i think this is ragebait
In fact my argument does not revolve around the curriculum, homeschooling someone with the same curriculum I use would still be worse because: parents cannot teach 7 subjects as well as 7 teachers, teachers train for years to teach a subject and have to know more than just the standards for a subject to defectively teach, you quite literally cannot get this through 2 parents.
the curriculum teaches, the parents ensure you do everything and grade stuff. my mom alone spends maybe 3-4~ hours a day homeschooling 5 (there is going to be a brief period where she homeschools 7 at a time, props to her, love you mom) kids. you don't really need to take an hour per subject, it takes me about 2-3 hours just doing a couple of days' worth of work. you quite literally can get this through 1 parent.
The whole point is that schools' curricula are...bad. You have the flexibility to select much better curricula homeschooling. I was fortunate enough to have access to good math textbooks and online programs. I learned significantly more than if I were subject to schools' awfully slow math courses.
I actually disagree. Having tutored several students in math myself (on topics including algebra, geometry, calculus, etc), I found that they were taught material in a very unfortunately rigid manner. Math intuition is not upheld at schools and is instead often substituted with cold rote memorization. Teachers simply don't have the time to help all students learn towards true understanding and often prefer the easier approach of forcing down a plate of facts. The "training for years" part actually holds little value. As for homeschooling, you are incorrect in assuming that the parents need to teach their children. Online courses exist, also academic programs for homeschoolers exist.
This may be true. It is more difficult to be exposed to social environments. This is why I think going to high school is a good idea, in preparation for university life. (Assuming the student is going that path.) This really doesn't have much to do with math education, though, if anything it is actually beneficial. From my experience, most students do not like math, and being in environments with those indifferent/hateful towards the subject is a BIG discouragement from learning math yourself.
It's a double edged sword. I know many people who are more socially adept than me who score relatively high in our math competitions, and I know others who are several years behind in pretty much every aspect. It depends on if the kid is really interested in self study which would actually benefit them more than school and if they are determined. I'd say that everyone should probably take on at least a few years of public school before deciding on a switch.
I was homeschooled up until 6th grade. My parents mainly focused me on learning things that I wanted to instead of actual education, so once I realized I was struggling with classes like algebra 1 knowing nothing past multiplication I had the vision that the layout of our fire department and the names of different lakes and plants meant nothing, so I dropped out the next year and had some really effective self study.
Math is like a bath, it can hold lots of stuff in it.
From elementary school my strengths were in math and programming. Our public school district was considered good but I doubt any of them know math as well as an undergrad math major (I did a math minor and was close to a major). I wasted all my highschool time on stupid crap like taking ten AP classes and science fair and SATs (I gave up studying for the SATs because they annoyed me and ended up with something decent like 2200). I made it to mathcounts state level and like usaco bronze but I know for sure I could've done a little better without all that public school crap. I'm not gonna kid myself and say I would be an IMO medalist or something, but I believe the same thing now as I did back then: public school is a waste of time. No wonder American kids are so behind other countries. Only in college did I actually learn anything math properly. Sorry for the rant - it's a bit of disappointment at myself. I genuinely believe I was held back by the teaching available to me. My mathy friend got to take classes at his local college (Princeton!) In highschool and went to the real Mathcamp.
Oh yeah I agree that American public schools are very flawed I just believe homeschooling is not a very good response to the flaws.
Homeschool is the best response to the flaws of the public school system (as mentioned in some of the comments above. But the child has to be willing to work hard and learn and the parents have to fully commit to teaching their children. If both sides don't commit to this, that's when homeschooling seems to fail (it doesn't; the parents and child failed the process).
Because of that, I learned 31 digits of pi
should've learned 314 smh
im lazy srry
you just have to know a square + b squared = c squared
