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Complete misrepresentation of homeschooling based on one person's anecdotal experience. "A single powerful person who is convinced of their own Rightness with
by angryredblock 10y ago
Complete misrepresentation of homeschooling based on one person's anecdotal experience.
"A single powerful person who is convinced of their own Rightness with no thought of introspection is dangerous."
Indeed.
Perhaps we'd be better served to stop vilifying an entire subset of the population and actually listen to the parents who have recognized that public education is broken and who are taking other measures to educate their children.
- jhanschoo 10y agoIt seemed pretty obvious to me that the author was referring to one particular version (christofascist) of homeschooling. For positive experiences with homeschooling, Astra Taylor's essays on it come to mind https://popularresistance.org/the-unschooled-life-astra-taylor-story/ https://popularresistance.org/the-unschooled-life-astra-tayl..., https://nplusonemag.com/issue-13/essays/unschooling/ https://nplusonemag.com/issue-13/essays/unschooling/. It seems to me however, from armchair reasoning, lacking any motivation to research this further, that the former version would dominate and be the more public version of homeschooling, given that it co-opts into a popular American agenda with a focused message and mission.