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In addition to being pastors, my parents were both also professional teachers. My mom has a master's in education. I still wish I wasn't homeschooled. Like, I run into folks now who get super excit…
  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Who’s “y’all”? Religious fundamentalists? There are other people who homeschool. I did it for a while and now that my kids are back in school - they wouldn’t be if circumstances allowed - they are way ahead of their peers in terms of understanding the work they’re given.

    And “smart enough” implies school is doing something special that children need, but it just isn’t. Kids want to learn. It is a remarkable feat that school is able to make them hate it.

    And “cutting your children off from society” implies that school is somehow an integral part of society. It just isn’t. It is the factory-prison model of school that has helped to atomise society and make us dependent on states institutions like school for interpersonal connection. There are other, better ways of doing it.

    EDIT: A lot of people here in a solarpunk instance quite happy to let the state mandate what and how their children are taught, apparently. It’s weird though, none of the people arguing with me seem to have a great grasp on reading comprehension. Almost like they weren’t taught good critical thinking skills.

    EDIT 2: Just have a read of Chomsky’s take on education and democracy. It’s quite revealing: https://chomsky.info/20130601/

    EDIT 3: Wait, I’m not even subscribed here. WTF is this sub? It’s locked and the only posts are from the mod, so it’s basically their personal soapbox they’ve branded as “texts from solarpunk”, and then they post shit like this that’s just basically hot-takes. FOH. Blocking this fucking place.

        • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Well I guess I’m just confused by your comment then. You said schools make kids not like learning and hate schools. You also said your kids were now back in school. So your kids hate school right? If schools are the cause of it then clearly they must have school now. Cuz otherwise if they don’t maybe your thesis is completely wrong.

          • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            7 months ago

            My kids love learning, they don’t really love school. Does that clear it up? Or are you, once again, just trying to misunderstand?

            • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              7 months ago

              So you’re saying they don’t hate school and they don’t hate learning? So schools are not a malignant entity that transforms the minds of students into hating school and learning. That’s what I thought. Thanks for clearing that up.

              • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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                7 months ago

                Okay, so you are definitely trying to misunderstand me. I’m not going to expect you to understand at this point, but if you think the sentiment that “school in general can make children hate the process of learning” means “every school always makes every child hate learning”, then maybe you weren’t very well taught how to reason and understand.

                My kids are good at learning and they love it, and they’re able to manage through the school’s bullshit well enough that it’s not breaking their love of learning, and I am active in helping them maintain that love. They are among the relatively lucky.

                I thought it was like a cliche that kids hate school, though. Have you… not encountered this concept?