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I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me.
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I'll be a rare beacon for somewhat positive home schooling. At least when I started it in the late 90s. Graduated highschool in 2000.
Yeah, there is a fair amount of religious nut jobs/conservatives when you get out in bufu, but my group was mostly kids with hippie parents and kids with learning disabilities that would have never thrived in public school.
Maybe our group was more social than some of these extremist religious groups, because I had plenty of friends and social interaction. Homeschool isn't always kids being locked away from society by crazy parents, sometimes it is the last option of a misfit child that would fail to thrive if forced into the mould of a model student.
The main thing that I missed out on, by not going to high school proper, was getting regularly bullied and the stress of having to hurry to the bus every morning. If homeschooling hadn't been an option I'd of just been a drop out.
I suppose a number of people would still consider me a drop out because I wasn't forced to suffer as they did.
Edit: I'll add that my group were mostly naturalist/scientist in learning. As far as I know there weren't any flat-earthers/creationists. Maybe I was lucky because of my geographic location.
Maybe things are different now, but that's how it was for me back in the 90s/2000s.
This was my experience too, though I was in the UK where our religious and conservative nutjobs tend to hide because they secretly know they're in the wrong. I was homeschooled for several years and found that I was able to thrive in areas that a conventional school structure wouldn't have allowed.
I'm now a fully-adjusted and emotionally-intelligent adult with a confidence that most people my age are still learning.
Yeah, homeschooling is popular with conservatives, but it's also popular with hippies and that's usually a better outcome for the kid.
I wish i was raised in one of those anarchist communes. I would have turned out vegan and an annoying prick but at least it's a different set of problems than the old ones i'm used to
Hah! Funny you should say that. I turned out vegan(not the annoying kind, eat what you want) and, if anything, I'm empathetic to a fault. I try to reason why everyone does anything.
I've probably spent half of my life puzzling out bullies back stories.
From what I know of people homeschooling, my understanding is that it was something people did for practicality/preference and then nutjobs started seeing it as a way to remove their kids from mainstream education and indoctrinate them to some crazy worldview. I know some normal people doing it nowadays still.