Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
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Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
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Re: Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
#2Having gone through the San Francisco public schooling system, I would never send my kids there.
I'd rather home school them if I lived in San Francisco, or if I have money, send them to private school.
Re: Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
#3The headline is somewhat begging the question,
but the author's key observation is on point:
People homeschooling their kids are implicitly,
and sometimes explicitly,
going for "opt out of being around average people".
Re: Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
#4Having gone through the San Francisco public schooling system, I would never send my kids there. I'd rather home school them if I lived in San Francisco, or if I have money, send them to private school.
> I would never send my kids there.
Why not, what's wrong with it? What could you do better at home, or what could private schools do better?
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#5I thought this was a really bad article. "Suddenly"?? I've heard many tech parents go full bore into homeschooling for at least about 2 decades now.
Also, for the particular issues she talks about (e.g. social isolation), essentially all of the tech parents I know that are into home schooling put a ton of effort into having a really rich social environment, e.g. either through "group schooling" or lots of outside activities.
Re: Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
#6Having gone through the San Francisco public schooling system, I would never send my kids there. I'd rather home school them if I lived in San Francisco, or if I have money, send them to private school.
> I would never send my kids there. Why not, what's wrong with it? What could you do better at home, or what could private schools do better?
The lottery is pretty rough on people, and a lot of the schools are not amazing.
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#7big right wing swing for tech?
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#9I have no idea how common this, I hadn’t much of this trend among tech weirdos before this article.
The one thought that I imagine is being told you’re “above average” and “destined to do great things” your whole life by your socially-deemed successful parents is just another set of probably unrealistic expectations placed on kids.
Re: Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
#10Having gone through the San Francisco public schooling system, I would never send my kids there. I'd rather home school them if I lived in San Francisco, or if I have money, send them to private school.
> I would never send my kids there. Why not, what's wrong with it? What could you do better at home, or what could private schools do better?
Don't know why this is downvoted, seems like a reasonable question. I don't know much about SF or public schools in the US. Are they all bad? do we have data comparing public/private schools in these areas?