This is a story I did, and I've been doing this regularly about homeschooling.

And this story is not particularly about homeschooling, but is peripherally about homeschooling.

Now, people homeschooled their kids in the past were they did it for primarily religious reasons.

And usually these are Christian Americans who believe very fundamentally in

schools teaching a Christian-based religion. Well, the courts have never allowed that in public school.

You can't do it. Separation of church and state. You just can't do it. And I grew up in a system where

it was a public school system and religion was just not part of it.

And so parents who were unhappy with that philosophy would homeschool their kids.

And more and more of them are doing it, by the way.

And not so much on the religious level now. Over half of those people are doing because education is so crappy in public schools and therein lies this story about Oregon Oregon has just

dropped all graduation standards based on equity.

Graduation standards is based on the requirement to pass.

The state mandated rules, state mandated tests they do, writing clearly, accurately, math, basically reading, writing, and math.

And the students were required to demonstrate those skills for graduating high school.

That's it.

They had to earn a certain level of points.

They had to graduate with a certain knowledge.

And a whole lot of students didn't. And they didn't graduate. Well, that's changed.

COVID had changed because school closure and it was just really difficult for students in home learning

and the learning outside of the classroom to, in fact, get the kind of education

they need it. And so they set up new standards for COVID right after COVID. And that is,

basically, we're not going to pay attention to any of the testing. Testing is gone. And you're still

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