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What are your views on homeschooling? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by pir8t0x@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What are your opinions on homeschooling?

My opinion: Both have pros and cons.

I have heard that homeschooled kids are often better academically and more intelligent compared to average students. But they have bad social skills and have a lot of anxiety.

In normal school, you might have better social skills for sure. And you might grow up good if you don't get influenced by the rotten people at school and if you don't get into drugs or stuff due to peer pressure. But that's IF YOU DON'T GET INTO THESE. If you get into these, good luck getting outta these. And there's the concern of getting bullied too......

So I personally think homeschooling might be a better choice.

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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have to object to using income level as metric of success.

[–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My landlord doesn't accept thoughts and prayers.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Being poor sucks. But above fairly low baseline, income level signifies antisocial tendencies more than hard work, education, or intelligence.

[–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But why wouldn't you want your child to have the highest chance of having enough money to survive, or the best chance of getting a job they want? I know so many homeschooled kids who ended up working for exploitative employers or doing really hard labor for really shitty pay because they weren't educated enough (both academically and in life skills) to get jobs doing anything else. To just be like "well, you don't need money to be happy or do well in life so I'm going to give my child a subpar education" in this economy is just naive at best and cruel at worst.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You've got a bit of circular reasoning going on there: Homeschool is inferior because it leads to lower income averages but then income matters so much that an education that doesn't increase it as much must be inferior.

Look, I'm not a homeschooling stan. I just don't like bad logic or incentivizing antisocial behaviors. We probably agree on, like, 99% of this and my nitpick about half a sentence is a blip comparatively.

[–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Homeschooling is an antisocial behavior. Most parents who homeschool are doing so because they want their child isolated from the public school system and away from "the world". They want to be the only influence in their child's life and they want to solely shape the outcome of who their child is. That's antisocial as fuck and incredibly unhealthy for the kid, but the parents don't care as long as they get what they want.