We counted up afterwards, and realised we had met twelve
different home educating families.
Not exact matches
Every
home educating family is
different.
Coming from radically
different childhoods and backgrounds (Truffaut came from an unhappy working class
home and stints in juvenile detention, Godard from an affluent,
educated, supportive
family), the directors were close friends and colleagues, sharing many of the same cinematic fathers (Rossellini, Bergman, Renoir), celebrating neglected directors of the past (Truffaut interviewed Hitchcock in a celebrated book, Godard interviewed Fritz Lang in a documentary and cast him in Contempt) and preaching the gospel of a cinema dedicated to presenting the real, the honest and the authentic, first in the pages of film magazines and then on the screen.
Research that painstakingly tries to separate out the actual effects of schools clearly has value, but it is important to bear in mind that, in the absence of random assignment of students to schools (such as occurs via charter school lotteries),
families that choose for their children to be
educated in their
home (through virtual schools) are likely to be very
different from other
families.
Yes, she would augment that system with better -
educated (and compensated) teachers, a strong core curriculum, a
different (curriculum - based) approach to assessment, greater emphasis on behavior and attitudes and a number of collateral «social» changes such as better
families and
home environments.