askchapo

Good questions to ask! I'm still a few years from kids at the moment so I'd say I don't know what I'm doing at all, but I'd like to provide my future kid(s) with an education that isn't totally at the whims of the capitalist state.

That doesn't necessarily mean homeschooling, or even alternative schooling I suppose, but one of the aspects of being a (communist) parent in an age of fascism and austerity is helping your child prepare for the world that exists today, but encouraging them to imagine how the world could exist tomorrow.

I have a bunch of younger neurodivergent siblings, some who don't conform to gender and sexual stereotypes (made worse in the andrew tate era) and I cannot help but think that they were neglected or even abused at the hands of teaching staff who were either untrained or straight up ableist.

I dunno, part of me knows there are benefits to exposing your kid to these things and working as a parent to help them through whatever comes up. I certainly dont want to go the other way of trying to raise an ideologically rigid soldier to serve the revolution or some shit, just that these institutions are often harmful even when you're a "good parent" and I know alternatives do exist as a nucleus of the future.