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Alternative/Homeschooling: Thoughts? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 days ago by merthyr1831@lemmy.ml to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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So at least my perspective in the UK is rough: endless burnt-out teachers resorting to escalating punitive measures to control kids being raised on landlordism, misogyny, etc. that makes me fear the kind of environment id be exposing a future kid to.

Of course, homeschooling and alternative education is stigmatised across the political sphere, whether it's for legitimate reasons or otherwise. As socialists you also get exposed to a lot of critiques of so-called traditional school systems.

Do any parents here (or otherwise) have experience with homeschooling, or stuff like montessori, democratic schools, etc?

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[–] takeanothername@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

We homeschooled our kids and, now that they're older, I still think it was the right call. We had had them in a private school (which I recognize is a privileged thing to be able to do, and both sets of grandparents were helping pay for it.) Then we moved to place where there was only one school, and it was terrible. We gave it a semester.

We were able to join an organization that provided funding, so we were able to get a full curriculum, and assigned a licensed teacher to each family who provided guidance and was available to answer questions. We were also able to keep the kids in the after school group at the local school and let them go to riding lessons (again, privileged. The homeschool group paid for it as physical education.)

We've since moved again and the kids are in public high school here.

So I guess my advice is: Look at the specific schools available to you, they might not be that bad. Prioritize your kid(s) spending time with other kids, out of your house. And be realistic about whether you can afford the curriculum. It takes a lot of time to learn about what's available, make your choices, and then pivot if something isn't working for your kid... I personally would say it's only worth doing if the publicly available options are truly unacceptable and you have plenty of time and money and community resources and activities to put in to it.

Honestly, I see a lot of good that came from homeschooling, but I couldn't do it now that the economy has changed and I've had to go back to work.