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We are in our ninth year of homeschooling. My wife and I attended private and public schools and grew up with typical biases against homeschooling, e.g. they lack social skills. When we got married, we always assumed we'd send our kids to traditional schools. What we learned, though, is that homeschooling has changed since we were in school. Back then, it was a niche, and the sort of parents who chose to homeschool u…
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My wife was homeschooled and that's the main reason, along with the other families in their group.
Literally dinosaurs? Or more vanilla religious stuff?
Why are people in the US so against public schools? I am someone who did not really enjoy “school” and found it anxiety inducing but I still see the benefits of it. In public school you are forced to mingle with the people of your generation. The ones who will inevitably go on to run the country in whatever big or small way. The objective of public school is to break down the regional identities of old and assimilate…
Because their schools are financed by local property taxes so if everybody around you isn't rich, your public school is poor and bad.
Only five states get more than half of school funding from property taxes.
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I’m not even a homeschooling proponent or religious but this sounds like nonsense.
I was literally taught that dinosaur bones were planted in the soil by Satan to deceive people about the age of the world.
This is giving me the worst of vibes: - options for people who don't want to expose their children to out-of-family ideas, to perpetuate family biases - a completely unregulated market for children to go to a "school" with a few other kids, giving them small classrooms, BUT, no teacher with specialization or educational background. Would be extremely hit or miss, with little resource if it isn't working out. - only f…
Not everyone's sole goal in life is to be an activist.
Hell, I left my home country because I didn't want to waste my life pursuing activism when I could just leave for a more ideologically agreeable place. I'd sooner just leave for yet another place than be told that I'm not allowed to avoid some problem without being an activist.
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This being HN, a site full of mostly successful folks, we are likely to only hear the anecdotal success stories of homeschooling posted here, and not the failure stories. For every gushing "I was homeschooled and I now run my own $50M company!" story, how many are not getting posted that amount to "I was homeschooled and the only book I read was the bible. I don't know 4th grade math, am unemployable and trapped as s…
The same could be said about regular public schools too, no? I know a number of people that went to a local religious school and they came out with excellent understanding of the bible and quickly married off and started having children rather than pursuing advanced education.
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I’m not even a homeschooling proponent or religious but this sounds like nonsense.
I was homeschooled and avoidance of "worldly" topics like evolution and (very basic) sex education were at the core of it. I was literally taught that dinosaur bones were planted in the soil by Satan to deceive people about the age of the world.
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I’m not even a homeschooling proponent or religious but this sounds like nonsense.
It does happen, how ever you wish to disparage others for factual statements.
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I was homeschooled and avoidance of "worldly" topics like evolution and (very basic) sex education were at the core of it. I was literally taught that dinosaur bones were planted in the soil by Satan to deceive people about the age of the world.
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This is giving me the worst of vibes: - options for people who don't want to expose their children to out-of-family ideas, to perpetuate family biases - a completely unregulated market for children to go to a "school" with a few other kids, giving them small classrooms, BUT, no teacher with specialization or educational background. Would be extremely hit or miss, with little resource if it isn't working out. - only f…
As a general rule, I've found that forcing anything is rarely a good solution. Sometimes it is. But not usually.