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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.

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.