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    1 year ago

    That’s not why they do it, though. They do it because they hate anything resembling woke and it’s been that way for decades longer than that word has been around.

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      1 year ago

      You don’t know what the motivations are for everyone. You only hear about this topic on the rage bait side of the internet

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        I know a family that lives full-time on the road, so they, of course, home school (RV school?). He’s medically retired, she still works remotely. I don’t know exactly how they do the schooling.

        So that’s a scenario where it’s more about how they want to live than any particular issue with a given school.

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        1 year ago

        I have brothers who went down the Facebook MAGA rabbit hole and never came back. They complain all day long about how schools are corrupting children and that everyone should home school. In my experience, religious and political intolerance is the basis for most people doing this.

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          In my experience it isn’t. I guess till either of us find studies we’re at an impass.

          Edit:

          In addition, parents of homeschooled students were asked to identify the single most important reason to homeschool their child in 2019. The most common was a concern about school environment, such as safety, drugs, or negative peer pressure (25 percent). Fifteen percent of homeschooled students had parents who reported that the most important reason was a dissatisfaction with the academic instruction at other schools. Thirteen percent had parents who reported that the most important reason was a desire to provide religious instruction.

          https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/tgk/homeschooled-children#:~:text=The most common was a,academic instruction at other schools.

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            I wonder how much of the 15% who were dissatisfied with the academic instruction were dissatisfied due to it not having religious instruction, but didn’t want to indicate it outright by choosing the specific choice for that.

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            1 year ago

            You gave yourself as an example affirming what I said but suddenly we’re at an impasse? This isn’t adding up.

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              1 year ago

              Found it after writing the comment originally.

              Do you count safety drugs and negative peer pressure as religious? I was counting that and academic rigor as the schools being bad. And religious reasons I was counting as religious.

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                Problems with schools really come down to a choice by the middle class. That choice was that they wanted to keep their money rather than live in a good society. Schools have suffered as a result. This is by choice, not by design.

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                  Sure. But that doesn’t change that people homeschool because the schools are bad. I absolutely agree that schools should be better.