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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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[–] Inui@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Overwhelming amounts of homeschooling parents are hyper religious freaks, rich people who don't want to mingle with the poors, and like 5 teachers or professors who actually do a better job than their underfunded public schools can.

I was also homeschooled and know that it severely stunted me socially and academically in retrospect. To be fair to my parents, I also hated public school and would just walk out whenever they tried to leave me there. But homeschooling was not the solution, just the easiest path.