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Can’t both statements be true? If I had to guess, most of the original homeschoolers did it because they had strong, fringe religious beliefs. Then in your gen
by opportune 3y ago
Can’t both statements be true?
If I had to guess, most of the original homeschoolers did it because they had strong, fringe religious beliefs. Then in your generations more secular parents started homeschooling but it was still a pretty highly self-selective group (a stay at home parent who didn’t mind staying at home most of the day teaching their kids, a belief they could do better at educating their kids even without the resources we have on the internet now to make it easier or the ability to use the internet to organize with other homeschooling parents, anecdotally a lot of either super-weirdo parents or hippy granola parents (more in unschooling)).
Now with the internet and WFH homeschooling is possible for many more parents than just those that don’t work fulltime and want to teach their kids full time, and it’s easier to create curricula, and easier to network and schedule things with other parents.
I do think there is probably a general problem of some pathologically bad parenting traits self-selecting much more than “normal” parents to homeschool: parents with control freak/micromanagement issues they subject their kids to, socially anxious parents who want to spend all their time at home with their family, parents with fringe/paranoid/extreme beliefs, having some kind of weird attachment or smothering issues they subject their kids to. Which isn’t a problem with homeschooling per se as much as it is selection bias in who chooses to homeschool.
- user3939382 3y ago[flagged]
- brabarossa 3y ago>trying to convince children that they’re a different gender What a ridiculous thing to say. Nobody does that.
- user3939382 3y agoIf only that were true.
- andrepd 3y agoYep GP, we can clearly see that homeschooling has changed a lot.
- user3939382 3y agoIt has. Some of the issues parents have to worry about today parents of the past couldn’t even imagine.
- andrepd 3y agoYep, bullying and poor pedagogy I can tolerate, but I draw the line at teaching kids about condoms and consent.
- user3939382 3y ago[flagged]
- WicWacWok 3y agoTbh I still associate homeschooling with conservative christianity. They have a much stronger incentive to homeschool than others by a large margin.
- magic_hamster 3y agoThat's interesting to hear, as someone living in a different country I always assume that the reason to homeschool is so you could give your children better education.
- lolinder 3y agoThat's a common reason here, too. It's why I was homeschooled—my parents were perfectly content to send us to public school until we moved to another state and had a terrible local school. OP's perception is because we also have a much larger conservative-Christian cohort than most other developed countries. As the grandparent points out, that leads to a large percentage of homeschoolers doing it for non-academic reasons, which skews stats and public perception.
- WicWacWok 3y ago> That's interesting to hear, as someone living in a different country I always assume that the reason to homeschool is so you could give your children better education. The attitude I was raised with is that parents will always have to provide supplemental education but the socialization school provides is much more difficult to replace.