I was trained for the culture wars in home school
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I was trained for the culture wars in home school
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Re: I was trained for the culture wars in home school
#2I personally attended an ultra conservative school of about 70 pupils all grades accounted for, based on the ACE system (see http://leavingfundamentalism.wordpress.com for a decent introduction), and while I thankfully managed to escape that scene many years ago (extremely lucky circumstances outside of my own doing), I'm afraid I clearly recognise the vision the author describes. I desperately hope that they are wrong, but I can imagine it being spot on all too well. :( FWIW I too don't have contact with my parents mostly as a result of this, and the level of mental gymnastics in otherwise intelligent and sincere folks is jarring.
Re: I was trained for the culture wars in home school
#3The site sells pins with the label "misandrist". What's next? Swastikas? I thought hate speech is off limits on HN.
Re: I was trained for the culture wars in home school
#4High-quality free state-run secular schools is one of the most important social achievements. In that schools a new generation can grow and learn while minimizing radicalization. That new generation meets people from different cultures and religion since they are children and learn to accept the differences. This doesn't solves all problems, is not a silver bulled, but it improves society at large.
I never understood why in the USA parents are allowed to radicalize their children out of society. Now I not just don't understand, but I see how dangerous is the situation.
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#5So... are we going to see any kind of evidence for this? Who's the editor? Who fact-checked the story? Or is a first person story by a political activist on a political website what we call "news" now?
Re: I was trained for the culture wars in home school
#6So... are we going to see any kind of evidence for this? Who's the editor? Who fact-checked the story? Or is a first person story by a political activist on a political website what we call "news" now?
This isn't news, it's a personal story. You can flag it if it's not the kind of content you'd like to see.
Re: I was trained for the culture wars in home school
#7The site sells pins with the label "misandrist". What's next? Swastikas? I thought hate speech is off limits on HN.
Any comments on the actual article, or just deflections?
Re: I was trained for the culture wars in home school
#8So... are we going to see any kind of evidence for this? Who's the editor? Who fact-checked the story? Or is a first person story by a political activist on a political website what we call "news" now?
Firstly, it's an opinion piece. It's not pretending to be news.
Secondly, the article has plenty of links you can follow to get more information. You can follow them and make up your own mind.
Or you could crash into this thread demanding cites, one of the classic moves of a troll.
Re: I was trained for the culture wars in home school
#9High-quality free state-run secular schools is one of the most important social achievements. In that schools a new generation can grow and learn while minimizing radicalization. That new generation meets people from different cultures and religion since they are children and learn to accept the differences. This doesn't solves all problems, is not a silver bulled, but it improves society at large. I never understood…
I genuinely believe that home schooling shouldn't be allowed, except for kids with disabilities which stop them from leaving home.
It just seems to me that Americans fear radical islam, while extremely radical Christianity grows right under their noses. I agree that free state-run secular schools are the way to go for modern society.
Re: I was trained for the culture wars in home school
#10I was raised and schooled as a Catholic in the UK, and while that's nowhere near as malign as the religious groups mentioned in this article, the final paragraph really resonated with me. It wasn't until university that anyone questioned my beliefs. I patiently heard each argument out and responded with logical gymnastics (I now classify myself as a theological noncognitivist). It was only when a difficult event happened in my life that I began to really question my beliefs and they crumbled (a traumatic experience in itself).
The author is spot on when they say that there's nothing you can do to convince these people. The beliefs are so closely held that changing them has to come from the believer.