Scientific American magazine urged the federal government to regulate homeschooling and suggested that parents of homeschooled children should “undergo a background check.”
The opinion was expressed in a June 17, 2024, newsletter, first citing the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) which shows that nearly three percent of American children — 1.5 million — were homeschooled in 2019, Breitbart News reported .
The leftists admitted in the newsletter that homeschooled children have excelled academically, using Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, who was homeschooled by his mother, as an example.
Nevertheless, they still think that homeschooling is bad for children.“But most states don’t require the same assessment of homeschooled kids that are required for their public school peers. […]
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My father, a brilliant engineer, was a subscriber of Scientific American, so I grew up reading it back in the 1950s and 60s. I noticed that by 1975, the quality had dropped off markedly, so I cancelled my subscription. I browsed a copy at a news stand a couple of years ago and I just laughed. It was so bad. I ignore anything that this formerly great magazine has to say. The same thing happened with other periodicals that I used to enjoy, like National Geographic, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, etc. They all became junk at around the same point in time, the mid to late 1970s. It’s plainly apparent that they all push the same agenda.
I had a subscription to Scientific American for a long time, for years. I dumped it a year or so back because it had been publishing left wing fantasies. It used to be respected around the world. Now it is a useless rag.