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> my very clichéd understanding is that the only parents that want to home school their children are those with extreme religious or political opinions they wan

> my very clichéd understanding is that the only parents that want to home school their children are those with extreme religious or political opinions they want to foist upon them. In my anecdotal experience it is actually the opposite. Parents are concerned about political activist teachers forcing their beliefs onto children. Recent examples are teachers in the US who have been captured on video in the classroom bullying children or telling them that any parents who disagree with the teacher’s beliefs are “stupid”, “anti-science”, etc. Again, in my own experience there is some truth to this and some percentage of teachers purposely bring their politics (left or right) into the classroom with the intent to indoctrinate. Interestingly, this behavior is completely out in the open in US higher education classrooms. Many teachers proudly and aggressively mix their personal political beliefs into their instruction. I suppose we just accept this as the students are technically no longer “children”?

anoonmoose 5y ago
in my anecdotal experience anyone who is talking about "political activist teachers aggressively mixing their personal beliefs into their instruction" is most likely trying to infuse their children with extreme religious or political opinions, they just don't realize it
- bequanna 5y ago
  Uh huh. Except pretty much everyone has personally experienced it and some us reflect on it with disgust. Assuming you were educated in the US, can you honestly say that you never witnesses a teacher/professor infuse their political beliefs into their instruction (even if you agreed)? If so, awesome, but that isn’t the experience almost everyone else has. Frankly, it is reprehensible behavior carried out by teachers who are at best, pitiful adults who are just seeking attention from children. Or, at worst, trying to groom children for their own political purposes.
  - anoonmoose 5y ago
    in high school, the only time that happened was when they unconstitutionally forced me to stand for the pledge of allegiance. in college, 90% of my classes were engineering or math, with zero politics, and the other 10%, if there was any political stuff it was negligible. i was required to take one class to become a resident assistant that you would probably consider as being mostly designed to shove political beliefs down my throat but in my opinion an understanding of those topics was relevant and necessary to being able to serve a diverse group of residents.

anoonmoose 5y ago

in my anecdotal experience anyone who is talking about "political activist teachers aggressively mixing their personal beliefs into their instruction" is most likely trying to infuse their children with extreme religious or political opinions, they just don't realize it

bequanna 5y ago
Uh huh. Except pretty much everyone has personally experienced it and some us reflect on it with disgust. Assuming you were educated in the US, can you honestly say that you never witnesses a teacher/professor infuse their political beliefs into their instruction (even if you agreed)? If so, awesome, but that isn’t the experience almost everyone else has. Frankly, it is reprehensible behavior carried out by teachers who are at best, pitiful adults who are just seeking attention from children. Or, at worst, trying to groom children for their own political purposes.
- anoonmoose 5y ago
  in high school, the only time that happened was when they unconstitutionally forced me to stand for the pledge of allegiance. in college, 90% of my classes were engineering or math, with zero politics, and the other 10%, if there was any political stuff it was negligible. i was required to take one class to become a resident assistant that you would probably consider as being mostly designed to shove political beliefs down my throat but in my opinion an understanding of those topics was relevant and necessary to being able to serve a diverse group of residents.