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The biggest problem with public schooling is less political indoctrination and more the lack of actual schooling. When educators themselves claim “there is no s
by cltby 5y ago
The biggest problem with public schooling is less political indoctrination and more the lack of actual schooling. When educators themselves claim “there is no such thing as learning loss," we should take them at their word. School has very little intellectual content, and many parents are simply starting to recognize that.
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- rayiner 5y agoThe politics is just the latest example of the fact that teachers have a massive conflict of interest when it comes to educating kids. Parents want to maximize the success of their individual kid. Teachers want to advance the various goals of the school system at large. Even though I believe they’re mostly well intentioned, that can take the form of ignoring most kids to try and do damage control for the most troubled students, or sacrificing individual kids at the alter of some larger social ideology.
- watwut 5y agoThe big reason for homeschooling is that you can push your own politics or religion on school more. Not everyone does it for that reason, but there are quite a few radicals in the movement who do exactly that. Notably Christian radicals.
- cltby 5y ago> The big reason for homeschooling is that you can push your own politics or religion on school more As a descriptive claim, this might be true (wouldn't shock me if the bulk of parents choose to homeschool for religious reasons). But if it's prescriptive, it's horribly wrong. A moderately intelligent child with moderately thoughtful parents will learn far more outside the school system than within.
- readflaggedcomm 5y agoThis is right, since no Christian private schools exist to provide this function.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoNot sure why this is downvoted, many parents believe this.