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Soon the buses roll. The alarm clocks go off at six in the morning. The backpacks get loaded. And millions of American children file back into buildings where they will spend 35 hours every week for the next nine months.
Then come home with homework.
Think about what that actually means. Six to seven hours a day managed in classrooms of 30 children moving at the pace of the slowest learner. Stopping for attendance, announcements, transitions, standardized test prep, and administrative procedures that have nothing to do with learning. Then a backpack full of work to finish at home because 35 hours was not enough.
If your child is ahead they still complete the homework. Their time is wasted and their curiosity is punished with busywork. If your child is behind they sit at the kitchen table struggling through material they did not understand the first time, usually with a parent sitting next to them trying to reteach it from scratch.
Which means you are homeschooling in the evenings whether you chose to or not. You just also surrendered 35 hours a week to have someone else do it worse first.
Meanwhile the average homeschooled student finished their entire academic day in two to three hours this morning. The rest of their day belonged to them. Music. Nature. Reading for pleasure. Learning a trade. Being a child. Their standardized test scores run 15 to 25 percentile points higher than public school peers consistently regardless of family income or parental education level.
274,000 Texas families applied to leave the public school system this year. Only 90,000 spots were available. The waiting list tells you everything about what parents actually think of the institution their tax dollars fund.
The buses roll tomorrow. Some families already figured out a better way.
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