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minus-square@breadsmasher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish20•8 months agoIve always found the idea of homeschooling utterly bizzare
minus-squarejayrhackerlinkfedilink7•8 months agoThe distribution of home schoolers is super bi-modal, either: “we don’t want them learning that sinful science and actual history” or “we don’t think public education will do a good job for our kids, so we’re doing it ourselves”
minus-square@nukeworker10@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•8 months agoAnd the former group is 1000 to one of the latter group.
minus-square@Illuminostro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•8 months agoActually, it’s tri-modal: “I don’t want my kid associating with those people.” Black people, gay people, non-religious people…
minus-square@SheeEttin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoWhy? That’s how it was done for millennia, unless your parents were rich enough to send you to an actual school instead of learning a trade.
minus-square@n2burns@lemmy.calinkfedilink4•8 months ago“That’s the way we’ve always done it!” is never a good reason on it’s own.
Ive always found the idea of homeschooling utterly bizzare
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The distribution of home schoolers is super bi-modal, either: “we don’t want them learning that sinful science and actual history” or “we don’t think public education will do a good job for our kids, so we’re doing it ourselves”
And the former group is 1000 to one of the latter group.
Actually, it’s tri-modal: “I don’t want my kid associating with those people.” Black people, gay people, non-religious people…
Thats still the first one
This is a normal thought process.
Why? That’s how it was done for millennia, unless your parents were rich enough to send you to an actual school instead of learning a trade.
“That’s the way we’ve always done it!” is never a good reason on it’s own.