• Xariphon
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    261 year ago

    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.

    • Jaytreeman
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      231 year ago

      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.

      • speck
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        131 year ago

        Independent thought for many people is deciding whether Miller Lite tastes great OR is less filling

        • @LemmysMum
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          51 year ago

          You could give those people a chocolate covered raisin and they’d lose a week deciding if it’s fruit or not.

      • Xariphon
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        51 year ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          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.