Average is absolutely fine as long as you learn to use it.

Once libertarian warlords non-aggression pactlords own all the roads, they would still need some sort of license to prove their road use subscription has been paid.

Someone tweeted that homeschooling should largely be illegal.

Someone else quoted the tweet them and said people like them should be hung. Quoting a tweet is like replying while also saying, “HEY, EVERYBODY, LOOK AT THIS!”

Then a third person corrected the second person’s grammar.

It could be assumed that the second person was homeschooled, but there’s no evidence within the picture to support that.

Because you can quote someone without actually speaking to them, and the UI has to show that as well as replies to that exchange.

It’s not perfect but it makes sense in context. Also, they all have timestamps so that should make the progression obvious.

I think homeschooling is an excuse to have your older children babysit the younger children all day long and that they get zero education, and I agree it probably should mostly be illegal. I will make exceptions for kids dealing with severe anxiety or something.

Depends if you want to imply you’ll fund their penis enlargement.

Yes.

yes. “your deserve to be hung” is pretty much a compliment.

It should be child abuse to home school autistic kids. I’ve seen what it does to them.

Instead of public schools, we should have school choice.

My brother and sisiter-in-law briefly did “homeschooling” with their kids. I put the word in scare quotes because it wasn’t what people normally think of when they consider homeschooling. It was actually a private school which the kids went to four days a week and then one day a week the parents guided the kids at home through a lesson plan prepared by the school. The only point of this was that it allowed the school to hire non-accredited and non-union teachers since it was ostensibly homeschooling and not a normal school.

At least it saved the parents money, right? Ha ha nope! Still expensive as shit - like $30K per year per kid.

Homeschooling is allowed in my country, but they have to take exams in front of a jury to prove they have been properly schooled.

There’s a family I saw on Facebook who had their ten kids apprehended and adopted out for beating them with a switch and not actually educating them in home school. Thankfully the kids are doing well.

barely being taught even basic math under the guise of homeschooling.

yah that was me.

There was no actual “schooling” it was just a cover-story so people didn’t pry and learn that my parents were too crazy/drunk/high/delusional to properly raise children. The first couple decades of my life I basically just wandered in the desert alone around my parent’s “religious compound” a couple hours from the nearest town and tried to get my hands on any actual scientific or rational reading material that extended family members managed to smuggle in.

It had disastrous impact on my adult life. I did go to school later and excelled and soared through AP college classes… but with my life so handicapped from the start, I was unable to continue higher education due to poverty, unable to land a stable career, and worst of all, severe depression and anxiety from the CPTSD of basically spending 20 years of my most important developmental years isolated with two toxic, hateful, abusive parents and literally NOBODY else. I became non-verbal for years, people thought I was autistic. I have been in and out of therapy, on and off meds, and have had long, extended struggles with substance abuse, depression so bad I can’t move some days, and thoughts of self-harm.

My parents were absolutely convinced that biblical prophecy was real and was about to be fulfilled, they saw themselves as actual prophets or chosen ones that would play a part in the coming apocalypse, and for years of my life I was also convinced that I was part of some greater destiny.

Fast forward through my adult life, and I’m clearing out my parent’s belongings after they drank themselves to death, wondering what the fuck happened and what my real future is going to look like. Do you think AI is going to replace grocery baggers? Because I fully see myself at 80 bagging groceries.

Facebook groups for homschooling moms are fucking wild. To be fair you never know who’s trolling there, because if you want to fool someone, you fool someone that is very easy to fool.

No no, they just mean that people like that should have large penises. Extremely libertarian.

They’re about as “libertarian” as the Nazis were “socialist.”

The big issue with homeschooling, is it is largely used as a tool for brainwashing and creating extremists…

It is illegal where I live and I do think it’s a good idea for it to continue to be that way.

Aside from the obvious problem with actually learning children, one important part of school is for society to check if the children are well.

Free lunch for everyone is provided every school day, in fact it’s illegal to not provide free lunch. So it’s also a good way to make sure all children at least get a minimum amount of food each day even if they don’t get any at home.

If the children can “learn” at home the rest of society would have no idea if they for example starve or are abused. It’s much harder to hide abuse if the children are forced to go to school each day with teachers that are educated on how to spot signs of abuse. It’s also great for children to make friends and not be insulated.

Yes, school isn’t perfect due to stuff like bullying but that should be solved in other ways.

Home schooling being illegal doesn’t mean you can’t teach your kids

My mom wasn’t a alt-right wingnut, thankfully. But she kept me homeschooled despite me asking for regular schooling because she wanted the enabling of abuse. A child who could tell a teacher what she was saying to me was a threat to her. I didn’t go to any schooling beyond some 1st grade, and then she forced me into college when she grew tired of abusing me, until I ran out of support venues and she dragged me back to home.

One homework thing my thought was to just read comic panels from Sunday newspapers archived online. That’s it. I was given old “general knowledge” books but never anything in depth of any study. I had to learn fields from parsing google and Wikipedia, even if she allowed the use of a computer.

I’m sure there’s some legitimate use cases for homeschooling, especially for children who are immune compromised. But I’ve never heard of a happy story of homeschooling, lord knows I’m not one of them. I was held back socially and education wise from my peers, even with my skills.

At the very very least, there should be a way for the state to enforce regular homeschooling standards. Track what grade the kids should be on, how they are doing, and then also economic aid for those who do.

But my personal experience with homeschooling is that it’s never for the betterment of the child, it’s always to enable abuse and submission of the child to the parent. Because new ideas are scary to the parent, and new ideas allow new ways of thinking that the parent didn’t want the child to do.

I’m biased as hell, but when you’re trapped with someone who beats you for a learning disability that would have been accommodated for in a public school that you as a 14 year old asked for, it leaves an impression on you.

What’s more libertarian than a good old fashioned southern lynching?