I don’t think that’s it. School sucks, and my school was 11 years of pure hell, I don’t argue that, but locking a child with a parent and giving parents even more control over their life is not a solution
Can there be good homeschooling you think? I would think you’d want to prevent the horror stories while not preventing people from providing their own superior option to public school.
Unless parents really go out of their way to prove otherwise, parental relationships are by default inherently adversary. So while I can assume the possibility of good homeschooling, that’s one to one thousand chance. If parents are actually good, if they still find ways for a child to socialize and see worldviews different from parental ones, and if they can ensure education on a level compatible to public school on all topics
by default inherently adversary
I’m sorry you’ve found this. You think parents will usually be in competition against their children, not wanting what’s best for them?
As for the second part, I absolutely agree. I’ve just found that that is generally the case from homeschoolers I’ve met.
Yeah, I believe parents most of the time want not what the best for child, but what’s best for the image of the child they’ve built, and what’s the best for their own ego to convince themselves that “I’m such a good parent!”
Was home schooled because my mom couldn’t afford to send me to a decent school. I really don’t recommend it. When I did it, I also believed in that whole “why would I want to go to school where kids are mean and bully each other” shit. And while I think kids are cruel and school is shit, I do not recommend doing home schooling at all. It just fucked me up.
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I don’t think bullying is that common among adults.
You’d be surprised
I got bullied pretty bad as a kid but homeschooling seems way worse
Doesn’t really answer the question, though …
It is a stupid question. School is not the only place where you can socialize.
It’s a blatantly reasonable question about fundamental logistics of homeschooling. Equally valid are “how did you set up the lesson plans” or “how are you supplementing teaching in areas you are weak in”
Where do homeschooled kids socialize, though?
There are absolutely awful homeschooling parents out there but it really is up to the home in question doing the schooling. My Mom would, every semester, find text books covering the topics you normally have in school, and then some, and make a weekly plan out of it. I was given the plan, the books, and an essay to have written about topics presented by the end of the week. It was encouraged to cross topics, so for example I might read Tom Sawyer, then read a history book about the real steamships that were on the Mississippi, then the steam power that moved the ships and the science behind that. Not every parent can or will do that, but I just mean to say like, not all homeschooling parents are making antisocial disorganized idiots with no work ethic. I’m only anticisocial and disorganized.
So, I reckon your parents didn’t solve the “how does a homeschooled child get properly socialized” issue?
Are American schools really that horrible?
Not just American ones.
