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I personally don't believe that home schooling should be illegal. It's not my jam, but don't want it to be illegal....but holy shit that response escalated quickly. Libertarians are triggered idiots.
The big issue with homeschooling, is it is largely used as a tool for brainwashing and creating extremists...
It's also just plain unworkable for single-parent households or families that rely on two incomes ... aka nearly fucking everybody.
Brainwashing is only a term to describe people who weren't taught mainstream views, but those mainstream views are not necessarily correct. What's the difference between mainstream propaganda and brainwashing?
Either you haven’t read through the comments on this thread by people who were actually homeschooled, or you’re being deliberately obtuse.
I know tons of people who home school, like a ton actually. Real people and not just internet dwellers. There is a lot of variety in how people do it, some bad, some better than anything you can hope to achieve in public schools. But that isn't my point. My point is only about brainwashing done in public schools, and how that term is relative. What we think is normal and healthy depends on what we are told. Public schools don't have the objective truth, they just provide a consistent message and brainwash kids all in a similar manner. The term brainwashing has a negative connotation, but that's what it is. We were all taught things and taught to see things a certain way and sometimes they are later proven wrong. I can list things I learned in public schools that aren't correct, so was I brainwashed? Well, yeah of course. In general public schools provide a stabilizing effect and a standardized set of brainwashing, which becomes "normal" because most people have that standard set. It's relative and arbitrary, that's my point. Ask indigenous people or other minorities if we get brainwashed in public schools.
Is your company hiring? I've been wanting to break into the field of Professional Contrarianism. Any interview tips?
Lol I can't help myself, especially on lemmy. Some of the takes are so insane I can't help but engage.
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Super insightful, thanks. Lemme give you some examples of Germans I've encountered:
One guy asked me if we use euros in France.
A woman came to me because she couldn't open the bathroom door. I went with her to see what was up, I knocked, someone replied saying it was occupied.
Another one thought they were superior because of the Lemmy server they were on, of all things.
So yeah, no group is perfect, get over it. All this ".world that", ".ml that", ". whatever that" is getting old and stupid.
I know it's a stupid joke, thats why i made it. In fact, the joke builds on .world being such a generic instance unlike lemmygrad, hexbear or explodingheads, where my comment would've been somewhat true. I guess I should've added a /s.
Also, here is a list of French ppl I've encountered:
Ah, it was an "I was only joking, brah" moment. My bad. I guess that's why there's jokes about German humor
It is illegal where I live and I do think it's a good idea for it to continue to be that way.
Aside from the obvious problem with actually learning children, one important part of school is for society to check if the children are well.
Free lunch for everyone is provided every school day, in fact it's illegal to not provide free lunch. So it's also a good way to make sure all children at least get a minimum amount of food each day even if they don't get any at home.
If the children can "learn" at home the rest of society would have no idea if they for example starve or are abused. It's much harder to hide abuse if the children are forced to go to school each day with teachers that are educated on how to spot signs of abuse. It's also great for children to make friends and not be insulated.
Yes, school isn't perfect due to stuff like bullying but that should be solved in other ways.
Also it teaches children how yo socialise and live with other people.
This is super important if you want to like have a society bigger thay your family.
Homeschooling is so stupid in all its ways.
Not always, but this is underfunding problem.
Home schooling being illegal doesn't mean you can't teach your kids