How do they not realise they literally give the best argument for the original proposal in their answer?!
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Is the distinction more than pedantic?
Edit: I get the connotation that being hung means your dong is admirable. But in terms of the past tense of hang, both hanged and hung seem to be valid options such as in "I hung the laundry". And the alternative, "I hanged the laundry" sounds wrong. So pendantry?
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I work adjacent to education, and as such see a lot of high school transcripts come across my desk. The bad news is that there are absolutely tons of bad actors who use homeschooling as a way to indoctrinate kids to their insane, unsubstantiated worldview.
The worst news is that there's a ton of private schools and even some public schools doing it too. Schools across the U.S. are teaching creationism as fact, climate change as theory, and some of them even have the gall to consider their "Biblical Science" classes as honors level. If your only argument against homeschooling is indoctrination, it's not a very good one. In states like Utah and Oklahoma, you'd almost have to homeschool your kid just to make sure they're receiving a real education.
I’ve yet to ever meet or speak with a libertarian that had any respectable amount of intelligence.
I'll disagree, slightly. They can also be:
- starting from flawed premises (aka "The world is a just place" or "a just god exists")
- Inexperienced edgelords
- Arguing in bad faith (or just "I've got mine, so fuck you")
I say this as someone who flirted with libertarianism in my early 20's due mostly to a conservative religious upbringing. I'm not super smart, but I flatter myself to say that I'm above average intelligence and education, and there was still a brief time in my life when libertarianism served like a valid ideology. It took actually reading some objectivist philosophy and simultaneously reexamining and then rejecting my religious background before the flaws became evident.
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Libertarians of NH are famously stupid and terrible at everything though so I wouldn't worry too much.
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I've known many people who've participated in home schooling as teachers or students. A wide variety of "teaching" goes on, some of is just a more personal relationship with your child's formal education, on the other extreme, you have people like OP referenced.... and everything in between.
What's the consensus on homeschooling from lemmy users?
I've got a sister and a sister in law who both homeschool their 4 children each. Those kids don't know how to read. It makes me pretty sick.
That's... Sad. My kindergartner knows how to read already.
Good if you're actually able to do it properly, but there's a lot of cases where the parents really shouldn't be doing it.
Would be great if home schooling had some laws around not teaching your kids to be christofascist terrorists
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Fine if you're not a lazy, racist idiot who's actually just scared their children might become friends with black kids and otherwise shouldn't have passed sixth grade themselves.
Like I posted above, the biggest issue with home schooling. Is it almost always is used to brainwash the children towards extremism.
My daughter was very severely bullied in her middle school and we put her in an online school she does from home, but it's a public school with classes (via videoconference) with actual accredited teachers and the same awful Pierson textbooks everyone else uses anyway because Pierson, unfortunately, runs the program despite it being a public school.
She got the best grades she's ever gotten and gained a ton of self confidence when she was self-harming before.
Not exactly homeschooling as it is usually thought of, but she does do school from home.
Incidentally, this also means I can correct the information in her health class about things like cannabis and can also make sure she understands that her social studies class is often giving her the right wing or corporate viewpoints that are typical in American schools. She knows she still has to answer their way, but at least she knows what they're lying about when I can show her that they're lying.
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Maybe they mean that people like them deserve to have big wangs. 🤷🏻♂️