Blake Boles
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first heard Feb 2019
last heard Dec 2022
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Uh some of the most popularized research comes ultimately from the HSLDA, the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, and they don't do a very good job historically of comparing
homeschoolers to their socioeconomic peers when they're saying homeschoolers do better in college, homeschoolers do better on standardized tests.
None of that is true as far as I've seen.
But there is some truth that I think is reassuring, which is that the best research shows that homeschooling will neither hurt
nor help your kid when it comes to traditional academic indicators or getting into college or performing in college or getting into whatever career path um a young person wants to get into.
It simply does not make a significant difference one way or the other.
So that's something I really wanted to share in this book.
Also
I've been reviewing the the work of Peter Gray, his arguments that are based on um anthropology and the idea that hunter gatherers or what other anthropologists call forager societies, the fact that they let their kids play all day.
Um that's an argument that I pick up and explain and refine in my book because I think this idea of work versus play is is very interesting and very
Deeply uh deeply ingrained.
And we think that yes, it's okay for young kids to play, but as kids get older,
Just playing all day is no longer an acceptable thing.
And and to me, there is a good amount of truth to that, but it's not because of our societal mores.
It's because adolescents want to contribute.
They want to become part of adult society.
And historically, we have enabled them to be part of adult society and to contribute.
A fourteen year old a hundred years ago probably had real responsibilities.
And real freedoms and felt like they were progressing towards adulthood in a meaningful way.
And today, adolescents are in this weird limbo state where they are either legally prohibited from working or they are simply not able to do the more complex knowledge work that our society is increasingly demanding.
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