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Originally posted by Cerebus
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a) better to raise your child, if possible, in a home-schooling environment which seem to produce superior results (as well as the obvious benefit from a parental standpoint for safety), or
b) better to, if necessary, sacrifice some portion of your child's intellectual development for the theoretical social advancement, as well as the likely welfare of the community, assuming that your kid will contribute to, rather than detract from, the public learning experience?
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The question misses the point by confusing statistics. If parent is interested enough to make a) work, then parent will also have a superior educated kid in b). A particular kid's education is not reduced by being in a public school environment. The statistics say that the average of kids found in public schools educate themselves less. The hypothesis that explains this: parents who don't care about their kid's education more often dump their kids in public education - lowering the overall average but not lowering the academic achievement of a kid from interested parents.
Homeschoolers and half-truth politicans love the public's inability to understand statistics. The stats do not say that student X will always get a less education in public school. The statistics say that parent who don't don't care, more often dump their kids in public school.