In addition to being pastors, my parents were both also professional teachers. My mom has a master's in education.
I still wish I wasn't homeschooled.
Like, I run into folks now who get super excit…
As a former homeschooler i get what he’s saying paritally, there are a lot of those what i call “extreme helicopter parents” in the community. But there are other reasons to do it. I was discriminated against by my local public school. In the days before the 2004 IDEA extensions went into effect. We couldn’t afford to sue, so homeschooling was our only recourse.
The district was finally sued into submission in 2016. My parents and i both agree it wasn’t the best situation. When i got to college i was like years ahead in English/humanities but had to take remedial math for three years . I took six years on a four year degree because of the unevenness of my skillset
And this was before the internet got big so you’d often get Fundamentalist Christian propaganda by mistake. And not realize it until the book blamed the flappers for the great depression for example. The authors were good at hiding their biases, until they got to 20th century history and then they just lost the plot
That was actually the best educational moment of those years… Mom read that and was like “Oh Shit…” And then my Dad turned it into a lesson in how to spot bias in sources. And mom dumped a bunch of first wave feminism on me.
But this poster confuses one particularly loud segment of the community with the whole thing,
And we as a community may eventually need the liberal homeschooling laws, if the US gets more authoritarian with book banning and limiting what teachers can say and such.
So i hesitate to endorse this, even though i get it
As a former homeschooler i get what he’s saying paritally, there are a lot of those what i call “extreme helicopter parents” in the community. But there are other reasons to do it. I was discriminated against by my local public school. In the days before the 2004 IDEA extensions went into effect. We couldn’t afford to sue, so homeschooling was our only recourse.
The district was finally sued into submission in 2016. My parents and i both agree it wasn’t the best situation. When i got to college i was like years ahead in English/humanities but had to take remedial math for three years . I took six years on a four year degree because of the unevenness of my skillset
And this was before the internet got big so you’d often get Fundamentalist Christian propaganda by mistake. And not realize it until the book blamed the flappers for the great depression for example. The authors were good at hiding their biases, until they got to 20th century history and then they just lost the plot
That was actually the best educational moment of those years… Mom read that and was like “Oh Shit…” And then my Dad turned it into a lesson in how to spot bias in sources. And mom dumped a bunch of first wave feminism on me.
But this poster confuses one particularly loud segment of the community with the whole thing,
And we as a community may eventually need the liberal homeschooling laws, if the US gets more authoritarian with book banning and limiting what teachers can say and such.
So i hesitate to endorse this, even though i get it