3 ms·

Homeschooling Remains a Popular Option, While Defying Stereotypes

• renewiltord 3y ago
  This is something I am seriously considering, though I will need to change careers to really enable it. Looking at public schools locally (I'm in San Francisco), it seems that the student quality is quite poor. Lots of class disruption and poor performance on tests. My belief is that holding students to high standards and placing them with other kids who value those high standards results in very capable children, who are capable of making moral judgments and being good people. Poor education means that you have to rely on rule-based morality, etc. It looks like this lack of good education mostly falls on poorer families, so they're forced to homeschool. I think, for me, private school is going to hit the right cost/benefit since there is a huge opportunity cost to me giving up my job. Ultimately, all this appears to be the result of the fact that school administration in SF seems to be primarily populated by people who could not do very well in school or university and consequently have poor logical skills and cannot administer well. Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdekUXyAAzI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdekUXyAAzI . I think I exceeded these administrators' skillset and reading comprehension at 12 years of age. You likely did too (you think I am arrogant, perhaps, but watch the video). These people are too dangerous to be involved anywhere near schoolchildren because the risk is they may take you and turn you stupid like them. The danger is net negative utility, where a sufficiently motivated child could probably solo much of this material from the textbooks. If private schools were easier to set up, I would set up a micro-school right away, just so there is some social contact. Still, I have a few years before this is a constraint.
• deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]