I homeschooled for a few years in an area without school shootings (not the USA). It was weird for me because I don’t think kids belong in factories and want/ed to get my kids real critical thinking and media literacy.
I’m apparently a gigantic weirdo and struggled to hold conversations with other homeschooling parents because they were most definitely not interested in helping their kids have independent thought.
That’s something I’m concerned about too. I want to get away from the academic factory model, but I don’t want to associate with the religious loonies to do it.
As a person who homeschools his three kids, it is tough but it is possible to find folks. We’ve lived in some pretty remote places and there’s usually at least a few families within a half-hour drive. In cities, it’s a lot easier.
We are planning to homeschool because school isn’t liberal and woke enough.
Kidding aside, it’s mostly because of the abuses of teachers, bullying, and school shootings.
I homeschooled for a few years in an area without school shootings (not the USA). It was weird for me because I don’t think kids belong in factories and want/ed to get my kids real critical thinking and media literacy.
I’m apparently a gigantic weirdo and struggled to hold conversations with other homeschooling parents because they were most definitely not interested in helping their kids have independent thought.
Independent thought for many people is deciding whether Miller Lite tastes great OR is less filling
You could give those people a chocolate covered raisin and they’d lose a week deciding if it’s fruit or not.
That’s something I’m concerned about too. I want to get away from the academic factory model, but I don’t want to associate with the religious loonies to do it.
As a person who homeschools his three kids, it is tough but it is possible to find folks. We’ve lived in some pretty remote places and there’s usually at least a few families within a half-hour drive. In cities, it’s a lot easier.