She’s part of a program to support home schooling, going around and offering support and performing mandated testing. It’s a strange set up, any family in the state can apply. None of her families live within a couple hundred miles of the physical school district. The school gets the public dollars that they’d get if the student lived in the small town and attended school in person. They buy laptops for the students, some other kinds of stuff. My sister came up the position because she was a teacher who left work to raise her child. She’d planned on going back to work when her son started school but when they got to that age she decided she wanted to home school her son.
Anyway, we’ve discussed what kind of families she works with. Certainly in my experience home schooled kids always came from fringe religious families. While there is still many of those, probably the majority, there’s other reasons today. RW beliefs are pretty common. The kids and families I’d met growing up gave me a pretty poor opinion of home schooling, but like many things results vary greatly. Some parents are very organized and do a good job. Sounds like there are plenty that aren’t really that devoted to making the necessary time to do it well. Not that much different than parents of brick and mortar schools. I’m wandering away from my original thought, and that is that politics had not been a driver for most families going that route, but it’s getting more so now. She’s been doing it for 15 yrs and especially since Covid families political stance is much more obvious. I used to think kids who were home schooled got short changed, but I’ve seen kids who turned out good. My nephew is a good example but my sister was really dedicated and not just scholastically. She made a great effort to get him socialized which is often lacking for some of the kids.
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