Posted on 08/08/2024 6:00:19 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Few homeschoolers I know (including my own children) are bereft of social engagement. In public school, "clubs and groups" function as an exclusionary force more then inclusive. The "jocks" group together, barely tolerating the less athletically members of sports teams. The "society" clique derive their prestige from the fact most kids don't come from the right families, or aren't "pretty" enough to be invited in.
We had cliques like that in high school. There were the jocks, the cheerleaders, and then the elite cheerleading squad. The biggest bunch of self-important snots I ever saw.
And yet there were dozens of girls begging to get in and heartbroken if they weren’t accepted.
The Left always brings up the “your kids won’t be social enough with out going to public (government) schools.”
You can simulate the government school socialization experience by taking your homeschooled kid to the bathroom, blowing smoke in his face, beating him up, and taking his lunch money. Then giving him a queer rainbow flag.
The only time the lefties aren’t for isolation is when they can’t indoctrinate. Then they are suddenly all about not spacing, and not being remote.
Here’s how to decode the left.
‘inclusion’ = sharing what you have
‘gentrification’ = taking what we have
‘isolation’ = Not giving us access to your mind and your things
‘distancing’ or ‘remote’ = Taking time and productivity agreements away from the private sector
In high school, I existed on the fringe of a number of groups - jocks, “brainiacs”, etc. For a long time I resented not being really accepted into any of them, but as an adult I can see that not being accepted - being forced to chart my own course - was the greatest gift these other students could ever give me.
“In high school, I existed on the fringe of a number of groups - jocks, “brainiacs”, etc. For a long time I resented not being really accepted into any of them, but as an adult I can see that not being accepted - being forced to chart my own course - was the greatest gift these other students could ever give me.”
That was me. As a preacher’s kid, I was a freak — my clothes, activities I was “excused” via notes from Dad from (dancing, wearing slacks/shorts even for gym, watching movies, bowling [because there is beer in bowling alleys], skating [dancing], etc.). Total survival, and when I hear about kids/people caving to peer pressure I just shake my head.
Where were they when they closed schools and went to ‘distance learning”? Not to mention all the mask requirements which slowed down social development in youngsters...
But teaching well is an elite skill, and the homeschooling boom seems to be predicated on a fundamental misunderstanding of the role.
I argue that many of us are “freaks.”
Being conservative is counter-cultural nowadays.
Jezer-Morton seems to be trending on FR now so I went to the link. Canadian she is, and looking at a doctorate in sociology of all things. Stick a DNR tag on her, her condition is hopeless.
Isolating them from drugs and violence and bullying and leftist indoctrination if not in public schools? The poor dears. How will they ever learn all 57 genders?
I find her fascinating. And funny. And there’s a lot to be learned from this nonsense.
I noticed a VERY slight, recent uptick in TV shows where wokism is becoming the butt end of jokes. It’s usually over-the-top wokism. But it is no longer untouchable.
Now, Hollywood has NOT flipped for Trump. But maybe they’re realizing we’re all laughing at them.
Milo needs therapy. But he nailed it when he said that the ONLY stimulus that hits leftists is ridicule. Perhaps a corollary to that, is posting this nonsense and laughing at it.
I hear you.
Except, I wasn’t even on the fringe.
But I had good friends who I could trust and had fun with. They didn’t run with the crowd either.
I think the thing that really hit home with the crowd was that one day in 11th or 12th grade, I was in the hall going someone where between classes and passed one of the *in* girls, the make-up wearing, always fashionable, *popular* ones, and she was sitting in the hall being consoled by friends as she was crying cause she was pregnant.
I actually felt sorry for her at that point and realized even in my foolish teenaged years, that it didn’t always pay to be part of the crowd.
She freaked out because she TESTED positive, and wasn’t sick.
Pathetic....
So deceived.
I began to receive tense messages from acquaintances, asking for details. Did my story match the other stories circulating? Why the discrepancies? Could I account for them? At this point, three days after my positive diagnosis, I was glued to my phone. I was trying to keep my sons happy in isolation, recording slow-motion videos of them crashing their Lego trucks together, while simultaneously composing frantic replies via Instagram DMs to people I barely knew. I was called names over the phone, accused of being selfish and stupid.
I was made a scapegoat by people whose children have played with my children, whose neighbourliness I had taken for granted at one time. It was much more painful than I would have expected. I felt that the quality of my character was up for public debate — because it was. People assumed the worst from me. It caused me pain, and maybe I deserve it. But scapegoating serves no utility in a society that believes in science, even if it is deserved, because it doesn't solve any problems.
And now she’s writing articles scapegoating homeschoolers and her right-wing boys in training.
She hasn’t learned a thing.
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Homeschool groups and co-ops have cliques and bullying and other troubles, too, at least in the 2000s and 2010s when I was raising kids.
But, those problems never reached the level of school, mainly because we, the parents, were in control.
Also, unlike school, the kids didn’t spend their whole week in a co-op, so co-op wasn’t the most important thing in their lives.
If one co-op wasn’t working out, you could stop taking your kids there and join another co-op. To the kids, it wasn’t the end of the world because a co-op wasn’t their whole existence.
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