Posted on 04/17/2023 6:03:26 AM PDT by CFW
Homeschooling rose to 1 in 10 American kids in 2021 due to lockdowns, and the number has remained high even as lockdowns abated. Most families who began homeschooling due to lockdowns say they don’t plan to go back.
Despite the steady increase in homeschooling since its revival in the 1980s, families who choose this way of raising their children often face fearful responses from family and friends. Chief among the concerns is what people often call “socialization.”
Sometimes, they mean, “Will your kids have any friends?” Other times, they mean, “Will your kids understand social cues and how to get along with normies?”
Yes, you can find homeschooling kids who dress oddly and don’t know how to carry on a basic conversation. But you can find people like that anywhere. As anyone who attended a public school can confirm, people who can’t make eye contact and are otherwise antisocial persist in that environment, too.
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Maybe it's because I grew up in an era where rock musicians were the exact opposite. Back then, they were the anti-establishment: The rebels, the non-conformists, the voices of the people.
Younger people may not appreciate how it was in the 1960s and 1970s, when rock musicians were firmly entrenched in the counterculture.
What has changed?
In my opinion, most major rock acts today have sold their souls to corporate America and big government. Almost every major rock tour is underwritten by corporate sponsors who are themselves very much tied in to the establishment "Deep State". Ticket prices are outrageously espensive. You can't even get a tie-dyed t-shirt at a major rock show without paying $40-50.
Bruce Springsteen, to use one example, had an outlaw blue-collar image in the 1970s. He would often fight to keep his album prices and concert tickets down so that his working class fans could afford them. Today, he's buying horse farms for his kids and charging as much as possible for everything from merchandise, concert tickets, etc.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. However, it does explain why Springsteen is now a mouthpiece for the establishment and could not care less about the plight of the working classes he got rich singing about.
Sorry, went a little off track there from what you were talking about with our society metastazing into a totalitarian social credit system - which is a valid concern.
It also explains why entertainers are now toeing the establishment line. They do not want to upset the applecart that has been so good for them. So they will be good little doobies and happily be paid Pied Pipers for the establishment.
Great work! THANK YOU.
I cannot express how glad I am that I went to a ONE ROOM SCHOOL
I was in the Navy with someone who was homeschooled. He was odd. He didn’t understand personal space (but to be fair it was the Navy) and didn’t relate the best to other people. However, he also didn’t understand the social cues that the other sailors knew when it was time to form a posse and be nasty to the “designated hated person”. He just didn’t fall in line when they decided to be jerks, because he wasn’t raised that way. And heck.... he was smart enough to run nuclear reactors on homeschooling so........
I recently resigned my teaching position at a public school because it was awful, and I had a better opportunity elsewhere. However, I am still interested in “pod”? teaching. I have a Masters in American History and a JD, am a Christian, and have taught economics (real economics, not woke crap), and other history classes. How do I find out about how to get involved with pod teaching or being a specialist for homeschooling? I am currently investigating the Hillsdale Classical Model and graduated from Ashland University (BA and MA). Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I think there is a cause and effect question here. Is the kid odd because he was homeschooled? Or is he homeschooled because he is odd?
In my experience, normal kids are still normal when homeschooled. Odd kids, such as special needs or autism spectrum are homeschooled because typical school was not safe or effective for them.
Our kids’ homeschooled babysitter was normal, happy and well socialized with extra curricular activities and church youth group friends.
Our next door neighbor’s kids, one had autism and one had Tourette’s. They tried regular school for the eldest and it was ineffective and he was getting shunned by the other kids. The parents tried different things. Nice, happy, smart boys. But getting them situated in a conventional learning environment was a challenge.
May I recommend that you add this to your reasons: In public (and most private) schools, children are surrounded by people of the very same age. There is very little diversity. In authentic "social" situations, we are surrounded by a wide variety of ages. It is more normal to be in the later situation.
My sons were very comfortable around adults - and as a result, adults were very comfortable around my boys.
Homeschooling put my children in all kinds of social situations that were "normal" and rarely did they see artificial segregation by age.
In short, "Homeschooling works!"
Ping!
I'm not bragging: One of my sons is a rocket scientist. He says things like, "It's not 'rocket surgery'"
When he talks about his career, that's the only thing he says that makes sense.
My other son is a Corpsman in the USN.
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Which goes to show that you know NOTHING about homeschooling.
Consolidated / centralized schools are the problem. That’s why government has so much control. That’s what home schoolers are running away from. Get them off the internet as much as you can.
Big schools force integration and all this nonsense woke crap. None of that would take hold if schools were decentralized. That’s why the bigger cities have the big problems.
I think there's statewide associations of homeschoolers. My son & wife are hs'ing their 4 daughters, and for a Christmas present, I bought a lifetime membership in the Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) for them. Perhaps they could help guide you to some resources?
https://hslda.org/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIiJ22h7-x_gIVYhitBh04yQEdEAAYASAAEgIArvD_BwE
Please get back to me with your progress, I'd be very interested...
Oh, and get with metmom and get on the hs ping list! :)
homeschool worked for you.
Homeschooling works for virtually everyone.
When I look at the fruit of public schooling, I notice that kids are being released barely literate and with poor social skills. The stats are everywhere.
Public education has been an abysmal failure for more of the kids.
Here, there are stats in some of these articles that show just how bad they are. These are all threads posted on FR concerning the public schools and in these articles, you will find many of them that deal with illiteracy rates in public education, and safety concerns about the kids, whether it's from violence from other kids, threats by teachers, or sexual abuse for many of the above, to woke brainwashing.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/arth/index?tab=articles
*Public education* is a misnomer. They are virtually prisons which engage in brainwashing kids to produce entitled, government obeying drones.
Public education worked wonderfully until the 70’s.
Home schooling is not a solution, it’s a symptom.
I suppose that the Covid Lockdowns were a positive experience too. No they weren’t of course.
You want a solution that is only feasible for 5% of the population.
See the riots in Chicago? I bet those parents are chomping at the bit to home school their kids.
My elementary school had approximately 150 kids in 7 grades. It was so small, that all got recess at the same time, it had two playgrounds. One for the 1st 2nd and 3rd grades, Another with the older kids. I can remember teachers I had from other years talking to me before school. Talking about my sister, or my little brother 3 years behind. I knew them, they knew me and my parents. It was like a larger family, and I should know. I am one of 7 in mine.
After that experience, we were shoved into a Jr High with kids from every elementary school in town. I was lost, and never found my footing again. School after elementary was hell. I hated every single day, except for gym class. I begged for my parents to let me quit and get a job. I actually had offers from family. My one Uncle had a backhoe and hauling business. He had all the equipment and prepped sites for homes or built roads and ponds. He offered to make me his apprentice at 15. SCHOOL WAS HELL. Every single good memory of school was of after or before school activities.
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