I understand that there are some people who choose to homeschool their kids because they don't want them dying in a school shooting and the school to prison pipeline is very, very real.
That said. The vast majority of people who are homeschooling their kids are doing it in an effort to indoctrinate them at best and isolate and abuse them at worst. At the very least, homeschooling is a way for adults to ensure complete control over their kids' lives, who they interact with, the media they interact with, the things their kids are exposed to and that is not a good thing. It's pathological in the grandest scheme of things and it all but ensures your kids are unprepared for when they enter actual society and have to interact with people who don't hold extremist, cultish views.
I was an Army brat and because we moved all the time we were familiar with a lot of homeschooled kids (when you move so much homeschooling starts to seem like the better option, my parents even considered it for us at one point in time because of how disjointed our education was over our childhoods) and as a kid I could always tell which kids were homeschooled. They are weird, they have no social skills, they have no ability to talk about things outside of their family, they don't understand common things kids talk about. It's like trying to interact with someone who has been living in a bunker their entire life because that's kind of what it is. Even as an adult, I can tell which adults I interact with were probably homeschooled. Being homeschooled significantly impacts a child's ability to connect and relate to others and those struggles continue into adulthood.
Kids need socialization and they need to know there are safe adults out there and when kids are homeschooled they are so incredibly isolated. Even if they have a shit ton of siblings (as they usually do) that is not enough socialization. Getting to know other kids their own age who aren't members of their family gives them a better understanding of what's normal, what's not, and how to navigate those things in a normal way.
And that's not me saying it, if any of you follow people who talk about their previous homeschooling experiences the stories these people tell are horrifying. Teaching girls how to do household chores t serve future husbands, having kids spending hours a day reading scripture and praying, spending the majority of the day acting as a slave to the household, raising younger siblings, being beaten, all being counted as "education" in these unregulated programs. And those are some of the more uplifting stories here at least the parents involved were pretending they were providing their kids an education. Other people talk about how they couldn't even fucking read, were taught racist/white supremacist ideals, etc.
But at the end of the day homeschooling is ultimately a way for parents to ensure they can neglect their children without any annoying involvement from state officials or CPS. Not only does homeschooling ensure emotional neglect and a complete lack of socialization, it also allows parents to never bring their kids to doctors, to dentists, to ignore whether their children are growing and have enough to eat, to ignore vaccinations, annual physicals, etc.. And when they become adults they lack the education to function in society or even have marketable skills to obtain work and that's in the best case scenario because it means they survived that exceedingly neglectful childhood.
And now, there's a social media trend where a lot of parents who homeschool their kids are becoming influencers and using their children to make money on a lifestyle they only show the tip of on websites their kids are never allowed to use or interact with on their own terms. A field trip to the Noah's Ark museum with another Evangelical homesteading family is not fucking educational, it's not socialization, and it's not preparing these kids for shit. If they are even able to go to college they're gonna talk about how the dinosaurs lived with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and everyone is gonna laugh at them and think they're weird and they aren't gonna have the social skills to deal with that in an appropriate way.
Homeschooling should be illegal, straight up, it should have significantly more regulation and oversight than it currently does but it should just be illegal. Private schools should be illegal too. Everyone's kids should be required to go to the same school systems with the same standards and regulations as everyone else's. That includes crazy weird culty Evangelicals AND it includes the kids of rich people and billionaires.
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