I think a lot of folks underestimate how much effort is required to home school and honestly people aren’t up for the task.
Having said that public school in the US is mostly a hell scape and people who think they can make it better may as well believe in electoralism. Public school will teach your kids that cops help people, that the US is good and the native Americans gave the pilgrims this land, communism and fascism are the same, that it’s good and normal to sit at a fucking desk for 8 hours a day when you are a literal child and to stand and salute when you pledge the flag. And this is if you’re lucky enough to be in a “good” school district. If you are in a bad district they’ll spend all day breathing asbestos reading out of tattered texts from the 80s in a class with 50 other students where there’s no AC and the teachers don’t have chalk.
And now you have the increased stress of covid, school shooter drills, bullying, standardized tests, giant class sizes, literal fucking cops with guns walking around etc etc
I think once kids are old enough to be assertive enough to know bullshit when they see it then public school can be okay but until that point it’s better to have an alternative if you can afford it. It’s SUPER expensive though. If the choice is strictly between public school and home schooling then public school is still better unless you are in the .5% of people who have the energy and stamina to spend 8 hours teaching your kid a well rounded curriculum.
I think a lot of folks underestimate how much effort is required to home school and honestly people aren’t up for the task.
Idk if it was here, or on the old sub, or some other other reddit place but some dude posted a really long post about being depressed in his youth and it opened with him talking about how his mom had decided to home school him, but kinda gave up on it less than a year in and he sorta was just allowed to bum around the house directionlessly for a few years and basically never left his house or had friends his age. This was oddly reflective of my experience, my mom was super confident she could give me a better schooling than the guberment did and pulled me out but then sort of... planted herself on the couch. She soon realized it wasn't doing me any favors and enrolled me in a "homeschool group", which was really just a regular school but it was run out of a church and everyone was a fundie christian. Then I went back to public High School and it was fine.
I can't really say if public school would have been worse, but I do feel I missed out on a lot of socialization I could have had in my teens and I think lead me to be a bit maladjusted in my early 20s.
I think a lot of folks underestimate how much effort is required to home school and honestly people aren’t up for the task.
Having said that public school in the US is mostly a hell scape and people who think they can make it better may as well believe in electoralism. Public school will teach your kids that cops help people, that the US is good and the native Americans gave the pilgrims this land, communism and fascism are the same, that it’s good and normal to sit at a fucking desk for 8 hours a day when you are a literal child and to stand and salute when you pledge the flag. And this is if you’re lucky enough to be in a “good” school district. If you are in a bad district they’ll spend all day breathing asbestos reading out of tattered texts from the 80s in a class with 50 other students where there’s no AC and the teachers don’t have chalk.
And now you have the increased stress of covid, school shooter drills, bullying, standardized tests, giant class sizes, literal fucking cops with guns walking around etc etc
I think once kids are old enough to be assertive enough to know bullshit when they see it then public school can be okay but until that point it’s better to have an alternative if you can afford it. It’s SUPER expensive though. If the choice is strictly between public school and home schooling then public school is still better unless you are in the .5% of people who have the energy and stamina to spend 8 hours teaching your kid a well rounded curriculum.
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https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/10/06/black-panther-school-ahead-of-its-time/amp/
Idk if it was here, or on the old sub, or some other other reddit place but some dude posted a really long post about being depressed in his youth and it opened with him talking about how his mom had decided to home school him, but kinda gave up on it less than a year in and he sorta was just allowed to bum around the house directionlessly for a few years and basically never left his house or had friends his age. This was oddly reflective of my experience, my mom was super confident she could give me a better schooling than the guberment did and pulled me out but then sort of... planted herself on the couch. She soon realized it wasn't doing me any favors and enrolled me in a "homeschool group", which was really just a regular school but it was run out of a church and everyone was a fundie christian. Then I went back to public High School and it was fine.
I can't really say if public school would have been worse, but I do feel I missed out on a lot of socialization I could have had in my teens and I think lead me to be a bit maladjusted in my early 20s.