, I believe. In studying the "old Jesixh ways", strong emphasis was put on FATHERS to TEACH their children, and particularly the concept of "elbow learning", wherein a young man would spend large amounts of time alongside his Dad, learning by observation, involvement, deliberate instruction, and a sort of "osmosis" how to be a man, gain a life-long skill with which to support his own family, how to tend a family and estate, social and economic skills..... often, by the time a lad reached sixteen or so he was fully ready to manage on his own, but even then most would continue in life and business right alongside Dad until they got their own Brides, when he would leave his parents.
These days, after being surrendered to the government schools, the highest hope is to go off to college to learn, uhm, well, something, maybe. Always taught by professionals who are highly paid for the "service", most become nameless cogs in some complex "machine" of production. Little in way of real challenge, little to nothing to "subdue" or "take dominion" over. And the entire system has devolved to the lowest common denominator, which is a very weak and effeminate one. No wonder boys are fleeing what passes for "education" in droves. Few could articulate why, but I believe they sense, deep down, that something is radically wrong. It is plain most KNOW they want little from such a system.
Your own sons, persuing as they are a specific discipline or field, learning, growing, being challenged, facing directly the consequences of their own decisions, leaning to get "a multitude of counsel" from various sources... I love that they are visiting other beemen, learning from them, seeing how THEY do it, drawing from their years of experience... and at the same time researching, exploring, thinking creatively..... there is no formal course of study that could ever give that to any man. And that sort of thing is precisely what is missing from the typical school setting, and much of the home-school phenomenon as well. Knowledge is one thing, experience and equipping are very much another.
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