In the words of Buffy Summers: "It's not just for crazy religious people anymore."
My aunt in California homeschooled her middle child for a while because their school district had some absurd-assed way of assigning which student gets sent to which school when making the transition from elementary school to middle school that would have taken her daughter all the way to the other end of town and put her in a school with none of the same kids that lived near her and with whom she'd gone to elementary school.
Was this absurd thing referred to as "desegregation" by any chance?
My aunt is a college-educated professional, but she is NOT a licensed teacher. Her daughter re-entered the school system after two years of homeschooling more advanced than her classmates, using pre-made curricula freely available from homeschooling support associations.
Who gives a ****? If you had taken me out of school in 2nd grade and just pelted me with grapes 24/7 for two years, I'd have re-entered the school system more advanced than my classmates.
I know several families that are homeschooling, and not one of them is doing it for religious reasons, or to facilitate abuse.
I know 1000 families that only do it so they can rape children with crucifixes. Since I know more families than you, I guess I win the argument. That's how it works, right? You take personal examples that you alone are aware of, then measure those against another person's personal experience then tally the result, right? What other method could we possibly use to try to understand an issue other than what we know of it personally.
This is why all black men are named Gary.
They do it because there is something lacking in the public school system, or because there's something in the public school system to which they don't want their kid exposed.
What's lacking is parents being willing to get involved in the school system to help children they didn't squeeze out. What your imaginary friends don't want their children exposed to are almost certainly the other children.
I'm considering it myself for a number of reasons, namely the fact that I feel the kind of "socialization" kids get in school is not necessarily healthy. I think a kid who is endlessly the target of bullies will not, in fact, find that socialization beneficial. I can provide my child with dozens of other children with whom to socialize without abandoning them in the barely-supervised bully factory overcrowded classrooms tend to be.
Or you could raise them not to be giant cowards who are easy prey for bullies. Just a ******* THOUGHT. How did we possibly as a society get from "I'll teach my kid to stand up to bullies, because he'll encounter them in all walks of life at all ages forever" to "I'll REMOVE MY KID FROM SCHOOL so I can shield them from reality, then be confused when they're blowing sailors for quarters down by the docks later in life"
Your children aren't made of ******* glass. They're not special. Making them feel so, does them a massive disservice later in life. You know the one overarching commonality in the least successful people in our society? Overprotective know it all self righteous mothers.
By homeschooling, I can select which vaccines my child gets
Do you hear that? Is it just me, or do you hear that crazy calliope carnival music playing now? Either the circus is having a parade in town, or we're entering crack smoking tin foil hat paranoia about perfectly average children again. Oh I see it's that second one.
, and when, without being under the crunch to have several dozen shots done before he enters kindergarten, and without having to jump through hoops to claim an exemption that allows me to avoid being forced to give absurdly unnecessary vaccines such as Hepatitis B, a disease from which I can say with absolute certainty that my pre-kindergarten child, who is neither a healthcare worker nor an IV drug user, nor is he having unprotected sex, faces absolutely no risk of contracting.
Dun dee do dun dee do dun dun dun. There it goes! Round and round the ******* merry ground we go! Wheeeee!!!
By homeschooling, I can be sure that if my child is advanced, he's not left bored and idle and frustrated while the teacher gives all his or her attention to his plodding peers.
No, he'll be left bored and resentful of his smothering mother, at least until he finds a rough trick named "Butch" who can take him away from all that.
And if the opposite is true (perish the thought!) then I can be confident that he will get the assistance he needs and not be left to flounder along failing because the school system does not notice that he's quietly struggling and falling behind.
Well, let's see, when I hit the button with the sledgehammer here at the "my child is a unique and precious snowflake" pavilion, it rings a bell under a sign that reads "Everyone thinks their little pumpkin is above average"
In short, Smash is making some pretty wild and idiotic assumptions about people's motivations for homeschooling, none of which I have encountered amongst the many people I know who are homeschooling or plan to do so. And those intelligent, reasonable people and their thriving children are in jeopardy of losing their freedom to give their child the kind of education they wish for him or her to receive if this California ruling holds up.
You're a ******* looney. I'm ashamed to live in a nation that allows you to have power over children's educations in any way shape or form.
Is oversight and evaluation of homeschooled children necessary? Absolutely. Is a licensed teacher necessary? No, there are plenty of resources available to parents who wish to homeschool that can give them all the tools they need to provide their children with an effective, even superlative, education. The kind of education, in fact, that universities are clamoring to see in their applicants.
********* Yeah, colleges are clamoring for unvaccinated spawn of paranoid overprotective nut cases, because they just make such great higher ed students.
Get professional help. Honestly. See someone.
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