Same here. There was no "teenage rebellion."
Maybe it's a government school indoctrination thing. Kids are taught their parents, their traditions, their beliefs are all wrong. Only socialism/communism are politically correct. The kids get confused, because parents do what they do because they love their children. Schools do what they do because they love the power and money. The kids get hurt by this in the end.
Kids just influence one another. That’s where they get it.
It would have been nice to use all my time off to take the kids on educational trips when they were young and every other kid was in school. But my kids were dead-set against it and the public schools here are really good.
When your school is best in the state at Cross Country and Soccer and worst in the state at football, baseball and basketball, you have a good school.
We have homeschooled from the beginning. We are just at the doorway of of teen years. 12 &9 year old’s . I would be very surprised if it did come. I just dont see it in them in their identities. One thing I have recognized however is those friends that go to public school appeared to not want to associate with our kids if they were not the same grade as they were. There is almost an institutional discrimination that is installed in them. That grade level is a social caste system that is the hierarchy of value as a human. We saw a sudden shut off of some kids value of friendship once they realized they didnt share the same grades. I wonder if this is the actual core of the problem that happens. This view that only your caste is important and all loyalties outside caste is verboten. I think this may be how the teenage rebellion is actually fueled. Rebellion needs support and energy from the outside. So as parents tell their kids to focus on their work at school, they are the ones actually transferring their children’s loyalty to their caste. Kids feeling jettisoned from the only security they have only known in the family, finally turn and then rebel against the parents for the rejection.