Another silly question....
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How many of the people who have been extolling the benefits of home-schooling for years are now complaining about the tyranny of not re-opening due to the pandemic?
I was only joking
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@horace said in Another silly question....:
Higher education quality and lower cultural indoctrination presumably.
I would think that any parent capable of homeschooling would be capable of de-programming.
Even if there is cultural content infused in curriculum - I can't imagine it accounting for very much of the overall content.
The disadvantage feels like it would be less acclimatization to the world that you're going to eventually end up in.
Maybe I'm basing that on my own Canadian experience too much and things are different on the curriculum front these days.
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How many of the people who have been extolling the benefits of home-schooling for years are now complaining about the tyranny of not re-opening due to the pandemic?
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There was talk of cancel culture in another thread.
Random thought for me - cancel culture and homeschooling may come from a similar place: safety from dangerous ideas.
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Hey, two more rings and we can hold the TNCR Special Olympics!
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How many of the people who have been extolling the benefits of home-schooling for years are now complaining about the tyranny of not re-opening due to the pandemic?
@doctor-phibes said in Another silly question....:
How many of the people who have been extolling the benefits of home-schooling for years are now complaining about the tyranny of not re-opening due to the pandemic?
A lot of the guys I know that did it, are going to continue.
The most successful are the guys who hired a retired teacher. The teacher does about 4-5 hours/day, with usually around three kids. Usual pay = $30/hour, split between parents.
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@horace said in Another silly question....:
Higher education quality and lower cultural indoctrination presumably.
I would think that any parent capable of homeschooling would be capable of de-programming.
Even if there is cultural content infused in curriculum - I can't imagine it accounting for very much of the overall content.
The disadvantage feels like it would be less acclimatization to the world that you're going to eventually end up in.
Maybe I'm basing that on my own Canadian experience too much and things are different on the curriculum front these days.
@xenon said in Another silly question....:
I would think that any parent capable of homeschooling would be capable of de-programming.
It is not just programming
In Boston, it is crime
It was a lot worse 50 years ago, but it is still the case
In many public schools education is next to impossible
So you pay $15K-$30K for private or move to the suburbs or homeschool, or join a strong gang and hope for your share of the drug profits
Here is a story from a couple years ago
I attended the school that has now the #3 most crime-ridden school zones in Boston, it was nice in 1960
https://www.metro.us/this-is-the-most-dangerous-school-zone-in-boston/
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I'd always kind of assumed that the archetypal home-schooler isn't living in inner-city Boston.
