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This is one of those comments where I get your point, but have a couple of big "uhm actually"s :point-up: :nerd-face: I wouldn't think that COVID is a good ind

This is one of those comments where I get your point, but have a couple of big "uhm actually"s :point-up: :nerd-face: I wouldn't think that COVID is a good indicator as this was in no way typical home-schooling. The vast majority of kids were going to school "online," and not schooled by their parents. They were also largely confined indoors with their families all day and all evening. I'm having trouble making my other point without slipping deep into trying to define "raising," so I'm just going to hit "reply" here.

naravara 3mo ago
I didn’t mean home schooling specifically but the assertion, and the general sentiment, that parental input is the only determinant that matters when it comes to the development of children into healthy and well-socialized adults. The family isn’t an island it’s something that exists within its society. The people in it also have communities outside the family—including complicated social groups, people coming from different cultural and subcultural norms, and complicated bureaucratic systems and institutions—that they have to learn to interact with an thrive under. School is a critical part of teaching and socializing them to navigate that even beyond the specific curricular stuff. And beyond school lots of other stuff kids interact with is having a hand in teaching them what to expect of society and what society expects of them.