The kids don't really miss the academic side of school but all those social opportunities in the classroom, the games, sports, and fun of school is hard to replace. Parents fought like crazy to keep the screens in check and during the pandemic we caved because there was nothing else to do. You can only play Monopoly and go on nature walks for so long.
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Schools never have provided a good atmosphere for socialization.
The only place that people encounter another social setting like that of a public school is in jail and prison. Everything about school socialization is artificial, involuntary, and contrary to the prevailing norms of human societies throughout history.
It’s little wonder that separating children from their parents, family, neighbors, & real friends, dropping them into a locked-down environment consisting only of equal-age random peers and public sector union bureaucrats, and exposing them to corporate committee produced leftist indoctrination, ‘zero-tolerance’ brutish micromanagement, no-recourse bullying risk, and Byzantine interference with every aspect of ‘extra-curricular’ activity and parental interactions creates a culture of shallow and vapid ‘popularity contest’ tyranny, an educational wasteland, and an emotional pit of ideotic conformism, pointless rebellion, depression, hopelessness, thuggery, dependence, and physical abuse.
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“In every instance, these parents attribute the alienation of their child(ren) from their (the parents') values to the college and, increasingly, the high school their child attended.
Moreover, not only are these children alienated from their parents' values, but they are often also alienated from the parent(s). One thing you learn when you become left-wing is to have contempt for those who hold other beliefs.
Had these parents known how their children would turn out, they would never have sent them to college — or even to the high school they attended. It appears, however, that no matter how many people lose their children's hearts and minds to left-wing indoctrination, and no matter how much information accumulates about the perversion of education in American schools, parents continue to take risks with their children they would never take in any other sphere.”
https://www.creators.com/read/dennis-prager/03/21/most-american-schools-are-damaging-your-child
chopblock -- that is the deep dark secret of public education. You could learn everything you need to learn in half the amount of time and the socialization is not the socialization that is healthy and constructive. But without the financial security of home schooling, we are forced with this situation. But it really important to point this out but as with anything there is big money behind it as the Teacher's Union has pointed out this past year.
Thanks for the knowledge
Unschoolers — kids who undertake NO formal instruction or curriculum of any kind, and simply go about learning things they are self-motivated to research, test within a single grade level of their public school age peers.
Home schoolers do significantly better.
There aren’t any solutions to fix public schooling, any more than there are solutions to fix communism. They were set up as a culture destruction system from the get-go (First Native American Indian tribes’ culture, and then non-factory-work American independent ‘hand-crafting’ culture, then others...)
The unschooler data shows that if we abolished it we’d be no worse off as far as student outcomes, and we’d save trillions of dollars we’re wasting on maintaining a pretend fantasy that this relic artificial system is some kind of pillar for maintaining our civilization, when it’s actually a key factor in our destruction.
Trillions that could be spend delivering free internet learning to every child, and a huge private marketplace for learned instruction. We could be living the idealized dream of every Greek scholar with a ‘library of Alexandria’ containing every book ever written at our fingertips and the best private tutors for any subject on demand, but instead we’re putting transgendered imbeciles into women’s locker rooms to play injuryball, locking children into prison home rooms for the best part of their lives, and censoring everything except monetized product unpackaging videos and video-game livestreams like the brawndo-swilling simpletons of Idiocracy — all because brainwashed boomers tear up when they think back to kissing their first girlfriend behind the gym stands.