Posted on 04/27/2023 7:31:24 AM PDT by DoodleBob
Re: Cliques
They are really prison protection gangs only in a school setting.
Gee! How does government schooling resemble prisons? Hm?....Let me count the ways.
I am in the same boat. I have the hardware, some of it still working but the magnetic media deteriorates to an unusable state after about 20 years in most cases.
I do have emulators for PC and android but it is not obviously the same. I am planning on putting together or purchasing one of the Commodore pi1541 floppy disk drive emulators and downloading some software from archive.org one of these days. I have a grandson who is interested.
Re: segregation in the government schools
You are completely correct!
Government schooling is the ****MOST***segregated institution in America. Nothing come close! And....It is fully government funded!
If a taxpayer refuses to support this government imposed segregation, they face police, court, and even prison threats. If they are resistant enough the government will **kill** them.
Please see my tag line.
Regarding curriculum:
When I was a child I had completely read all of my textbooks by the end of the second week. If I was caught reading a library book by hiding it under my desk, the nun would have an emotional and abusive meltdown directed at me. Sometimes it was physical.
THE KEY THING that home schooling does is to teach kids to be autodidactic. Which is what you do in real life in an adult job.
Conventional schools stymie and prevent this, boring kids with hour after hour of numbingly stupid indoctrination.
The homeschoolers are the pacemakers now. The conventional schools are getting their tails waxed by the kids coming out of home schooling.
And the professors etc., generally like and are impressed by the homeschooled kids.
This would be funny if it weren’t so insulting.
Each one of those 10 reasons sounds to me like somebody’s indicting the public school system not homeschooling. I’m not going to shoot down each one of them individually. It’s actually too easy.
Here’s a little thought as regards to where these criticisms originated. I would not be at the least surprised to find wackadoodle public school “teachers” trolling homeschool forums pretending to be normal parents so they can shovel this bovine excretion.
“like a good neighbor, stay over there”
I don’t have time to refute the tired old lies.
Of our homeschooled kids, one is an astronautical engineer. Guess that kills the lack of math and science.
One is a book editor
One is a nanny. The parents are hardcore liberals and they love my daughter. She also has several side gigs.
One is a trucker. Can’t get much more independent than being on the road six nights a week.
My homeschooled now adult children are a Sr. Cloud Engineer with a Fortune 500 company and a medical doctor. No lack of STEM here, either.
I would add that any public schools that teach critical thinking skills would be anathema for their woke crap.
I learned and honed my critical thinking skills here at FreeRepublic! Woot Woot Woot!!!
Most school parents have a bias against homeschoolers. It’s no different from any other kind of bias. They see what they want to see.
The irony is, all those reasons listed against homeschooling are what happens in schools.
The funniest criticisms are these: “Limited Socialization Opportunities” and “Lack of Diversity” and “Lack of Extracurricular Activities.”
LOL. Schoolkids sit in classes with the same group of kids for 12 years. THAT is “limited socialization” and “lack of diversity.”
While the schoolkids are locked up in school, homeschoolers are out doing fun things together. They can schedule their homework around sports, clubs, band, co-ops, field trips, youth groups, etc. The homeschool community is well-organized with plenty to do. They get together with schoolkids, too.
Nun shall pass....
Love it!
How can kids know which of 1,836 genders they are, without guidance from a leftist school system?
Bttt.
5.56mm
“Daniel Boone thought neighbors being some miles away and no closer was just about perfect.”
Pa Ingalls had the same mindset.
Some time ago I heard a sitcom mom describe her home as where people living in the boonies thought of as the sticks ... I thought that sounded nice.
That’s great.
Your list is great!
That pretty much says it.
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