Homeschool Cover-Up Of Dropout Problem

So this PBS article is an exposé on how the state of Texas is cheating on its dropout numbers to the point of where some schools have listed zero dropouts. While this finding is understandably embarrassing to Texas education officials, and likely infuriating to Texas parents and students who have worked hard to have that diploma and rightly believe it should mean something, this brings up another issue closer to home for me: homeschooling is being used as the preferred method of cheating.

Obviously this is not okay. It’s a huge problem to have homeschooling serve as this kind of a loophole. It reduces credibility and sends too many “homeschooled” students out into the world who can both be expected to reflect badly on the concept of homeschooling, and consigns too many young people to struggle as human beings with a sub-par education.

It is unconscionable that underperforming public schools…