I used to sell books to homeschooling parents and I still shudder some times. It seems like the least capable people were trying to do their own education.
I had one even ask “Where are the books on government weather control?” and I was like “You mean seeding rain clouds?” (which is actual science) and, no, they were adamant that the government was out creating or dispersing hurricanes and tornadoes…
I don’t think I’m especially crazy or highly ignorant (but who knows?) and yet I still had a ton of trouble doing virtual (not even solo homeschooling) schooling with my daughter at the height of COVID. She did see a teacher on video chat for 90 minutes a day, but the rest was up to me.
I’m not a teacher. I know nothing about pedagogy. Being able to do fourth grade math and being able to teach a fourth grader how to do fourth grade math are very, very different things. I don’t think my experience was especially unique in that regard, I just think a lot of homeschooling parents suck at what they’re doing with their kids. And, based on a lot of the homeschooled kids I’ve met, that bears out.
Yes, there are some homeschooled kids that do well. They’re the minority.
Well is the goal of these parents actually to educate their children, or to prevent them from learning certain things?
Is that picture using an A10 to do it? That seems like an odd choice.
May be a holdover from the old “Thunderhog” proposal?
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23088/the-tragic-tale-of-the-a-10-thunderhog-storm-chasing-jet
For someone living in Germany, homeschooling is a wild concept.
These poor kids
Homeschooling is almost always Christian crazies trying to keep their kids from learning anything real.
You know what is real? The hug from the noodly appendages of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
I’ve seen lots of spaghetti in my day, but I’ve never seen a single space wizard. Just saying.
Homeschooling should be a way for caring parents to help young people escape from the horrid institution that is school.
As usual, right wing lunatics ruin everything.
caring parents
…implying families too poor to afford to live on a single income so one parent can stay home and homeschool the children do not care.
I would argue that the statement “parents who homeschool are often caring parents” does not equal or even imply that “parents who are unable to homeschool due to work do not care about their kids.”
We do have to be careful with our words but in this case, I think it’s a bit of a stretch to reach the implication you brought up.
My kids go use virtual school, so we end up seeing a lot of the home schoolers. Honestly it pisses me off more than it scares me. The crazies out there teaching their kids stupid shit, are killing any chance of states supporting any type of remote schooling. Which makes it a real pain in the ass when you’re constantly in motion like we are.
This is how they intend to turn the tide of younger voters turning blue. Indoctrination, indoctrination, indoctrination. Even if it means they’ll only vote red in two presidential elections before they might snap out of it in their twenties, the damage they want to inflict will have been done.
