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My pleasure, David. I think your guess has been pretty accurate for a while, but the demographics of homeschooling have been changing quite a bit in recent years. This link provides some information regarding your questions on demographics (41% of homeschoolers are nonwhite according to one survey) and reasons for homeschooling: https://www.nheri.org/research-facts-on-homeschooling/#:~:text=Academic%20Performance,range%20from%201%20to%2099.)

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Thanks for this perspective. It's good to correct analysis by outrageous anecdote.

Have there been surveys as to why parents choose to homeschool?

And have there been surveys on the demographics of homeschoolers? Socioeconomic, political, geographic? Education level of patents?

It's an interesting trend deserving of real analysis.

My unsupported guess (bias) has been that homeschoolers tend to skew politically conservative, non-urban, more educated, and more affluent.

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Jan 23Liked by Ted Balaker

Although not directly related to homeschooling I think the issue of discipline or the lack of it has some relevance to the issue. Having read a lot about the struggles of inner city teachers trying to control disruptive students with little support from mostly black school administrators it seems to me that it would be possible to greatly improve the teaching environment by simply removing (expelling) those causing the most disruption. This would send a strong message about acceptable behavior and make it possible for most students to actually learn. Kids will quickly understand the consequences of disruptive behavior and change accordingly so relatively few would actually have to be removed. As with crimes like shoplifting it appears that society has given up on enforcing standards of accountability and thus its deterrent effect. A self fulfilling prophecy.

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Agreed. My memory is foggy on this but as I recall, where your proposal has been tried it's worked quite well.

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John Oliver is, and always has been, an ideological Far-Left turd.

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Well, I can't imagine this episode persuading those other than his audience members and people who aren't really paying attention (then again the latter group probably represents a lot of people).

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