I think homeschooling is generally a bad idea; what you learn from school is imo only about 1/3 from books, it's at least half about socialization and how to get along with your fellow humans in the myriad of contexts of human interactions: friendships, fights, love, hate, power relationships to authority, conformance (or non-), etc.

NONE of that extra stuff is really available for homeschoolies, aside from pre-programmed 'playdates' or whatever is the equivalent at older ages which help but are insufficient: part of the lesson IS the spontaneity, unplanned context of humans in groups.

THAT SAID, at least in the US schools are deeply fucked up.
They throw more money at each student than anywhere else in the world, and get worse results than most of their industrialized peers.
There is little to no ability to discipline students. (St Paul public schools for example were unhappy with the higher rates of punishment for black students, their answer was to change the rules so black students were not punished as much for the same penalties as white studients....I shit you not: https://www.apmreports.org/sto...)
Seattle schools abandoned math standards as "racist". (https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/wfddoi/seattle_schools_teach_students_that_math_is/)
They are ideologically captured, with Teachers generally being the reliably highest % donors to Democrat candidates for decades. Moreover, the 'crazy years' that we're only just emerging from seem to have enabled the most radical teachers to believe they could bukkake their radical (eg trans & other entirely inappropriate) agendas all over the kids down to the kindegarten level without consequence, and largely they're right.

I think homeschooling is bad, but until schools stop abandoning actual education in favor of being bastions of leftist indoctrination, I fully see why parents will make such a choice.

My kids are in their 30s, thank god, because I honestly can't tell you what my reaction would be if I heard some teacher had the audacity to tell me to my face the words of their union leader: "The children are always ours. Every single one of them. All over the globe." and later "Yes, we do [think your children are our children]." (https://x.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1937316711159443658)
I fear how I would react.

My argument/joke still applies. They will never get past the concept of "won't qualify". Its too alien from their "lived experience". :-)

An AI recreated the source code from a lengthy review by Jerry Pournelle in Byte Magazine. :-)

"An answer" Not the correct answer, about 40% of the time. Damn fractions/percentages. The kids won't see the problem will they. :-)

You might want to consider that the folks who put us on the moon using slide rules were the products of local school boards, minimal state interaction, and near zero federal interaction. Their schools pretty much focused on how to read and write, how to do math, and how to build or make things with your hands. And you had to do some PT every day.

Somethings experimentation with a system leads to a bad state, backing up to an early state is part of the process of exploring a different direction.

It's not the math, it's the concept that some will "not pass". They are stuck there, never getting to the math.

Wait, your cashier recognized the coins and knew their denominations? Top of class there. Worth having to wait for the "software upgrade" for the calculator. :-)

For the college freshman this article is referring to? Easy answer, one. If reproduction occurs it will be after exchanging ice chests, via Amazon. :-)

This is why things tend to work better on Mac. Revisit 3-year-old software, and it probably won't compile. Apple's Xcode IDE will inform you of about three deprecated frameworks and their "modern" replacements, which you must now rewrite your code for.

Annoying as it is, it sure cuts down on the cruft. :-)

Funny, I built a DIY PC and installed Windows and Linux, and both run flawlessly. It's been that way since the early 90s for me. The only machine that had problems was a PC laptop school chose for me. I reconfigured it for dual boot, but the Linux WiFi drivers were crap.

For DIY my parts are carefully chosen. It's 3rd-party drivers that are usually to blame, both for Windows and Linux. MacOS less of an issue when you don't let users plug things into slots, USB/Thunderbolt/etc., or no go.

Sadly, while they sneer at for-profit colleges, the "real" colleges are no better.

While there are still noble souls who believe in things like open discourse, the intrinsic value of education as betterment, and the service of our whole society by making better people - the reality (and certainly the management) of the collegiate institutions today is farming fundraising, milking foreign students for full-fare tuition (which is obscene), and building the endowment.

When my son was being recruited to play college football (2010), St Thomas here in Mpls was starting a 10 year fundraising drive to raise $70m for a new student center. I believe they hit the target in 4y.

$70m for a single 225,000 sqft (~22500sqm) building that's basically a glorified cafeteria/study area/some meeting rooms.
Is this a building focused on education and betterment? https://www.tommiemedia.com/an...

Also, you're just a dumbfuck if you can't understand 14 words.

"...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed..."

Not a lot of wiggle room.
Yes, the clause before it says why it's a good idea, but there's no legal authority EVER that has sided with your dumbass interpretation that 'explanatory note' = conditional constraint.

How'd you feel about federally-mandated covid vaccination, then?

It will bankrupt you to have it prescribed though.

"Joe Sixpack" might be a nuclear engineer, brain surgeon, or astronaut - i.e. much smarter than you or your typical code monkey - who just doesn't care about the details of the OS, and just wants a simple solution to his annoyance.

Insulting them and thinking because you know how cookies work and they don't makes them an object of derision is why IT and computer people are held in such low esteem.

    Grow up, script kiddie.