[kinsman redeemer]

As home schoolers, we’d frequently get push back, “What about socialization?”

I’d say, “We socialize the boys at home. One a week I push them up against the wall and take their lunch money.”

[SamAdams76]

[DaveyB]

Disclaimer- I have worked with a Christian homeschool organization for a couple of decades often leading introductory seminars.

When asked “What about socialization?” I habitually respond “ Yes that is another excellent reason to homeschool.” After letting that set in on their dumbfounded faces, I then I explain the evils of peer pressure and bad company; contrasting that with home-school graduates who are polite, outgoing and able to interact with a diversity of ages and backgrounds. I tell them of my own children’s “church friends” 4-H and clubs. In short order I explain to them that parent supervised and limited socialization leads to the best outcomes for a child’s social development, why just look at a public school and ask: “How’s that working out?”

[DoodleBob]

If parents observe and address these social dynamics, mostly by helping their children find friends who build them up instead of savage their family’s choices, homeschoolers do tend to emerge into adulthood as independent thinkers. They tend to be quite comfortable with nonconformity, bringing new perspectives into their communities. This strengthens our society, especially now, as political correctness is metastasizing into a totalitarian social credit system.

There was a story a few years ago, where the co-creators of South Park "came out" as Republicans. Similarly, during the Trump year, it became fashionable to coin Trumpism the new Punk. "Punk-rock bands created their own independent labels and staged gigs in small clubs or church basements. Trump lacked support from Republican Party elites in the same way that punks lacked support from major labels and promoters."

Homeschoolers have been vilified for decades. However, the poles have shifted. Indeed, punk rockers have commented that it was the ESTABLISHMENT that pushed the covid shots, lockdowns, vaxx passports, and all that nonsense - and rockers like the third best musician in Nirvana were establishment Pied Pipers. Parenthetically, the death rate for people in bands with Dave Grohl is higher than that for people contracting covid. I'm just sayin'.

The Educational/Industrial Complex WANTS conformity, which includes bullying as socialization. HSing stands athwart that thrust. And my kids prefer punk to Flu Pfizers.

[Delta 21]

I tell them I dont really feel good about having my child socialized with their any way.

No offence, because its the teachers and School boards I am objecting too. I feel for your kids as well having to be in that environment.

[Georgia Girl 2]

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