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Would love to see homeschooling becoming a trend.

by hkon 4y ago

gautamdivgi 4y ago
Why would you have that happen? Serious question. Isn’t that putting kids in an echo chamber and restricting their access to friends?
- eloff 4y ago
  That’s not necessary. There’s no reason you can’t socialize your kids via the usual extracurricular sports and activities that they’re going to do anyway.
- alex_lav 4y ago
  Are public schools always better than an echo chamber? Does homeschooling always result in an echo chamber? Do kids always have friends in public schools? There seem to be quite a few assumptions in your thinking.
  - bcrosby95 4y ago
    > always Nothing ever always' anything. Thinking in terms of always or never is pointless.
    - alex_lav 4y ago
      Exactly! So with that in mind, rereading the post I responded to: > Why would you have that happen? Serious question. Isn’t that putting kids in an echo chamber and restricting their access to friends? The answer is obvious.
  - gautamdivgi 4y ago
    Not sure why you were downvoted. You’re kind of right about the assumption. Most folks who I know opt for homeschooling did so for religious reasons. I’m unsure if there are others. So, yes there’s assumptions built in. It’s just that I’m trying to get past them.
    - alex_lav 4y ago
      Yeah I have no idea about the downvotes. Internet forums gonna internet forum, I guess. In seriousness, and without snark, I would like homeschooling to become more common explicitly because I think the US is failing so many kids (from a social perspective). Bullying is crazy, and social-political nonsense is making its way into textbooks. Not to mention the school shootings. I think for many kids school is fine. But, speaking as a person whose schooling experience was specifically _not fine_, I would like it to be more normal to have other options.
- dbcurtis 4y ago
  No. We homeschooled, and kid went to gymnastics, violin group lessons and orchestra, homeschoolers park day, homeschool coop classes... Sure, you can lock your kid in a box. Most don’t.
- ideasman42 4y ago
  There are active home-schooling communities where kids socialize frequently, go on camps at least once a year. And catch up informally. Also socialize with other non-home-schoolers. An issue with most criticisms of home-schooling is they are (sometimes) true, and it depends a lot on the parents. However, parents home-schooling are often well aware of these pit-falls and compensate, do after-school sports for e.g. So common characterizations of home-schooling often highlight all the possible down-sides and overlook many of the possible up-sides. While not being wrong exactly, it's an incomplete picture - people talking about something they have not experienced.
undreren 4y ago
Why? I’m Danish, and homeschooling is imcredibly rare in Denmark, and I frankly can’t see the appeal. What is it that makes it so compelling?
- alex_lav 4y ago
  School can be awful for kids in america. Schools can't keep kids safe. Bullying is rampant. Extremist political groups campaign to get history rewritten to match their agenda. It can be insanely grueling. Certainly homeschooling isn't the only answer, but I also think most people are handwaving how terrible the school system can be for kids here.
  - A_D_E_P_T 4y ago
    > Certainly homeschooling isn't the only answer Can you list a few "other answers"? This is a serious question. The public schools around here are terrible and the private schools (which are by no means guaranteed to be much better,) are absolute highway robbery. With the educational resources that are available to everybody at the push of a button, homeschooling seems compelling, to me. I'd even spring for private tutors. What other options are there?
  - actionfromafar 4y ago
    With homeschooling, extremist political groups can rewrite history to match their agenda? No wait...
  - D13Fd 4y ago
    > School can be awful for kids in america. Schools can't keep kids safe. Bullying is rampant. Extremist political groups campaign to get history rewritten to match their agenda. It can be insanely grueling. Good thing life outside of school isn't like that. . . .
- tcmart14 4y ago
  Because a lot of people in America can't get over the fact that living in a society is messy. Sure, there are bad kids at a school that may influence your child. But one day your child will be 18 without mommy and daddy and drug dealers exist. Also, kids going away to school allows them to establish their own personality outside of home life a lot more. Rather my kids do it young and learn rather than wait until they are 18 and moving out. Although having grown up in the south and from having neighbors who home school, it is more about, "they teach evolution in school and not 6,000 year old earth."

Would love to see homeschooling becoming a trend.

by hkon 4y ago

Would love to see homeschooling becoming a trend.

Why would you have that happen? Serious question. Isn’t that putting kids in an echo chamber and restricting their access to friends?

eloff 4y ago
That’s not necessary. There’s no reason you can’t socialize your kids via the usual extracurricular sports and activities that they’re going to do anyway.
alex_lav 4y ago
Are public schools always better than an echo chamber? Does homeschooling always result in an echo chamber? Do kids always have friends in public schools? There seem to be quite a few assumptions in your thinking.
- bcrosby95 4y ago
  > always Nothing ever always' anything. Thinking in terms of always or never is pointless.
  - alex_lav 4y ago
    Exactly! So with that in mind, rereading the post I responded to: > Why would you have that happen? Serious question. Isn’t that putting kids in an echo chamber and restricting their access to friends? The answer is obvious.
- gautamdivgi 4y ago
  Not sure why you were downvoted. You’re kind of right about the assumption. Most folks who I know opt for homeschooling did so for religious reasons. I’m unsure if there are others. So, yes there’s assumptions built in. It’s just that I’m trying to get past them.
  - alex_lav 4y ago
    Yeah I have no idea about the downvotes. Internet forums gonna internet forum, I guess. In seriousness, and without snark, I would like homeschooling to become more common explicitly because I think the US is failing so many kids (from a social perspective). Bullying is crazy, and social-political nonsense is making its way into textbooks. Not to mention the school shootings. I think for many kids school is fine. But, speaking as a person whose schooling experience was specifically _not fine_, I would like it to be more normal to have other options.
dbcurtis 4y ago
No. We homeschooled, and kid went to gymnastics, violin group lessons and orchestra, homeschoolers park day, homeschool coop classes... Sure, you can lock your kid in a box. Most don’t.
ideasman42 4y ago
There are active home-schooling communities where kids socialize frequently, go on camps at least once a year. And catch up informally. Also socialize with other non-home-schoolers. An issue with most criticisms of home-schooling is they are (sometimes) true, and it depends a lot on the parents. However, parents home-schooling are often well aware of these pit-falls and compensate, do after-school sports for e.g. So common characterizations of home-schooling often highlight all the possible down-sides and overlook many of the possible up-sides. While not being wrong exactly, it's an incomplete picture - people talking about something they have not experienced.

undreren 4y ago

Why? I’m Danish, and homeschooling is imcredibly rare in Denmark, and I frankly can’t see the appeal. What is it that makes it so compelling?

alex_lav 4y ago
School can be awful for kids in america. Schools can't keep kids safe. Bullying is rampant. Extremist political groups campaign to get history rewritten to match their agenda. It can be insanely grueling. Certainly homeschooling isn't the only answer, but I also think most people are handwaving how terrible the school system can be for kids here.
- A_D_E_P_T 4y ago
  > Certainly homeschooling isn't the only answer Can you list a few "other answers"? This is a serious question. The public schools around here are terrible and the private schools (which are by no means guaranteed to be much better,) are absolute highway robbery. With the educational resources that are available to everybody at the push of a button, homeschooling seems compelling, to me. I'd even spring for private tutors. What other options are there?
- actionfromafar 4y ago
  With homeschooling, extremist political groups can rewrite history to match their agenda? No wait...
- D13Fd 4y ago
  > School can be awful for kids in america. Schools can't keep kids safe. Bullying is rampant. Extremist political groups campaign to get history rewritten to match their agenda. It can be insanely grueling. Good thing life outside of school isn't like that. . . .
tcmart14 4y ago
Because a lot of people in America can't get over the fact that living in a society is messy. Sure, there are bad kids at a school that may influence your child. But one day your child will be 18 without mommy and daddy and drug dealers exist. Also, kids going away to school allows them to establish their own personality outside of home life a lot more. Rather my kids do it young and learn rather than wait until they are 18 and moving out. Although having grown up in the south and from having neighbors who home school, it is more about, "they teach evolution in school and not 6,000 year old earth."