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Religion and the fear of “woke” things being taught to their children like evolution, sex education, history,science…
Eh, there are more insidious ways children get indoctrinated in public schools.
They’re taught to:
Obey authority no matter what
Learn/do/value what other people say they should learn/do/value
Put STEM above all else
Sharing information is bad
The kids who are successful now will be the ones who are successful later
They are also exposed to alternative viewpoints, different cultures and concepts,.
Yeah, schools aren’t all bad.
I have advanced college degrees in science/engineering, I watch electronics and chemistry videos for fun, and I wouldn’t feel qualified teaching most subjects past 6-7 grade. How some of these parents with just high school diplomas do it is beyond me.
I feel the most empathy toward the students who are taught these very myopic curriculums that are very weak in science and math (I’m looking at you young earth/creationists types) and who knows what about history (slavery gave African-Americans jobs skills?) that try to get into college. Most profs will not suffer fools like this even if by some miracle they get accepted in the first place.
How some of these parents with just high school diplomas do it is beyond me. They don’t. I’m in the same boat. Technical Bachelors, MBA. We home schooled my son with a learning disorder for a year, primarily as a response to the school districts failure to do their job. It was not a success. While I still think it was the right decision, it was incredibly hard. Which is why it only lasted one year.
Sometimes parents homeschool because they want their kids to learn more. Sometimes they homeschool to have their children learn less.
Im just gonna make a wild guess and say because “religious” nuts, isn it?
Right Wing propaganda, and their concerted war against public education. They do this for two reasons:
1 - They’re so greedy they hate paying taxes. Any taxes, even though they take full advantage of what taxes pay for (roads, police, fire department.)
2 - Illiterate and uneducated people will believe whatever they’re told, and take whatever is offered. Those raised Christian are programmed from childhood to blindly obey male authority figures.
In short, Republicans want to create a Neo-Feudal Theocracy, with themselves as the aristocracy.
Idiots
Our school system offers online schooling and we had to put our daughter in it at least temporarily, because she was the most bullied kid in her school and it got to the point one day that she broke down and cried and said she couldn’t go to that school one more day. So I’m glad that option is there, but I have big issues with it, especially with English, because the education company they contracted with only uses public domain texts and your average seventh grader whose experience with English has been books like Hatchet and The Giver, can’t parse at all. Plus, it’s stuff like H. H. Munro, who wrote stories about Edwardian English aristocrats, so she can’t understand the texts both because of the language and the fact that she has no frame of reference. The English teacher I’m emailing about it doesn’t seem to care, but I’m basically having to walk her through the lesson each time and go through the text slowly, reading it to her so she doesn’t mess up all the hard words, and stopping every few sentences to explain to her what’s going on. We’ve only been at it a week, and it’s such a needless slog. She has no trouble at all with the parts of the English lessons that don’t involve those texts. She understands all the concepts being taught. But 19th century literature is not appropriate for an average 7th grade reader.
Eventually, we want to get her into another middle school, but she needs a mental break from being around other kids to heal. This is ridiculous though, and I have no idea how other kids in this program get through it, because we were told everyone from kids with psychological issues to kids who were expelled are in the online school and I doubt those expelled kids are able to follow an O. Henry story about a safecracker full of slang with an ironic twist ending.
Theoretically, in Indiana, we could just pull her out of the school system entirely and find some other homeschool curriculum for her to follow. It’s totally unregulated here. But then we wouldn’t have anyone to turn to if we needed help. At least in this case, there’s a teacher I can eventually browbeat into doing a tutoring session.
We’re just lucky I’m on FMLA right now, otherwise she would just fail out of this entirely.
Sorry, not all that related to what is going on. I just needed to vent. I feel so trapped with my daughter.
Last Week Tonight recently did an episode on this.
Ive always found the idea of homeschooling utterly bizzare
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This is a normal thought process.
Why? That’s how it was done for millennia, unless your parents were rich enough to send you to an actual school instead of learning a trade.
I knew some kids who were homeschooled.
They were smarter than most of the kids in my public school class.
Not saying that’s the case everywhere, but the modern public school system is mostly made for indoctrination and funneling taxpayer money to publishers.
The anti woke movement.
Anecdote: the lady nextdoor is fucked in the head and couldn’t let her kid have a normal childhood experience until the 7th grade (I think).
For us it was 1) our work schedules weren’t conducive to taking kids to school as there is limited bus service in CO and 2) we both went to the best public schools in our area of NoVA and they could have done better in a lot of ways. Neither of us are fans of the public school system having been products of them.
Fair enough. Unfortunately, homeschooling in the US has become a breeding ground for religious extremism.
I homeschooled one grandson for half a year out of necessity and it went so well we are pulling the other two and Im going to get all three. They were raised in a small town then there momma decided to move to Houston (don’t get me fucking started. Just trust me that my irritation is justified and not what you think) and after getting their scooters stolen, the oldest getting in a fist fight(sweetest little man you ever met. Insane he was in a fight) and the middle one,8, chased around the school yard by a kid with a knife. Yay Houston. Anyways, now I get to teach them the real shit.
