#homeschooling

[mysharona1987]

[victusinveritas]

[mini-minstrel]

To all the homeschooled PHM (and ESPECIALLY Bloodymary/Ironmaey) fans - Y'ALL HAVE FAILED.

"I bet they invent their own games to keep sane on their trip," "Oh, Grace, Rocky, and Simon all play games like monopoly on the way to Erid-" No!

They play N2K/Board Slam with increasingly insane boards. They play Snake Eyes. They play crap like Math Battleship and build different minion Punitz Squares for FUN.

Why is nobody looking at the insane games homeschoolers play to learn stuff? Seriously, why? There are so many nerdy, mentally stimulating games that you could choose from, that kids in homeschool co-ops are *required* to participate in.

It's an untapped gold mine, guys, trust.

(And yall are wrong about the Monopoly. The most conventional games they'd be playing are, like, Twilight Imperium and D&D. You can't convince me otherwise.)

[phoenix-reburned]

wanna know how the rest of the world is with this

I was homeschooled/knew homeschoolers personally

I didn't know homeschoolers personally but I know it happens in my country/state

I've rarely, if ever, heard of homeschooling happening in my country/state

what even is homeschooling?

homeschooling is outlawed/banned/heavily restricted in my country/state

results!

Voting ended onJun 25, 2023

If you could answer this, put your country/state in the tags, and share this it would be appreciated! I'm an ex-homeschooler from Texas and I'm genuinely curious on what people from outside of America think about homeschooling or if it's even a thing elsewhere

[animentality]

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[cousinsam]

i cannot stress enough how special youtuber funkyfrogbait is to me. do you know what it's like to be homeschooled? if you weren't homeschooled, you can't know. it's not even the substandard education, not even the complete lack of it in most families, it's the isolation. it's day by day seeing no one but siblings and parents. being stuck with nowhere to go and seeing no one. there was a time in like 5th grade where I didn't even leave my home property (playing outside is not leaving the house) for a y e a r. an entire year, seeing the same four people, staying in the same house with the same yard, going nowhere. it's like being in prison, and you're forced to perform and labor against your will and with no or insulting payment, only you don't get to see a wide variety of prison guards and inmates.

I'm not kidding. 12 whole months, I went nowhere. I was stuck. by the time I finished high school, I was barely socialized. and I was lucky, I got to be dual enrolled at a community College, where like 99% of my world assumptions were disproved by other adult students who had been socialized completely doing completely normal things. I have done incredibly embarrassing things as a young adult that haunt me to this day bc I didn't know better.

homeschooling works in certain situations. like when a child is disabled and traditional schools can't accommodate. or if a child is bullied badly. those are a good reason to homeschool. it's not a popular reason to homeschool. most people are homeschooled bc their parents were extreme right wing nut bags, people who preferred tyranny and facism over any other parenting style. it's done to hide abuse. to enforce extreme religion.

I know other people who were homeschooled, but funkyfrogbait is the only influencer I've heard of that was homeschooled. they know what I've been through. they meet my needs for shutting down stupidity and child abuse (yeah homeschooling is a kind of abuse depending on the parent). you just don't get it unless you were homeschooled. you have an idea of it, but i doubt you understand. it's nice to have someone with a large following to represent what I went through. maybe more of you will start to understand.