re: #15 Fozzie Bear

No, really. I have friends who home-school their kids because they are appalled that the schools don’t teach Latin, require you to read the collected works of Shakespeare in their entirety, and that they don’t require a deep understanding of Calculus to graduate.

There are some people out there homeschooling for good reasons. Then again, those people’s kids would have no problem acing any kind of standardized test.

I agree with you, I think. If I were king for a year, I would make education at an actual brick and mortal school mandatory subject to truancy laws, as it used to be. Then, I would be burned at the stake by Republicans.

Those kids can always take AP Calc. B at school if they want an in depth understanding. It’s not required, but it’s there. You can also always take college classes of any kind while a senior in high school (math included). I think for the vast majority of homeschooling parents, this is about being a weirdo with a siege mentality.